Absolutely gorgeous!

I just love azaleas.

Hmm... drawing flowers? I will have to try that. I draw from life randomly but flowers specifically....I'll need to give it a go.

Really anything is good. You could draw a bottlecap and find it beautiful.
Anything you really look at with focus and diligence becomes beautiful, flowers just have more to say visually.

so pretty

Lovely!

could be part of a william morris <3

We would have mockingbirds nest in the azalea bushes where I used to work.

Fantastic piece!

Yeah it's a nice feeling although I am a *noob* artist :> I still know how it goes~ For me it's the other way around most of the time! Nice work! Pens are wonderful.

Simple.

So beautiful!

I love looking at it up close and seeing all the sketchiness, then looking from afar and watching everything come together to make the image.

What about flowers is good for learning about composition?

They way plants arrange their parts to fill space is in response to changes in light and overall balance. It is a sensitive system that is equally chaotic and ordered, simple and sophisticated, compared to human systems for composition which tend to slip only to one or the other. Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of flowers come to mind as an excellent demonstration of this, or Monet's waterlilies.

Thank you. I'd wondered why flowers were such a common subject matter. I'd have never guessed. I thought it was some tradition or something that started at some point, to draw them.

This would also explain why flower arrangements are such a common decoration. I figure if you cut them and put them in a vase you would mess up some of that composition of the flower heads and stems to each other, but large parts of the structure (each flower head) would keep their composition. So wherever you place something like that, the area is immediately filled with something that lets your eyes rest easy.

"Oh, Azalea! I just got there in Pokemon!"

I hate myself sometimes. Lovely sketch though, you continue to shame me.

Beautiful sketch. Always nice to see someone draw from real life.