
Explore the quick sketch method 2.0 flower edition and understand the course structure, goals, and what you will learn in this introductory module.
Master quick sketching with pencils by starting simple: draw a box, circle, and flower from the side and top, then learn pencil shading to create a graphite flower for beginners.
Master the basics of pencil sketching with a relaxed grip, box and line sketches, and practical tips on HB and 2B pencils, textured paper, and erasers.
Frame your flower in a rectangle, estimate proportions, and sketch the stalk and petals with light strokes, then map petals with a top-down circle method and construction lines.
Master two shading techniques for quick sketches: hatch and crosshatch for ink, plus layered pencil shading to express light, shadow, and form in a flower drawing.
Learn pencil shading techniques to draw and shade a flower using HB, 2B, and 4B pencils, and fill a sketchbook with quick studies.
Switch from pencil to a brush pen, practice quickly, and create a beautiful flower and three greeting cards, learning how to use the brush pen effectively.
Learn to use a brush pen for quick sketches, focusing on the whole subject, with tips on brush types, shading, and avoiding smearing as you work left to right.
Learn to sketch a flower quickly with a brush pen, using pencil underdrawings, reference photos, rough composition, and light-and-shadow shading, then erase pencil to reveal an inked drawing.
Learn to create quick sketch greeting cards with brush pens on watercolor or cardstock, master composition, light, and shading, featuring flowers.
Trade in your brush pen for a fine liner and compare fine versus rough drawing. Practice quick sketching by ignoring details, explore flowers from angles, and build a three-part rose.
Practice quick sketching with fineliners, regular pens, or fountain pens, using pencil, eraser, and paper; ignore details to create a quick chrysanthemum impression with layered petals and shading.
Explore sketching flowers at complicated angles by framing with a boundary box, using ellipses for the heart and petals, and applying perspective and vanishing points.
Create a trilogy of rose drawings from one flower in three views—close-up, a branch, and the whole—using quick sketching, shading, and framing for wall display.
Experiment with alcohol markers to add gray tones and ink-based quick sketches, refining light, shadow, and shading without color theory. Create fridge magnets as practical, gift-worthy samples.
Compare alcohol markers with ink and pens for sketching and shading, and explore two approaches—markers alone or with fountain pen—along with bleed-through and paper tips.
Learn shading with gray using ink and alcohol markers, selecting three grays (light, mid, dark) in a cohesive family, and choosing suitable papers for smooth blends on flowers.
Learn to draw daffodils and turn them into fridge magnets using alcohol markers and grays, with step-by-step shading. This lesson covers creating outlines, shading, lamination, and attaching magnetic tape.
Compose a frame-worthy artwork by creating a floral collage from multiple photos, using thumbnail sketching to work out a rough composition and develop a final original piece.
Discover the basics of composition for flower arrangements, using thumbnails, framing with passepartout and A4 landscape, planning focal points, and selecting a four-frame arrangement.
Turn the composition into a fast, believable drawing by rough sketching sunflowers, a rose, and fillers from a thumbnail, then transfer to final paper for a blue fountain pen sketch.
Frame your quick sketch by carefully removing the paper, placing it in the inner frame, protecting the glass, and aligning it straight before sealing for a beautifully framed image.
Apply everything learned in prior modules by creating fun miniature canvases on an easel, using familiar materials to craft charming little figures that make great desk gifts.
Create chamomile mini canvases by tracing a circle on a cardboard-backed canvas, drawing several chamomile blooms with leaves, and shading from the top using stippling and hatch lines.
Create two miniature canvases featuring the small scabious using the brush pen and alcohol markers, focusing on quick sketching, composition, and simplified lines.
Craft a hyacinth miniature canvas using alcohol markers and a pen or brush, color in warm gray, add a wooden fence background, and complete three canvases.
create an additional canvas featuring a different flower for the final project, using field photos and quick sketch techniques learned earlier, and share or gift the artworks.
Master the quick sketch method 2.0 for the flower edition by adopting a watch only when completely done approach to guide your practice.
My Quick Sketch Method has been updated. While my Drawing Nature Quick Sketch Flower Edition is still awesome, I've decided to modernize it and create a whole new updated course. It's the Method that has you sketching flowers in no time without spending ages on each drawing, even without experience, talent or if you've failed before! But why stop there? Why not enhance the pencil sketching techniques this course will teach you with skills like brush pens, alcohol markers, fineliners and discovering how to use the Quick Sketching Method in various projects, like greeting cards, framed artworks, sketches on canvas and more?
