Botanical Line Drawing
200 Step-by-step Flowers, Leaves, Cacti, Succulents, and Other Items Found in Nature
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed · Print & ebook · July 24, 2018
From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, an easy, no-skills-necessary guide to drawing flowers, leaves, and cacti with 200 step-by-step prompts.
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- Who it’s for
- Build from simple doodles to delicate botanical drawings, with room to find your own style.
- Themes
- Botanical drawing, Step-by-step art instruction, Personal creative expression
- Pacing
- Steady
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From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, an easy, no-skills-necessary guide to drawing flowers, leaves, and cacti with 200 step-by-step prompts. Line drawing is an easy-to-master art form featuring illustrative, doodle-like designs. It's used widely among artists of many types with both fine and bold lines, creating different variations.
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Botanical Line Drawing teaches you how to start with the simplest doodles, building into more elaborate, delicate illustrations. This book focuses on the extremely popular subject matter of the natural world and includes flowers, leaves, succulents, houseplants, trees, branches, mushrooms, and more. These simple line drawings will allow you to branch out and have fun with your own personal style, as well as inspire you to add flourishes to other projects.
Lines Into Leaves
Build from simple doodles to delicate botanical drawings, with room to find your own style.
Come here for
- Step-by-step prompts for flowers, leaves, succulents, and more
- A friendly way to practise line drawing, even without prior skills
Expect
- Simple shapes that grow into more elaborate illustrations
- Ideas to adapt for personal style and other projects
Where it sits
| Animals & Plants in Art | 87% |
|---|---|
| Pen & Ink Drawing | 42% |
| Flowers | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Pen & Ink Drawing
- Animals & Plants in Art
- Unlocking Creativity
- Authors
- Peggy Dean
- Publisher
- Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
- Published
- July 24, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Botanical drawing · Step-by-step art instruction · Personal creative expression
- Reading lane
- Pen & Ink Drawing