how to draw a flower for kids

Learning how to depict can be tedious sometimes—yous need to practice a lot, rarely seeing any progress. In this tutorial I'll try to make learning more than fun for y'all. I will show you how to use three pencils to plan, sketch, shade, and finish three cute flowers: a daisy, and orchid, and a lily of the valley. This can be a cracking practice, and you'll actually end up with a fully rendered cartoon when yous finish!

Before you start, read the introduction of How to Draw Trees to learn which tools you need for this tutorial.

1. How to Depict a Daisy

Nosotros'll outset with the simplest blazon of flower: a daisy. This little, humble flower is like shooting fish in a barrel to depict, but we'll make information technology more challenging by using an interesting perspective. If y'all need a reference, you can check out photos on Envato Marketplace, for example:

• Daisies in shut-upwards - no longer available
• Daisy seen from the back - no longer bachelor
• Multiple daisies - no longer bachelor

Step 1

Draw a short stem with a distorted cross on top. Describe very lightly, making the strokes about invisible. The photo beneath is heavily darkened to aid you see the lines, only you should barely see yours! Use this technique until I tell you lot to finish.

Pace two

Use the cross to draw an ellipse distorted by perspective. This volition be the key part of the blossom called the "disk".

Stride iii

Draw a bigger ellipse around, with its center slightly in a higher place the cantankerous.

Step four

Describe some other ellipse; place information technology even higher. This will help us establish the perspective of the petals.

Step 5

Now, depict radial lines coming from the center. First make them direct...

... so they tin be gently curved.

Step 6

Treat these lines as the center axes of the petals—you lot can press slightly harder now. Brand the "vertical" ones quite broad...

... and the "horizontal" ones narrower.

Step 7

Add gentle arcs on top of every petal to finish them following the previous style. Vertical—broad:

Horizontal—narrow:

Step 8

Add shorter petals under and to a higher place the others to fill the gaps and make information technology more natural.

Footstep 9

Draw the outline of the stem. Commencement do it very lightly, and and then adjust it with slightly darker strokes.

Stride ten

Let's work on the deejay now. Information technology has a special blueprint, so permit's create information technology with a trick. First draw spiral rays coming from the center—do it very lightly.

Then cross them with rays coming in the opposite management.

Footstep 11

Stress the pattern by pressing harder.

Step 12

Subtly shade the disk—information technology can exist concave or convex.

Step 13

Take a softer brush and accentuate the shading.

Pace xiv

Permit'due south become back to the petals now. Fill them with gentle rays following their perspective. Utilise a hard pencil.

Footstep 15

Use the same pencil to slightly shade the petals. Keep in mind they're white, so try to leave as much whiteness equally possible.

Pace 16

Give the tips of the petals a gently serrated border.

Pace 17

Take a softer pencil and make the shading more than visible. Accentuate the edges of the petals with it as well.

Footstep 18

Take a hard brush and shade the stem. It's supposed to be darker than the petals, then don't leave any whiteness.

Step 19

Have a softer brush and increase the darkness of shading on the stem.

Step 20

Apply the softest pencil to stop shading the stem. The darkness part of it volition exist our point of reference for the overall contrast.

Pace 21

Use a soft brush to adjust the contrast of the disk to what we've only established. Don't make it too nighttime—it's brilliant, later on all.

Stride 22

Use the same pencil to accommodate the contrast of the petals.

Pace 23

Apply the softest pencil to add a compression of black in the darkest crevices. This will increase the overall dissimilarity of the picture and will make the petals brighter.

2. How to Draw an Orchid

Orchids are a large family of very beautiful flowers taking many interesting shapes. I volition show you just one species, but feel gratis to modify my lessons to create something on your own. Hither are a few handy references from Envato Market:

• Pinkish orchids - no longer bachelor
• White orchids - no longer available
• Orchid in close-up - no longer bachelor

Footstep 1

Again, let's start with the hard pencil. Draw the stem very, very lightly.

Pace 2

Add together piddling circles where yous want the flowers to be.

Step 3

Our flowers will look like birds. Commencement, depict their "heads" with "eyes" and "beaks".

Step 4

Add the wings and tail. These lines should establish the perspective of each blossom.

Step 5

Add three more lines between the previous ones.

Step 6

This is the central part of the orchid blossom. You tin imagine it as the curled feet of a bird.

Footstep 7

Give those feet... horns (yeah, we can't use that bird metaphor anymore).

Step eight

Add two curved "artillery" to the tail part.

Step 9

Depict little butterflies using the "horns" equally a support for the upper pair of wings...

... and the "tail arms" as a back up for the lower pair.

Stride x

Connect the butterfly with the bird caput with a long curved "neck".

Step xi

You can now describe the big petals behind the butterfly.

Step 12

The flowers are fully sketched now, so depict the buds at present—the farther, the smaller.

Stride 13

Depict the residual of the stem.

Step xiv

Fourth dimension for shading! Use a difficult pencil showtime to set the values. Make the stem and the butterfly part darker. This shade difference between them and the bright petals is what we need to follow until the finish of the shading.

Stride 15

Describe subtle rays on the big petals.

Step sixteen

Give the big petals clear middle lines.

Step 17

Create a spray effect all around those eye lines. These part is going to exist darker than the rest of the petals.

Step xviii

Have a softer castor and brand the stalk and dark collywobbles darker.

Step 19

Take the softest brush and make those nighttime parts even darker, but don't apply blackness nevertheless.

Step 20

Fleck the key part of the blossom.

Step 21

Let's finish establishing the contrast: press your softest pencil hard to attain black in some places.

Step 22

Nosotros demand to accommodate the contrast of the remainder of the picture. Go back to the medium soft pencil and darken the pattern on the large petals.

Step 23

Take a hard pencil and darken the petals subtly, leaving a thick, white outline at the edges.

Stride 24

Take the softest pencil once once again and utilize it to add a touch of blackness to the flowers. Not too much, though!

Pace 25

I decided to increment the contrast of the flowers by making the butterfly parts even darker.

3. How to Draw a Lily of the Valley

Lily of the valley has a unique name and shape—its flowers form a row of tiny bells growing from a single stem. This construction makes it quite easy to describe, only feel free to check some references if y'all demand help:

• A bouquet of lilies of the valley - no longer available
• Lily of the valley, shut-upwardly - no longer available
• Lily of the valley with make clean background - no longer available

Step i

Describe the stem first using the hard pencil, and and so add gentle arcs all over it. They must follow gravity.

Footstep two

Adhere a little "loving cup" to each branching stem.

Step iii

Create guide lines for the petals...

... and then utilize them to complete the shape.

Pace four

Add together some width to the stalk and attach little "leaves" for every branching stem.

Step five

Add together a leaf or two to make the composition more interesting.

Step half dozen

Darken the steam and leaves using the hard pencil.

Step 7

Take a softer pencil and subtly shade the same parts.

Step 8

Use the same pencil, but this time press harder to achieve a darker shade.

Pace nine

Take the softest pencil and add together very nighttime accents here and there to adjust the contrast.

Footstep x

Become back to the hard pencil to requite a basic shading to the flowers.

Footstep 11

Accept a softer pencil and darken the lower part of the flowers a little. The more white y'all leave, the whiter the flowers volition seem in the end.

Footstep 12

Printing harder to add darker accents. Make sure your pencil is sharp before doing this, or you'll darken the white flowers too much!

Beautiful! Yous Did It!

You take drawn a daisy, an orchid, and a lily of the valley, but you've too done much more than than that—yous have learned the basics of sketching and shading that y'all can use now in other projects. The aforementioned tricks volition work for drawing annihilation y'all tin imagine: vehicles, buildings, animals, fantastic creatures...

Just if you but desire to go on drawing simple, fun things, check out How to Describe Trees. You can also try my previous blossom-related tutorial: How to Draw a Rose.

If you want to encounter more tutorials like this, delight let me know—I'll be glad to hear your suggestions!

Source: https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-draw-flowers--cms-26762

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