Draw Beautiful Flowers — From Simple Shapes to Finished Pencil Sketches
Practice drawing a tulip, a tilted daisy, a small cherry-blossom branch, a calla lily and a partly open rose. Use clear construction, connected forms and light pencil shading. Then make a small bouquet of a rose, a tulip and a daisy.
Each public tutorial includes cumulative drawing images, written instructions and a pencil replay. Public tutorials have no scoring.
The first full-length, guided lesson is available for you to complete for free, including the drawing canvas and feedback at each checkpoint.
Follow along with the guided feedback for the rest of the lessons in the paid course.
Start drawing, then build on what you know
Draw a Tulip with Curving Leaves
Draw a tulip made up of one broad front petal, two wrapping side petals and a longer rear petal. Include the stem of the tulip, two long leaves and add a few lightly sketched lines to show the curved surfaces of the flower.
Draw a Daisy Turned to One Side
Draw a daisy that has turned away from you. It has thirteen broad, roundish petals and a small domed center. The rear petals have shorter visible reaches, with fuller petals at the front. Add soft shading at selected bases and overlaps to give it depth. Attach two simple leaves at different heights along the curved stem.
Draw a Cherry-Blossom Branch
Two pale open blossoms and a closed bud can be drawn on a short diagonal branch, with the bud near its tip. This simple drawing looks very sweet like a greeting card.
Draw a Calla Lily
Draw one open rounded calla lily. It should have an inward roll and a throat which is slightly darker than the exposed outer surface of the flower. Also draw stem and one leaf.
Draw a Partly Open Rose
Draw a half-opened rose with small center folds, wrapped in a middle group of petals, broad outer petals. Draw short stem, two leaves and some shadows.
Draw a Small Flower Bouquet
Draw a rose, a tulip and a tilted daisy in three different heights on your page. Join their stems with a small band and add two leaves to the stems. Use one light treatment to complete the familiar flowers.
Two ways to follow the course
Before you start
For this course adult students and teenagers who are comfortable attempting simple shapes and wish to make more developed pencil drawings will find this course suitable. Previous flower-drawing experience is not required. You do not need to buy or finish another course first.
Use the guided lesson canvas with a mouse, stylus or even touch input. You can also replicate the tutorials with simple paper, a pencil and an eraser. Light pressure, short strokes and attention to detail are enough.
You don’t need: Botanical knowledge, expensive pencils, color, smooth blending, perfect symmetry or completion of another course.
Allow about 20–70 minutes per lesson. Rose and Bouquet drawings tend towards the longer end and you may like to come back to your drawing at a later date to continue.
Start the free guided lesson