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  • 10 Ways to Draw Laurel Wreaths

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    Lindsey Bugbee

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    Why you need this laurel wreath knowledge in your life: someday, you’ll need a space filler or a design idea for something. You may be creating something as complicated as a wedding suite, or something as simple as mail art. Either way, you’ll want to file this blog post away for future reference … it…

    10 Ways to Draw Laurel Wreaths | The Postman's Knock

    Laurel leaves are the “it” design element right now. Anything you can possibly imagine creating — from a whimsical and approachable logo to an artistic wedding suite — can benefit from one. You don’t even have to get that formal; I include laurel wreaths on a significant number of personal correspondence, and sometimes even on Post-it notes. Needless to say, I am a fan.

    For today’s blog post, I came up with ten different ways to draw the endearingly adaptive laurel wreath. These mini-tutorials are in order from least time-consuming {~1 minute} to most time-consuming {~10 minutes}. I felt a bit like Zoolander naming them all, but a girl’s gotta tell her laurel wreaths apart somehow, right? Let’s get started with the simplest of the ten:

    1. The Julius Caesar

    10 Ways to Draw Laurel Wreaths | The Postman's Knock

    The Julius Caesar is a simple half laurel wreath that gets straight to the point: it’s here to frame letters or words {or a bust of Julius Caesar himself, if you are feeling especially Roman today}. To make it, you’ll just start with a slight crescent.

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