Hey everyone welcomes here to the new review by line drawing idea. I am back
to you and that is for this little gem this book is called botanical
line-drawing. It's by Peggy Dean some of you may know her as the pigeon letters
on Instagram and social media. But this girl is a rock star and she is known
mainly for her hand lettering. She actually has another book out called the
brush lettering guide. I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. I'll correct
myself below but this is her brand-new book. She just put out and it's all
about botanical line drawing. So, drawing flowers leaves cactus super fun.
Super fun things here all and this is a step-by-step guide.
Line drawing rose
So, I'm going to show you inside really quickly and I will say this book I
spilled some water on it. As I was practicing and playing around. So, you'll
notice throughout that some of the pages are a little bit wrinkly that is not
how it came. I just really messed it up alright on the back it says line
drawing is an easy art form featuring illustrative doodle like design. It's
used widely among artists of many types with both fine and bold lines creating
different variations. This book walks through drawing very simple doodles into
more elaborate delicate illustrations and is easy to follow for all skill levels.
I just want to say that is so true because I considered myself and I guess
medium skill level.
Line drawing tool
When it comes to doodling and drawing once I learn how to draw something.
I'm good but when it comes to drawing something, I've never done. Before it
takes me a little bit and it takes me some practice but as I open this up. I
want you to see and her illustrations are just gorgeous. But I just want you to
see how she lays this book out. So, the first section is leaves and each page
is a step-by-step tutorial for each drawing. She starts from very simple
leaves and she does have a space down here for you to draw your own or kind of
follow. Along I chose to practice separately in a separate notebook that I had
laying around just because I wanted to keep the book pristine.
One line drawing tool
She shows you the exact part of the away drawing to start with and how to add
each little detail along the way until you get to the finished product. So, we
have leads here she has so many different designs for leaves. I didn't even
know you could draw this many leaves all all right. So, we have leaves and then
it transitions. I mean look at this look at this fern how adorable is that I
just love it. All right then we transition into flowers which are my favorite
if you've been following on Instagram you've seen me drawing a lot of flowers.
Recently because I've been so excited that this whole new world of botanical
line drawing has been opened to me. But she has a ton of different flowers
again step by step.
Line drawing of cat
You start from the minutest detail and go up. Just keep adding detail and
layers as you go until you get this beautiful finished product that you never
thought. You could draw so we start with some simple ones here. It does get
into some pretty complex flowers. Some that I haven't even attempted yet
because they seem a little difficult for me. But I mean there's some so many
cute little flowers and things in here. You can draw and then probably the
cutest part in addition to the flowers. Which I love that's actually mainly why
I wanted this book. So, when Peggy emailed me and asked if I wanted this book
for free for review and as soon as she said that I was like.
Line drawing tattoo
I've been looking forward to it and I can't wait absolutely. So, I did get
this free from Peggy to do a review on it. I'm absolutely way happier with it
than I thought I was going to be I really got it mainly. Just for the flowers
but I'm so happy with the rest of this book. As well alright so after we get
through flowers which is quite expensive section in the book. It moves on to a
little bit of succulents and cacti. Which I just think are so adorable so this
is something that's really popular right now drawing succulents. So, I thought
it was a great addition to kind of throw some of these. I haven't gotten to
this section yet but I can't wait to practice and create some of these
succulents for my own alright.
Line drawing of face
So now that you've seen the book itself. I just want to show you a few of
the things that I have done and this is in my bullet journal. I decided to
practice some of the flowers and I literally just went step by step. I found
the flower that I wanted to replicate in the book and I went step by step and
drew them into my notebook. No pencil sketch drawing first just following the steps in the
book and I think they turn out really good. So, I have some of them practice
right there and then as we move forward. I did some of the flowers as a little
doodle along the top there and then throughout the month of May. I've been
adding a flower a day to my tracker and this is a big reveal all. I am not
doing a mood mandala.
Line drawing heart
This month in my plan with me named heal. I mentioned that I couldn't find
my protractor. So, I couldn't draw out the circles so I kind of wrapped my
brain. I was like what else can I do for a mood tracker. This month because I
really do love tracking my mood and I was like wait. I'm doing these botanical
line drawings like why don't I practice those and do those as my mood tracker. So,
every day I'm drawing a new flower and obviously I'm coloring it in based on my
mood. But it's kind of a double thing I get to practice my line drawing and
then I also end up with this beautiful spread full of hopefully colorful
flowers by the end of the month and besides that.
Line drawing tree
I've kind of been practicing this Rodya notebook and this is something I did
I want to cut this out and frame it. Somehow because I love the way it turned
out but I just did a row of a bunch of different flowers that Peggy showcases
in her book. I did a little hand lettering at the bottom April showers bring
May flowers. So, I really like that there's so many things that you can do with
these line drawings. Here's some weaves that I practiced as well these are a
few different leaves not all of them 100% happy with. But you know its practice
if you have been on the fence. I'm sure you've seen this book floating around
social media. It seems like everybody's been latching on and grabbing up this
book. It's definitely for good reason Peggy is awesome. I love her step-by-step
tutorials obviously if I can do this I promise. You anyone can they're super
simple yet and you end up with this awesome result. So, I just want to say
thank you again to Peggy for sending this book my way.
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