Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.

I have to say i'm more than a little in love with this book !
Fabulous doesn't do it justice.
The 10 step are just enough to explain and follow easy without loosing interest or focus and making it feel to difficult.
This in not just flowers , its so much more, it covers blooms, blossoms, botanicals and displays.
The colour guide with each flower is perfect and really makes a difference.

This book is essential for anyone who wants to improve their drawing skills , gain drawing skills or has no drawing skills and wants to produce brilliant flower drawings!
Regardless of skills or experience anyone can follow this book and be left with a brilliant result at the end.

Step by step guide to drawing flowers and leaves, for younger artists. A wide variety of flowers are included, as individual blossoms as well as in bouquets. These books were helpful for very young artists who are learning to draw, and can be used to expand their skills with flower drawing.

In addition to being an expert now in sketching animals, I’ve become a whiz at doing flowers, thanks to the fun and exquisitely illustrated TEN-STEP DRAWING: FLOWERS. Learned to draw 75 different flowers ... from a rose to an Oklahoma redbud and even a festive bouquet of gerberas! Highly recommended for wannabe artists like me and more seasoned sketchers wishing to improve technique. 5/5

Pub Date 07 Aug 2018

Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

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In addition to the excellent variety of flowers that are taught in this book, there's also instructions on how to draw several varieties of bouquets and a handful of succulents. The instructions are easy to follow, and offers color suggestions for coloring in the flowers after drawn.

I have zero artistic ability, but even I can follow the steps in this book to make something that looks like it is supposed to look. I feel so accomplished! Kudos to the author for creating simple step-by-step directions that are perfectly illustrated for those of us who need that level of guidance. I am hoping a sequel will follow on how to paint those flowers to look like the cover!

Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers by Mary Woodin is the perfect first step in learning to draw flowers. I wouldn’t define myself as creative or artistic but this book really made me want to draw and create. Woodin does a great job of outlining each of the steps and explaining how to get there. Unlike many other drawing books Woodin doesn’t make ever go from a line or circle to something very complex and overwhelming in the next step.

This is the perfect gift for anyone who loves flowers or has an interest in drawing.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster,
Walter Foster Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

Nice little book. Easy to follow instructions for all ages. Great for doodling on iPad or phone. I’ve also used it to illustrate cards and letters.

Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers
By Mary Woodin

Delightful detailed but easy to follow instructions for beginners and more advanced artists wishing to draw flowers ~ I can see this as a gift for adults and children both.

Having tried to draw flowers for watercolor paintings I do believe this book would have been helpful in the past and would be helpful in the future when I paint again. I would definitely like to add it to my library as I believe it would assist in many endeavors. I can see using it for the basis of paintings, to create greeting cards or place cards at a table or even to make personalized stationery. I hope to find and purchase it soon.

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

5 Stars

Like the other Ten-Step Drawing book I reviewed, I feel sometimes they cheat a little to fit within the ten-steps (multi-part steps that don’t always seem like they go together and the like). We’ll let that slide though because there are a lot of flowers in this book.

Probably the most useful section is the displays is also the most frustrating for me. Displays. It’s awesome for showing you how to put it all together, but also the graphic version of fine print as some of them are cramming a lot of drawings in a small section and really making out how the individual flowers look gets tricky.

Still, it’s a solid 4 - 4.5 for me.


Complete list of the flowers in this book:

Blooms: Rose, Iris, Jasmine, Delphinium, Crocus, Lily, Snowdrop, Bird-of-Paradise, Calla Lily, Foxglove, Water Lily, Tulip, Gerbera, Sweet Pea, Lavender, Passionflower, Poppy, Bluebell, Sunflower, Hibiscus, Banana Flower, Hydrangea, Daffodil, Pansy, Peony, Carnation, Forget-Me-Not, Sweet William, Daisy, Orchid

Blossoms: Magnolia, Oklahoma Redbud, Venus Dogwood, Cherry Blossom, Crab Apple, Red Robin, Paul’s Scarlet, Prunus Kanzan, American Fringe, “Star Wars” Magnolia, Double Flowering Plum, Orange Blossom.

Botanicals: Blue Thistle, Desert Rose, Jade, Aloe Vera, Baby Rubber, Pitcher, Persian Shield, Spear Thistle, Bromeliad Guzmania, Anthurium, Blackberry, Christmas Cactus, Globe Thistle, Sloe Berries, Redcurrant, Burro’s Tail, Hen & Chicks, Holly.

Displays: Festive Wreath, Herb & Fruit Bouquet, Sunflower Bouquet, Wildflower Bouquet, Lilac Bouquet, Winter Flowers, Magnolia Wreath, Spring Bouquet, Hyacinth Bouquet, Tulip Bouquet, Thistle Buttonhole, Bouquet of Grasses, Rose Wreath, Orange Blossom Bouquet, Gerbera Bouquet.

Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers is a collection of step-by-step directions to draw over 75 flowers. I like how it starts with a simple doodle and builds in each step. It is great for those who would like to draw flowers in journals, crafting, cards, or other places. I am not not good at drawing, but this book makes me feel that drawing flowers is possible.

I received an advance reading copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I was not obligated to write a positive review.

Wow! I am amazed at the drawings I can make with this very detailed book because I never thought I’d be able to draw like this. The steps are easy and the results astonishing! The book is broken down into four sections.

