Achieve a Cactus Line Drawing Illustration
As always, I based my classes content in the fact that everyone in life have different ways to approach tasks depend on the abilities or ways to think and learn in the same way in botanical illustration there are different ways to approach a drawing result. The idea is review 3 different ways to achieve a cactus line drawing illustration so at the end of all the practice you will find with which of the ways are you feeling comfortable or could be a combination of some of the methods.
I designed this class to show three of the ways to illustrate a cactus through simple templates that I specially designed to practice step by step along with me in this class.
1. The firts one is to create general guidelines first and then follow those to get the great proportions and balance in you cactus.
2. The second way is to break down the cactus for have a better understanding and then draw it completely.
3. Finally, the third one is to trace one photo or illustration and capture the most important features of the cactus. Then replicate it.
Throw the course I will be bringing some practice sheets (PDF format to print in resources) that I design to guide you in the steps to approach the drawing from different ways.
1. Warm Up: We will start with some basic tasks. The purpose of this is to warm up a little bit and get familiarize with the cactus shapes.
2. Create guidelines: With this template you will have the first try to draw a flower following a guideline then you will learn how to do it by yourself.
3. Break the cactus down: A practical step by step to understand what exactly mean to break down a cactus.
4. Practice Sheet: This is a template to practice 2 kind of shading (Stepping, hatching y cross Hatching) before try to shade your drawings you can practice an feel what is the option that works more for your style or for your cactus.
Class Project
At the end of the class you will choose one flower of your preference (if you prefer you can draw the same that I use in the class project) a draw it with the process you will feel more comfortable with step by step to get at the end a beautiful flower in ink
