Some might think cosmoses are pretty slightly flower because we see them dancing in the Autumn wind.

But if you see carefully, you notice cosmos has thick petal. So, when you draw cosmos, you have to have heavy touch on petal part, and soft and thin touch on the stem.

Tips :

1. Petal

• Heavy black ink.
• Fork the tip of the hair so that you can depict the divided top of the cosmos petal. To folk it, squeeze, or press only the tip after putting the ink.You can give two strokes for one petal.
• Shape the tip square. (Remember, you always must have good shape of the brush hair before starting to draw)
• Drawing direction : Top to the center. Use only the tip part of the hair. You start to draw at the very light touch and keep lightly while moving.
• At the end of stroke, you pull the brush up little to express the petal end edge shape, which is the connection part with each petal and stamen(the body of the flower).
• Eight petals in one set. Top two petals first, then the both side of the top and the bottom. The length of the bottom petals are shorter than the top ones. You can accent the length depend on which side the flower face turns in.
• The flower face direction is important to give your drawing the sense of the flow.
• Don’t refill ink during the petal drawing. One supply for one set of the flower. You can get good gradation in the one set of the flower.

2. Stamen

• Need the very black ink. Bend the brush hair. The same shape as the line drawing.
• Then, just point on the paper, making circle.

3. Stem and leaves

• Light black ink. Bending hair shape.
• Both the stem and leaves of the cosmos are so slim.
• You don’t need to be careful about stem and leaves.

Enjoy 🙂