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The Iris Flower in Watercolor: A Drawing Adventure

teacher avatar Natalia Nikitiuk, Capturing Life's Beauty

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      0:33

    • 2.

      Materials

      0:59

    • 3.

      Part 1: Pencil drawing

      5:48

    • 4.

      Part 1: Preparing the color palette

      1:43

    • 5.

      Part 1: Watercolor washing

      8:00

    • 6.

      Part 1: Details with a liner

      8:55

    • 7.

      Part 2: Pencil sketch

      4:57

    • 8.

      Part 2: Watercolor washing

      5:44

    • 9.

      Part 2: Details with a liner

      8:10

    • 10.

      Outro

      0:39

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Immerse yourself in the beauty of the Iris flower with this two-part watercolor lesson. Initially, we'll closely follow a clear reference picture, capturing the elegance and delicacy of this beloved flower.

Then, we transition into an artistic extract from a complicated reference. Here, you'll learn to find and emphasize beauty within the ordinary, to distinguish that captivating fragment amid the chaos. Join us on this journey as we learn to draw not just the Iris, but the allure it holds.

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Natalia Nikitiuk

Capturing Life's Beauty

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Hello there! I am a passionate watercolour artist, and I'm here to share the magic of this versatile medium with you. Contrary to popular belief, watercolour is easier than it seems, and I truly believe that everyone has the potential to create beautiful art.

My love for watercolour is deeply rooted in the joy of capturing life's most memorable moments in my ever-present sketchbook. Alongside these cherished sketches, I also take great pleasure in creating full-size watercolour paintings that bring vibrancy and depth to the canvas.

As a mother, I've discovered the delight of sharing my passion for watercolour with my daughter. It's not only a wonderful way to bond with children, but also a creative outlet that nurtures their artistic growth.

