How to draw cotton flower steam in coloured pencils

1. How to draw cotton flower steam in colored pencils: Hi friends. I welcome you on the new skillshare class. For those of you who are for the first time here, my name is all. I'm a sketch illustrator and watercolorist from 2020. I'm an art teacher too. In today's class, I propose to you to draw a beautiful stem of cotton flower. We will be coloring it in colored pencils. The most important thing about this class is that we will have a real still life. I will show you how to analyze the cotton flower, how to analyze the petals, the bulbs, of how to analyze the stem, how to analyze the colors, and how little to draw this composition of a stem. First, I will share with you the supplies that we will need. Then, after getting with all the supplies, I will be showing you how to draw only one cotton flower. I will show you from the real cotton flower how I analyze it, how I draw it. Then after drawing one cotton flower, I will proceed with the composition itself. It will be a stem with three cotton flowers in this composition. First I will show you how I analyze it and how you can do it too. Then I will show you how to draw the composition from bigger objects to smaller one, and then how to draw the details. Once the work will be drawn, we will proceed with coloring it. I will show you how to color the work in colored pencils. The colored pencils process will be a really interesting one because I will share with you the basic rules about the highlights, the mid tones, the shadows, how to do the hatching on these colored pencils. Many more questions, you will find an answer in the tutorial. Let's jump in. 2. Supplies you will need for this class: Let's proceed with the supplies that we will need for this class. I will be using watercolor paper for the work because I like the roughness of this paper. By the end, once we will be mixing the colored pencils on it, we will have a very interesting effects on this. You can use a sketchbook paper or whatever paper you have. It doesn't matter actually, the roughness of it. In my case, I just like this beautiful small details on this paper. Then we will need a pencil. I will be using my Favor Castle pencil H, B. Then we will need different types of eraser. For the main drawing, I will be using my need a Erasor Faber Castle. It is not damaging the paper, but you also can use any of the erasers that you have. In any case, it will work well. Last but not least, I will be using my mill and 36 colored pencils for drawing the cotton flower. If you don't have 36 colors, don't worry with 12 colors. It will be enough because we will be mixing different colors and you will get the desired shades and shapes for your work. 3. Analyzing the reference before to draw: Before we start drawing the cotton flower, I invite you to analyze the flower first, which is its form. First, I will take the bulb of this cotton flower, and I see that it has a circled form. Then if we take each petal or each bulb on this flower, on each flower of cotton, we can see that it also has a circled form. It is not a perfect circle, but anyway, it will help us to guide us throughout the way of how we draw it. Later on, we see that we have to draw five circles, then we will draw the details. After we will draw the form as well. It is great to analyze the leaves, the dried leaves that we have on this flower, and we see that each has different forms, and on each bulb we have a new petal. This actually makes that this cotton flower to have this circled form, because the petals below are maintaining this cotton flower on the stem. Once we will show this flower, we will proceed with the stem. We have to see that we have one big stem, one the main stem that have on it different flowers. And then we have smaller stems on which each flower has its support. We see the petals, how those are taking the form of the cotton petals and then the stem. We see that the cotton bulb is circled. Even if we look, it's on the profile and not from the top. When we will be drawing the main flower, the main work, the main project, we will see that we have to draw all these details like the main stem, the smaller stems, and the flowers in different forms of this as well. Not to forget about the leaves. 4. How to draw one single cotton flower and to identify the shadows: Before we proceed with the final project, I invite you to draw this bulb of cotton flower and how we identify the main form that we have, and it is a circle. In this circle, what we do, we find the middle part and then each bulb of the flower we represent in another circled form. Interesting how this cotton flower looks like, usual flower with petals, but instead of petals we have cotton bulbs on it. Now we have identified the forms and I will proceed with drawing the details and not only the flower, but also the dried leaves that we have on it. But before I proceed with the jowing itself, with the final jowing, I erase with an into bell eraser all the lines that were helping me to identify the form. If you pay attention to the lines I haven't removed totally, I still have this guided form that will guide me throughout the process of wing and now little by little, I will create the real form of the work. If the first drawing was about identifying the main parts of the, the main form of the flower, now I proceed with all the details that we really see in it, as we are artists and not photographers. Obviously the details won't be exactly as we have on the reference, but we try to maximize the details as we can, depending on the size of the paper, on the size of the paper. For example, if it is a smaller paper, then you will have less details. If the paper is big enough, then you have to draw more details. In this specific case, we are only drawing the work, we are not coloring it. With this reason, I will only draw all the details and we'll apply some shade on the flower. I finished the drawing and now I proceed with the shadows. The shadows will define the depth and this form of this bulb of cotton flower as well. It will help us to