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Daily Watercolors Discover How to Draw & Paint Whatever You Want How to draw a Lily Pad | Drawing Factory by Vincenzo Lucia Welcome to How to draw a Lily Pad. This flowers may seem hard to draw due to the high number of petals and the complicate tri dimensional structure. Nymphaeaceae is a name for a family of flowering plants. There are about 70 species of water lilies around the world. Water lilies are divided into two main categories: hardy and tropical. How to draw a Lily Pad - Let's get started! Let's start by drawing circles, these represent the big circular lily leaves floating on the surface of a pond for example. Now choose one of these circles and draw a small circle inside. How to draw a Lily Pad - Overall shapes From now on you'll need to draw the lily petals. Once you have finished the first crown of petals move to the second crown of petals emerging right at the base of the first crown. Go on with adding petals concentrically and add at least other two or three crowns of petals to complete the flower. Finally add the four big petals at the base of the main flower. And You did it!

PAINTING PETALS Having explored the importance of light and shade, lets see how we can apply this to painting flower petals. I advise you to get into the habit of studying how light falls on petals whenever you have the opportunity. The light and shadows create the form, texture and translucence of the petals. Without noticing these elements, it is extremely difficult to recreate in paint a realistic 3D, luminous petal. For this lesson, I'm going to encourage you to find a well lit photograph as your source material. Feel free to trace and transfer the image if you wish. Colour Temperature.