Pencil Drawing a Pinkish Rose Flower Art Lesson

Drawing the Pinkish Rose from Grid Drawing Pattern

Artist Pinkish Rose Grid Drawing Pattern - Click on Image

This Pinkish Rose artist floral grid drawing package is a free eight page downloadable PDF file. Contains art instruction on how to use Draw-N-Paints' grid drawing patterns. Three grid images, one of color, monochrome and outlined flower.

I use a Strathmore Bristol surface for a drawing surface and a 4H pencil to outline the grid pattern. Using a softer pencil would make the lines of the grid hard to erase after the Rose flower has been transfer to the drawing surface. You will find that page five of the grid drawing package contains the outline grid image that you can use to transfer the Rose flower to your selected drawing surface. I also use the 4H in drawing the flower outline. I've sized the Bristol drawing board to correspond to the size of my oil painting canvas. I would encourage you to visit an online art tutorial about using a grid from The Paint Basket on "How to Draw with a Grid" and view their video.

I view this as a perception learning and vision training exercise in one. While drawing very lightly in each square the outline image, I'm able to check and re-check the negative space that makes up the flower. While also keeping the monochrome grid sheet nearby the shadows and contrasting areas can begin to noticed. Mind you these can change if the light source is relocated so keep this in mind in your artwork. This can be a beginning step in drawing towards someday learning to draw without a grid pattern and just with your sketch pad and pencil.

Cropped outline pencil drawing of Pinkish Rose

I've scanned my thumbnail sketch and placed the image to the left so that you can see it's rendering. What is now necessary is to simply erase the grid pattern lines and consider the placement of the values. While doing so it is good to keep in mind the location of the light source. Background elements and other supporting art subjects come to mind for the remaining composition as I question what it is I want to add to this artwork.

My canvas size that I will be using is twenty inches high by twenty four inches wide. Instead of placing the whole original flower drawing image on the canvas I've cropped off some of the bottom portion and enlarged the Pinkish Rose considerably. I will be use section D to L on the grid drawing pattern and discarding the remaining portion of the illustration. To make the Pinkish Rose flower larger I've made the cubes of the grid squares one and a half inches in size. This will make the painted flower near thirteen and a half inches in height and eighteen inches wide. It's going to be one large flower taking up the whole composition.