Wow, this book is amazing. I am not someone who draws well, but I love to draw. This book walks you through drawing flowers. Many of these flowers are very hard to draw. This book breaks down how to draw flowers into step by step instructions. I appreciate the patience and the instruction this author shows. I recommend this book.

In 10 easy steps you can draw easy to complicated flowers and blooms.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the eARC

Very useful for step by step drawing, but also great at teaching the basic shapes of the flowers so you can draw your own! There were many types and I loved that it started with geometrical shapes.

I liked the wide variety of drawings to choose from ( 75 between flowers, plants, berries, bouquets and wreaths) but the instructions didn't bring anything new for me, I could have just copied the line drawing from step 9 without the breakdown. If you already have basic drawing skills, this type of instructions might feel too redundant. I would recommend this title for beginners who are just learning how to break objects apart into their basic shapes. What makes this book stand out from others is that the 10th step shows the finished colored version along with a color palette (dots, like in botanical illustration), perfect for beginners to get used to a limited amount of colors and just combine them to create new shades. I really liked the designs, they are really pretty and modern looking. I could see them used for handmade greeting cards or other DIY projects for the home. *I read an eARC*

Ten Step Drawing: Flowers by Mary Woodin provides instructions for creating no less than 75 different flowers. Each flower is done through, as the title suggests, ten simple steps. Each picture has little sidenotes with it, offering detail suggestions, or tips and tricks. From hibiscus, to dogwood blossoms, to aloe Vera and a variety of bouquets, there's sure to be plants to appeal to everyone. I think my favourite were the hen and chicks! Haha, I was really not expecting that! My grandmum grew hen and chicks, and they are amazingly resilient little buggers. You can just throw chicks on dirt and they flourish. This book is perfect for budding artists of any age!

***Many thanks to the Netgalley and Quarto Publishing for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

In this book we discover tips and tricks to drawing flowers which may seem hard, but are broken down into small manageable parts to deal with slowly.



Building up our flowers of choice to draw, we can develop and adapt out skills with the help of the pictures diagrams and examples provided which allow a good visual aid to us beginning to try and perfect out flower drawing skills.



It was handy and a good guide to get me drawing flowers way better than I have ever done so! I appreciate the guide drawings and it was laid out beautifully and easy to follow.



Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

I really don't know what to say about this book other than my first thought and that is that these drawings are not really done in steps. Not proper steps. Drawing in steps means reducing the object to basic shapes, but here they cross a line in step one and for the next 9 steps they just add parts of the flowers just in their final form which is... not really steps, right?

And it's not really easy.

Thank you, NetGalley for the preview of this digital ARC.

'Ten Step Drawing: Flowers' is a very useful guide if you want to learn to draw authentic-looking flowers. The steps are explained well and it is easy to follow.

Step by step guide to drawing flowers and leaves, for a younger audience.. book teases a wide variety of tutorials for
flowers . These books were helpful for very young artists who are learning to draw, and can be used to expand their skills with flower drawing.

This is a great book to own if you want to start drawing flowers. The instructions are clear and easy to follow and a colour guide is included. I didn't attempt many of them, but it is a good book for beginners.

This is a step by step instruction book on how to draw flowers - it does a very good job of providing information on getting the shapes and look right for a number of flowers. Easy to follow and would suit both children and adults. The last part of the book has a combination on flowers grouped together to make a bunch, bouquet or wreath from the individual flowers.
A good place to start if anyone is unsure of where to start with flowers.

Very helpful for beginners! The book provides very detailed step by step guides for various kinds of flowers, from blossoms to bouquets, so it's very easy to follow. Also, the book lists out the example colors used for every single kind of flower on every page, which saved me lots of time :)
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Overall: 4.5/5
Cover: 3/5
Appealing: 5/5
Page Design: 3.5/5
Content: 5/5

This is the second book that I have looked at lately with the whole idea of 10 steps to a completed, beautiful drawing. This book holds the promise of creating floral bouquets of flowers. This author/artist has included so many options to choose from, from flowers to herbs. Again I just love these books that make simple instructions that are doable to a finished work that is something I can be proud of. I can sit back with the feeling of satisfaction after just 10 easy steps. I think I’ll try another one very soon.
I received a digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Ten Steps to Drawing Flowers is a good book that would be nice for people learning to draw or for teaching students how to draw. It is a very easy guide and will help you out a lot. I have not one bit artistic skill whatsoever and even I was able to draw and create some cute flowers. I worked through around 4-5 pages. I wish I could show you all my little creations. They aren't so very. very cute but I am still proud of them.

