Drawing: Flowers by William F. Powell

Drawing: Flowers by Walter Foster ISBN-13: 9781633227774 Paperback: 40 pages Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing Released: May 7, 2019

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Learn to create detailed, realistic flowers in graphite pencil from basic shapes.

Drawing: Flowers shows you how to render a variety of beautiful flowers in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing materials, building with basic shapes, and shading to develop form and realism. With a wealth of detailed step-by-step projects, among the flowers you'll learn to draw are: Regal Lily, Daffodil, Carnation, Hibiscus, Peony, Chrysanthemums, Bearded Iris.


My Review:
Drawing: Flowers is a short art book with step-by-step illustrations showing how to draw flowers using graphite pencil. The book briefly talked about tools, techniques, and flower anatomy. The general method is to sketch a basic shape defining the flower's outer edge, then indicate where the inner shapes (petals, etc.) are, add details and shading, and smooth the lines and erase guidelines. He provided demonstration projects for drawing many different types of flowers, including from different viewing angles and in various degrees of growth (from bud to full flower).

The step-by-step demonstrations usually showed 4 or 5 steps, and most took one page per flower. The drawings were generally easy to understand plus the text briefly explained what he was doing in each step. He covered 2 types of tulips, a magnolia, 2 types of dogwood flowers, a regal lily and a lily bud, a daffodil, carnation, English wallflower, begonia, poppy, pansy, dendrobium, primrose, hibiscus, fuchsia, peony, foxglove, columbine, tea rose, rose, thistle, gladiolus, aster, iris, and chrysanthemum. Overall, I feel like this book has helped me to improve my flower drawing skills, and I'd recommend it.


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