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Floral Doodles for Beginners from doodling flowers with different petals to floral plants.

teacher avatar Zainab Mohamad Ali, Artist and animal lover

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:54

    • 2.

      Class Project

      1:31

    • 3.

      Tools and Materials

      3:12

    • 4.

      Basic Flowers

      5:41

    • 5.

      Floral Plants

      8:12

    • 6.

      Recap

      2:16

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About This Class

This is a beginner's friendly doodling class and I chose flowers to begin with cuz they are very common and can be found almost everywhere around us in our daily lives.

As a beginner in this class, you will get to learn:

- how to doodle flowers with different petals

- how to doodle cluster of florets

- how to doodle a whole floral plant of different types

Drawing skills are not required in this class as doodling doesn't require any skills to begin with.

You only need 2 main items to start:

- paper

- any kind of writing tools: pencil, pen, markers, brush pen, etc

There's no perfection in doodling so no worry if you are an absolute beginner. So, grab your paper and your favourite writing tools and lets begin!

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Zainab Mohamad Ali

Artist and animal lover

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Hi Everyone,

My name is Zain (short for Zainab) and I am a self taught artist and a crafter from a tropical island called Borneo (Malaysian part) in South East Asia.

I am always excited to learn new art or crafts all through my adult life...this is because I don't have any art materials growing up. My very first art was a painting done with oil pastels in an exam while in high school with zero education in art. I took the art exam as a "helping" subject for my Highschool final exams. I was using used and old oil pastels from my older siblings.

But, one medium I always admire back then was watercolor and till today I just love watercolor! Bought myself a set of cheap watercolor long long time ago and started painting on cheap paper too! Didn't know much about quali... See full profile

