Iris, cockerel, royal lily - it's all about him, about the gentle and mysterious iris. Let's learn to draw the favorite flower of gods and kings.
Before you start drawing, take a good look at your flower model. Pay attention to the location of the petals. Three stretch upward, forming a kind of tube around the core. These petals are called standards. The three lower, rather large, petals with a bend fall down. These petals are called fouls. Each foul has a peculiar beard of thick hairs at the base. The lower petals of irises are also characterized by the presence of dark thin veins.
The leaves are sword-shaped, flat and long. Stems are straight and tall.
Determine for yourself what basic geometric shapes (circle, oval, rectangle, triangle) you can guess in the outline of the flower.
Option 1
Let's try to draw a single flower.
Draw two ovals, positioning them as shown in the photo below. Be sure to draw a vertical axis of symmetry. The lines should be thin and light, easily erased if necessary. These lines will form the boundaries of the future drawing.
Draw three standards in the upper oval. Start drawing by drawing the central petal.
Draw two elements that create the effect of beards.
Focusing on the auxiliary lines, draw two side petals.
Draw the lower center petal, stem, and narrow leaf. Erase the auxiliary lines. Color the drawing as you wish.
Option #2
If you have thoroughly mastered the previous drawing technique, then you will be able to fully master the technique proposed below. Thanks to carefully drawn petals, the iris looks more natural.
How to draw a bouquet of iris flowers with a pencil?
Using the tips below and the technique described at the beginning of the article, you can easily draw several irises to create a delicate bouquet of them.
Option 1
Think over your future composition. Use light lines to sketch out the drawing. When working on drawing flower petals, do not forget that the iris is far from ideal symmetry and this is precisely its charm.
Be careful when working on the details of the drawing. Don't forget about the characteristic beards and veins of the iris. Don't neglect applying eye shadow. The presence of shaded areas will add depth and contrast to the picture, making it more vibrant and voluminous.
Option #2
Below is another fairly simple way to draw beautiful irises. Pay attention to the color scheme of the picture, because irises are characterized by constant color movement.
How to draw an iris flower in watercolor step by step?
Irises and watercolors are made for each other. Professional artists claim that working with watercolors is quite difficult, just like painting irises. However, this article is intended for those who are taking their first steps in fine arts, which means the techniques that are offered to the reader do not require a high professional level.
Important: When working with watercolor paints, use appropriate paper. Regular album sheets are not suitable because watercolor paper has a rough surface and holds paint better.
Watercolor "Irises" Think over your composition. If necessary, make a light sketch of the flower heads, stems and leaves.
Define color scheme future drawing. The spots in the diagram below are ideal, from the point of view professional artists, color combinations.
Watercolor loves water! And even special sheets of paper are prone to deformation during the drawing process. To minimize the consequences of deformation, the sheet should be fixed to the surface with masking tape (along the perimeter).
Wet the watercolor sheet well with a spray bottle.
Remove excess moisture with a clean sponge. Look carefully at the surface: the sheet should not shine. If you notice any shine, blot the surface again with the sponge.
Start drawing. Write easily, without effort. The paint will spread softly, creating a blurred edge.
Having mastered the technique, start creating a masterpiece.
Let the drawing dry.
Draw the contours and details with a pencil pen or a special liner if you see the need. A few sharp lines in the drawing below turned blurry watercolor blots into graceful flowers.
Watercolor "Irises" The “wet” technique does not limit the flight of imagination and allows you to create unique floral images.
Watercolor "Irises" The combination of wet and dry techniques produces stunningly realistic images.
Watercolor "Iris"
To minimize the effects of deformation from moisture and subsequent drying, fix the sheet on work surface masking tape (around the perimeter).
Make a light sketch, noting the location, shape and size of the flowers. By using wax pencil outline the image. The lines should be thick and clear. Their purpose is to prevent the paint from spreading and to maintain the boundaries of each individual element.
Draw leaves and stems (wax pencil).
Lightly moisten the middle of one of the petals with a brush and clean water. Color the petals by working with two matching colors (see diagram above). As a result, you will get a beautiful and natural gradient, typical of irises. Violet and blue paints are used in the photo.
Moisten the unpainted areas of the petals clean water. Color with pale yellow or lemon watercolor. Closer to the base of the petal, use a thin brush to drip ocher paint. The wet watercolor will begin to move, creating an interesting transition. You can also shade yellow with orange. Color the leaves. Let the drawing dry. Draw thin veins on the leaves.
Carefully tint the background. And draw thin veins on the petals.
Video: Iris in watercolor. Detailed video tutorial. 1st lesson. ART studio TUTA-KA!
One of the most exciting creative experiences is seeing a story come to life on canvas. Today we will try to “grow” watercolor flowers - delicate purple anemones. Selected step-by-step master class from the book Atmospheric Watercolor by Jean Hayes, which will show you how to create light, airy and atmospheric drawings.
Atmospheric watercolor
1. Take a close look at the flower and mark its center on the paper with a round spot. You can choose the colors of French ultramarine and alizarin crimson.
2. Wet the paper to the left of the stain and add a warm color - rich orange - along the outer contour.
3. Using short, straight strokes, direct the paint from the center to the petals, which we will paint in the next step. Brush strokes give direction to the viewer's gaze.
4. And now the most interesting part - the petals. Work slowly with each one and apply the mixture thicker (cadmium violet) - then you will add water to them.
5. Add more paint and drip water onto the new petals. You will get stains that look great after drying.
6. Completely blur some edges of the petals with water. Closer to the center of the flower, deepen the shade.
7. Draw petals one at a time around the center of the flower. Vary the fill density and blur the side edges of the petals. Watch how a flower is born before your eyes.
8. To make the middle petal seem closer to us, deepen purple by wet filling. The paint spreads evenly, but on an inclined surface it will run to the bottom edge. After the puddle dries, you will get an interesting effect, reminiscent of a curved petal.
9. Moving on to the distant petals. They are not as important as their neighbors. Draw only the outlines. The color here serves as a hint to the background without unnecessary details.
10. Having created the contours of the far petals, immediately add water from the outside. Using brush movements from the petal, direct the paint to the edges of the sheet using the stretching method already familiar to us.
11. Partially deepen the color in the core: in anemones it is very dark. In addition, the darker the color, the more delicate the petals appear due to the contrast of light and dark.
Advice. The contrast between blurry spots and clear strokes gives the image expressiveness.
12. Finally, deepen the background shade. Vary the density of pouring water and save the drips to get interesting texture. You can complete the painting, but the point of the exercise is to create the illusion of a flower. Now the image looks fresh and bright.
13. See how the paint looks after drying. The main thing is not to rush, and you will learn to create atmospheric, lively compositions.
Advice. As soon as the object becomes recognizable, stop. For both beginners and experienced artists the hardest thing in free technique- understand when it’s time to put the brush down. The work should not seem finished.
The end of May is the time when nature has already come to life after a long winter sleep and now begins to bloom, illuminating the world with colors. At this time, there are many sources of inspiration everywhere, you need to capture everything that your eyes see. Below you will learn how to depict the world in watercolor as you see it with all the accuracy and brightness of the shades. We will learn from a bouquet of tulips that can be found in almost any home in the spring. 
You can take other flowers that you like. The main thing is that the bouquet is lively and “juicy”. Always draw from life - this way you can fully see even the smallest changes in shades. From this lesson, take the principle of operation into your knowledge so that in the future you can understand how to create similar images.
The scheme of our work will be divided into several stages:
Sketch
Chiaroscuro
Watercolor test
The drawing itself
The sketch is very important when painting with watercolors, because it is what the entire image is based on. In our example, we used watercolor paper, which allows you to “play” with shades, due to the fact that the paints take longer to dry and you can interestingly mix several different colors. Let's learn a simple technique for drawing flowers with a pencil:
We mark on paper the position of all the flowers from the bouquet. We try to accurately convey at least general shape each of them. We maintain proportions using the sighting method. To do this, take a pencil, place it horizontally at arm's length and measure the width of each bud. After this, place the pencil vertically and see how many times the width extends into the length. Thus, the size of the buds will be preserved, and the drawing will become realistic. Our flowers are still circles and ovals - we don’t focus on the details. 