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1. Intro: Hello, I'm there to lean. And today I'm going to show you how to draw. Iris says at first to a, we'll draw a flower using a where a clear reference. The second option will be a little more complex. On it. I will show you how to distinguish that beautiful from zero ordinary. How to focus on the most important, how to see as a simple into complex. So let's get started. 2. Materials: Let welcome everybody and let me tell you about the materials that I will use today. I need watercolor paper or watercolor, sketchbook. Watercolor paints. Water tissue, brush. I will use soft brush with a sharp tip. I think this one brush will be more than enough. Pencil and eraser or a neck black liner pen. And also I will use a clip. That's all. So let's start 3. Part 1: Pencil drawing: I have already talked about the materials. So let's get down to the main pot. I will fix the paper was a clown for convenience to walk with. And I will start with a pencil sketch. First of all, it is necessary to determine the placement and sketch out the basic contours. This is needed. So that would don start drawing the flower until we're completely sure of its correct placement on the paper. Otherwise, we would have to erase, redraw. And it always undermines our desire to continue drawing. I want to draw to flowers and one unopened bud. I do not want to place the Iris right into center. So it is necessary to find such a place that the flower looks most advantageous. We will have three objects. Determine the largest of them. Hello HL, smaller and less smallest. The largest flower will be here. Small like here. And the, but here. When we understand the placement of the flower, we can move on to the details. The top flower is divided into two parts. And I'll roughly sketch how this will look. Here is about it slightly merges with the flower. I really like this intersections of objects. When one object goes beyond announcer and gyrotron creations from one to another. This makes Beecher are sketch more integral. Zara will be a node's about here. And here is a small flower. I want to battle to touch this term. Something like this. Now we can erase unnecessary lines, Z confuse us. Then we will draw the flowers in more detail. In any case, I don't want to overload the Pencil sketch with details, but give free rein to Watercolor. So I will only draw a significant places, mug borders and underline like lines. I emphasize the main central petal. I'm done with the top flower. Now, I'm smoothly moving down. Right here will be the largest bought. Here will be a very small one. I also decided to draw it. On this side, the second bloomed flower. I want to keep a gap between two petals because it looks beautiful. More air is brought into the picture. And I will mark the main petal on this flower. Let's draw the last petal right here. You can take another look at the draw when I finish what you're seeing is necessary. Possibly mark like lines. So the Pencil sketch is now ready with an eraser. I will reduce the intensity of color so that the Pencil is not so contrasty. I highly recommend you to get such an eraser or NAK. If you don't have one yet, it doesn't scratch the paper, doesn't smear the Pencil and doesn't leave leaned behind. No need to shake Anniston off every necessary scene for an artist. So it's time for watercolor. 4. Part 1: Preparing the color palette: And now is a perfect time to move on to Watercolor. Our flower is purple, but I want to slightly diversify and make it more picturesque. And therefore, it is very important to determine the color before starting walk and make a preliminary coloration of the Flowers. Now, I will show you how I usually choose colors. And today I want to use four colors. The first tend main one is purple. And to each I will be mixing other colors to understand how beautiful is they will combine together. Next, I will take yellow for bright spots if it were to get muddy. Now, I got to experiment and switch to another shade, but it fits perfectly. The color is called Neopolitan light yellow. Next, I take ping, combine. It combines beautifully with purple and yellow. The first color is emerald green. There is no much formed anywhere. Beautiful shades are obtained and mixtures with all colors. We can clearly see and watch hades is sketch will turn out like I ever scene. So let's return to the sketch and collaborate 5. Part 1: Watercolor washing: Before you start to study the flower carefully, we're its lightest areas. And whereas the darkest ones. Try to keep this arrangement at least minimally. I'll start with pink. You don't have to draw the place is right clearly alone. The outline. You can finish it with a liner, leaving white spots. I want to place bright spots. And then already on the shirt I'm mixing another color. I will go round the white spots. That is, if you want to leave a white stripe, you can just carefully go around it with a brush. Know that purple is very saturated in itself. And if you need transparency, takes the maximum amount of water and minimum of pigment and die immediately mix sick color into the dark places. It may seem that at this initial stage ever seen merges into one that there is no volume. But don't rush to conclusions. We will add volume and Details with a liner. First to make a light feel. Try to connect the details of the sketch together immediately. The flower and this term, so that it all looks integral and United. Choose the colors carefully. Even the green I check is not too bright, but mixed with the colors I have already used. So that every sin Los harmonious and in the same color palette. You can take more water to have time to make transitions. Here will be a smooth translation from purple to green. You can mix in the yellow color, adding bright spots. I make a transition from this term to the flower immediately. Mixing colors. On this flower, I want to denote more light and make it less saturated. So as not to, I drag too much attention. Don't forget about the serum which I wanted to leave unpainted. Well, let's add dark accents, pots