Draw Like An Artist: 100 Flowers And Plants: Step-By-Step Realistic Line Drawing * A Sourcebook For Aspiring Artists And Designers

Draw Like An Artist: 100 Flowers And Plants: Step-By-Step Realistic Line Drawing * A Sourcebook For Aspiring Artists And Designers

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants?s a?ust-have visual reference for student artists, botanical illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. This comprehensive book features600-plus step-by-step sketches depicting a vast array of beautifulbotanicals, florals, plant structures, and more. Each begins withsimple shapes and lines and builds on those forms,adding details like flower centers, leaf veins, and petal shading, andending with a finished drawing. Helpfuldrawing tips are also included. Designed as acontemporary guidebook for artists who want to draw botanical forms,Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants showsflower blossoms, leaves, and plants from avariety of perspectives. By following the guides, artists will become moreskilled and confident in their ability to draw any flower or greenery. Among the botanicals featured are:Tropical florals such as plumeria, protea, and African violetHanging and vine blooms, including wisteria and morning gloryBirch, white oak, gingko, and maple leavesPlants with interesting shapes, such as cactus, zebra grass, and bambooAuthor Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this ago-to sourcebook for years to come. The books in theDraw Like an Artist series are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.About the AuthorMelissa Washburn is an artist/illustrator/graphic designer and the author of two books in Quarry's Draw Like an Artist series: 100 Flowers and Plants?nd 100 Realistic Animals. She grew up in upstate New York, in the foothills of the Adirondacks, but has lived in the Midwest since 1996.?er fascination with things that run, fly, and grow has led to editorial commissions for publications such as Charlotte Home and Garden,?pirituality & Health magazine, and Smithsonian Magazine. She continues to exhibit her work throughout Northwest Indiana as well as illustrate and design for advertising, editorial, surface design, and package design. Her background includes a bachelor of fine arts in painting and printmaking from Binghamton University, a master's degree in arts administration from Indiana University, coursework at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and experience as Art Director at the advertising firm Group 7even. She was a 2012-2013 recipient of an Individual Artist Program grant from the Indiana Arts Commission. She lives just outside Chicago in Northwest Indiana. You can see more of her work at melissawashburn.com.