How to Draw Potted Plants

Video Transcript

"Hello there I'm Ralph Papa from papagallery.com and today we are learning how to draw. In this clip I'm going to show you how to draw potted plants. We are going to start off where we are looking down at a pot and it's usually easy to draw this nice ellipse. And I'm just going to sort of make a couple of strokes around until I get a shape that I want. And that's about the angle that I'm looking down at the surface. Now I'll bring this down here like we would have a pot, continue that ellipse and bring down the base of the pot even a little further here. And try to keep the sides symmetrical and at the base of the ellipse here be a little deeper. So here we have the pot and I'm just putting a little shading on that to give it a little dimension. Here's the rim of the pot and in the middle would be the soil so the soil is going to be coming across like that. Now to be a potted plant you have to put the pot, the plant in there. And I'm going to start off with a couple of leaves like this on the side you know that are sort of stroking up like that. And in the middle I'm going to sort of put you know a group of stems that are shooting up like that and I'm going to put some beautiful tulip flowers. And here I'm just getting the shapes of the tulips and putting them in here, getting a little shape like that and little stem at the base. And here is where the stem comes down into the pot. So we're just having fun, building the shape of the flower and connecting the stem right down into the pot. We can even put little short or a tall one right in the center and just bring it up to about here you know. We could add a couple of more leaves, one off here, off to the side. I'm just going to come back here and just accent this side of the pot so that you have more shading and it gives it dimension. You can put it on a surface here and there we have a potted plant. This has been Ralph Papa and thank you for watching."