Sketching Techniques Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, Marco Mazzoni will demonstrate how to draw a flower using shading techniques. Instead of focusing on lines, you’ll build the form through shadows, starting lightly and adding pressure as needed. Using an amaryllis as an example, Marco will guide you through shading petals, creating depth, and working with stripes to add movement, ultimately bringing the flower to life with subtle layers of gray.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Shaded Drawing Flowers , which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketching Techniques Specialization. Explore the power of sketching alongside top-notch drawing masters..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I will do a flower, and I will do it with the technique of shading. As I said in a previous lesson about to create a flower with the line drawing, we need to work as we work on that, but in a different way. I mean, we need to start with petals, and we need to work inside petals before understand how to go to the central part, but I prefer to use, in this case, an amaryllis because it's a more circular flower, it's a more softener flower, and it allows us to play better with the shadows inside of it. For example, I do a little sample here. You need to think about your flower,...”

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Course summary for: Sketching Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (93)
• 8847 students
• 9 units
• 94 lessons (15h 44m)
• 51 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Botanical Illustration, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting