64 Flowers and Plants Drawn with Watercolor Pencils

『Learning Botanical Art through Flower Paintings』 is for those who are beginning botanical art and mainly deals with watercolor pencils.
The watercolor pencils, which are mainly covered in this book, allow you to draw with colored pencils and then express the feeling of watercolors with a wet brush.
Because the material is a flower that we can always see close to us and that brings joy to everyone, it makes it so that anyone can have the desire to draw it at least once.
This book contains information on materials, tools, pencil sketching, coloring, flower structure, flower and leaf shapes, and various compositions for drawing flowers, so that those interested in botanical art can draw pictures easily and enjoyably.

Among the various drawing tools, the pencil, invented hundreds of years ago, is still used today as the most convenient and effective drawing tool.
First of all, pencils are not only a familiar writing tool to everyone, but they can also express a wide range of shades, from the darkest black to light and subtle gray tones.
If you can draw with a pencil, it's not difficult to draw with colored pencils.
The watercolor pencils that will be covered primarily in this book allow you to draw with colored pencils and then express the feel of watercolors with a wet brush.
In fact, watercolor is not an easy tool for beginners to try because it requires dealing with the balance between the brush and water.
As you learn to draw with a pencil, you will gradually gain the courage to express yourself through drawing and learn to draw using various materials.
Moreover, if the material is a flower that we can always see close to us and that brings joy to everyone, then everyone will want to draw it at least once.

Botanical art includes various names such as botanical illustration, plant detailing, and flower drawing.
Botanical art itself uses plants as a subject of aesthetic expression, so scientific precision in plant details is not essential; it only expresses a purely aesthetic connection with the subject.
On the other hand, the primary goal of botanical illustration is scientific precision.
This is because the drawn plant must have detailed and sharp features that distinguish it from other species.
It also includes cross-sections of plants as academic material.
Botanical illustration could be said to have served as a precise photograph of plants before the invention of the camera.


There is little difference between practicing basic lines with colored pencil and pencil.
However, colored pencils can be mixed by layering from light to dark colors.
One thing to keep in mind is that the colored pencil lead should be sharpened as much as possible because it can clump if you mix a lot of colors.
And be careful not to apply too much force to your hands.
If you mix various colors and know a lot about the colors that appear when each color is mixed, it will be of great help when creating actual works.

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