How To Draw Modern Florals: An Introduction To The Art of Flowers, Cacti, and More
How To Draw Modern Florals: An Introduction To The Art of Flowers, Cacti, and More book cover

How To Draw Modern Florals: An Introduction To The Art of Flowers, Cacti, and More

Paperback – September 12, 2017

Price
$17.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
120
Publisher
Paige Tate & Co
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1944515416
Dimensions
9.73 x 0.5 x 9.71 inches
Weight
1.26 pounds

Description

About the Author Founder and designer of Alli K Design. You may have known her from high school as the girl who doodled all over everything and had handwritten notes that looked like a computer font. She’s been practicing her handwriting ever since she can remember, and she’s been putting that practice to good use these days with Alli K Design. Alli K Design is all she’s ever known, transitioning straight out of college into her own design company and turning that handwriting practice into a professional practice and those random doodles into expert illustrations. A typical day for Alli includes: Going to Chick-Fil-A (typically two, okay maybe three times a day), hanging and working at her studio. Along with her love of all things Chick-Fil-A, she’s also a big fan of the color black. Not only is it the main color of the ink that fills her pages and designs, but it’s also the basis of her wardrobe.

Features & Highlights

  • Turn simple doodles into beautifully designed floral illustrations with
  • How To Draw Modern Florals,
  • a step-by-step guide that teaches everything you need to know about drawing modern florals, including: • Tools of the trade
  • The anatomy of a flower
  • The basic shapes for drawing a flower
  • Where to find inspirationYou'll feel as though you're sitting down with author Alli Koch at a coffee shop as she walks you through the process of drawing and designing classic favorites like the rose to today’s trendiest florals, as well as succulents and cacti.
  • How to Draw Modern Florals
  • is an introduction to drawing, so no experience is needed! If you can draw an S or a C with a pen, then Alli can teach you how to draw a beautiful, modern floral design!

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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From 0 to Hero - like the Hercules of flower-drawing.

This book is truly incredible. I went from not knowing how to draw flowers AT ALL to being able to create some nice art. It's not designed to teach you every detail about drawing, drawing theory, and/or technicalities of the art, but it's designed (and perfectly executed) to allow *literally anyone* the opportunity to draw breath-taking flowers. Aside from the drawing skills I've gained, the spiral-bound book is gorgeous. I leave it out just to look at it.
11 people found this helpful
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Filler and fluff

I was so mad about all the literally empty pages and wasted space (single picture spread out across two pages). I have art books I don't love or even like but can generally find a reason to keep or at least donate it. Not this book. I think it is the only book I ever returned. This is more of what I would consider a journal or a sketchbook and not an actual book. And as others have pondered, where all the lavish 5 star reviews come from who knows. The bar for art books must be pretty low.
8 people found this helpful
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MISLEADING ITEM PHOTOS -- drawings have zero color, not in groupings, lack detail

Product photos are very misleading -- they show color, and flowers in groups. Not one of the drawings include any color at all, and they are not in groups either -- they are very elementary single flower heads. Most of them do not even show a stem or any leaves, never mind any shading. There also has a lot of blank white space on the pages. I am really surprised there were so many good reviews on this, perhaps they ran an incentive of some kind to get people to post positive reviews? I have a large collection of drawing books, and have never returned one before, but I am returning this book.
8 people found this helpful
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One Star

Pretty plain and limited instruction. The cover is the only good part
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NO GOOD AT ALL !!!

So simple for kindergartner. This is why I will not buy any paper book, Just kindle easy to return if I don't like it !!!
6 people found this helpful
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It's pretty but it has about 30% blank pages and does ...

This book is very minimal. It's pretty but it has about 30% blank pages and does not really offer many ideas or exercises. I was looking for inspiration practice but this book is not working for me. The photos shown in the promotional sample on Amazon are about it. I feel sort of ripped off, even though I paid less for a second hand version. Your mileage may vary.
6 people found this helpful
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MAY NOT BE HELPFUL FOR BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATORS

I have been studying botanical illustration for several years. I purchased this book to better refine my flower drawing. I was somewhat disappointed in that it did not supply much guidance beyond just constructing basic flower shapes. Also, I don't know what is meant by "modern" with regard to drawing flowers. I would think that accuracy of drawing would be the goal rather than concern about up-dating one's approach.
4 people found this helpful
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Would be great as a collaboration

I purchased this book at the same time I purchased Peggy Dean's book "Botanical Line Drawing." This book has too many jumps between steps but at least some helpful written guidance and more 'sophisticated' models with the names of the flowes clearly labeled. If there was a book that combined the clearer steps in Peggy's book with the pros that I mentioned for this book, it'd be a solid 5 stars. I had better initial success with Peggy's book; still working on scale with this one (florals are out of proportion).
3 people found this helpful
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Buy This!!

Love this book, easy to follow along. I am a beginner and the drawings look so amazing!!
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Terrible video on Amazon.

The video on Amazon deterred me from even considering this book. What a wasted effort!
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