Botanical Drawing: A Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit and Other Plant Life

by Penny Brown

The definitive artist's guide to drawing detailed and accurate plants, flowers and other vegetation in pencil—including illustrations and exercises.

Botanical Drawing  provides a thorough and expert guide to the subject, touching on the history of this fascinating art form as well as its rules and practicalities. Artist Penny Brown explains the materials, learnings and techniques required to produce accurate botanical illustrations. She also includes an accessible, basic study of botany for the absolute beginner.

By following Brown’s step-by-step instructions, close studies and explorations of the subjects, you will be able to produce your own illustrations of plants, flowers, vegetables and their myriad parts. Botanical Drawing offers knowledge, techniques, and inspiration as you create your own projects.

Genres: Art, Drawing, Nonfiction

146 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Judi Easley · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Amy L. Campbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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✨ · Rating 2 out of 5]

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 · Rating 2 out of 5]

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

[Claire Kist · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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. · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little disappointed that