Before you learn how to draw a lily of the valley, it is worth a little study of this beautiful flower. The name was given to him by Carl Linnaeus. "Lilium convalium" is translated from Latin as "lily of the valley."
There are many tales, myths and legends about the lily of the valley. In the children's fairy tale “Snow White” by the Grimm brothers, fleeing an evil stepmother, Snow White accidentally scattered a necklace, which later turned into lily of the valley flowers.
There is also a Russian legend in which Princess Volkhova, who fell in love with Sadko inseparable love , saw her lover with another and decided to drown herself in a pond. Her tears, falling on the grass, turned into fragrant flowers, which testified to the love and pain of a girl's heart. And another legend says that lilies of the valley appeared from the laughter of Mavka, who first fell in love.
According to Christian legend, the lily of the valley is known as the "tears of the Mother of God," because the shed tears of the Virgin, once on the Holy Cross, turned into these flowers. The legend of St. George says that lilies of the valley appeared during the battle with the dragon from the blood of Saint.
Many famous people loved this flower, for example, the composer P. Tchaikovsky, who wrote a poem about him. N. Copernicus is captured in many books with a bouquet of lilies of the valley in his hand. They were also loved by the chemist D. Mendeleev, writers and poets A. Fet, V. Bryusov, A. Murzhe, A. Kuprin and others.
Are you interested in learning how to draw a lily of the valley now? Probably, after you learned that the lily of the valley is very loved and praised, you even want this more. This lesson will describe how to draw a lily of the valley with a pencil.
In each illustration, you will need to follow the red line in order to exactly repeat the flower. For each picture, a detailed description of how to draw a lily of the valley (in stages) is given.
- In the center of the sheet, outline with thin curved lines three leaves of the future lily of the valley, from below they should be slightly wavy. Before the middle leaf, draw three curved lines with a rounding at the top - these will be the stems.
- Five to six circles need to be marked along each stem - these are the bells of a flower. Attach the circles to the stem using small hooked lines.
- Now you need to draw each bell. To show that some bells are tilted towards you, you need to draw ovals. To complete the small stem at the bell, draw another line nearby.
- In the center of each leaf, draw two curved lines. Make scalloped edges on each flower. Where the bells are tilted towards you, you need to draw the edges in an oval. Give each bell a drop shape.
- We turn to painting, but first, gently remove the excess lines with an eraser and circle the picture with a thicker line. We fill in the leaf that is in the background with the help of frequent lines, interrupting them where the bells are drawn. On the inflorescences, the upper and lower parts of the leaves, designate the shadow with curved lines.
Well, now you know how to draw a lily of the valley. There is nothing complicated about it, the main thing is the desire to create.