Botanical Sketching: Draw a Gerbera with Alcohol Markers

1. Trailer: Want to learn how to create vibrant and realistic floral illustrations. In this class, we'll bring a stunning Garbra to life step by step from a simple pencil sketch to a fully detailed, colorful illustration. You will learn how to work with alcohol markers, create smooth gradient, add shadows, and build textures to make your flower look realistic and full of life. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience with markers, this class will help you develop your skills and create a beautiful piece of art. Join me and discover the magic of marker illustration. Ready to start drawing. Let's dive in. 2. Class project: As a class project, we will draw a Gerba. Feel free to use the references I've prepared for you in the project and resources section. And of course, you can use your own photographs or find some nice pictures on interest or even draw from real flower. And don't forget to share your sketches in the project section. Can't wait to see what you come up with. 3. Pencil sketch: Four. So in this part, we will draw a Gerber. As a reference, I will use this photo and the second one by which the details are better understood. Now we again need to understand how the Gerber is organized. It is a circle, another circle, and another one here in the middle. That is basic. It's three circles. Let's draw them now. First, I mark the central axis. I mark approximately the horizontal axis of our flower itself. And now I put off approximately equal segments along this axis, those approximately outlining the size of the flower. Now I draw a large circle. That is the flower itself. Now roughly mark the inner circle. I don't aspire to make it perfectly even because flowers don't have a perfectly even shape. And now I will outline this very small circle. Look, it is in a slightly different direction here on the reference. And I'm going to draw it like this. And also, we can make this middle circle more elongated too. Okay. Now from the center on the axis, I'm going to start drawing the pitails. I'm looking at the reference, and I'm roughly outlining these pitails. Again, I don't have the goal of replicating each pitail one to one. I'm just showing the total mass of these pitails on the flower. Also, notice how these pitails are tilted. They seem to open up a bit towards us and pay attention that the pitails are of different sizes. Some are bigger and some are smaller. And in the same way, we can draw all the pi tails. And here closer to the center, I just outlined the general mass of these very small pitails just to show that they are there rather than drawing each pitail as on the reference. Something like this. So let's set the stem. Here it is. And now I'm going to remove the top layer of the pencil and I will outline my flower with a thin liner. That's it. And now we can start working with color. See you in the next part. 4. Coloring: Welcome back. In this part, we will work with color. I picked up a few shades of pink from light to dark, and this time, I'm going to start with the blender. I'm painting the whole pitail with the blender, and I'm going to add the color. I start with my RP 137 and I apply the strokes from the bottom to top, so the stroke is smoother. Like this, now I take the darker pink P 138, and I add it with the same strokes on the pitil shape from the bottom. And now even darker pink, P 180. My colors will be different from the references, and my gerbra will be more saturated. I carefully added with strokes from the bottom to the top and a little bit of very dark pink R 52, again just a little bit like this. And now with my lightest pink RP 137, I mix the colors together. And now I move to the next pitil and work with it the same way. Blender, light pink. Darker pink. Even darker pink. And now I mix colors together. Now I'm going to work this way through the rest of the ptails. Again, starting with a blender is just an option. You can always just start with your lightest shade and then add darker tones, and it will be totally okay. And B. U. H. And now we are moving on to these little pitails in the center here. Since these pitils are darker, I'm going to bravely start right now with my AV 180. And now I will add my darkest R 52. And with the same dark ink, I'll go over the petals one more time, just to add depth to them because the markers have dried and now it looks lighter than I expected. And now let's mix the colors a bit more with a blender. Okay. Now let's leave our flower as it is and move on to the stem. For the first layer, I take this light green GY four and cover the whole stem with it. Now I take GY five and begin to darken the shadow areas. Here on the right. Then I will let GY eight and darken even more, but not completely. Here on the right, I leave unpainted place for reflex. This makes our stem more voluminous. And here you can also add texture with these dots. Something like this, small dots. Now, I take my darkest green GY 42 and a more of it in the shadows. Again, shadow part is on the right. Like this. Some dots here again. And now with my