Botanical Escape: 40 Beautiful Tracing Projects to Help You Unwind

By Anna Oszvald

Enjoy the Meditative Act of Tracing as You Create Stunning Floral Artwork

Take a deep breath, get out your favorite pen and ease into the tranquil process of tracing these gorgeous and modern botanical illustrations. Renowned artist Anna Oszvald brings you 40 breathtaking drawing projects designed for you to trace over and bring to life right in the pages of this book, thanks to the sturdy high quality art paper. As you draw over Anna’s lines, you’ll get comfortable with the motion and rhythm of sketching while seamlessly creating delicate florals, lush greenery and other wonders of the natural world one stroke at a time.

Here’s how each project works: The left-hand side of the page has tutorials that teach you how to capture all those minor details, like the graceful folds of a daisy’s petal or dense complexity of a passionflower’s center. The right-hand side has the illustration in full waiting for you to breathe life into it with your newfound skill. And thanks to the relaxing medium of tracing, there’s no pressure! Simply follow the lines and get lost in the natural beauty as you unwind from the stresses of the day. You can even take these drawings one step further and color them in with marker, watercolor paints or any medium you like. In addition to these 40 projects, you’ll find 10 bonus tear-out pages to hang on your wall, give as a gift or frame and keep forever. Take a stroll through Anna’s beautiful garden as you hone your drawing skills with each calming stroke of your pen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Jul 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781645673750

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40 Beautiful Tracing Projects to Help You Unwind

BOTANICAL

ESCAPE

ANNA OSZVALD

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To my lovely cousin, who planted the idea for this book in my head.

And to you, reader. I invite you to switch off and get lost in my botanical universe, while you also learn how to draw modern florals in a fun way.

HI! I’M ANNA.

I am an illustrator from Budapest with a serious obsession with lines and botanicals. Oh yes, and details!

I would like to welcome you into my imaginary garden full of beautiful blooms and delicate wildflowers. Step inside and let your mind unwind while filling your aesthetic imagination with all the lush flowers, fresh foliage, playful grasses and lively berries that you will draw in this book.

To download the tracing tutorials, templates and tear-out pages, visit my website www.annaoszvald.com. Go to the BOOK tab, scroll all the way down and click the Go to Download Page button. Alternatively you can use the direct url: www.annaoszvald.com/ebook

The password to access the files is: BotEsc_eBook

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS TRACING?

Tracing is basically drawing over a light, pre-drawn image in order to enjoy the movement of your hands while creating something visually satisfying. I could compare tracing to dancing. The only difference is the end result. While you feel joy from controlling your whole body while dancing, you will feel joy from controlling the motion of your hand while tracing.

Tracing can help put you in a relaxed mental state while teaching you how to draw these beautiful flowers. Tracing is also a method of storing new shapes in your muscle memory. Remember when you learned to write? There were exercises where you had to draw over the pre-drawn letters. This book uses that same teaching method with modern botanical illustrations. As you draw these flowers following my guidelines, you will be able to recall the shapes in a future drawing session and add that special wow factor to your own sketches.

WHAT IS INSIDE?

There are 40 projects in the book, starting with flowers, then going through some leaves and berries and finally ending with gorgeous floral arrangements. All of the chapters start with easy illustrations. As you go, they become more challenging to trace as shading comes into play, adding an extra layer of detail. Shading allows us to capture the depth and vast variety of three-dimensional shapes within the flowers.

I love details. I believe that the simplest drawing can turn into a professional illustration by adding one perfectly caught detail. This is what I would love to show you in this book. Come on, let’s go through some basics!

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

There are 40 individual tracing projects in this book, printed in light gray—similar to a pencil sketch—waiting for you to bring them to life. Aren’t you excited to see these illustrations in their full glory? Each project comes with a tutorial page, where you can read my tips on how to draw the elements of each illustration and where you can see a hint of the beauty of the finished flowers. The tutorial page leads you through the steps of drawing the flowers with process