Look carefully at the flowers, count the petals, and look at the structure of the cups. In this case, we have 4 red-orange tulips with folds in the middle of the smooth petals and 1 yellow one with fringe along the edges. On red buds, the petals are arranged in one layer, overlapping each other in a circle, while on yellow ones they bloom in two rows. 
We begin to draw the details from the “bones”, and build the petals themselves around them. Our buds look like hexagons. The “guides” will determine in which direction one or another leaf will bend. All our tulips turn out different, because we draw each one individually. Remember that depending on the time of day and temperature, flowers can change their shape, so do not drag out your sketch for several hours. The flowering phase is also important, so you need to be able to display it correctly. Our bouquet has a very successful arrangement of three buds, located in different phases. 
We display the lower yellow tulip open so that not only the petals are visible, but also inner part with stamens. 
All that remains is to finish drawing the leaves. During the entire work, do not overdo it with the eraser, so that in the future the watercolor does not roll off in places where there are “erases”. 
You can start applying paint right away, but we recommend that you first make two small sketches on small pieces of paper. The first one will display how the shadow falls - it will be easier for us to distribute in the right way paint: 
Next, using watercolors, we determine which colors are suitable for our large creation, and which can be immediately rejected. To do this, we draw something like this, without precision or additional details: 
In a color sketch, it is important to look at how the background will look and whether it should be brighter or darker. We determine the level of darkening on the shadow sides and the brightness of the flowers themselves. After this work, you can safely take watercolor paper and start drawing. It is better to choose imported cotton paper that is not artificially bleached. It has a grayish tint compared to a regular leaf. However, it will not look good on white wallpaper. in the best possible way, so it is preferable to choose a different background for your masterpiece.
The distinctive features of watercolor paper are its heterogeneity and the speed of moisture drying. While one layer has not dried, you can mix several more tones, which creates volume. For example, fill a petal with a yellow-green mixture and carefully drip scarlet paint on top and dark green paint on the bottom, shade it a little. 
We also fill each petal on the flowers, shade, distribute the shadow. The heterogeneity of tones will only emphasize the realism of the drawing. 
The single-layer technique makes the drawing lively and bright. Look at the unopened bud - you will agree that such a huge number of shades can only be created by nature and... us: 
While the buds are drying, we write one leaf. Mix green tones and experiment with brightness. While the watercolor is still wet, you can notice this beautiful shine: 
Now we move on to the central orange-red flower. Fill it with the background color - in this case, rich yellow, then draw in the red veins, mix the colors to create shimmer. 
Emphasize the shadow with right side light cool shades. Fill the stem with light green paint, and draw a dark shadow with a thin brush. 
We begin to fill the second sheet from the outer part, then move on to the darker inner part. For convenience, plots can be divided into as many fragments as is convenient for you. 
Let's start working on the left blossoming tulip. We leave the most jewelry work - the middle - for last. 
As you work, your desk might look something like this: 
It is important to decide which petal is which in order to individualize each fragment. Pay attention to where the edge is lighter and where it is darker. 
We visually enliven our flower with stamens. Yes, in nature they are black, but we depict them as umber. Each stamen belongs to its own petal, and the pistil in the middle complements the composition - we draw it especially carefully, shade it, but act carefully so that there is no stain. 
Next in line is the most beautiful and catchy one - yellow flower. We highlight the core of the bottom row with dark shades - this is not a shadow, but part of the petal, so we express it especially carefully and precisely. Blend along the edges orange paint so as to highlight the entire spectrum of colors on a single leaf. 
We make the second row darker, adding a little more reddish warm shades. 
