How to draw an ornament?

When drawing any ornament there is athe sequence of execution of individual elements. Experts conventionally divide the process into the design of the foundation and the accompanying details. In the case of plant ornament, the stem will be a twig or trunk, on which other elements - flowers and leaves - will be "planted". So, how to draw an ornament:

We draw a base - a zigzag-shaped ornate line,from which in some places there are "shoots". They will be planted with flowers or leaves of our branches. Depending on what an ornament should be - long or fragmentary - our base will be stretched or, on the contrary, arranged in a separate pattern.
The skeleton is ready, you can start to "revive" it. Pay attention to the so-called reference points - the most extreme points of the ornament. Connect them together with barely noticeable straight lines. According to the rules, additional elements of liveness should not go beyond these lines. In case this all the same happened, do not be upset. In the end, this is your creation and you create it on your own.

If you own a design program,for example, Photoshop CS3, then you can draw an ornament with their help. The fact is that most of the ornaments are created with the help of exactly repeating elements. Here they can be modeled in the program.

In addition, the network has a mass of sites offering download ready-made ornaments. Here are a few of them: