This quick tutorial shows how to draw a maple leaf in three steps. It is fairly easy and great for beginners who want to practice drawing basic things.
- How to Make a Leaf Rubbing Place the leaf on a 9 x 12 Clipboard (it helps to hold everything in place as we created our prints) Cover the leaf with each type of paper you are using for the activity Slowly, use each medium (crayons, colored pencils and oil pastels) and rub it over the top of the.
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- With an HB pencil, I draw the core line of the leaf and the extension for its petiole (a leaf's stalk). I mark the top and bottom borders of the leaf. Step 2 I draw six directional lines of the leaf's veins.
- This is a basic tutorial on sketching. We will draw out a leaf using an HB pencil (#2 pencil) on paper. A good sketchbook is recommended to keep all of your.
Step 1 – Maple Leaf Shape Drawing
Start the maple leaf drawing by sketching out its basic shape. This can be a very rough sketch with light lines. You don't need to draw any of the smaller bends in the leaf at this stage as the goal is to create some guide lines for the proportions of the different sides of the leaf.
Step 2 – Maple Leaf Outline Drawing
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Based on the initial shape sketch of the leaf create a detailed outline drawing of its outer shape. You can erase the guide lines from the previous step after you are done.
Step 3 – Maple Leaf Details
Inside of the outline drawing of the maple leaf draw the smaller details of the veins. Draw the main veins going from the base of the leaf outwards towards the tips and smaller veins branching out from those.
Conclusion
This is a fairly quick and easy tutorial but it can be very good practice if you are a beginner artist. Regardless of what you are drawing start with the bigger shape/shapes first and work your way down to the details.
Leaf Sketching
For drawing a branch with leaves see:
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If you've always wanted to learn to draw, leaves are a great subject to start with. You can easily find a wide variety of leaves to practice with in your neighborhood and since they are small are relatively flat, they are easy to sketch.
Leaf Drawing Video Tutorial
Watch this video tutorial and follow along by downloading this handout: Sketching a Leaf Tutorial
Advanced Leaf Drawing Tutorial
Based on the initial shape sketch of the leaf create a detailed outline drawing of its outer shape. You can erase the guide lines from the previous step after you are done.
Step 3 – Maple Leaf Details
Inside of the outline drawing of the maple leaf draw the smaller details of the veins. Draw the main veins going from the base of the leaf outwards towards the tips and smaller veins branching out from those.
Conclusion
This is a fairly quick and easy tutorial but it can be very good practice if you are a beginner artist. Regardless of what you are drawing start with the bigger shape/shapes first and work your way down to the details.
Leaf Sketching
For drawing a branch with leaves see:
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If you've always wanted to learn to draw, leaves are a great subject to start with. You can easily find a wide variety of leaves to practice with in your neighborhood and since they are small are relatively flat, they are easy to sketch.
Leaf Drawing Video Tutorial
Watch this video tutorial and follow along by downloading this handout: Sketching a Leaf Tutorial
Advanced Leaf Drawing Tutorial
Once you've had some practice with the video above, I encourage you to try this more in-depth tutorial, that will give you some more advanced techniques that are useful for drawing not only leaves but anything you see in nature with more accuracy.
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What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘leaf'?
Likely, it's something like an oak or maple, or an example from a plant that grows in your yard. But leaves come in a dizzying array of sizes, shapes, colors and most importantly, functions. We learn in grade school that leaves are for capturing the sun's energy, but that's not all they do. Leaves have evolved to serve a wide variety of functions in different types of plants.
My favorite example comes from the subject of my master's thesis in college – carnivorous plants. They have adopted myriad ways to use their leaves to attract, capture, and then digest their insect prey (read this blog post for more fun facts about carnivorous plants).
Other groups of plants have modified their leaves for water capture (cups of bromeliads), protection from herbivores (spines of cacti and toxic sap of poison oak), storing water (succulents),climbing (tendrils of peas), following the sun (sunflowers), attracting pollinators (the petal-like leaves of poinsettias) and even reproduction (the leaf edges of Kalanchoe can drop and become a new plant.)
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This wide variety of leaf forms and functions makes them a fun and challenging subject to sketch. Watch this quick video on the basic steps I use when sketching a leaf. Then, I challenge you to go collect as many different types of leaves as you can and sketch them (including a young friend in the game makes it all the more fun!)
Leaf Sketch Book
Bonus Video: Tips on Observing Leaves
Leaf Sketch Drawing
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