how to draw a peony flower

Imagine big peony flower. Then mark the middle of the flower and draw two circles around it. The size of a large circle is the size of your flower. Small circle is a center of your flower.

Imagine big peony flower. Then mark the middle of the flower and draw two circles around it. The size of a large circle is the size of your flower. Small circle is a center of your flower.

Mark the first row of petals around the middle part of the flower.

Mark the first row of petals around the middle part of the flower.

Draw the middle part of the flower with more details and make petals of the first row wavy.

Draw the middle part of the flower with more details and make petals of the first row wavy.

Start drawing petals of the second row.

Start drawing petals of the second row.

Finish the second row of petals adding three more petals on the other side.

Finish the second row of petals adding three more petals on the other side.

Draw third row of petals. It should be on the big circle.

Draw third row of petals. It should be on the big circle.

Add some leaves at the bottom of your flower.

Add some leaves at the bottom of your flower.

Draw the central line and leaf veins in each leaf.

Draw the central line and leaf veins in each leaf.

Now you can erase auxiliary lines which you constructed in the beginning.

Now you can erase auxiliary lines which you constructed in the beginning.

Begin to paint your flower. Make leaves green and the petals pink, the middle of the flower could be yellow.

Begin to paint your flower. Make leaves green and the petals pink, the middle of the flower could be yellow.

Make pink color richer.

Make pink color richer.

Add some dark lines to the petals and leaves to make the flower more volume.

Add some dark lines to the petals and leaves to make the flower more volume.