How to Draw Clumping Plants

Plants can be challenging to draw, especially clumping ones, which makes them an ideal stand-alone subject for a daily drawing exercise. And they are great practice for developing the skill of observing the visual effect of a scene, and capturing that effect in our marks. Why not have a go yourself with it.

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[eb]

This is a wonderful exercise. Thank you!

[fallenangel]

Had an art assignment today, had to write about my favourite artist so I picked you. Love your work mate

[josephinewilliams]

Really helping with my drawing at nighttime. Lovely

[HelloWorld]

On peaceful side of internet there is always an artist. You sir, when your channel grows please maintain your format, no background music, no advertisement in middle and no shitty joke. Just me enjoying your art and your narration, enjoying taking a sip from my cup of tea. So calm and peaceful and makes me push through life and maybe even enjoy it
You reminds me of Bob Ross
Much love❤

[cholanutarayakoon]

love your art and style. Thank you for sharing your technique and making these wonderful videos

[alexontheedge]

Drew along with this video. My version was shakier and not as densely detailed, but I was surprised and pleased with how it looked. Super instructive! Thank you!

[dianerademaker]

Thank you so much Stephen for your videos! I want to draw every day and intend to use your tutorials. I have a plant like this next to my patio and I am delighted with my drawing. Di in South Africa

[lindaw]

Very helpful, I’m just beginning to learn to draw and your teaching is so useful. Thank you

[Xenopticon]

Lovely drawing, as usual! A couple of things I'd like to know more about: How do you decide when to shift from indicating with line to indicating with value? When is it time to make that shift? And also, when you refer to something like "if this were part of a larger drawing, " I'd like to see a side-by-side or sequential demonstration comparing and contrasting the two approaches. Possibly even just an inset example from another video. But in any case, thank you for sharing your skills and insight. This is a most helpful series!

[veronicagreen]

Thank you this is so helpful, just what I was looking for..

[susanwatson]

I discovered your videos a few months ago and they have really helped me. I feel like I have a lot more confidence when I draw, and I am producing better work. Thank you so much! I hope you keep making videos.

[garylangieri]

Wow this is an exceptional lesson and exactly what I’ve been working on…going to begin these daily drawings with you and thank you for taking the time to share of yourself generously in this way!!! I study with two artists locally who are very different in their approaches but they both agree drawing well is the key to success…again, thank you.

[wisconsinGreg]

Hello from Southern Wisconsin, USA
Excellent Video!

[marccanas]

Hello from Spain. I had never drawn before with a pen like yours (MICRON in my case), but I'm improving with your videos and I see many possibilities in them I didn't see before.

[lolcat]

Damn you really like

Bro literally made 2 videos yesterday and a new

[holliexenahitchcock]

Love this! Thank you! Your rendering is actually much more interesting than the actual subject! Just want to make sure I understand; the analysis/practice phase should come before and actually be separate from execution phase and this will make execution phase actually easier and more effective?

[LiNa-cnmu]

Thank you for your free instructions, much appreciated. I drew a Pandanas palm and had the idea of this technique but got lost in the end. Now i find you've clarified this for me.
Could you perhaps do a Pandanas tree?

[aerofart]

I think this would be much easier to draw digitally using several layers of leaves, each type/shape of leaf in the layer order that makes physical sense.