A great way to add beautiful embellishments to your lettering is using laurels and wreaths. This straight forward post will teach you how to make a beautiful wreath using a leaf laurel. I like to keep an inspirational page with drawn laurels to look at when I’m at a drawing-block. To get you started on your own inspirational page of laurels there’s a freebie for you to collect when you subscribe to the blog!
The Steps
- Trace a circle with a light pencil line
2. Following your circle, draw a stem that runs along 1/8th of your circle. Continue all along the pencil line so you have 8 stems.
3. Now it’s time to make your laurels. On each stem, add a few leaves. Don’t worry about symmetry or getting everything to look perfect. The beauty of it is in its effortlessness.
4. Repeat on all 8 stems and add any extra leaves and finishing touches wherever there’s too much blank space.
Done! With this technique you can make just about any wreath (well…almost!) Here a few more examples
What do you think? Let me know in the comments below and if you’d like to show me how you use this technique or your freebie just use #showandtellrim on instagram to stay in touch!
Over the new year we’ll be spending time with family and traveling so I’ll see you again in January for the next blog post, Happy Holiday, Happy New Years and take care! Talk to you soon
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I was so excited about the wreath tutorial, but I don’t see a link for the 10 free hand drawn wreaths. I thought maybe I wasn’t signed up for your blog, but it said I’m already subscribed. Thanks for your help!
Hi Vicki!
I sent an email to all my subscribers of my latest blog post, there’s a link to the freebie there. Did you get the email? Check your spam folder just in case. If you haven’t relieved one, send me an email info@artbyrim.com
Beat regards
Rim
Ohhhh, I get it…it’s the beautiful pink/white page with small samples of your inspiration starters! For some reason I was looking for full tutorials on each one like the one in your blog. I can do this! Thank you for your inspiration, Rim!
I received this email, and I didn’t delete it or anything and I cannot find it anymore! ?? I went to pull up the reference to help me doodle a bit…any way you can help Rim?
Hello Saajidah! Yes of course I’ll send you a link to your email. Thank you for letting me know, I should provide a link to a landing page with all the freebies that I could include in the weekly emails.
Would love to see your doodles when you’re donw 🙂