Blossom Lines: Floral Drawing with Watercolor

1. Intro: Hello buddy Artists. My name is Natalie, and today we're diving into the vibrant world of puppies. Whether you're a seasoned artist or just pick up a brush for the first time, the simple yet captivating red and green sketch is perfect for you. Let's bloom together as we're bringing these beautiful flowers to life on the paper. Ready? Let's get started. 2. Materials overview: Hello, everyone. Today I suggest we sketch some poppies. We will need the same materials that we used in previous lessons. Of course, you'll need a sketchbook or a sheet of watercolor paper, paint palette napkins, and a container for water. To secure the paper, you can use a clip or paint a tape for a tighter grip. What else? A pencil eraser or needed eraser? Liner and brushes. I'll talk about the most common brushes, but you can just use 21 medium sized brush with soft bristles and a sin one for detailing. You can either use a brush with long bristles for drawing lines, or calligraphy brush, which creates very beautiful and unpredictable strokes due to the length of its bristles. If you don't have such brushes, a regular sin synthetic brush with a sharp tip will do. Let's get started. 3. Pencil drawing and choosing the colours: First, I want to secure the paper by attaching this wave. The paper won't we bend, it will be very comfortable to walk on. You can also secure it in the middle to prevent the paint from accumulating in that spot. Plus as a bonus, you'll get a beautiful frame around your illustration. Another helpful tip. I covered the adjacent page with a plinthet so that any splatters wouldn't ruin it. Now let's make a very simple pencil sketch. Here is a diagonal line, but note it doesn't go from one corner to another, otherwise it wouldn't look very nice. It captures a part here, and don't treat the end there. Let's draw it and mark the green area this way. Don't forget to make red spots here. And place the main flowers not exactly in the center. I suggest of setting them to make it look more interesting. The first poppy will be somewhere here. The second one here, they create beautiful curves. Draw some poppy seed pods, the intersections of the lines look very beautiful, and draw some buds over here. Don't forget to indicate the grass. I'll make the line brighter here. It's clear how it will go. With that, our pencil sketch is ready. You can color in the top area, but I suggest leaving it white and only coloring this section and the flowers themselves. What colors will we use? Before diving into a watercolor painting, I always do a color test to colors and check the compatibility. I do this to be able to walk boldly on the main piece naturally will take the red color. In reality, the choice of Ts is darker or lighter. Warmer or cooler. I suggest going on with geranium red. It's warm enough and suits poppies. Well, I have another container of water here to keep the water clean for the sketch. Next we'll take the yellow color, cadmium yellow. This results in a beautiful orange that will also need, the next color is green. We'll see how it pairs with red. I've chosen grass green for darkening. I want to take indiga instead of the usual black. Indiga is a dark blue color. It will look stunning in the shadows. I think we've got a beautiful combination. So let's get started. 4. Watercolor washing: First I suggest we create the background blurred silhouettes as it dries. We'll detail it first. Just dump in the paper. You can use an even bigger brush if you want to do this quickly, wet it and wait half a minute for the moisture to be slightly absorbed. We'll start with the basics. Lay down beautiful red spots of poppies. Make the paint a bit sicker so it doesn't spread too much. The smarts are strawn. Since the paper is still quite dumb, you can immediately create a few splashes. The edges of the poppy are luminous, so immediately mixing some yellow to get a beautiful color blend, I add here right away. Next, I lay down green spots adding yellow as well. The edges dry faster, so dampen them if necessary. After that, add dark details, I suggest to draw blades of grass in this brush with long bristles. If you don't have one, I recommend getting it. You can draw very fine and beautiful lines with it. The background should be blurred, so if the paper is dry, you can wet it carefully or blur the edges. Now we'll take and not so dark paint and with confident quick motions, draw the lines. You can follow the plant sketch or let your imagination run a bit. Ensure you don't abruptly cut off lines, if possible, lead most of them directly to the edge of the paper. Now, with careful strokes of Russian prints, mark the poppy hats. I'm pondering where to place the largest bat. Perhaps I'll join it here. Now let's add some yellow paint in the green area. I want to dilute the background a bit more. I've prepared a weak solution of green and I'm it onto the background in the section. I want this area to be slightly blurred and understated. Now I'm introducing drawing lines with a clean, the pigment will spread due to the water forming the light stem of the flower. These light lines will also diversify the drawing and add a peal. I'm adding a few more splashes. Now I want to add a bit more detail to the poppies themselves. I'll show you how to do it with a calligraphic brush. Take the pen out the brush, and create a few of these parallel lines characteristic of poppies. You can emphasize one of the petals more than the others. Pay more attention to it. And here you can depict the reflections of the greenery on the flower from below Blue. The learning bit over here, if you really want, you can slightly accentratelo'ttail too much because it's in the background, but lightly outlines if you want some color gradient so you can play around and add some water, the paint will blend well. The watercolor part is done now. And I suggest we dry the sheet a bit and add some details with a liner. It will diversify the piece and add bright accents. 5. Details with a liner: All right, now we take the liner and beautifully outline the poppies. You can detail not only the counters, but also the wins. Showcase the background of the flower. Please don't replicate every scene exactly as in the photo. Rely on the drawing and create your unique lines. Watercolor is quite capricious by nature and deviations from the plan and its adjustments are characteristic of it. Also, you can add some graphic qualities with lines. If you notice Papa stems are fury. Incorporate this texture to better convey the essence of the flower. Decide which flowers so bad sea will detail more and which ones less. Here I want to detail this cap on top to resemble more of a poppy seed pot. The main theme is not to detail all parts uniformly, because in the picture there should be both main characters. Secondary ones is that attract less attention. Here less attention is given will merely hint at the stems and bats only a bit remains. You can indicate a few blades of grass to convey the overall character. If you wish, you can add hatching to mark some leaves. At this point, it's best to stop. Let's remove the tape to make it clear. And before removing the tape, ensure the paper has dried so as not to accidentally tear a part of it. The result will be such a light and unclouded sketch, we used only four colors, which helped convey the plot and tell the viewer a story about puppies. 6. Outro: All right, artist that brings us to the end of our delightful poppy sketch lesson. I'm generously excited to see all your beautiful renditions. Remember each stroke you make adds your unique touch to their artwork. Please share your sketches with me. I'll be more than happy to provide feedback on each one. If you're eager to further hone your skills, don't hesitate to dive into other lessons available on my channel. Keep sketching, keep growing, and until our next statistic adventure. Happy Painting.