Botanical Drawing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit and other Plant Life

by Penny Brown

This book provides a thorough and expert guide to the subject of botanical drawing, through detailed text, examples of the author’s own studies, short exercises and larger projects. Penny Brown produces traditional botanical drawings primarily rendered in pencil.

The book touches on the history of botanical drawing, the rules and practicalities, and includes an accessible, basic study of botany for the absolute beginner. From creating an initial line drawing to adding tone and then creating more complex compositions, Botanical Drawing is a detailed study of the practice for anyone wishing to explore the subject in great depth, led by an expert artist.

Genres: Art, Drawing, Nonfiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Judi Easley]

Thoughts: Good illustrations and explanations. Just too small in ebook form.

[Amy L. Campbell]

Clear concise instructions. Useful even if just flipping through and observing the step by step drawings. I appreciate that it focuses on line and black and white renditions as I think sometimes color gets in the way of learning the basics of form.

Highly recommend for beginners and advanced alike.

[Yoga Aditama]

this my first drawing guide book. The systematics of the book describe all necessary skill and decision making to create object, from decision how to create lines, tones, and other important skill needed. the object start from the simple one, and finished with complex botanical drawing i.e small flower with tiny petals

[Nya]

This book could be a source of reference for pure beginner who don't know nothing about botanical drawing. It explains basic things about drawing such what tools to use and gives such a useful tips. It also give many examples so the reader can study and do an exercise on their own.

[Heli]

Even though this book has beautiful drawings, I believe it’s better to watch videos if you want to learn how to draw. You can read and then draw and read little and then draw. It’s very boring process and you can’t enjoy it.

[✨EJ✨]

This is an intermediate reference book that by passes several steps in the “step by step” guide. I found some of the notes/commentary to be too simple with a touch of a patronizing tone. I guess, I just don’t vibe with this artist’s writing style.
Part of the Kindle Unlimited catalog.

[Tara Blais Davison]

2.75/5 lovely drawings but not as instructional as I was expecting. Some good tips but could have been far better.

[Claire Kist]

Excellent drawings

Beautiful and varied flower drawings. Step by step instructions. Excellent guidelines. It makes it easy to draw. Thank you very much.

[Dean Hobart]

Nice step by step

20 words is required. Why can't a star rating be enough? 10 more words to go before it will release me.

[Danielle Vasquez]

this one is perfection! this book goes into great detail. Step by step lessons with great detail. Everything you need to know about drawing flowers and plants.

[C.R.]

Beautiful drawings

This is a lovely book for learning to draw botanicals. I do recommend it for anyone wishing to learn how to draw better flowers and plants.

[Bea]

A little disappointed that