How To Draw A Flower Step By Step

 Drawing flowers can be a relaxing thing to draw, out in the garden drawing your fowers on a nice warm sunny day, but to draw them are you really having a good go at it or do you need an example to guide you on your way, well you're in luck. This is a step by step drawing tutorial on how to draw a flower, I already did one on how to draw a rose, so this one is more general in the sense that you can draw any flower that you want, it's totally up to you.

Draw a flower requires you to observe the flower and try to draw the basic shape at first to give you an overall sense of the flower petals and stem and leaves. The flower drawing below is of an imaginary flower I thought up, it looks like a Rose, but it could be any flower, a cross breed flower if you like, so long as you get the basics you can just make it all up if you don't fancy having your eyes glued to a particular flower in your garden for half an hour.

Creating a rough sketch is the idea, a foundation of the drawing, so here I have gone totally basic with an oval and a curved line. Simple isn't it?

If you look at the flower drawing below, you'll see that's what a flower basically is when reduced to simple shapes, so start with this and build from there!

 In the second step of our flower drawing tutorial we complete the flower stem and a few of the leaves attached to the flowers stem and that's pretty much it as you really want to do the flower head last as it's the best bit, always save the best until last.

 We can now draw in the rough petal shapes around the flower head and add some slight shading with a simple pencil line at one side of the stem and a little shading under the flower head.

The basic and very simple flower drawing is nearly complete.

 The Flower can now be inked with a fine line pen, I use cheap gel ink pens, but you can use whatever you like. In the drawing below I added a top flower image of what the petals could look like from above to give you an idea how to draw them.

The flower petals are a series of random over lapping petals and this should help you to draw them.

This was an extremely quick drawing tutorial and I will definitely add some drawing vdeos to this at a later stage to flesh this drawing tutorial out a bit.

For now though you can also see how to draw a rose