Drawing Jill Bliss Style

First drawing of a leaf.

Original Leaf

First drawing of a flower - the yellow pen is a little hard to see.

Original Flower

First contour drawing of a flower.

I love the drawing style of Jill Bliss - she focuses on drawing flowers and other nature elements with lots of little lines, dots and other patterns. A while back I purchased her Drawing Nature: A Journal and have decided to finally start using it.

The first drawing is intended to get you to just draw a simple leaf and/or flower to get your baseline to look back at later. I drew a leaf and yellow flower from the park by my work.

Next, you move onto the first exercise: flower contour drawing. Considering I wasn't allowed to look at the page or lift my pen, it turned out not too bad. Jill recommends you spend an hour on your contour drawing - I only spent about ten minutes. I did this on my lunch break, so I didn't quite have the luxury of time. I definitely plan to spend more time on my next contour drawing to really practice looking at my subject.