How to Draw a Rose Garden

Rose gardens have been the subject of many great works of art. The colors of the flowers, shapes of the petals and the contrasts of the thorns create for an enticing drawing experience. Drawing a rose garden can be done with a combination of several simple shapes. You can use the steps below as a template for future rose garden illustrations. You may also use the final illustration as line work for a water color painting or colored pencil drawing.

Instructions

1. 

   Draw the basic shapes of each flower with rounded pentagon (5 sided) shapes. Do this by drawing a pentagon but curving the line of the pentagon shape slightly at top and at each point. Dip the lines in as the shape ends to make the flower smaller at the base then at the top. Do this for each flower. Add the stems with simple lines extending from the base of the flower.

2. 

   Add the leaves to the main part of the rose garden bush with pointed rectangle shapes. Create the fence in the background with intersecting diagonal lines. Don't worry about overlapping the lines. You will clean this up later. Thicken the stems on the main part of the rose bush by adding parallel lines beside the stem line.

3. 

   Draw the bricks behind the rose bush with horizontal lines. Add vertical lines every inch to separate the bricks. Repeat this for each horizontal line and make sure none of the lines match up vertically.

4. 

   Add the background rose bush with a wavy line starting from the left side at the fence, working its way up the fence and then along the brick wall and all the way to the right. Add individual petals to the roses with curved lines inside the rose itself. Don't worry about overlapping lines for now. Add thorns with small curved triangular shapes.

5. 

   Erase all of the overlapping lines in the fence and on the petals so that they appear more realistic. Ink the entire drawing. Let the ink dry and erase all of the pencil. Now you have a drawing of your own rose garden. You can use this as line work for a water color or acrylic painting or hang it up as is.

Tips & Warnings

• Let the ink dry before erasing any pencil or you will smudge your line work.

Resources

• A gallery of rose garden art.