Bracelet Shading

Sarah Simblet, author of Botany for the Artist, uses "bracelet shading" to suggest how branches come forward or go back in the z-dimension.


She writes: "You can add contours to stems and roots by drawing smaller stacked cylinders like bracelets....Imagine your lines join up around the back of each stem, as they would if you were drawing the rim of a cylinder."


Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants