How to Draw Leaves

Realistic Leaves

Draw a line for the stalk. Do not make it perfectly straight.

Thicken the stalk. Make the base thicker than the top.

Color the stalk with a dark shade of green. Draw 3 small ovals at the top of the stalk. Use a lighter green shade to draw these.

Draw more ovals. Draw them a little bit bigger than the first ovals you made. Draw them by pair forming a V on the stalk, draw your last ovals as small as the first ones you made.

Fill your leaves with color.

Draw the midrib. Draw lines at the bottom of the leaves and connect them to the stalk. Make the base thicker than the tips.

Draw the veins. Draw soft V's to make the veins. Make 5 veins in one leaf evenly spaced from each other.

Make the veins for all the leaves.

Add translucency and shadows. To add translucency, add a bright yellow color on the top leaves. Use a darker green to make subtle shadows.

Creative Leaves

Draw a curved line with a color pencil or marker. Make it thick and irregular.

Draw the branches. Make them curvy and irregular.

Draw almond shapes of different sizes. Draw these at the tips of your branches and on the main stalk. Use a light green pencil to sketch these out.

Draw the midribs of your almond shapes. Make the midribs thicker than the outline.

Draw the veins. Draw them anywhere inside the leaves, starting from the midrib going to the edge, slightly slanted towards the tip of the leaf.

Fill your leaves with colors of your choice.

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