maximize the real flower and to make sure that it looks like a cotton flower and not another flower that we don't have in real life. If it happens that you have cotton flowers in the house, I really advise you to take your bulb and to draw it. This video, just to watch as a reference how you have to do your own cotton bulb or cotton flower. Just make sure that you follow the rules like going from bigger object to smaller ones. Then the shadows, you just have to define on your own. Because not always, it will look the same as it is in this work. The first details that I have applied with these shadows. I didn't press too much the pencil drawing, and now what I will do, I will intensify the color and the depth. Because where we have darker shades or darker parts, I will draw with pushing my pencil more. We came to the end of this study case. I hope you enjoyed this part, and let's proceed with the main project. 5. Drawing the still life: Let's proceed with the drawing process of the stem and cotton flowers. I invite you to analyze the stem, the cotton flowers, how those are positioned. And we will start, you have the reference, please take a look and let's draw it together. In any composition, we are going from bigger objects to smaller one. But first I will go with the stem to position the flowers on the stem. The stem is the main part of this drawing composition and it will guide us throughout the whole process of joining. Once I have more or less the form of these beautiful flowers of this stem, I proceed with smaller stems of the flowers. I will proceed with the bulbs. The bulbs I represent first in a square. Later I will show it in a circle form. But now I just want to position those and the direction of the bulbs on the stem. I defined the position of each of the bulb on the stem, and now I will proceed with the drawing of each bulb in in particular. In this case, what I will do, I will draw each bulb in a circled form. If you pay attention, we have not clearly a circled form. We have like an oval. An oval is a circle in space. We have these bulbs in space. This is why the form is not a clear circle but an oval. The small bulbs as well, we position, we just see where those are. Because we see not from the front like in the previous lesson from one side. And some of the bulbs we see clearly other bulbs, we see only a little, just try to draw a little bit the dried leaves on each bulb, on each cotton flower. But later on I will draw these in a detailed form and more visible. Now I'm just checking out that everything is drawn on my work. I proceed with the next cotton of flower and same as with the first one. I draw a circled for an oval form to represent the pups and the flower itself. Earlier you have seen that I added some details on the stem as well. This will guide me later on once I will erase everything and we'll draw the final work. Now on this flower, I also look for the bulbs, how those are positioned, and how we see those all At the same time, I draw the smaller stem of the flower that connects with the bigger stem. I also add some dried leaves that we have on this flower. Finishing the drawing of my work with the third flower here, I decided to start with the bulb without drawing the oval form. Because if considering that each bulb is different, we don't clearly have an oval form. We have several circles, several oval forms for the bulbs. This is why I haven't applied the same practice as for the first two flowers. I just had this square space that covers all the cotton flower. Now I see the bulbs draw some dried leaves, some dried leaves that are in the background that are seen in the whole form, but only a little finishing with the detail of the dried leaves and the smaller stem that connects with the main stem of the cotton flower. The composition is drawn, the main parts are drawn as well. Now I will take my need eraser and I will erase everything. Why I erase everything is because I don't need so many lines. A part of this, if we are working with colored pencils, we need that lines to stay really light. Those are not popping up with colored pencils in mixing form. Now I repeat only the lines that I need. If you remember, at the beginning, we had a lot of lines, a lot of drawing lines that helped us to recreate the composition. But now we just repeat the lines that we need. We are not following all the lines. Now. It is the time when I add as many details as I can. It is really important that at this step, you draw as many details as you see on the main work on the reference, on the still life that you use. Because in this way it will help you to add more details later with colored pencils and it will make an easier process for coloring process as well. Pay attention that I'm not pressing too much my pencil because I want to have as thin lines as possible. It is true that I try, that the work is visible to you, but if you can make the lines even thinner than I do, it would be better. Because later on it will be once you will color in colored pencils, finishing my jewing process with the last flow. And now because we have the work done, we can proceed with colored pencils. Let's move on. 6. How to apply and mix colored pencils: Before we start coloring the cotton flowers, I will explain you how to color it colorically and how to do the hatching. Now I take another piece of paper to share with you how I will apply the coloring pencils. I will go with very thin lines first I will go one close to another, but I want to press the pencil on the paper. In this way, I will be able to color the colored pencils in between. For example, I will have the opportunity to mix up the colors like I show it here. If, for example, I will press too much with yellow color on the paper, the paper gets saturated and it is making more difficult the mixing process on the paper, for example. Now I will take another pencil and we'll show you how. If I apply another color, I press it as well a lot, but it makes me difficult to color those in between. The result is not the desired one. Let's proceed with the main work. 7. Colouring