Drawing of sunflower

With their cheerful colors and iconic shape, sunflowers are a wonderful bloom to practice your drawing with. Whether you sketch a lone stalk or a field full of color, these flowers are not only beautiful, they’re also fun to draw. There’s more to sunflowers than meets the eye. “Sunflowers have a mathematical equation in the way that their seeds are spread out. They’re actually pretty easy to draw because they’re a simple combination of just a couple shapes,” says artist and illustrator Kevin Jay Stanton. The dark part of a sunflower’s face is a Fermat’s spiral, where the seeds spiral elegantly into the middle point. While this may sound complicated, it gives you a guide for how to draw the center of a sunflower. “Sunflowers are also phototropic, which means they follow the movement of the sun across the sky,” explains Stanton. When the flowers are young, the face of the blooms tracks the sun from dawn to dusk. When they’re older, the flowers typically face east, to catch the morning sun. With this in mind, think about your light source before you start a drawing. Since the flower can move and rotate, that gives you plenty of angles and perspectives to practice drawing. “Taking the time to prepare for your drawing is just as important as the time it takes to draw,” explains illustrator Spencer Nugent. While most people know what a sunflower looks like, it’s important to take a moment to look at reference photos before you start a new drawing and think about how the differen...

This tutorial shows an easy way to draw a sunflower. It includes a total of nine steps with illustrated examples and quick drawing tips. Sunflower drawing step by step You can see a preview of the drawing steps in the example above. The focus of this tutorial is on creating a simple but at the same time serious looking drawing that can make for a nice portfolio item. Drawing something like this can be particularly good for beginners as it does not require complex shading and can be fairly forgiving of mistakes. However it’s still good practice to start in pencil an make light lines that you can easily erase. You can darken your lines later on by tracing over them. Step 1 – Draw the Center of the Sunflower Sunflower center drawing Begin by outlining the center part of the sunflower by drawing a circle. Be sure to position it in a way where you still have some room for the petals above and plenty of room for the stem and leaves below. Next draw a second smaller circle inside the first one. These circles do not need to be perfect in shape but try and not have them too warped either. Step 2 – Draw the Foreground Petals Sunflower petals drawing Around the center part of the sunflower start adding the petals. You can make the shapes of these somewhat random but generally they should be narrower near the base, wider towards the middle and then again get narrower towards the tips. You can also draw some of them overlapping one another and a few some distance apart. The easy thing ...

• share • save • tweet Stunning sunflowers face the sun as they move through the sky. Drawings of sunflowers are a popular choice for all artists to recreate, thanks to Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting called Sunflowers (1888). Bright sunflower petals overlay each other bursting with oranges and yellows. In this How to draw a sunflower tutorial, we will look at the different steps it will take to complete the sunflower shape and color shading of a realistic sunflower drawing. Table of Contents • 1 How to Draw a Sunflower: A Step-by-Step Tutorial • 1.1Step 1: Sketching Your Sunflower’s Center Circle • 1.2 Step 2: Creating the Outlines of the Sunflower’s Petals • 1.3 Step 3: Sketching Your Sunflower Drawing’s Stem • 1.4 Step 4: Drawing the Leaf Branches of Your Sunflower Sketch • 1.5 Step 5: Drawing the Leaves of Your Sunflower Sketch • 1.6 Step 6: Filling the Center Seed Pod of Your Sunflower Outline Drawing • 1.7 Step 7: Laying the Base Coat Color to the Sunflower Petal Drawing • 1.8 Step 8: Adding Color to the Seed Pod of Your Sunflower Sketch • 1.9 Step 9: Coloring the Leaves and Stem of the Sunflower Drawing • 1.10 Step 10: Applying the Second Coat of Color to the Sunflower Drawing • 1.11 Step 11: Creating Highlights on Your Sunflower Drawing • 1.12 Step 12: Finishing the Coloring of the Sunflower Petal Drawing • 1.13 Step 13: Adding Color Detail to the Sunflower Seed Pod • 1.14 Step 14: Shading the Sunflower Seed Pods of the Sunflower Drawing • 1.15 Step 15: Blending...