Botanical Line Drawing

Download or read book Botanical Line Drawing written by Peggy Dean and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, an easy, no-skills-necessary guide to drawing flowers, leaves, and cacti with 200 step-by-step prompts. Line drawing is an easy-to-master art form featuring illustrative, doodle-like designs. It's used widely among artists of many types with both fine and bold lines, creating different variations. Botanical Line Drawing teaches you how to start with the simplest doodles, building into more elaborate, delicate illustrations. This book focuses on the extremely popular subject matter of the natural world and includes flowers, leaves, succulents, houseplants, trees, branches, mushrooms, and more. These simple line drawings will allow you to branch out and have fun with your own personal style, as well as inspire you to add flourishes to other projects.

Download or read book The Joy of Botanical Drawing written by Wendy Hollender and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous, easy-to-follow, and inspiring guide to stunningly realistic botanical drawing that covers everything you need to draw our natural world. Achieve amazingly realistic and vibrant botanical illustrations, from flowers so dazzling you feel as if you might be able to smell them, to tomatoes that look as if they've just been picked from the garden. Wendy Hollender is known for her vivid, detailed, and inspiring illustrations and in The Joy of Botanical Drawing, she helps you take your art to the next level by sharing her perfected techniques through short lessons that start simple, then build on the basics with easy-to-use and clear step-by-step illustrations. Using colored pencils and watercolor pencils, Hollender shows you how to accomplish scientifically accurate botanical portraits of a spiraling pine cone, a spiky chestnut, a fuchsia-tined radish, a graceful morning glory, and many more. From colorful leaves to delicate petals to textured bark and slender stems, The Joy of Botanical Drawing will give you the skills to complete lifelike drawings while also enjoying nature and the mindfulness of a regular drawing practice.

Download or read book Botanical Line Drawing written by Peggy Dean and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This simple line drawing guide features all of our favorite cacti and succulents and is perfect for the beginner and a great addition to the tool box of a seasoned artist. Easy-to-understand instructions are presented with six illustrative steps, void of written instruction or over-the-top explanation.

Download or read book Botanical Drawing written by Penny Brown and published by SearchPress+ORM. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive artist's guide to drawing detailed and accurate plants, flowers and other vegetation in pencil—including illustrations and exercises. Botanical Drawing provides a thorough and expert guide to the subject, touching on the history of this fascinating art form as well as its rules and practicalities. Artist Penny Brown explains the materials, learnings and techniques required to produce accurate botanical illustrations. She also includes an accessible, basic study of botany for the absolute beginner. By following Brown’s step-by-step instructions, close studies and explorations of the subjects, you will be able to produce your own illustrations of plants, flowers, vegetables and their myriad parts. Botanical Drawing offers knowledge, techniques, and inspiration as you create your own projects.

Download or read book Botanical Illustration from Life written by Isik Guner and published by Search Press Limited. This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Botanical Tangles written by Mz Creates and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Botanical Tangles is full of fun organic tangles and botanical line drawings that you can learn in minutes! If you've wanted to draw your own botanical tiles this is the perfect resource to get ideas for tangles. Instructions for simple botanical line drawings are also included in the book. So you can add some variety and mix and match two different style of art. Zentangle and Line Drawing. This book contains lots of fun projects and prompts for you to play with. We also look at some similar artwork from classical artists to learn a bit more about black and white art.Your finished art could be on a tangle, an art journal page or you can use it to decorate your bullet journals and planners! Learning how to draw in an easy and approachable way, you'll be creating masterpieces in a matter of minutes!Here's an overview of exactly what is included in the book.In this book you'll learn some botanical/organic tangles as well as some simple botanical line drawings that you can incorporate in your tiles. I like playing with various art forms and am constantly looking for ways to marry art styles. I have added watercolors, mixed media backgrounds and more to my tangled tiles. In this book we will just focus on black and white botanical inspired tiles and projects.You will see artwork from many different CZTs (Certified Zentangle Teachers). This will inspire you and allow you to see how varied this art form can be and how one tangle can be used in many different ways.We will start with a short introduction to the Zentangle(R) method. I will go over all the basics of what tiles and tangles are.Then we will move on to tools and your workspace and what you will need to get started.The fun starts here! We will dive into organic tangles and you'll learn to tangle. Most of these tangles are official - that means they were created by Zentangle(R) HQ (Maria, Rick, Martha and Molly). After this section I will also share some other tangles I love that you can look up yourself and some botanical line drawings to add extra interest to your art.Then we will move onto some artists and their botanical tiles. You'll be inspired by the breadth of the work being done and will learn new ways of incorporating different tangles in your work.I love projects and worksheets of all kinds! So I will end with some projects and worksheets for you to play with. This book is meant to be an introduction to the world of Botanical Zentangle(R) but I will leave you with lots of resources and online class links that you can take with immensely talented CZTs.Welcome to the world of tangling!This book is perfect for beginners and wanglers with some experience.

Download or read book Botanical Drawing in Color written by Wendy Hollender and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough immersion into the world of scientifically accurate, three-dimensional, and artistically rendered natural botanical illustration. The step-by-step instructions in this invaluable guide, written by one of the nation’s leading experts in the field, Wendy Hollender, will grow your artistic ability, whether you’re just broaching this unique skill or are already an expert. Each lesson in the book increases in complexity to build your skill set in a clear, concise, and accessible way. With a focus on the natural world through the botanical life-cycle, each project is not only a technical study, but a beautiful piece of artwork in and of itself. In this book, you will learn: • Single light source toning technique • Principles of perspective for drawing flowers • The fundamentals of plant anatomy • Colored pencil techniques and color theory of the natural world