How to Draw a Tiger Lily

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Laura Pace, I'm here today Asel Art supply and today I'm going to show you how to draw a Tiger Lily. Something I did that you might want to do when you get ready to draw some flowers is I look through magazines at home and clipped out pictures that I thought would be useful to help me be as accurate as I could in drawing my picture. Another thing I'd suggest you could do is go to a florist or a grocery store and buy yourself a few flowers and take one of them apart really analyze what all the separate parts look like and how they're put together. To be a good natural artist you have to be a bit of a scientist and be analytical about it. When I looked at my Tiger Lily I noticed that it has 6 petals and they're in kind of a star -shape arrangement. So what I did first was drew a dot right in the middle, and then I drew 6 rays coming out of this dot; kind of evenly spaced rays. The Tiger Lily has 3 top petals and 3 bottom secondary petals, so I drew in those petals next. And if you take your flower apart what you'll notice is each petal has a kind of elliptical shape; it's wide on one end and narrow on the other end. And from my photograph it looked like the Tiger Lily really formed a cone-shape, but the petals turn back and spiral a bit on each end. Another thing that I observed about these flowers is each one has this stalk growing up out of the middle of the flower, that's called the stamen; it's got kind of a knobby three pointed end on it. And each flower also has 6 of these little guys; these are called pistols. Each one of those is on a real slender fragile stalk, and has an end on it that looks like kind of the double loge shape. Now another thing I suggest you do to add realism to your flower pictures is draw the flower at it's different stages of development. Draw a bud, draw a bud that's beginning to be opened, draw an open flower, and also it's good to draw the flower from some different angles. That's what I did here in my reference photo; it showed a closed Lily Bud which looks like a big lips, but you can see that s 6 sections on it just like the flower does. And here I have another picture of that bud beginning to open. This is an overhead view of the open flower and I added some color and detail to this; which is the next step in your drawing. Add some details to your simple flower drawing to give it more realism. You can add the stamen and pistols in the center of the flower. This Lily I drew has a lot of brown marks that go down the center of the flower; they're really like a path to guide an insect into the center of the flower to pollinate it. And this particular flower had a pink stripe down the middle and kind of a blush of pink at the end of the petals. Now here's a side view of that same flower, and you can see it really has a cone-shape with the petals turning back from the center. And it's also important to pay attention to the stem and the leaves of this kind of flower to make it look realistic. The Lily has a very upright very straight stem, and the leaves are kind of long and pointed shape and they cluster around the stem. So that's what I have to tell you today about drawing a Tiger Lily. I hope you'll try it on your own and practice until you do something that you're happy with."