Plant In A Pot Drawing

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Potted plants make a good subject for drawing having a mix of natural features and standard solid elements such as the pot and the indoor lighting. You can sketch out an inaccurate, imaginary potted plant in seconds but if you want to follow instructions, get started a step number one below.

Steps

1

Gather what you need. Get a nice sheet of paper, a sharpened pencil, a rubber. If you wish to make it colourful, you could get some colours too. For starting an artwork, you always need to gather you supplies so that you can concentrate on drawing rather than your stuff.
2

Make the basic structure start with a rectangle with a line sticking out from it. This would act as the foundation of the drawing. Always remember, never ever use a ruler for drawing a line or any shape. If you can't draw a straight line without a ruler, a little practice could help you.
3

Make a table under the rectangle (which later become the pot). After all, the pot should be on something. It can't float in air. But for right now, don't make a very detailed table. make it simple. By the way, don't use a ruler for it. For drawing the table draw an elliptical shape and draw another under its lower half to give it a 3D look. Draw the leg of the table under it. You could draw the foot anyway you want. You could also make a rectangular table if you want.
4

Add leaves on the line sticking out of the rectangle. It is the leaves that could make anything look like a plant. Don't draw very detailed leaves just draw some spades around the line.
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Add another line. We don't want the stem to look 1D. It should look 3D.
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Make the sides of the pot slanting. Erase the upper part of the pot and draw an ellipse. Join the sides of the pot with the ellipse and then draw a smaller ellipse inside the larger one. Give effects to it to make it look like soil and draw some small lines on the spot where the plant is attached with soil to make it look irregular. Make the spade on the plant look like leaves by drawing a little line in the middle part of each leaf. Make the ends of the leaves rounded.
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Add details to the table. Draw some rounded lines on the upper part of the table to make it look like wood. Add some lines on the leg too. Make it look irregular like wood and not flawless like marble.
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Add some colours if you want.

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What's the best technique for shading in pencil?

Start as light as you can go, then get darker and darker until you like it.
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How long does it take to do one picture?

It depends on your level of skill. This is pretty simple, so it should not take more than 20 minutes.
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Why don't you put the materials at the top of the page?

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Community Answer

The materials are listed in the first point.
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How do you draw another type of plant in the pot or add a flower or differently shaped leaves?

All you basically need to do is put that plant in place of this plant in the picture.