Since I always like to know what I’m getting, and I think most other people do to, here is a brief list of what you can draw with this book: iris, jasmine, delphinium, crocus, lily, snowdrop, tulip, sweet pea, lavender, gerbera, poppy, bluebell, sunflower, daffodil, pansy, peony, carnation, daisy, and orchid.

The second section has blossoms, including: magnolia, cherry blossom, crab apple and orange blossom.

The third section includes botanicals: blue thistle, jade, desert rose, aloe vera, blackberry, Christmas cactus, hen & chicks and holly.

In section four the author included some beautiful displays: festive wreath, herb and fruit bouquet, wildflower bouquet, winter flowers, magnolia wreath, spring bouquet, and a rose wreath.

I highly recommend this book.

Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers
Learn to Draw 75 Flowers in Ten Easy Steps!
by Mary Woodin
This is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary.
OMG! This is going in my favorite pile! I thought this might be a children's book but it is not! It is for anyone that wants to learn to draw beautiful blooms, blossoms, and more! It is step by step and it has so many detailed drawings to draw, all made easy. The last picture is in color and has the colors of what was used for the picture. That way the reader can accurately draw a realistic picture and color it realistic too! This is certainly going to be a book I am buying. I was so excited looking through this. So many beautiful flower all bloomed out, then just the blossoms, then botanical plants, then a variety of bouquets. Gorgeous! I want to make them and color them too, can't wait!

Do you ever look at those wonderful floral bullet journal spreads and wonder how they did it?
Well, this book is your chance to learn to do the same.
Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers is a brilliant how-to featuring a variety of flowers, botanicals, blooms and bushes to help you create wonderful artwork.
I found the guide easy to follow yet complex enough to challenge me and keep my interest.
I am over the moon with my how bullet journal spreads are looking after spend a few evening working through the book.

Invaluable! 5 stars.

As a hand lettering artist, this book will help me to add some variety to my work! I can’t wait to put together some pieces that feature skills I learned throughout this book!

The book offers exactly what the title says. You learn how to draw and colour flowers, blooms, plants in ten easy and easy to follow steps.

Beautiful Book Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers, Learn to Draw 75 Flowers in Ten Easy Steps! by Mary Woodin was.
I found this very easy to follow and it written with Step-by-Step's on how to draw 75 different flowers.
This book is a great find especially if you want to learn how to draw flowers. I found it fun to draw these especially the ones I have never drawn before.

Thank you to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group for letting me read, learn how to draw some new flowers I haven't sketched before for a review
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I would highly recommend this book.

5 Stars.

I need to quit wanting these books because I can’t seem to download them on my kindle fire or iPad

I had a ton of fun reading and trying out the activities in this book. I am always on the look out for how-to guides and tutorials that are very easy to follow and yet informative and fun to learn, so I was very happy to have stumbled upon this book.

One of the many struggles I face when sketching or drawing is where to start, so the steps on how to start drawing and how to finish the piece was a delight to try. Definitely a book worth recommending.

Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers by Mary Woodin is an awesome and creative book! If you always wanted to learn how to draw flowers, this book is for you. Explicit illustrations are the best. Easy step by step directions gives anyone trying this technique the path to successful flower drawing. The abundance of flowers, blossoms, bouquets and botanicals are remarkable. This is not some skimpy book. It is loaded with inspiration and makes you want to start right away. I believe there are 75 different drawings to learn. This book is full of inspiration and I would recommend it to anyone who has always wanted to learn how to draw flowers. This book is just a jumping off point. Not only can you draw on paper, but I can see this being used in several other craft techniques as well. Thank you Mary Woodin!

I would like to thank Mary Woodin, Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

When I doodle, I almost always draw flowers. So, for that reason, I was intrigued by this title, thinking that I could improve the quality of my drawings. This book could definitely help me to achieve that goal. The directions are clear, the layouts are well done, suggestions for colors are given and there are colored drawings of each flower. This is a great book for those who would like to improve their creations! Thanks NetGalley and the publisher.

I chose this book because I am doing more and more home décor and I'd like to add a personal touch to my projects with flowers. Using Ms Woodin's simple and easy to follow instructions and illustrations, I was able to quickly draw several varieties of flowers and not be embarrassed by the results. I'm very pleased with the results and will ne looking for her other books too.

Ten-Step Drawing: Flowers is full of easy to follow step-by-step instructions teaching the learning artist how to draw 75 different flowers. I love that this book not only teaches the usual blooms such as a rose or a sunflower, but it goes into the botanical flowers teaching cacti and succulents. It even provides colour swatches for each flower!

This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to learn how to draw flowers and I am looking forward to learning how to draw all 75 flowers!

*thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group - Walter Foster for providing an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Flowers are one of my favorite things to draw, so I enjoyed checking this book out. While some seem quite a bit harder to do than others (even with the instructions) there were plenty that I look forward to trying out for myself soon.

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.

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.

I received this book from NetGalley for free in exchange for my honest review.
This book is pretty detailed for a beginners book. I’m a doodler to an extent, well by that I mean I attempt to draw and sometimes I get something halfway decent. I used this book to help me draw a few of the flowers and they didn't come out half bad. I like how the drawing instructions are structured where you can clearly get the shape you're going for. It's also pretty awesome that they give you the exact color scheme they used for the "final product". A lot of drawing books don't do that and sometimes it's frustrating for someone like me who has trouble figuring out the blending.

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.

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!

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.

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

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the eARC