the cotton flower part 1: Let's proceed with coloring the cotton flowers. I will start with mustard yellow color to prepare the main color of the cotton flowers. Because the cotton flowers we have inside and it has an artificial light. The high light will be warm and the shadows will be cool. In our case, the highlights, it is worm and even if it is a white color of a cotton, I proceeded with coloring all the flower with yellow and to create this warm vibe on this flower. I also draw slightly with my pencil, not only the flower itself, but also the stems. Because the stems we have in brown color, in this yellow color will add just additional warmness as well. What I want to mention here is that when we color the flowers, we have to pay attention that we do not press too much the pencil on the paper, because when we press it too much, the paper gets saturated. And then it will be difficult for us to mix up colors within those. I finish coloring the flower with this yellow color, mustard yellow. Now I will proceed with some cooler color to represent the shadows or the mid tones. But I will actually add the cooler color for recreating the form. And to create the depth in these flowers, I will take the ocean blue color for the pencil jowing. I take ocean blue color for applying the shadows. You can take any other blue colors that you wish. I also have some ultramarine color. I also have other blue colors. Look what you have. If you want, you can take some lighter blue color that depending on the polite you have with ocean blue, I apply the shadows on the cotton flower and recreate this form. I recreate this oval form with a cool color. I create the depth, this interesting form of a cotton. I do not press too much. The pencil drawing on this, I add it slightly. Once we will be doing the last layer, we can, we can apply much more color. And it won't be an issue to us because the paper, even if it gets saturated, we don't have to mix the colors lately, little by little, I just follow along with this pencil on the first cotton flower. Now I take another warm color and it will be sent brown color. Sent brown color looks like ochre in watercolors or any other medium. Brown will help us to recreate the midtone and to create this transition from high light to the shadow, from warm highlight to the cool shadow. In this way, it will help us to create these transitions to create depth. And not to make this cool and warm colors really strong by the end To have a more realistic illustration than if we just apply warm and cool colors by the end, I don't miss the chance to add as well this color on the leaves, on the dried leaves that we have on the stem. In this way, I will work completely on the whole work altogether. Actually, I'm not working on all the flowers, I'm working flower by flower, but even though the stem and the dried leaves, I already apply and work as a whole. Now I take a wood brown color of the colored pencils. It is a darker color. It is also a cooler color of the brown color. With this, we will overlay the leaves, the It leaves that we have as well. I will already start to apply the shadows. This wood brown color is a very dark and it looks more like Si. At the same time, I take some yellow color to make this cool color of wood brown warmer. Because this cool color, it is great for the shadows. But as well in between, we have some highlights and some midtone. This is why I add more yellow color and it will work very well for our dried leaves with the wood brown color. I don't miss the chance to paint the smaller leaves that we have. On the cotton flower, we actually don't have the dried leaves. It is about the dried part and the dried that we have on the flower itself as well. In between, I mix yellow color, the warm yellow color, with the wood brown color at the same time, creating the intensity, but not forgiving about the different shades. And in this way, to create the depth and the highlights of the dry leaves as well, I take some blue color. Again, I intensify the shadow on the cotton flower itself as well. In this part where we have the cotton and the dried leaves close one to another, there we have darker shadow. It is also cooler one. This is why I have applied some more details as well. With this blue color, I add some intensity on the dried leaves. Pay attention as well add some cooler color on your drawing, on your work. As I already worked with the high light tone and shadow. And I identified the colors that are working well for me and for this flower, I already press it more and with the same pencils that I used till now. I apply again the colors. This time I press it and I make this intensity higher to recreate and to have the dried leaves visible, more visible to the viewer eye. The first cotton flower is done. Let's proceed with the second one. This time I will start with wood brown color first and then I will work with the blue color. I see that I have the shadows in these forms and I just recreate the form and recreating the depth for the petals or for the bulbs of this cotton flower. As I mentioned, I start with wood brown color first and recreate the depth where I have it. Now I take some ocean blue color and I apply even more depth into it. And look how beautiful is mixing these two colors and creating this kind of gish color that we see in real life on our flower. Adding more yellow to the flower. And pay attention that on this second flower, I am free and I am not afraid to apply and to press more colored pencils as I was afraid. On the first flower with sand brown color, I apply the first layer on the joint petals. Now I take another yellow color. It will be dandelion yellow color that I will apply on this layer again. And will mix the sand brown with the dandelion yellow to create a worm highlight with wood brown color. I intensify the shadows on the dried leaves and recreate the form itself with mustard yellow or any yellow color that you have. You can mix with this wood brown color and make the transition smoother. Because if not, the color, the wood brown color makes the color very strong. Or for example, with sand brown, you can neutralize And to create these transitions from midtown to the shadow. Also, I don't miss the application of the blue color, ocean blue color. To make the shadow cool enough, I apply also on the stem I haven't mentioned earlier. But all the things I apply on the stem as well, not only on the, it leaves final touches on the second flower and then we proceed with the last flower. 