How to draw a lily of the valley?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Before you learn how to draw a lily of the valley, you should study this beautiful flower a little. It was named after Carl Linnaeus. "Lilium convalium" is Latin for "lily of the valleys".

There are many fairy tales, myths and legends about the lily of the valley. In the children's fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm, escaping from her evil stepmother, Snow White accidentally scattered her necklace, which then turned into lilies of the valley.

There is also a Russian legend in which Princess Volkhova, who fell in love with Sadko with unrequited love, saw her lover with another and decided to drown herself in a pond. Her tears, falling on the grass, turned into fragrant flowers, which testified to the love and pain of a girl's heart. And another legend says that lilies of the valley appeared from the laughter of Mavka, who fell in love for the first time.

According to Christian legend, the lily of the valley is known as the “tears of the Mother of God”, because the shed tears of the Virgin, hitting the Holy Cross, turned into theseflowers. The legend of St. George says that lilies of the valley appeared during the battle with the dragon from the blood of the Saint.

Many famous people loved this flower, for example, the composer P. Tchaikovsky, who wrote a poem about him. N. Copernicus is depicted in many books with a bouquet of lilies of the valley in his hand. They were also loved by the chemist D. Mendeleev, writers and poets A. Fet, V. Bryusov, A. Murger, A. Kuprin and others.

Are you interested in learning how to draw a lily of the valley now? Probably, after you learned that the lily of the valley is very loved and praised, you want it even more. This lesson will describe how to draw a lily of the valley with a pencil.

In each illustration, you will need to follow the red line to exactly repeat the flower. For each picture, a detailed description of how to draw a lily of the valley (step by step) is given.

1. 

   In the center of the sheet, mark with thin curved lines three leaves of the future lily of the valley, from below they should be slightly wavy. In front of the middle leaf, draw three curved lines with a rounding at the top - these will be the stems.

2. 

   Along each stem, you need to outline five or six circles - these are flower bells. Attach the circles to the stem using small hooked lines.

3. 

   Now you need to draw each bell. To show that some of the bells are tilted towards you, you need to draw ovals. To complete the small stem at the bell, drawnext to another line.

4. 

   Draw two curved lines in the center of each leaflet. Make scalloped edges on each flower. Where the bells are tilted towards you, you need to draw the edges along the oval. Give each bell a teardrop shape.

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   Let's move on to painting, but before that, carefully remove all unnecessary lines with an eraser and circle the drawing with a thicker line. The leaf, which is in the background, is painted over with the help of frequent lines, interrupting them where the bells are drawn. On the inflorescences, the upper and lower parts of the leaves, mark the shadow with curved lines.

Well, now you know how to draw a lily of the valley. There is nothing difficult in this, the main thing is the desire to create.