lightest green GY four, I blend colors together. And with the same light green GY four, I add these strokes here in the center. I'm going to make the middle more green, not like on the reference. On the reference, it is more brown, but I'm going to add the same green as in the stem for more color harmony. Now, I take my B 101, which is a golden brown and I add it right here to the green in the center with such small strokes. You might not be able to see what I'm doing very well right now, but I'm just kind of stroke drawing these little pitails something like this. And with the same brown color, I paint the center of the flower with stroke dots. I just put these dots in the very center of our flower. Now I take a darker brown, B 103, and I also added to the shadow part of the center with again kind of strokes dots. Something like this. And also, I can add a little bit of it to the green part of the center. Now, I take E 18 brown and darken the center even more. And also, we can add it a little bit of a green part, like we did with BR 103. And I take my BR 92 and continue to deepen the tone of the center. Again, I'm still working with dots like this. And now I take my GI five, which is my second most saturated green and go over the light green part with it. Again, I work with dots. And also, we can add a bit more texture with the dots on the stem because the market has dried there, and now it is noticeably lighter. Something like this. Now I will take the golden brown. Again, maybe 101 and here in the small pitails and a little bit of it to show the outline of this central part. A, again, I can add more brown in the shadow part. Now I will take my dark pink R 52 again and darken the outline of the central circle with it as well. I also use it to add a little bit more texture and depth to the pitiles. Something like this. Again, I work with it in the shadow part more. And now we can add a little bit of light pink P 137 to mix the colors a bit more. And on the left side, which is in the light, I will mix the colors with a blender. Now with my darkest pink R 52, I will add texture to the pitils with small dots. Again, not everywhere, but somewhere you can add these dots and it will add so sketchy style to our illustration. Here, some dots here and here, And I can also work a little more with the same pink on the center part just for more color harmony. Now I take my GY 42 and I'm going to add dots in the middle of our gebra again, just small dots somewhere on the center of the flower. And now I take this very dark brown E 49 and add it to the very center of our flower. And we can even add a little bit of it here along with the outline in the shadow part of our middle circle like this. And now we can add a little bit of BR 95. Again, here in the shadow part. And again, here, it's better to work with small strokes and small dots. It will add additional texture to our illustration. And now I want to add a cool gray shade in the shadow part of our flower. To do this, I will use CG four and I gently work it into the pitiles in the shadow part. Just a little bit of it. Something like this. And I think that here we can also deepen this part even more with our darkest pink R 52. Again, we can edit somewhere just a little. While working out textures, the main thing here is to stop in time. So, our flour is almost ready, and I think now we can add a bit more details with white gel pen and white pencil. 5. Finishing touches: He Welcome back. In this part, we can add some final touches to our illustration with soft white pencil and white gel pen. I start with white pencil. I add it to the stem and mute directly with my finger. I remind that you can do it with a piece of soft paper or with soft eraser. And I lighten the pitails a bit. I work mostly in the parts which are on the light. And now you can see how our flour immediately became more voluminous. And with white gel pen, we can add an additional details for a more illustrative look to our sketch. I added somewhere on the details like this. And also, you can correct a little bit if somewhere the marker has gone beyond the borders of the drawing. Do Do In the center, I also said white gelpan and here I can add the texture with dots. Again, just small dots somewhere on the center of our flowers. And also, I can add these dots on the pitiles. I think it looks nice. And let's set some dots on the Stem too. So here it is. Our gerbos ready. We showed it shape and volume, and I think we did a great job together. 6. Conclusion: You made it from a simple sketch to a bright and lovely gerbia. What a journey. I hope you had a great time and picked up some useful tips along the way. Remember, the key to improving is practice. So keep sketching and don't hesitate to share your artwork. I'd love to see what you've created. Thank you for joining me in this creative process. Stay inspired, keep drawing and most importantly, enjoy every step of it. And if you like this class, I would really appreciate your reviews. It helps me as a teacher and also helps as a student to find the right course for them. See you next time. Happy sketching.