How to Draw a Rose & Stem

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jay French from jayfrenchstudios.com, and I'm going to teach you how to draw a rose and stem. When you're drawing this, of course, you're going to do a rosebud, so get a basic shape in. You want an oval for where your bud's going to be, and a crooked line for your stem. The bottom of a rose where it meets the stem is, essentially, a starburst. If you were looking...if you were to cut the rose off right at the stem -- cut the stem completely off -- and look at it from the bottom, you would actually see a starburst -- something like this: long, thin leaves. So with that in mind, just do...of course, we're going to be looking at it from the side, so you just get a couple of them in there, and maybe one foreshortened to show that there are more. Now, for your rosebud, and of course, this is your main part, you want to do -- following your general oval shape -- basically, a teardrop shape that is a little curved and a little angled. Get another one in that's underneath that. From there, you can make a curved one, another curved one, until you have an entire rosebud. Get some shading in there. Or if you're doing it in color, you'll add your color at that point. You noticed I added extra lines to show the curvature of each of those pedals. And your stem's just a basic shape with little crooks to it because natural roses and in the wild and nature always have that crookedness to it. Add some thorns, which are always angled upward and are always curved. If you go into shading them, they're always darker on the tips as well. Add some leaves. Roses have notches on their leaves. Shade as you see fit. You notice I have them kind of curving. Get some vein lines in there. And there you have a basic lesson on how to draw a rose and stem."