Camila Kang- Drawing Plants and Trees

There are many different types of trees and plants, and the best part of them is that they don't move. Or at least, not as much if you remember from biology class. The author suggest "plants are always a good subject to choose for practising your drawing" and that flowers are "very defined in their shapes and delicate through vigorous in quality" (Barber 62). For artists, it's the best kind of subject to practice art on, especially when learning to observe and sketch. There's always "vegetation near you in a garden or a park" (Barber 30). A tip for drawing trees is to not draw every leaf, but "you have to make a tree look as though it has leaves en masse" (Barber 30). It not drawing every leaf, but add tone to make it 3-dimensional.

Later I attempted to draw flowers, but were very difficult due to their "complex shapes" (Barber 32). Especially roses have interesting shape, and to my preface is the hardest flower to create on paper. The pedals and angle of the picture made it hard, but it turned out not as bad. I tried to do something new, by painting in watercolor, but had no luck. Here are the pictures of the flowers before I colored it. The rose was given some tone for me to see which way the petals curled and could tell it was a rose compared to a simple line drawing. Flowers helped me to see and observe. The stillness of a flower helped me, and could help any artist trying to sharpen their techniques. The coloring turned out not as good as I thought it would, and would try and work on coloring as well as drawing.