Nature is such a big source of inspiration for artists. The beauty of creation is simply stunning! No wonder it brings such joy to be able to capture some of this beauty on paper! Accomplishing this task, however, can be somewhat intimidating. Depending on the level of your drawing skills, you’ll be facing different challenges.
Drawing specific flowers (which someone else can actually recognize and identify!) is just way too hard. I don’t know where to start to make this happen. No matter how I try, it just never turns out right.
I love drawing beautiful flowers, but I don’t do it as often as I would like, because it takes so many hours to get a nice result.
Once I put my hand to paper to draw the lovely flowers I am closely observing, I get lost in the details. It seems like I’m trying so hard to make sure I capture all the dynamics and different elements involved, that I get ‘trapped’ somewhat along the way.
My name is Benjamin Aeilkema and I’m an illustrator and Artist from The Netherlands. I love creating Artworks with all kinds of materials. As many, many other artists, I also find great joy in capturing the beauty of nature in artworks. There is just something very special about this! But I can also identify with the challenges and struggles many people have shared with me over the past few years. These very same issues I’ve been dealing with in my own works. It can be really frustrating to get stuck along the way and not know how to proceed, or how to improve the way you’re go about things.
Nevertheless, I somehow was convinced that I could discover the right techniques to conquer these challenges. You might be surprised to hear that the key I found has everything to do with the way we go about STARTING a flower drawing. The key is in the way you observe the flowers and what parts you really need to focus on in your drawing. Just as important is understanding which unnecessary, time consuming details you need to eliminate from your work process.
In my quest for a very successful Quick Sketch Method, I discovered we all have the tendency towards focusing on the wrong details, in the wrong order. This makes drawing so much harder than it needs to be. It takes away from the joy and pleasure we can all find in drawing flowers, no matter what your current skill level might be. In this Art Class you will discover the key to wonderful Quick Sketching - a transformation of your thinking pattern in where to start and where to end. You will be delivered from getting lost in the details and find a new revolutionizing workflow. So are you ready to unlock your capacity to do amazing Quick Sketches?
Discover how to capture what you observe quickly. So you can still draw something convincing without it having to take hours from your precious time. Discover this very special Quick Sketch Method which is easy to adopt, yet easy to adapt to your own style, wishes and liking. You can use this method to create stylized, yet charming drawings
We are going to work from Project to Project. At the end of every module there’s a practical application of the skills acquired. Create Framed Drawings, have fun with Mini Canvases, fill up your Sketchbook, develop Greeting Cards & Fridge Magnets and more.
If you’re a beginner you can certainly use these newly acquired skills as a stepping stone. This will help you overcome the intimidation to take on the next level of more detailed drawings. Once you master this method, you’ll face that challenge with confidence.
Gain a whole new perspective on the way you work! Enrolling in this Art Class will give you 6 modules with 5.5 hours of clear instructions and examples. In these videos, I will be sharing my updated Quick Sketching Method with you. You will greatly benefit from my decades long experience as an instructor and teacher. My easy-to-follow teaching method will help you to understand exactly how to get from point A to point B. The in-depth demos make even the more complicated matters easy to understand and apply. Each module ends with a fun project that has a practical application of what we’ve discovered together.
The skill level advancing assignments are all truly focused on helping you grow. They’re fun to do, allowing you to keep on discovering new potentials. You will be equipped to explore so many wonderful ways to make amazing quick flower sketches ALL ON YOUR OWN!
There's more! Additional PDF: Great Time Saver in PDF format.
To help you save time, I’m providing you with a handy book of notes and references. Once you’ve completed an assignment, there’s no need to re-watch the video lesson. Instead, all of my finished works are in this booklet. Just find the lesson you’re on and compare your work to the finished assignment in the book. Again, this will save you time and allow you to keep on going.
That’s not all though, I’ve also included photo references. You’ll find photos of all the flowers I’ve used in the lessons. This addition will help you to work in any season, regardless of which flowers do or don’t grow. While I encourage you to get your own reference material, I understand that’s not always possible. With this booklet you have plenty of reference material to get you started.
Please note, if you have purchased my Drawing Nature Quick Sketch Flower Edition before, you can still benefit from this one due to the enhanced project based approach. The previous Drawing Nature - Quick Sketch Flower Edition will still be available here on Udemy since it is still valuable in it's different approach.