Botanical Drawing for Beginners: How to Draw Simple Flowers

Would you love to learn how to draw simple flowers for relaxation or for fun projects, like making gift tags or decorating your bullet journal? This class will show you how to simplify flowers to make drawing easy and fun. In this class, you will learn how to draw dandelions, cosmos, anemones, poppies, tulips, daffodils, echinacea, daisies, pansies and hydrangeas.

Sharone is an artist and author of "Watercolor for the Soul". She loves to draw and paint for relaxation and joy; her mission is to show you how simple and accessible creativity can be and how much value and meaning it can bring to your life as well.

This class is suitable for absolute beginners and anyone interested in learning how to draw simple flowers.

What you will learn:

• Tips for drawing flowers: Sharone will give you some of her top tips for finding inspiration and references, simplifying the shapes of the flowers, drawing them from different angles and adding folds into your petals, and adding dimension and texture with simple shading and details. 
• How to draw 10 specific flowers: You will learn how to draw a dandelion, cosmos, anemone, poppy, tulips, daffodil, echinacea, daisy, pansy and hydrangea from different angles so that you can create your own designs and compositions.
• How to use your flowers in fun projects: Sharone will give you inspiration and examples for how to turn your flowers into beautiful gift tags, bookmarks, greetings cards and decorations for your journal. 

What you will need:

• All you need to take this class is a pen or pencil, eraser and a piece of paper.
• Sharone's Pens: Sharone will mainly be using Pigma Micron pens, sizes 02 and 005 throughout the class. 
• Sharone's Paper: Sharone will mainly be using a sketchbook with 150gsm white cartridge paper. For the gift tags and bookmarks, she will be using either Mixed Media paper or Strathmore Bristol card.

Resources and more inspiration:

• Check out Sharone's other doodling and drawing classes on her profile here!
• Subscribe to Sharone's emails here for a regular dose of creative tips, motivation, inspiration and more.
• Follow Sharone on Instagram @sharonestevensdesign for more creative content.