How To Draw a Good Enough Watering Can

While providing graphic facilitation for a recent corporate workshop, the idea of “growing roots” kept coming up. Growing roots in new business areas, growing roots within the community. Growing roots in new business areas, even to nurture growth in existing relationships. Well, if you’re going to grow roots, you’re going to need to make sure that plant has plenty of water. Here’s how to draw a good enough watering can!
 
… @BeccaAtTriLine, this one’s for you!
 
 

 

Three Tips

 
1. I start with the top hole because it helps me to identify the scale for the watering can, as well as the angle for pouring. If you want the watering can to be sitting on the ground, for example, that top hole would be parallel to the ground.
 
2. There are lots of ways you can go when drawing a watering can. (For a moment there, I found myself getting caught up in the details: should the watering can have one of those handles that went over the top to the front? Should it have a bar going across the top for the other hand to hold on to?) Go for what’s easiest for you to draw. And in many cases, that becomes what the “essence” of watering can means to you. In my case, it was a can with a handle on the back end and a little bit of a splash guard on the front.
 
3. One of the things that makes a watering can a “watering can” is the spout. It’s as long as the height of the can, it comes up from the very bottom of the can, and it has that flattened, circular sprinkler cap at the end of it to distribute the water. Shorter spouts placed higher up on the can start to look a bit like a tea pot.
 
… and that’s it!  Water those plants and shower yourself with praise!
 
(Then draw it up, Tweet it out to @jeannelking #goodenough, and give yourself a hand!)
 
 
Want to have fun drawing AND inspire others to pick up the pen at the same time?  Got something you wish you could draw, but you’re not sure how to approach it? Tweet your drawing or idea to @jeannelking and tag it with #goodenough: it could be featured in an upcoming “how to draw good enough” blog post!
 
Looking forward to seeing what you draw forth!