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    Free download: Tone exercises to improve your botanical drawing
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    Free download: Tone exercises to improve your botanical drawing

    Free resource: tone exercises to improve your botanical drawing. Botanical drawing is a discipline where observation and precision coexist with artistic sensitivity. Beyond form and contour, there is a key element that makes the difference between a flat drawing and one full of life: tone. Knowing how to work correctly with lights, shadows and tonal gradations is essential to represent volume, texture and depth in organic forms such as leaves, flowers or fruits. This free resource comes from the course Mastering botanical drawing with graphite pencil techniques and is intended as a practical support for those who want to improve their technique step by step. Through simple and progressive exercises, you will be able to train your graphite control and refine your eye to understand how light builds form in botanical drawing. What is tone and why is it so important in botanical drawing?[/b In drawing, tone refers to the varying degrees of lightness and darkness used to represent light and shadow. It's not just about "shading," it's about understanding how light strikes an object and how that information translates into tonal values on paper. In botanical drawing, tone plays an especially important role. Natural forms are rarely flat or uniform: they exhibit smooth curves, folds, veins and subtle changes in texture. Controlling tone allows you to suggest these qualities without overloading the drawing with lines, adding realism and depth. In addition, working well with tone helps to: - Better understand the three-dimensional structure of plants. - Differentiate planes and volumes clearly. - Convey delicacy and precision, two key values of botanical drawing.

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Lily Coppens

Lily Coppens

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Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium

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Lily Coppens

student: illustration and graphic design

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  • Watercolor Fashion Illustration: Silhouette, Color and Flow. Fashion & Illustration course by Jessica Durrant

    Watercolor Fashion Illustration: Silhouette, Color and Flow

    A course by Jessica Durrant

    Fashion & Illustration

  • Expressive Animal Portraits in Watercolor. Illustration course by Sarah Stokes

    Expressive Animal Portraits in Watercolor

    A course by Sarah Stokes

    Illustration

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  • My project for course: Creative Fashion Illustration Techniques. Traditional illustration, and Collage project by Lily Coppens - 07.27.2023
  • My project for course: Handmade Binding without Stitches. Arts, Crafts, Fine Arts, Bookbinding, and DIY project by Lily Coppens - 07.12.2023
  • Bird-collage. Traditional illustration project by Lily Coppens - 06.25.2023

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  • Lily Coppens – @lilycoppens12
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