Drawing: Flowers with William F. Powell

This book Drawing: Flowers is a very detailed, easy to follow book that will definitely help you learn the basics even if you have never drawn anything in the past.

The demonstrations are simple.

This book is PERFECT if you want to learn to draw.

I actually tried out several of the projects and was amazed how I could actually duplicate the image. It gave me the encouragement to keep going.

​I was provided this book for free in exchange for my honest opinion.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book for anyone who loves a good, well-written tutorial for drawing flowers. 📕👍🏼

I GIVE IT A 5 STAR: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Drawing: Flowers with William F. Powell is part of a series of tutorial art booklets aimed at beginning to intermediate artists in a variety of subjects and media. Released 7th May 2019 by Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 40 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.

The titles in this series are all formatted in a similar manner and this one is no exception.

A short general introduction (10%) covers tools and materials including pencils, pens, paper, blending tools, etc. The intro is followed by a group of non-specific tutorials on shading, light, shapes and perspective for types of flowers. Following the intro chapters are 25 flower specific step-by-step tutorials. These are beautiful but -very- simplified. I liked seeing the roughed out first steps, but the last of the first steps (very rough) is followed by the final step which is beautiful but remotely connected (in my case at least) from the previous step.

It's worth noting that the ebook version of the eARC includes a very handy interactive table of contents. I really liked that. Each of the tutorials include 4-6 steps start to finish.

I like these tutorial booklets, they're inexpensive and full of useful info for artists looking for improvement in their own work.

Four stars.

This is a very useful book on how to encapsulate the flower form by short steps with pencil and graphite. One may not always want to paint realistic flowers, but this book gives a starting point for one to build on, and give their own interpretation of the species.
The instructions are all visual and easy to follow, with helpful tips along the way.

Drawing Flowers by William F. Powell
Learn to Step by Step

Tools and materials, shading techniques and basic flower shapes begin this marvelous book on how to draw flowers. I Found it fascinating that from basic outlines of flowers that were rather abstract the artist moved on to intricately developed flowers. Twenty-four flowers were presented from abstract shape to finished product and I can see myself using this book to create the basis for future watercolor paintings.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars

This book was very well-organized, with clear instructions, easy to follow layout and good images. It goes over the basics, but presents examples that would also be useful to a more experienced artist. It has a good variety it terms of the types of flowers, although I would have like to see an orchid as well. A good follow-up to this book with be exploring colors in flower illustration and drawing flowers in groups.

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The book is detailed but I wouldn't say it is meant for beginners. It does provide a brief explanation of tools and techniques. the illustrations are lovely. I tried a few and they didn't come out too bad. I'd recommend this book to anyone who would like to draw flowers but I also recommend that they practice some of the techniques at the beginning of the book before attempting to draw any of the illustrations on it.

Drawing: Flowers with William F. Powell: Learn to draw step by step by William F. Powell is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary. I love his art books because there is something about them that clicks with me. His teaching methods I understand easily. I first started my journey with art with one of his book. I wanted to learn to draw but I couldn't draw anything but a stick man but I got his book and I was able to draw a car, teddy bear, mountain man and more and it looked realistic and I learned all from his book! This book is like that too! It takes complicated items but he simplifies it down to something I can understand and draw! These are step-by-step lessons with lots of illustrations and instructions.
Some books I just don't get but him I understand! This is a beginner's book and I plan on getting it to add to my collection. Thanks so much Mr Powell, I would have given up on art of it wasn't for you!

AT LAST! An art book that is not full of waffle. This little gem gets right down to business: A one-page guide for each of the 25 flowers described, from the simple (tulip) to the more involved (bearded iris). The method may always be the same - outline, fill in details, shade - but it certainly gave me the confidence to try without being daunted by lengthy descriptions. And with quite good results, even if I say so myself! A great device for a drawing novice!

This is extremely helpful for anyone who loves drawing flowers even for beginners. As always with these books, they mention what tools you need and the techniques that you could use to make your drawings better.

I'm loving this book so much because they teach you how to draw flowers from simple and basic shapes to adding in details and shadings to make it look like the real flowers. This book easily teaches you how to draw flowers starting from lines and circles.

100% trying some of these right now.

Drawing: Flowers with William F. Powell is a great art book for beginners or a class. It contains good information and techniques.