One of my biggest pet peeves is the fixed mindset so many people have regarding art skill. My whole life, in an attempt to compliment me, people have said some version of, "Wow! You're good at that. I'm not. I can't draw to save my life."

This is a good answer to my frustration. The book breaks down the process of drawing flowers (an intimidating task for me and I've practiced drawing almost everyday for most of my life) into ten steps based on simple shapes that the doodler already knows. The language is simple and adaptive enough that strong 2nd grade readers through adulthood could enjoy this. Of course, there are also pictures to help guide the reader.

After my failed attempt at Ten-Step Drawing: Animals, I was afraid that Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers would follow the same path to DNF. But as it turns out, flowers are a little bit less complicated than animals--at least for me.

One thing I've learned over the years with my attempts to draw is that I don't respond well to starting off with circles and guidelines. I mean yes sometimes I use them, but not nearly so much as these books do. Perhaps, that might be one of the reasons why I'm not as skilled as I'd like to be. But once I get a circle down on my paper--no matter how lightly drawn--I can't seem to get passed that shape and transform it into something else. So in this way, these tutorials didn't serve me well.

I think for me it would have been better to focus on one flower or bloom and get it down quite well before doing groups of each particular flower. I suppose the groupings were to show the different possible positioning of each flower type, but I just needed more detail on one flower or petal even to get the general guidelines before moving into groupings.

I also mentioned this in my review on Ten-Step Drawing: Animals, but I didn't like that one step wasn't just one line. One step could actually be broken down quite extensively sometimes. So this felt like stretching the title a bit in my opinion. Perhaps I'm too literal.

I didn't enjoy Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers as much as I hoped I would but I did finish it feeling challenged. This to me is probably the perfect place to be. I don't want to finish a drawing tutorial book feeling like I can already do the art available without the help of the book such as I felt with Anywhere, Anytime Art: Colored Pencil, but I also don't want to feel as though I'll never be able to achieve any of the subject matter in my own art such as I felt with Ten-Step Drawing: Animals. That being said, Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers lands right in the middle with a 3 Star rating. Have you read Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers? What did you think? Let me know!

This book is abundant with tutorials. Beautifully hand-drawn and colored flowers througout. It would be a good book for an intermediate artist wanting to fine tune their art. The color palettes are also engaging and evergreen.

For anyone who wants to draw beautiful flowers, but may not possess the artistry skills you assume it requires. The flowers look to be more detailed than I was expecting, but they still look achievable for someone who would not claim to be an artist.

If you want to learn to draw flowers then this book will have you enjoying the thrill of making flowers now

Walter Foster Publishing and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers: 75 Blooms, Blossoms, and Bouquets to Draw in 10 Easy Steps. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

The author does a good job of preparing readers to draw, giving instructions in how to begin and what materials to use. Separated into different sections like Blooms, Blossoms, Botanicals, and Displays, those desiring to draw can choose from a myriad of beautiful flowers. Each drawing includes a color guide and step-by-step instructions for a successful finished project.

Flowers range from the more difficult - iris, delphinium, and lily - to the less complicated - tulip, daffodil, and daisy. Tree blossoms, such as magnolias, are well laid out and easy to follow. The venus dogwood is a good place for beginners to start, with its simple petal shape and small leaves. The botanical section contains drawings that are more difficult, perhaps providing a challenge for beginning artists. The easiest one, the holly, seems straightforward with its sawtooth leaves and small berries. The section that contains displays includes wreaths, bouquets, and buttonholes. I enjoyed trying some of the flowers and, although I was more successful with some than others, readers of all skill levels will enjoy trying their hand at step-by-step drawing flowers.