Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach

Overview

“In this lesson you will sum up the geometry of several plants to understand their architecture. To draw a plant you need to understand it. The understanding comes from observation and comparison with what you already know. To accurately draw one species, you need to highlight the specificities that make this plant immediately identifiable, describing the geometry, shapes, distribution of its leaves for exemple. I will create some very quick sketches summing up different kinds of succulents and cactus, doing some sketches from the top or from the side. ”

In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Line Techniques: The Geometry of Plants, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach. Slow down and connect with nature by learning how to illustrate plants and flowers using watercolors.

Partial transcription of the video

“Line Techniques I: The Geometry of Plants In these lessons we'll have the first contact with these plants here. It's the time to look at them very closely and to understand the main shapes that they are made from, the geometry of each plant. We have some cactuses, we have a Euphorbia, Opuntia over there, Echeveria. All of them have a very different pattern, very different geometry, and it's what we will describe in this first contact. I will invite you to use a very bold ink pen, to not get the temptation to draw with lots of details. So, this is a 1.2, very bold ink pen. So, just go for th...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (1325)
• 63228 students
• 4 units
• 24 lessons (5h 28m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting