Botanical Line Drawing

200 Step-by-Step Flowers, Leaves, Cacti, Succulents, and Other Items Found in Nature

Author Peggy Dean
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From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, an easy, no-skills-necessary guide to drawing flowers, leaves, and cacti with 200 step-by-step prompts.

Line drawing is an easy-to-master art form featuring illustrative, doodle-like designs. It's used widely among artists of many types with both fine and bold lines, creating different variations. Botanical Line Drawing teaches you how to start with the simplest doodles, building into more elaborate, delicate illustrations. This book focuses on the extremely popular subject matter of the natural world and includes flowers, leaves, succulents, houseplants, trees, branches, mushrooms, and more. These simple line drawings will allow you to branch out and have fun with your own personal style, as well as inspire you to add flourishes to other projects.
© Lauryn Kay
PEGGY DEAN is native to the Pacific Northwest and is a nationally recognized freelance artist, with a focus on modern calligraphy and line drawing. She is the author of the blog The Pigeon Letters and the self-published author of two best-selling how-to books: The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide and Botanical Line Drawing. She has been featured in Style Me PrettySmitten magazine, and on the Today Show. View titles by Peggy Dean

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From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, an easy, no-skills-necessary guide to drawing flowers, leaves, and cacti with 200 step-by-step prompts.

Line drawing is an easy-to-master art form featuring illustrative, doodle-like designs. It's used widely among artists of many types with both fine and bold lines, creating different variations. Botanical Line Drawing teaches you how to start with the simplest doodles, building into more elaborate, delicate illustrations. This book focuses on the extremely popular subject matter of the natural world and includes flowers, leaves, succulents, houseplants, trees, branches, mushrooms, and more. These simple line drawings will allow you to branch out and have fun with your own personal style, as well as inspire you to add flourishes to other projects.

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© Lauryn Kay
PEGGY DEAN is native to the Pacific Northwest and is a nationally recognized freelance artist, with a focus on modern calligraphy and line drawing. She is the author of the blog The Pigeon Letters and the self-published author of two best-selling how-to books: The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide and Botanical Line Drawing. She has been featured in Style Me PrettySmitten magazine, and on the Today Show. View titles by Peggy Dean

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