The second piece of art I completed was of a lotus flower. Flowers were not something that I’d been interested in drawing before, but decided to give it a go so that I could have a bit of practice, as I am early into my journey of my amateur art career. This is the end result:
I’m not overly happy with the end result, but the process of sitting and drawing relaxed me, which is what I initially wanted. I remember when I was drawing at school, that one of the issues that I had was shading my drawings too dark. This results in the image becoming too flat and one-dimensional. I think the harder I tried to bring the flower to life, the darker the image became. At the end, I added colour to try and improve the picture, but it didn’t add anything positive.
What I have learnt from this process, and from what I remember from my art lessons from school, is that I should always start my shading with lighter tones so that I can build layers which results in a three-dimensional image. I will temporarily refrain from drawing flowers for the time-being, but will come back to them once I have had further practice with drawing and shading. I’m not overly disappointed with this piece of work, as each piece that I complete I know that I can learn from and improve in time for the next piece of work. Drawing makes me feel relaxed and improves my mood, and I know that over time, my work will improve.
Genie Art 