Bree | Blooms of Narcissus Art

Digital drawing of a red poppy

Close up of digital drawing of red poppy petals

Close up of the centre of poppy digital drawing

A poppy drawing to start off the month

painting I just picked up from a charity shop + bluebells on my walk

Details!!!!

I LOVE the last few volumes of my dress up darling like idk what happened with the author's inspo or direction but aaaaaa

Digital drawing of a cherry tree branch with blossoms and leaves on a plain background

Had no idea what to draw until I went on a walk the other day and thought I had to draw these!! #flowerart

yay for walks, sunshine, and spring

Finally found some inspiration after a few weeks of not being able to focus in on something to draw

The ducks!!!!!

It warns you on the cover and yet I was still surprised

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SO happy with how these came out! Also very tempted to keep one of each to hang up in my kitchen and inspire me to make fruity drinks and snacks

Fruit prints!! 🍓🍒🫐🍋

Sketchbook page with bow with cherries, mug with marshmallows, branches with a bird, flower drawn in black biro

Another sketchbook page

Honestly I thought if I don't do this now I'll put it off FOREVER

I've officially launched my Etsy! Bookmarks, stickers, and prints on recycled paper 🌿

📍UK based

It was not really what I was expecting ??? but it was cool to see a different focus on things. So much around myths and magic

Photo of a statue of a woman and dog both looking up

Stone wall with geodes and other features inlaid

Close up photo of flowers in a vase

Went to Glastonbury for the first time today 🔮

INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

Ooh I've not played it but it looks cool!!

Hand holding a copy of the book Stages of Rot

Double page spread of a graphic novel with text in the top left of "4. The Entomologist"

Double page spread of animals and plants in 8 boxes.

Reminded me a little of Children of the Whales... What a cool read!!

Two loaves of unbaked bread

Two loaves of baked bread

Back to making bread after not feeling it all winter 🍞

Digital painting of two pink anemones on a blue background that has a black paint stroke squiggle

Digital painting of two daffodils on a grey background that has a white paint stroke squiggle

Digital painting of a yellow sunflower on a pale green background that has a brown paint stroke squiggle

Digital painting of a white daisy on a light blue background that has a navy blue paint stroke squiggle

All my flower drawings so far!!!

Hand holding an A5 print of strawberries

Four A5 prints on wooden floorboards including cherries, strawberries, a daisy, and anemones.

I can't even express the PURE JOY of receiving my first ever print samples. I've been learning to draw digitally and it just feels more real when it's physically in my hands!!!!

Can you tell I actually remembered to set the canvas to CMYK colours before starting ahahaha

This is genuinely wonderful ahaha

So cute! I love the textures 🌸🐇

Still very much on the flower study train 🌻

Tysm!!!!

Crossed legs on grey wall with radiator in the background, wearing a pair of orange and purple variegated knitted socks

Close up on a pair of orange and purple variegated knitted socks with stitches visible

A pair of orange and purple variegated knitted socks on a wooden floor

FINALLY finished knitting my first pair of socks!!!