Steemit Engagement Challenge WOX Community S6W1: Flowers

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Let me start by congratulating the WORLD OF XPILAR community for emerging among the selected communities to host season 6 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge. I have always known this community to be very active and productive over the years. You have presented a nice contest for us this week which is titled Flower in our life by @worldofxpilar.

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To some drawing is just the sketching of an object with a pencil, but I see drawing beyond this definition. You would agree with me that a good artist draws with inspiration and emotions, as imaginations go wider, producing beautiful pictures and structures in our minds. Nevertheless, it is expressed in paper using paper, pencils, crayons, and our hands.
Flowers are unique and beautiful, which makes this contest even more interesting. Join me as I tell you about my favorite flower and how I drew it.

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My Favourite Flower

They are many varieties of flowers spread out across the globe today, but as much as I know and have seen, Rose🌹remains my favorite flower. This flower is said to have grown in China since the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC).

The rose, which has always been associated with love, was considered one of the most important flowers in ancient times when it was thought that they held medicinal properties that could cure a variety of illnesses.

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From Roman myth to Shakespearean sonnets to modern pop music and literature, the rose has played an important role throughout history and remains one of the most famous and favorite flowers today. They are a beautiful addition to your garden or home and they come in many colors, shapes, and sizes with different meanings.

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Given the fact that I love the rose🌹 flower so much, I would be showing you how I drew it step by step.

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• First things first, I brought out my materials for drawing, which included **an A4 paper, a pencil, a pencil sharpener, and an eraser.
  And I started my drawing with the petals of the rose flower. To draw the petals, I first sketched their left side, before fixing the right side of the petals, making it look like a jar.

my materials	my first line

• I created a vertical line that seems to separate the two sides of the fixed petals.

jar-like object	vertical center line

• After that, I proceed to design the pistil and stamen areas of the flower which included both the stigma, ovary, anther, and filament. For this part I was carefully making circular curves with my pencils at the top of my design.

drawing the pistil	flower top design

• I then proceeded to add extra petals at both rights and left sides of my jar-like object. To me, this is beginning to make sense, as my rose flower is gradually been drawn successfully.

extra petals on right	extra petals at left

• Now it was time to draw the Bract of my rose flower, so I started by carefully curving and designing my lines in the bract of a flower at the bottom part of the petals design.

bract design	bract curves

• At this stage, I was beginning to get excited, as my work was halfway done. I could see my rose flower already getting clearer. It was time to design the stem of the flower, so I simultaneously drew two vertical lines, from the bract downwards.

first stem line	second stem line

• It was time to add a little leaf to the stem of my flower. So I carefully curved my pencil into the shape of a leaf.

leaf curve across stem	leaf curved

• Just then, I decided to add two more flowers so that my flower could look more attractive.

second leaf	third leaf

• At this point, I carefully tried to draw the veins of the leaf in a symmetric manner.

drawing the leaf's vein	starts shading

• At this point, I began shading various parts of the flower, starting from the stem, the bract, and some parts of the petals.

shading petals	work done

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Looking at my drawing, I was happy because ordinarily, I am not very good at drawing, but this contest has brought out the artist in me, and I would love to continue improving myself in this newfound talent, lol😁.

my flower drawing

I present to you my flower(rose) for this contest.

CONCLUSION

Drawing is a skillful way of expressing our ideas and emotions on paper. The outcome of a drawing differs among Individuals, as this skill is being developed through constant practice and dedication.
Flowers are beautiful gifts of nature, which exist in different species. I have chosen the rose flower today because it represents both beauty and love.

Generally, I find this contest interesting, as it will help develop and improve the skills of many steemit users. Kudos to the organizers of this contest. Am inviting @sahmie, @starrchris, and @samynathy to check out this contest.

Note: All Images otherwise mentioned, are my images taken with my Infinx Hot10 play 13M DUAL Camera.

Thanks for your time here....