How Do You Draw A Geranium In Colored Pencils?
Colored pencils are a clean, convenient medium that can get very detailed, realistic results. Geraniums are a bit tricky because the flowers are a cluster and some of the blossoms are at different angles. Draw what you see, not what you think you see, and your geranium drawings will be powerfully realistic! By using a colorless blender, we’ll create light colors from dark without getting the “tonal layers” look. Copy my contour sketch of a geranium flower head, stem and leaves, or print it out to transfer using graphite transfer paper. You can make your own graphite transfer paper by taking a soft graphite pencil, 2B or higher B or graphite stick that soft, and covering a sheet of printer paper in an area larger than the sketch with heavy scribbles till it’s got no white spaces. Turn that graphite side down on your drawing paper, put the printout of the line sketch on it and draw over it with a sharp pointed hard pencil, HB or H or 2H or harder. H pencils are hard, the higher the numbe
