How to draw a rose with colored pencils

Now we will have a lesson on drawing a beautiful rose with colored pencils. At first glance, you may be intimidated and think that it is too difficult. Actually it is not. Just need to start drawing and practice drawing. First we will draw a rose with a stem and leaves with a simple pencil, then we will bring it to life with color. You will see that everything will work out for you, and if something goes wrong, do not quit drawing, everything comes with experience.

1. Let's start drawing from the center of the flower. This is a simplified drawing scheme for this complex flower. Make some wavy lines, these are the ends of the central petals protruding in the middle. Then continue to draw the petals. You do not have to do them very accurately, as in the picture, you are still a person, not a scanner.

2. Draw petals around the edges of the opened rose.

3. Add two more petals on the bottom right and draw green under the rose, then draw a main line along the flower and draw the stem.

4. Draw lines of stems and leaves on them.

5. Draw leaves and thorns.

6. Take pink and light green pencils, circle the outlines of the flower, leaves and stem. Then take an eraser and erase a simple pencil so that only the colored outlines remain.

7. Paint over the flower with light pink and the leaves with light green (do not press hard on the pencil so that the color is pale).

8. With the same pink pencil, apply strokes in the direction of the growth of the petals (in the direction of the veins), only press harder on the pencil to saturate the color.

9. Apply even more strokes with a pink pencil to give an even darker shade of pink.

10. Make a dark shade with round strokes (hatching with curlicues) at the ends of the petals. To create a lighter shade, take an eraser and lightly erase some of the color.

11. You must practice and find your own solutions to improve the drawing. Experiment with color on a separate sheet of paper, how one color will be combined with another. It seems to me that the author added a little more red color around the edges of the petals and a purple tint on top.

12. Take a dark green pencil and start painting over. Color the stem with a dark red pencil, barely touching the paper.

13. Darken the stems and the base of the leaves, leaving the veins on them intact.

14. Paint over the castings in dark green.

15. When you have finished drawing the leaves, take a dark red pencil and very gently and a little bit add a faint tint of red to the leaves.

Source: easy-drawings-and-sketches.com