Carefully select the core: 
Now it's up to the leaves. You need to depict them as accurately as possible. We pay attention to the incident light, emphasizing the reflections on glossy surfaces with neat lines. Shade the resulting parts and combine different colors. 
Now a few tips to sum up our big master class:
More samples. Use different papers, brushes, color combinations and paint brands to find those that you will use forever in the future.
Whatever the paper, it is you who creates on it, so it depends only on you and your mood how original and bright your work will turn out.
We always start drawing flowers with sketches. Let's generalize them to simple contours, and inside geometric shapes We're already filling in the details.
We look carefully at each flower individually. The artist’s task is to study the object of his inspiration, to notice the smallest play of light and natural play of tones.
We make sure to do shadow and watercolor sketches in order to correctly “scatter” the shadow over the future “finish”, and also not to make mistakes with the tones.
We focus our attention on the structure of the objects we draw. It is the “anatomical” details that often become the basis of the design, like the skeleton of our petals, for example.
Don't be afraid of unevenness and spots - imperfections are often a sign of realism, and absolute symmetry and uniform tone eliminate the liveliness in a drawing.
Drawing flowers is both simple and difficult at the same time. The wide variety allows you not to get too hung up on the rules for transferring forms. And here incredible beauty and the saturation of color scales are a big headache for meticulous artists. After all, it is very difficult to convey this beauty with the help of ordinary paints. Let's talk about how to paint flowers in watercolor. This instrument is most suitable for conveying the charm of flowers that is found in nature.
Features of watercolor paints
If the word “watercolor” is translated from Greek into Russian, we get “water paints”. Keyword“water” explains the transparency of watercolor beauties, their inimitable charm, fabulousness, and airiness. Regarding them, we can paraphrase famous proverb: “You can’t spoil watercolor with water!” Indeed, the more water, the more beautiful the watercolor works.
The technique of writing “on wet” is very popular for them. This is when colored strokes are applied to damp paper, touching each other. Because of this, they mix in an unimaginable way, creating unique combinations. Another feature of watercolor is its incredible transparency. No matter how many layers you add, each previous layer will still be visible. Thanks to this quality, many masters watercolor painting achieve wonderful effects of overlaying different color layers on top of each other.
Do you already want to try this enchantress in action? Do not hurry. Otherwise, the first failures can be very disappointing. Although watercolors are one of the most common paints among beginning painters, they are the most difficult to master. That's why:
Watercolor does not tolerate mistakes. If you apply a wrong stroke, it cannot be corrected unless it is completely washed off before it dries.
It is very difficult to achieve color purity. This requires a lot of experience in using them. When mixing more three colors It turns out dirt, not a color tint.
When using multi-layer painting, it takes a lot of time. It is necessary to wait until the last layer has completely dried before applying a new one. Not everyone has the patience for such science.
These paints require good paper and quality brushes. Unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity to purchase them. And the colors themselves good quality not so easy to find in some circumstances.
However, you should not be stopped by all these difficulties. After all, having mastered the basics of writing with watercolors, you will be able to create with any paint. And the charm inherent only in watercolor sorceresses will delight both you and your admirers.
How to draw flowers in watercolors step by step
It is best to start learning to write in watercolors with color exercises with filling spectral stripes. Having drawn a sheet of paper into squares according to the chessboard principle, paint over all horizontal lines with primary colors. Once dry, paint the vertical stripes with the same colors. As a result, you will immediately know what shades their combinations produce.
Now you can start painting still lifes of flowers. You can go out into nature and paint from nature, or you can pick a bouquet and bring it home. Immediately prepare an easel or sketchbook, paints, brushes and special watercolor paper. It is better to use a plastic board for the palette, but the easiest way is thick white paper, preferably the same one you draw on. So, everything is ready. Let's get started:
We outline the drawing. Yes Yes! Namely, we outline, the drawing is made with a slightly noticeable pressure of the pencil, the fewer lines, the better. It is advisable not to use an eraser at all.
We begin to assign primary colors. To do this, we select them on the palette. Important note: you should start with the lightest areas and it is very important to get the color right the first time.
