Q&A for How to Draw a Flower

You can make drawing easier by using basic shapes and then adding details. To draw a flower, all you need are some circles and ovals, then you just add the details. Of course, practice is always recommended too.

Use different shades and colors. Try to use inspiration from the flowers you see around you, and don't forget to draw in and color a background.

Shading is just adding a darker color to the parts of the object light does not reach, and adding a lighter color to the areas that the light shines on directly.

Practice makes perfect. Draw as much as you can. Doodle throughout the day. Look at pictures and attempt to draw what you see. Go back over your mistakes to improve upon them, and keep trying until you succeed. There are not shortcuts.

It's different for everybody. You can't just draw straight away. You need to practice as much as possible for your drawings to be flawless.

Practice! Draw all the time and soon you'll see yourself getting better. As you learn, you can teach yourself to perfect things that you struggle with.

The colors red and blue make purple. The purple can be lighter or darker depending on how much more red vs. blue you add.

It is easiest to use a reference picture showing the exact type of lavender you'd like to draw. You can look up a picture on Google, for example, or borrow a gardening book from your local library. Sketching usually helps, though in this case, you could start with the stalk and then draw the small oval flower buds in rows that are attached to a flowering lavender plant. This answer space isn't long enough for a detailed answer but it's a great request we'll consider adding as an article later.

The more you practice drawing, the better you'll become.

You could either press lighter when writing or just not overlap the drawing where it says to overlap.

2B. It's one of the lightest pencils in the B section, and you can always trace over it.

You could sit in a dark room, turn your brightness all the way up and trace over the picture.

Draw a flower but with a face and in a pot. Or look up how to draw fan art on wikiHow.

A sunflower, because it has very few steps and is easy to practice drawing.

If you would like to remove a mistake done in ink, you can use white-out or liquid paper. It may look obvious at first, but if you plan to color over the image later, it will hide the spot where you applied the white-out. You may still be able to find the spot if you look for it, but other people will not know that it's there. Make sure the white-out is completely dry before you draw or color over it.

You can use acrylics or oil paints.

To shade your flower, you can use a darker version of your petal colors to shade the edges and shadowed areas, giving them more depth. You can also use white to add highlights to your flower. wikiHow also has some articles on shading techniques that might be helpful to you.

I'd say a narcissus, but it really depends on what you're good at, what you've practiced most, and so on.

You can keep practicing, and with time and practice you will get better. You can also add different colors to it, if you would like.

Yes. If you draw a complicated flower, it will have more detail to it.

Sure, you can use your imagination and draw whatever kind of flower you can think of.

If you press harder, the pigment comes out more, giving a richer look. Blending should be done with close colors, like blue with green or orange with yellow.