How to Draw a Field of Flowers
Drawing one wild flower is fairly easy, but making a whole field of them appear on paper takes some extra work. You won't need much more than paper, pencil and patience, but using a real flower, flower drawing or photo as a model will help. If you're struggling to find inspiration, you might also want to look at flower drawings and paintings other people have completed, or even take your paper and pencil with you out into the field and use these steps to sketch what you see.
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Instructions
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Sketch a light line to show where the horizon is; this should be more than halfway up your paper.
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Draw light outlines for any non-flower things you want in the field: animals, rocks, fence posts and so on.
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Make light circles to designate where flowers will be, scattered randomly across the field. Then, using the flower or picture of a flower as a model, fully draw each of the circles you made into a flower shape. Focus more on the shape of the flower than fine details, because it will soon be surrounded by its fellows.
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Apply another set of circles, spaced randomly around the page, and fill them in with the same or different types of flowers. Continue doing this until your field of flowers is sufficiently filled in, then draw stems and leaves on the flowers.
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Fill in the boulders, fence posts, animals or other non-flower things you sketched into the field. If flowers partially obscure their shape or outline, that's okay. Just draw in what you can without tracing over the flowers you made. Add clouds, sun, moon, stars or other details to the sky above the horizon if you so desire.
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Tips & Warnings
Most fields of flowers are partially grass or other plants, too. Look at other drawings or photos of a similar field to get a feel for how the flowers are distributed. Make your drawing look more natural by breaking up the horizon with flowers, non-flower objects like a fence or mountains, or flowers and non-flower objects. Use paints, colored pencils or markers to add color to your drawing if you so desire. Wildflowers usually aren't symmetrical, so don't try to make all your flowers look the same.