This is an excellent book for learning to draw a wide range of flowers in clear detail. The author uses simple shapes to start each flower and builds up in step by step instructions using good demonstration pictures. It is clear enough for even a complete beginner to have a go at. I liked the authors methods and the selection of flowers. A great book for using time and time again.

"Drawing: Flowers" is a short art book with step-by-step illustrations showing how to draw flowers using graphite pencil. The book briefly talked about tools, techniques, and flower anatomy. The general method is to sketch a basic shape defining the flower's outer edge, then indicate where the inner shapes (petals, etc.) are, add details and shading, and smooth the lines and erase guidelines. He provided demonstration projects for drawing many different types of flowers, including from different viewing angles and in various degrees of growth (from bud to full flower).

The step-by-step demonstrations usually showed 4 or 5 steps, and most took one page per flower. The drawings were generally easy to understand plus the text briefly explained what he was doing in each step. He covered 2 types of tulips, a magnolia, 2 types of dogwood flowers, a regal lily and a lily bud, a daffodil, carnation, English wallflower, begonia, poppy, pansy, dendrobium, primrose, hibiscus, fuchsia, peony, foxglove, columbine, tea rose, rose, thistle, gladiolus, aster, iris, and chrysanthemum. Overall, I feel like this book has helped me to improve my flower drawing skills, and I'd recommend it.

If you are looking to learn how to draw detailed drawings of flowers using graphite pencils and basic shapes, this is the book for you. You are given step by step directions that even a amateur artist can learn. I have spent years studying art so I'm not a fledgling artist and even I took away some new ideas for my drawings.

I received this copy of Drawing:Flowers with William F. Powell from Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster. This is my honest and voluntary review.

Easy-to-follow instruction for drawing several specific types of flowers. Includes a brief intro to various pencils and lead types and their uses. As a beginning sketcher, i found this pretty useful. I can recommend to other beginners.

Loved this book! Very comprehensive instructions and step-by-step visuals that made learning how to draw flowers so much fun! Highly recommend!

DRAWING FLOWERS with William F. Powell, is one of several "how to draw" books.

This book has very good pictures of how to draw several flowers. Each page has a different flower. Instructions are given to help the artist "see" and draw different angles, shapes, shadows and light for the subject flower.

I believe the book will help anyone who reads it but is best if you already have a little knowledge of drawing. I think a beginner may need more specifics as to how to draw different areas of the flower. I would recommend this book starting with an advanced beginner on up.



Thank you to Net Galley for ARC. I have given an honest review.

Intermediate level how to book. Appropriately topic specific (pretty clear from the title that you’ll be learning to draw flowers). I love how this entire line of books has an in-depth explanation of materials, etc., making them all great reference guides for beginners with any interests. Basically, it gives someone a chance to grow its skill set nicely.

This is a good book for beginners like me to learn how to draw flowers. After a short introduction of tools and materials, William F. Powell dives into drawing a variety of different flowers. The instructions are very concise and helped me a lot in drawing flowers naturalistically.

A useful short book for those wanting to get started in drawing flowers. It starts with basic tools and techniques, then moves on to different flowers such as magnolia, daffodils, poppy, pansy etc. It shows the basic shape of each one and how to construct and build on the shape.
Thanks to the publisher for a review copy.

There is not much I can say... I already read so many books from this "collection", and most of them are so good!
And this one is not an exception, loved how they showed, how to draw the flowers from different angles, I've always struggled with that!
Now, to make it perfect, I only need them to add a book about how to colour all these flowers and everything will be right in the world.

Excellent step by step east to follow sketches. A good variety of flowers. Good overall instructions from tools and materials to how to techniques. Good variety of different flowers. Would recommend for beginners.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with this eBook.

Drawing: Flowers with William F. Powell is yet another book in the Drawing series. This series has never disappointed me before and this book was no exception. The step by step instructions is so clear and easy to understand. A very good gift for all your artsy friends out there.

I like this kind of how-to step-by-step illustration books. I think there are the best ways to learn how to draw well, as you can take your time and you don't have to turn on any machines to access these lessons.

Any beginning artist will learn to draw much better flowers with the help of this William F. Powell book. There are a few though where the strokes are rather haphazard and may be more difficult to follow. But I believe that with practice, any of the flowers can be conquered with flying colours!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. This is my honest review.