We write down the penumbra, then the shadow parts of the flowers.
In addition to this method, you can also use the popular “wet” technique to depict flowers. In this case, at the second stage, the sheet is moistened with water and the primary colors begin to be written on the wet paper. And after drying, proceed to the next steps in the given sequence.
The scheme is simple, but very difficult to implement. Don't despair if you don't succeed right away. Do not give up! Try again and again, the more you work with watercolors, the more obedient it will become in your hands. Do not forget that any perseverance and hard work is rewarded.
In order to draw a bouquet of roses in a vase, it is advisable to have in front of you a visual aid in the form of the roses themselves or their photographs. To begin with, a small bouquet of 3 flowers will be enough, because roses are not as easy to draw as they might seem. Try not to choose complex compositions from a large number of colors. It is also better to find roses that have clear outlines.
After you have chosen the roses that you will paint, take a sheet of paper for watercolors, attach it with thumbtacks to any board so that it does not curl up when it gets wet. Sketch with a pencil general outline future roses
After that, draw more small parts. It is not necessary to draw each petal with precision. The main thing is to try to display the most character traits flower. However, be careful when drawing out the details, as this will help you avoid confusion in the future. Use for this hard pencil so that the lines do not turn out too bold and are not too noticeable under the paint.
After the sketch is completed, wet the paper with water and immediately wet paper you can start painting. Start with the lightest and purest tones. You can completely paint over the flower with a color that will then remain only in the light areas. At the same time, do not use only one color - the more diverse your palette, the more picturesque the picture will be. Try to combine 2 - 3 shades, drawing one color.
Once the general background is set, let the paper dry a little and start drawing the details. Take a slightly darker paint and paint the penumbra. In order to see them better, you can squint your eyes and then it will be easier to distinguish the most basic color spots. From the very beginning, you need to determine from which side the light falls on the bouquet - each flower has a lit side and a shadow side. In this case, the light falls on our roses from the right and therefore there are more illuminated areas on the right.
Once the penumbra is drawn, squint your eyes again and identify the darkest areas. There should not be too many of them so that the flowers do not turn out monotonous. Please note that in watercolor paints dark color It is no longer possible to paint it light. But if you still paint too much, it doesn’t matter - the paint can be soaked and wiped off with a brush like a sponge.
Once the roses are drawn, you can draw the vase. It is drawn much simpler than flowers, and besides, it is not necessary to focus attention on it and draw it too carefully - after all, the main thing for us is flowers.
The vase is conventionally divided into several main areas of varying degrees of illumination. Starting from right to left: penumbra, light, penumbra, shadow, penumbra. At the same time, there are only 2 most important areas - light and shadow. It is enough to display them correctly, making a smooth transition between them, and the vase is ready. The neck of the vase also has a lighted and shadowed side, we must not forget about this.
Then you can draw a shadow falling from the vase onto the table.
In order for the shadow to look natural, you need to know one basic, simple rule - your own shadow (the unlit side of the object) should be painted with warmer colors, and the falling shadow (cast by the object) should be relatively cool.
Therefore, on the jug its own shadow is warm brown, and the falling shadow is gray-blue.
After the vase, move on to the leaves. First, paint them completely light green, as they will appear in the light.
After that, draw the penumbra with a darker green, and make some areas the darkest. Do not forget that the shadow falling from the flowers on the leaves should be cold. Therefore, it should be painted blue-green.
The roses can then be given contrast by highlighting them as a background. For the background it is better to use paints in cool shades, this will push the background into the background. The background does not have to be uniform, but on the contrary, make it darker next to the light areas of the flowers, and where the flowers have shadows, make it lighter. You can also slightly blur the outline of those parts of the roses that are further away, but at the same time, those petals that are closer to you should remain clear. At the very end, very carefully and so as not to overdo it, you can increase the contrast by darkening the darkest areas of the shadows in several places. This will give the picture greater volume and clarity.
That's all, a simple bouquet of roses in a vase is ready.
We wish you good luck!