Level: Beginner

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1. Intro: Why do we do, do doodling is a good way to be productive if we're losing ideas us, it helps us to remember past ideas and info that are in our brands. It is relaxing and at the same time improve our focus to Delhi due to Lincoln, also help improve our artistic skills and also help us find our passion. Hi friends, I am zen and I'm a self-taught artists. I love to sketch, draw in pen in any medium that I can acquire. My favorite medium has got to be what the color. And whenever I'm free, I love to doodle. So in this class we are going to do though some flowers, white flowers. Well, I chose flowers mainly because I'm sure a lot of you out there are familiar with flowers. You can find flowers almost every way. May it be just in a vast in the garden or among the grass? This class is mainly for beginners who wants to start doodling and doesn't know where to begin. Drawing skills are not required in this class of doodling doesn't require any skills to begin with. You only need two items to start, a paper and a writing tool. In the lessons you will learn to doodle a few flowers with different petals and some floral plans. At the end of the lessons, I want you to do though some flowers for your class project. You can either do a single flower or a whole floor plan. You can do that from your own imaginations or from reference photo, or even just to do what are shown in the lessons. So get ready and I'll see you in class. 2. Class Project: Class project. In the class lessons, you will learn how to do the single flowers with different kinds of petals and also a whole floor plan. After completing the class lessons, you are encouraged to do a class project. In the class project, you can choose to doodle flowers and floral plants that are covered in the class lessons. You can choose to do your own flowers. If you want to do though your own flowers but have no idea. You can always do though from reference photo, you can find lots of beautiful flowers in the internet. For me, my number one choice is Pinterest. Here's an example of a floor plan. I do del from a reference photo, which I found in Pinterest. Here's another reference of single flowers found in Pinterest to once your project is done, please share it with fellow students by uploading it in the project gallery below this video. This way we all can learn from each other. I also always give it back to all my students projects. Next, I will show you what you need to use in their lessons. 3. Tools and Materials: Tools and materials. Any pen paper will too. I feel a plain paper notebook. You can also use the plain size of recycled papers. These are air for size sprint peppers and I cut them into half. Thickness of paper doesn't matter in doodling unless you want to pin your doodles with watercolors after that. Then it's advisable to use thicker paper like watercolor paper. The thickness of this peppers in my sketch book is 300 gram or hundred and 40 pounds. Doodling tools. There are endless options and you can find them already on your desk. Any tools that can write can definitely do. The most common writing tools that anybody owns would be either a pencil or a ball pen. I have a few examples here. The first tool I have is the most common pencil and a bone pain. The next one here is a gel pen. Then a fine liner. Any color you wish to use. And this is a brush pen. You can also use a marker pen with colors or even pencil colors. Feel free to use whatever writing tools that are available at your premise. One advice though, if you wish to pan your doodles with watercolor or coloring brush pens, do use a pen with waterproof ink. That's it for now. Simple tools and you are good to go. So see you in class. 4. Basic Flowers: Basic flowers. Let's start by drawing some simple, basic flower doodles without any leaves. Just a single flower or cluster of flowers. Just use any pen or pencil and a paper. We start with the center of the flower, which is often around. Then continue with the petals. Draw as many petals as you can until you reach the first petal. Don't lines in the middle of each petal and some spots on the center. This makes your flower looks more lively. You can add a stem for your flower to. Next I'm drawing the same flower, but in profile. Draw the site petals with curves in this makes the flower looks real. And draw the lines on the petals too, even though is the underside. Here's another flower with less petals and wider. I also draw the petals with a little indentation on the top. It's the same flower, but in profile view, it's always good to learn to draw flowers facing in all directions. Because flower don't always facing towards you, all facing towards the front. We will learn more about that in our next lesson, where we're going to draw a flower, plants. Next flower is the tool is very common and it's the easiest to draw. This one is similar to the first flower, except that the better stop point D and more narrow. And this is how it looks from the side. This next flower is quite unique. The petals are growing downwards and I think it's something like a corn flour. Next is a fluffy flower, like dandelions with white poof. And these are small bell shaped flowers clustered together in almost like a cone shape. Examples are like the Bluebell flowers. Next is also a cluster of flowers with small white bells. And there are examples of lily of the valley. There are clusters, are not too compact, light blue bills, but they are still considered cluster of flowers because they are all growing out from one stem. This next flower is the snowdrop. This flower always reminds me of a table lamp. And the last one is also a cluster of small florets. You can draw with round or pointy petals. You can draw as many petals as you lie or in whatever shape it is. As for mine, I'm drawing a hydrangea clusters. There are of course, more flowers out there, but I will just leave it here. See you in the next lesson where we will do a whole floral plans. 5. Floral Plants: Now that you have learned the basic flower shapes in the last lesson is time for us to take one step further. In this lesson, we are going to draw the whole plant, flowers and leaves. Let's begin with the easiest flower, the daisy. Start by drawing circles for the centers. Don't have to be perfect round as the flowers are not exactly facing front. You will see which way they are facing after I edit all the petals. Now for the petals, pay attention on how I draw them to show where they are facing. I will put arrows to indicate each of the directions. Once I'm done drawing all the petals, then draw issue stem curve to the direction where the flowers are facing. Lastly, just add the leaves as what I'm drawing here. Once it's done, I always like to draw a base. So my plan would look like it's floating in the air. Just draw some irregular shapes below the plan, resembling pebbles or stones in a few short lines as ground. The next floor plan is snowdrop. Start by drawing the ovary of the flower, which looks like a cat. All facing down. A snow drops, always faces downwards. Draw the middle petal first are shown then followed by the site petals. Repeat for the other two snow drops. Draw the stem curving from the top of the cap. Halfway through There's a part that looks like a leaf. I will put a reference picture to show on the left. Repeat for the other two snow drops. Then just add in three long and narrow leaves from the best. Lastly, a few lines for the ground at the base, and we are done. Next. Cosmos plants. They start wildflowers. As usual, always start with the center. If the flower that you are drawing does show its center, draw the petals. See how I draw the shapes and also making them curving up as these flowers have petals curving upwards giving them a bowl shape. And let's draw another flower. Draw two stems joined together as one. Then draw a flower bud on the right side and draw the leaves. Cosmos have simple leaves that looks like soft spots. Lastly, a few spots onto the center to add some interests. The final flower plant is the violet. Very sorry to hear that the camera didn't capture what I drew here as I forgot to move my paper up. But I will show you another one next. Here's how the flower looks like. I didn't edit the stem and the leaves, which are again out of focus. But I will show you in a minute. Let's move the paper and draw with a better view this time. The violet has three petals showing in front and another two behind. I shared at the lower part of the petals to show that part has lines of darker color. Going a second violet behind the first one. Then finish with the stems, flower buds. And lastly, some leaps. Let me draw another beaker, violet for you once more with the lower front petal and then adding the site petals. Now the two top petals, which are usually overlapping one another. And draw a small data center. Now, draw curvy lines out from the center as shown, which is typical of a violet. Lastly, the stem. I forgot the lines on the top petals. So here goes, does it, we have done full flow real plants. 6. Recap: If you are watching this part, it means that you have learned how to draw some basic flowers and even a whole floor of plants. So congratulations. For the past two lessons that you have taken. I hope you are able to start doodling away your class project. Even though they are just simple doodle flowers. But you can still make them more likely by giving them some curved lines and spots. Do remember to share your class project in the project gallery below the video. This way, we can all learn from each other's projects. If you do post it on Instagram, do tag me at only what the color. Meanwhile, here's a bonus floral doodles just for you as an appreciation for completing this class. For more of my inspirational at videos, you can always go to my YouTube channel under woolly, what the colors to deal. The link is in my teachers profile page. Thank you so much for taking this class and would highly appreciate it if you could take a moment to reveal my class, I hope to see you back in my future classes to come by.