that will create volume and enlivens a Drawing. This point, the initial layer of watercolor wash is ready. If you wish, you can add more details with watercolor on top of the dry layer. If you want to make some elements more vibrant, you can highlight them with a liner or define them with watercolor. I'm going to add just a few details. I strongly advise not attach the areas where beautiful wash effects had occurred. It would be better to focus on other areas. And perhaps even cava Zoe's that didn't turn out quite as well. Even with such large brush, we can denote small details if it has a sharp tip. This is, in fact is the main criterion. When choosing a brush. I will add some bright axons, highlights the Details, and Duggan the shaded areas. If you wish, you can add a few light spots and Zan dry out, walk. Lots attention to the sketch. Zone. The scene I don't like is even sized gaps between the petals. They seem to be compatible with each other. So Sam should be slightly reduced. On this side, I will make it smaller, so it will look more harmonious. Now, that's all for sure. Let's proceed to dry and with a hairdryer, and then we will walk with a liner 6. Part 1: Details with a liner: Let's move on to the most exciting part. When the drawing becomes even more wavered. Now we're going to emphasize the brightest spots. Hide unnecessarily once, and sampling join a creative process. Here I want to add light detailing. The beat tensor wanes. You can lay the lines on top of each other. The most important thing is not to make the outline identical precisely alone the age. In some places try to go beyond the line. In others, on the contrary, go into the drawing so that it looks more interesting. On the main petal, I want to draw more details to highlight the main character. Here, I've captured a large uncolored area because I want to land Tony it. And that Alito chaos. Here, I'll draw the wanes, add some Iris specific details. You can emphasize the white places by darkening the flower behind them. To bring this part even more forward. There will be minimal details on these petal because the lag, how the washes turned out, I will slightly underline them and leave all the main beauty untouched. Some areas can be left untouched by the liner at all without making a round outline. Lead diabetes such on the statement. I'm going lower. I'm getting to this term. Lead lines here be buried somewhere more shadow somewhere left hand colored. From this, the draw away and will only benefit and we'll look more attractive. The darker the area is less noticeable as a liner detailing. Lines are more reasonable in light areas. But nevertheless, it adds its own nodes. We have last flower left. Here. The upper part can be untouched from the left side and the lower part dark and, and winds added. Also unevenly underlines a distant petals. So when these vitality and play on one side alleged outlined be more pronounced and the other a minimum of detail. To avoid all this, look into uniform, you can add an additional area. And last petal remains. To highlight it. I will resort to the massive of negative draw when I will call it the area behind it, so that the petal counts on the foreground. Here, I will draw the pattern more carefully. Our sketch is nearing its end. Here you can move favorably highlights a petal connects these black lines, lead them to the center so they don't look at out. We have such a picturesque, bright sketch. You can take lighter shades if you want to play more attention to the liner details. It all depends on your desire. And young girls. I've got a minor incident known. There is an unattractive stain here. Let me show how it can be fixed and SaaS diversify the sketch. I'll try to remove it as much as possible, but it won't go away completely because the parabola has a very saturated pigment. Let's just slightly diversifies. The background, blurs the boundaries of the flower. And immediately with a wide places with clean water. Don't forget to cover the dry pot or a clean share it if you don't want the splashes to reach their to take some purple paint on the brush and slightly sprinkle it. Immediately remove the excess drops with a clean brush. I also want to add some yellow to introduce light shades into the drawing. Carefully sprinkle it with a brush. Well, now the blood is not visible and the background has become more interesting. With this, our first flower is ready. I hope it was useful and interesting. And get started on this catches. Keep it a light mode. Not expecting Anniston began CRS from the South. And when you're ready, let's start the second part of this lesson. 7. Part 2: Pencil sketch: Well, the next task will be slightly more complicated because in reality, it's easier to draw from a radiant, beautiful reference where Erikson is clear and understandable. It's more difficult, wonderful water is not quite clear. When your eye characters some Details and your brain wants to draw ever seen at once. Don't understand what can be drawn here and how to do it beautifully. We want draw all these bunches of flowers. I suggest highlighting two objects to Irises that are adjacent to each other. We'll try to sketch them. We will use a lighter tone so that we can walk more with a liner pen later. We take these two flowers and choose the composition. And the top will be a lot flower, and here will be a smaller one. What do we see? This flower is divided into three parts. The top part is a lower petal. The petal go into the side. After I determine the location, I realized that this all will be reaching the edges. I want slightly reduce the size so that it's not so large and Luke's harmonious. Below this battle will be the second flower. It consist of the top cap, stem. Decide live. When we understand the composition, it will be easier for us to move further. Now, let's make a band cell draw when sketch it in more detail. Here are very beautiful upper petals. I suggest to study them carefully, see where they come from. The reason nausea petal on the site at petal in the background and allied part in the middle. The research an