A beautiful floral pattern is always in fashion! If you look around, you can see that flower ornaments surround us everywhere: on women's clothing and various household items, on postcards, in book illustrations and logos, in advertising.
And lately it has become very popular to apply elegant floral arrangements on nails. In general, one who knows how to create original and unique drawings, consisting of floral patterns, will never be left without work. In this article we will talk about how to learn how to create such beauty.
Where to get ideas for creativity
It would seem that everything is simple: use what others have come up with and do not rack your brains. Just look at the beautiful floral patterns that others have come up with and use thousands of ready-made magnificent motifs. That's how it is, but taking someone else's is somehow somehow not good. It is best to carefully process other people's ideas, adding something of their own to them.
But the best thing is if you can interact with nature in your work. Try to bring home a bunch of ordinary field daisies with bells in the summer and make a series of sketches from nature. You will see an infinite number of motives and you can develop your own floral design, and not just one, but many.
Where to start drawing
The beginning should always be simple, especially if you do not yet have experience in drawing. Draw with a pencil a sketch of one flower, carefully drawing all the petals, leaves, stem. See what beautiful flowing lines create the outline of a plant.
In this initial graphic sketch, there should be as much detail as possible. When you create a floral pattern, it will come in handy. And while you, drawing, study a flower, admire it, it will gradually share with you the secrets of its beauty. Try not to press hard on the pencil, draw with light, barely noticeable strokes. At this stage of work, finely honed hard pencils are best suited - they do not give bold lines, and inaccuracies and blots are easily erased by the eraser. At the final stage of drawing, you can circle all the lines with a brighter soft pencil. Shadows can be shaded, and light spots left untouched.
Next stage
Now you have a naturally executed sketch, but how can you create a floral pattern on its basis? The fact is that the image that you have needs to be stylized, simplified, made flat, and then divided into parts, from which you can then fold the original ornament. The flower can and should be disassembled both into large fragments (part of the stem, petals, leaves), and into very small ones, for example, a serrated edge of a leaf or a beautifully curved stamen.
Getting started creating a pattern
Well, now comes the moment of real delightful creativity - the design of floral patterns. Yes, that's right, in the plural. Because if you responsibly and diligently completed the previous part of the work, then the prepared material will be enough for many plant motifs.
Another important point: you need to decide if you need a black and white floral pattern, either color, asymmetric or symmetrical. If your goal is a fantasy free floral motif that is not tied to symmetry, this makes things easier. Otherwise, draw on the paper an auxiliary grid that will help arrange the elements of the ornament in a given strict order. Of course, it is best to start with asymmetric patterns.
After creating a composition, you can begin to colorize it with different colors. Do not take many shades at once, it is better to limit yourself to two or three, otherwise it will be difficult for you to create color harmony. It would be nice to scan your drawing and further processing on a computer in the programs "Photoshop" or "Illustrator", but that's another story ...