How to Draw a Camellia Flower

Video Transcript

"Hello there! I'm Ralph Papa from papagallery.com, and today we're learning how to draw. In this clip I'm going to show you how to draw a camellia flower. I'm going to start off working from the center, that it has a little pattern like this, and I'm just going to do some squigglies suggesting a complicated center, which would be the center of the camellia. And then from there I'm going to sort of broaden out, shapes like this that would form the petals that are around that on the outside. And then again another layer of them as I build out, so it's getting layers of more petals, and I'm just bringing them in, staggering them, and bringing them around. You notice I'm just continuing the cycle all around until I get about what I would feel would be about the right depth. I could go one or two more layers, but this suffices. And the next thing I'll do is put on the leaves that would form around that flower, and I'm just sort of making those teardrop shaped leaves. And maybe put one down here too, and one over here just to balance it out. And we can make these leaves a little darker because the green of the leaves would show up darker than the bright pink of the camellia. And again, camellias can be in white, it can be in pink, and probably yellow as well. And I'm just taking the charcoal on it's side to give a little texture to those leaves. We can also, inside the camellia, inside the lower buds, we can give a little shading to the lower parts in here and it gives it a little dimension where it starts to look like it's a real flower. There we'll put in some more little veins on the leaves, it can go out like that, almost like a fork. And there we have it! So there we have a camellia. This has been Ralph Papa, and thank you for watching!"