apparent line in the center of the flower. Here I will draw the side petal. And here will be as small shaded area. And by the way, we immediately ugly numb the unnecessary. On this Art we'll see some sin dog osteon. It's also was drawing this battle. Maybe not as big, so it doesn't attract too much attention. Next, we make a clarifying movement on this battle and proceed to the next one. The man petal of the second flower is roughly the shape on such a long stem. Behind the ear to we'll see secondary details. We will also let this scare them, but not so Bradley. And we will pick the side petal. We just have to add the stems and the dark leaves in the background. I want to slightly connect them to unify the competition. We ended up with a Drawing on this format. Let's clean it up, remove the intensity of the Pencil draw when, and proceed to the watercolor 8. Part 2: Watercolor washing: I suggest we keep the same colors, but take less saturated shades and makes more the translations. We start from the top and smoothly makes in all the colors we've used before. That I'd be less tonal decisions here, but more watercolors, most translations. I want to convey his lightness of the flower. You can take more water to be able to mix. Makes most foundations from color to color. If necessary. You can add darker colors. I really liked how the top of the flower turned out. And they will slightly increase the saturation. In some places. On this side, there is a shaded saturated area. In market right away. Here is a dark spot. And now we move to light and airy shades. Now we're making beautiful gradients and we smoothly transition from one petal to another. You can wear this area again, if it's dry. We'll mix shades and smoothly move down. Towards the bottom, the pattern gets darker. What we'll also draw the petal in the background with a dog column. Here, I will leave a blank space is saying it will look more interesting in that way. We move to the side petal, make an NP teres. Then we move to the stamps. We smoothly makes purple with green at an odds are used shades to eat. We do these so that the picture looks more natural and harmonious. To prevent the edge of the leaf from attracting too much attention. You can remove excessive broadness. Live in the color semi-transparent. Well done was a watercolor pot. Know what will drive their **** again and to walk it. Who is a liner pen? 9. Part 2: Details with a liner: And Z is intermediate stage. You might seem that the sketch is not bright enough, but all this will be adjusted and it will the final touches. Pay attention to the places that turned out. But to color, well, I like the saints that have appeared here. So there will be a minimum of Pan detail in, in this part. Alonzo contour, I want to add strokes. Here will be the medial over the baton. And the main contrast in lines will come from weight. You can leave things and sat not show which petal is in front and which is behind. Because if you all will guess and imagine some things himself. And now we will just add beautiful lines and details. You can add details and pieces. We'll end the places the tourism May 2 is use a most hi, I'm outlining the contour of the battle. Bring in part away too light. You can introduce small chaos and unclear lines in their background. Led displays be out-of-focus. I want to emphasize the petal again, my shading behind it. This will bring it full that you can add a few dark spots here. And then we'll move on to the side petal, barely noticeable Details through willing to wanes. I want outline and draw the contour from the top. I move on to the law of flower. It's rarely not so much in focus. So I want or a, we'll its details and nuances in this March detail. Only from the top, I will highlight the shadow side or a wheel in the heterogeneity of the compensation. On one side to petal will remain on drone. And on the second, I will add an edge. I will highlight is tense, and they are completely out of forgoes. So I will add minimum details. Now, let's add the final touches. Every beautiful edge has turned out here. We'll leave it as it is. Frozen side, we will slightly emphasize it may come. The doc will add lines to the bar to show the unity of the compensation and compatibility. All we have laughed in the shadow part. These can be depicted moles, Kimara to clean sam points, however, I was highlighting and drawing attention to. You can even just shared it. Well, is the second sketch is also ready and they wanted to show with it, it's not necessary to have a clear and beautiful photo in order to make on sketches. Sometimes our photos are not of the best quality. So I recommend you not to look for the perfect picture, but use what you already have. Photo on nature. Now, is it time to dig into old photos that may not have seen so attractive and suitable to you. To the pods that you like the most and express it on paper. Show how you see it specifically. So we have such an interesting Laurie background here. Let's diversify this one too. But this time I suggest no to whiten it. But making splashes on the dry paper. You can lot and remove excess moisture and color within napkin. If you wish, you can add splashes of another color. But be careful. Don't overdo it to the Details and don't spoil the competition. That's it. Our Iris lesson is over. Thank you for your attention. Now it's time for you to draw. You can start by using my photos. Practice, get the hang of it. But I also highly recommend using your own photos. If you don't have them, take nuance and get started on your sketches, can lay your vision, walk boldly, but without expecting a grant result. Do ever sandwich pleasure and joy? 10. Outro: That's all from me. I hope I was able to convey the most important thing, how easy and without much preparatory walk to proceed to flower sketches. The main salt is that sketching is easy and fun. Practice and enjoy the process. Improving your skills time after time. Loan to see Joe and subjects everywhere. Long to find beauty and can weigh, eat in your wax. Draw what attracts your attention the most. See you soon