Your complete guide to drawing flowers, from simple to intricate! Flowers are an enduringly popular subject for artists, as they can represent a multitude of emotions and occasions. This step-by-step guide to drawing floral and botanical elements will help you create everything from the most basic to the most intricate blooms! Inside these pages are featured modern flowers perfect for every kind of illustrative project, such as home prints, journals, and stationery. You'll learn a drawing technique that can be used on any flower and applied repeatedly, helping you develop a strong knowledge of how shapes and lines work. Explore all the important aspects of drawing many different varieties of flower, with highly detailed beautiful photographs of the actual flowers to help you along. Learn all about the anatomy of a flower with techniques on how to draw the bell, cross, crown, cup, funnel, and more! The projects start with the easiest flowers to draw, like cherry blossoms and daisies, and progress to the more difficult ones, like roses and peonies, so you can build your skills as you practice. Featuring 15 basic flower shapes to learn and as well as a section on how to apply your new knowledge to creating more than 15 wreaths, borders, flower arrangements, monograms, and more, author Bianca Giarola also includes troubleshooting tips to answer the most frequently asked questions about each project. Of course, drawing a flower isn't just about drawing, coloring, and This book also shows you how to mentally approach a botanical drawing to set yourself up for success from the get-go! Get started drawing flowers and botanical elements the easy way, with Easy Steps to Drawing Flowers !