Explore Your Secret Garden: Botanical Illustration for Self-Care

Each one of us has a garden hidden deep within our being. A place made of feelings, emotions, sensations… A place that we can express through a real botanical vision or an imaginative one.

In today’s class, we’ll depict your Secret Garden with patterns and botanical elements that can be real or imagined. What matters is that they speak to you.

We will do this by gathering inspiration in nature and exploring patterns and botanical details in order to create a vision of our inner worlds step by step.

Today you’ll learn how to:

• translate your inspiration into a pattern 
• draw patterns and botanical elements
• illustrate nature with a modern twist
• depict your inner depths through elements of the  natural world

This class will help you look within yourself in a creative way. Don’t worry about the technical aspects of drawing or using fineliners, because this class is totally beginner-friendly! Even if you’re an advanced artist, I’m sure you’ll get to know new ways of nurturing your creativity and illustrating nature.

• Introduction
• Class Project
• Materials
• Finding Inspiration
• Drawing Patterns (part 1)
• Drawing Patterns (part 2)
• Botanical Elements
• Framing
• Composing and Sketching
• Inking
• Final Thoughts