In this sketching tutorials, I will show you how to draw flowers before you paint. I will show you different sketching drills to practice muscle memory, simple floral shapes, and multiple flower shapes to practice. I will show you how I draw before I paint with watercolor, but these techniques will help you with any medium you're painting with. This video shows my floral sketching essentials...

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00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Warm-up Drills
02:37 - Simple floral doodle practice
04:46 - Simple leaves
06:00 - Understanding petals to stem
06:47 - Now more complex flowers
10:19 - What REALLY helps with foundations…
11:08 - Another flower shape sketch.
13:12 - Sketching before painting
14:33 - This is transformative.