How to sketch flowers before you paint.

In this sketching tutorials, I will show you how to draw flowers before you paint. I will show you different sketching drills to practice muscle memory, simple floral shapes, and multiple flower shapes to practice. I will show you how I draw before I paint with watercolor, but these techniques will help you with any medium you're painting with. This video shows my floral sketching essentials...

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00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Warm-up Drills
02:37 - Simple floral doodle practice
04:46 - Simple leaves
06:00 - Understanding petals to stem
06:47 - Now more complex flowers
10:19 - What REALLY helps with foundations…
11:08 - Another flower shape sketch.
13:12 - *Sketching before painting*
14:33 - This is transformative.

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[ravenofthewild]

Thank you for exercises and basics. I had a horrible experience with an art teacher which made me stop trying when my heart longed to do art. At 68 I am now choosing to allow myself to play after over 50 years. Blessings 🎆

[rebeccapage]

From a professional educator: I am amazed at your teaching skill! You communicated clearly and concisely, a rare ability for a pro artist. I also realized the hand warm ups would be a fantastic way to keep fountain pens running well.

[shannonsmith]

What a gift you have created! Thank you for sharing your talents, even a novice like me feels inspired to paint!

[dianehaabjoern]

Omg all these years and now I found you. Of course you make it so logical.Thanku so much

[Obie]

Hahaha my mom and my teachers from elementary school would made me do those exercises. Long story short. Supposedly I had a bad hand writing and I ended up being a self taught calligrapher!

Thank you for the tutorial. I learned something new.

[daniellesampatis]

Best tutorial I've seen on basics. Thank you so much ❤

[paulamoore]

So often, art can feel out of reach, but this particular tutorial helps me develop the skill in sketching and I feel like practicing can help me discover my own artistic style.

[surasimpson]

Thanks so much for such a short but effective beginner video. Look forward to catching your other content😊

[kennethwood]

Im glad i found your video....just back to drawing and painting after long time away from it...was thinking of flowers but have not done water colours i will try and do sketching first then some painting.thank you

[renee]

So very helpful! I can't wait for The Art Within to launch.

[beezerdoodle]

I'm going to be painting pink flowers on a picnic table that I built for the grandkids and your lessons and tips are a great help. I find your teaching style to be very pleasant.

[rmuller]

Excellent video! Thank you Jenna! Blessings to you and everyone!

[danpost]

Great explanation and variation. Thanks for putting this content out for us all. 😊

[klea]

So cool when you see the flower come to life from the start of sketch…thanks for sharing! Very helpful for future reference!

[maryrose]

Thank you, you're a very good teacher. I learned a lot!

[annawoods]

Love, love, love…another awesome vid😍😍😍

[lidiajohnston]

I was looking for you. I have been interested in drawing and painting, and I had looked into hundreds of videos, but you really take the time to teach from the bottom up and that is extremely important for me. Thank you for sharing your talent. New subscriber here. ❤

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I just started call me newbee. Lol I truly get more from your videos way more than I had hoped so thank you so much for inspiring me.😊 .

[andreakoronkiewicz]

This is exactly what I needed - thank you so much. I'll definitely be enrolling in the art within course - I'm super excited!