8. Colouring the cotton flower part 2: Let's proceed with our third cotton flower. We will start with the send colored pencil. It is like Okra color. And we start with the shadows. To recreate the depth, I take ocean blue colored pencil to apply the shadow. In this third flower, I have bigger part of the cotton flower in the shadow than in the highlight. With this reason, I will apply more blue color, cooler colors for the shadow. I will leave a small part for the highlight. With a yellow color, I intensify the highlight. I also apply this color in the shadow. To have this transition within the high light and the midtone as well. I apply it on the dried leaves to have this warm color as well. The last colored pencils that I took it is wood brown color. I apply the form of the dried leaves. I basically do the same steps. I follow the same steps as I did on the previous cotton flowers. The only thing that here, I'm not afraid to press the colored pencils more and to intensify the color more because I already know how many layers I will apply. And I'm not afraid of mixing of the colors. I'm not afraid of saturating the paper. This is why I'm not afraid as well to apply strong colors on it as well. Don't be afraid to draw as many details as you wish. For example, I have really small dried leaves, like small details on this flower. And I draw this as well in the shadows. I intensify this color to stay stronger. I decided to take my eraser and to erase some highlights from the previous cotton flowers because I feel like there is a beautiful highlight that it would stay prettier if we live in the color of the white paper. This is why I erase slightly the highlight, Not everywhere, just small amount. I just left these colored pencils from the paper. I follow along with sand brown color for the leaves and for the stem as well. I use the wood brown color. I use both colors at the same time to intensify the color in the highlights. I proceed with yellow color to make it warmer. Again, with wood brown color, I intensify the outline of the petals of the dried leaves. I intensify the color on it to make it darker and more prominent. To catch up the viewer eye, we have a bicuar part of dried leaves that we can see on this flower. On the previous cotton flowers we had less. Now we have dried leaves and we have more of this brown color. With ocean blue color, I intensify the shadow in between the cotton flower and the dried leaves as well. I add some blue color on the stem and on the dried leaves too. Following with the stem, I use some wood brown color and ocean blue color to create these darker shadows on the stem. I finished with the all three cotton flowers. Now it's time to proceed with the main stem. I intensify the color for the highlight. Use some yellow color to make it warmer in the highlight. Then I will proceed with darker colors. Now I took some scan brown. It is like color I already mentioned. It is something in between yellow and brown color. What make a perfect fit for the highlights? For this work with wood brown color, I add some details, not only the shadows, and make some interesting textures on this stem as well. Of course, I'm not forgiving about the strong shadows that I have. Some interesting ways of recreate this stem from the nature. For the last details on the stem, I take some ocean blue color to intensify the color in the shadow and to make it cooler. I basically add more blue color in between the flow and them. It is more about the layering shadow and proper shadow where it is darker than usual. I took from my polite another brown color, that it is warm enough to represent all the details on the highlight on this stem and to recreate the transition from the core shadow or from the layering shadow that it is cool enough to the highlight. And to make this transition smoother. Usually I don't use gray colors, but here I decided to take from my plate a gray color to represent the layering shadows on the table from this cotton flower. Why I decided to go with this gray color? Mainly because I didn't want to mix the brown color and blue color. And to get straight away from my polite the grayish color without preparing it. If you don't have the gray color on your polite, you can take of the normal pencils, normal simple pencils like HB or B, to recreate this layering shadow. It will work wonderfully to recreate the core shadow and that it should stay a little bit cooler than the colors that were applied on the stem and on the flowers. Under this flower, I see that we have a darker shadow. Because of this, I took some black color. You can use any pencil that you have that it is darker. It will help you to create some negative painting for the core shadow. In this way, you will bring the more to the viewer eye. It is also an interesting effect when we apply a darker layering shadow, adding darker shadow in between the flower and the layering shadow. It is where the flower touches the space, the table. In our case where the shadow, it is darker. I'm almost done with my work. If you want to add some details, feel free. But in my case, I finished this work. 9. Last thoughts: Friends. I hope you enjoyed the process of Jewing and coloring the cotton flower stem. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask those. I'll be super happy to answer all of the questions. All the questions you can leave in the project part. On the skill share class, you will have the option to leave a comment and as well to upload your artwork in such a way you will help the community to see your works. You will help me to share with you my feedback on this class. Thank you for watching till the next time. By