“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.” -―Marianne Williamson
These words, by the spiritual teacher and author, Marianne Williamson, really impressed me. They are so true in today's age of competition and survival of the best and the fittest and God knows what not., that we have forgotten to be ourselves, we only want to study to compete, we want to participate to win...this attitude of ours to be a winner in every race has not only made our life stressful but we have put this same pressure on our kids too. We don't give them their space to think, to play, to live, to thrive and be happy.
I don't know how many of you will even bother to read this blogpost...but whoever reads this I hope will understand and agree that life is not just about winning and shining, competing and thriving, but it is a lot more than that. It doesn't matter if we don't win a trophy always, what matters is our happiness, the moments of love and laughter that we share with our family and friends, that makes our life worth living.
Anyways, let us move on to the main topic of this post, that is, learning to draw and render a bunch of tulips. Drawing tulips is not very difficult. Nothing is difficult if you put your heart in it!
Let's start with a rough sketch first. Draw a rough outline of the tulips and draw some broad leaves as shown in the sketch below. Use an H or HB pencil to start with. We don't want the pencil lines to be seen in the final shading hence light rough outlines will do.
Define the petals and the stem in this step. Remove any unnecessary lines or pencil marks at this stage. The rough drawing is ready to color.
Now begin coloring. For the tulips, you will need three color pencils as shown below: red, ochre and black. Instead of ochre, you can use a yellow color instead.
Begin with the red color first, leaving white spaces where you would add the yellow or the ochre color later.
Add the yellow or the ochre and blend it with the red color applied in the last step. The picture below shows how the flower would look after blending yellow with the red.
Add black wherever you want to show the dark areas to the flower, preferably to the petals at the back.
Once the flowers are done, take a dark green color pencil and start with the base of the flower and the stem.
You can even highlight the borders first using the dark green color pencil.
For coloring the stem and the flowers, you can color with dark green and also add some browns or ochre yellow later.
Once all the stems and leaves are colored with green and brown/yellow, you can add some blacks to some areas as shown below.
Once the bunch of tulips is done, it is time to add a background to the sketch. Using a yellow ochre fill up the entire background and then add orange shading near the flowers and the leaves to highlight the area near the flowers and the leaves as shown in the sketch below.
Hope this tutorial on sketching the tulips is helpful.
And, here are some tulip sketches, rendered by our students.
Thank you for stopping by. Have a good day.
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