How to Sketch Roses (Step-by-Step Instructions)
Sketching is an essential step in the design process, and it doesn’t have to be perfect — because the point of sketching is to get your ideas out quickly. How do you come up with a good sketch idea?
Equipment
- Hard pencil HB
- Medium soft pencil 2B or slightly lower
- Soft pencil 5B or lower
- Sheet of paper
Instructions
- To begin, draw a teardrop/egg shape with a hard pencil. Be sure to use light lines - this will be the rose’s inner bud.
- Draw the "opening" of this shape.
- Inside the rose, draw little petals
- Close those petals into a heart shape.
- Next, connect the bud and the rose flower outline drawing to create a petal shape.
- Now draw additional heart shapes in your rose sketch, making these ones less regular and more open.
- Draw one more petal on this level.
- To draw a bud inside the petals of the rose, first draw small petals then larger ones.
- The rest of the petals should bend more and face down to make this rose look more realistic.