Introduction
Drawing leaves may seem like an easy thing to do, but it can also get difficult at times. Everything depends on how you envision your leaf drawing, and how much depth you want in it. It’s easy to get confused as to how you’d want your drawing to be, which is why I’d suggest you to study a few leaf drawings first, and then work on your own one.
There are two ways to draw leaves. There’s the easy way, where you don’t bother about details or depth, and just get done with it by drawing the outline. Then there’s the intermediate or difficult way, which will require you to work on the drawing’s depth and details, and make it look as realistic as possible.
Easy Leaf Drawing Technique for Kids
We start things off with the absolute basics, where we’ll see how to draw leaves in a plain and simple way. This tutorial is ideal for people of all ages, but I feel like it’s more suited towards kids who won’t bother adding depth or details in their drawing. Despite being the simplest drawing of a leaf you’ll ever see, and lacking depth, it still looks quite lifelike.
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Easy Leaf Sketching Tutorial
There are various levels of depth that you can highlight in your drawing. For this sketch in particular, we’ll be looking at the way in which you can add more finesse to your drawing by having minimum depth in it. This minimum depth is achieved with the inclusion of light details and shading. This way, you can enhance the way your drawing looks with minimum effort. Your leaf may not look realistic or highly creative, but it’ll still be quite nice to look at.
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Easy Leaf Doodles
Practice makes perfect, and there’s no better way to practice your drawing than by doodling. Learn how to make amazing leaf doodles, and start practicing them right away. These drawings are nothing difficult. In fact, if anything, you should try them out for fun, and see how you can play with the outlines of your leaves. It also gives you the chance to show your creativity in your leaf drawing.
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Realistic Leaf Doodling
Doodles don’t always have to be for fun. If you want, you can practice realistic leaf doodling as well. In this tutorial, you’ll get a brief idea on how to structure your leaves. Basically, it’s a study on how the drawing should look based on the situation or scenario your leaf is in. This is by far one of the most important tutorials you’ll come across on this list, as it shares valuable insight on perspective drawing.
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Various Leaf Drawing Styles
In this video tutorial, you’ll get an idea on the various leaf drawing styles that you can opt for. These leaves vary in shape, size, and color. You’ll get a brief insight on how to draw each style, and where you might want to include a particular style. There’s nothing difficult about drawing these leaves. If anything, it’s quite easy and enjoyable. You’ll also learn a thing or two about leaf drawing.
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Realistic Leaf Drawing
Drawing realistic leaves require two key components. First, you need to get the outline right. Next, you need to add depth to your leaf drawing by using necessary shades and lighting effects. This drawing covers all those areas. It’s very well detailed, quite nicely shade, and you can actually feel the depth of this drawing.
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Perfect Tree Branch
In this video tutorial, not only will we be looking at leaf drawing technique, but we’ll take a step further, and learn how to perfectly draw a small tree branch. Each leaf on this branch is precisely detailed, and maintains their individual depth. As you can tell from this drawing, it’s a professional level artwork, and will require you a lot of practice before you can get this done. Nevertheless, this is one of the best ways to learn how to draw leaves.
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Beautiful Leaf Foliage
Once again, we take a step forward, ditch the single leaf drawing technique, and opt for drawing a beautiful leaf foliage. The details and shading work done in this drawing are beyond description. I’m left speechless every time I look at this drawing. Not only does it look realistic, but it also looks as if you can almost touch it. In my opinion, this is truly a masterpiece.
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Aesthetic Leaf Mandala
Are you already bored with this tutorial list? I’m guessing you are. After all, you can’t really do much with leaves. Or can you? In this tutorial, we’ll take a completely different turn, and learn how to draw a leaf mandala. The geometric configurations in this drawing will help bring out the aesthetics of the artwork. You’ll enjoy doing this. If you want, you can later color the patterns as you want, and make it look even more aesthetic.
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Beautiful Ornamental Leaf Design
In this step by step video tutorial, the artist will show you how to draw a beautiful ornamental leaf design. You start off with basic shapes for the outline, and then draw around them to give rise to the leaf itself. It’s not that difficult to draw, but you still need to spend some time perfecting it. I really enjoyed drawing this particular leaf. It felt soothing and relaxing, and I also managed to draw an ornamental leaf design with absolute perfection.
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By Jimena & Iñigo
The Navarro-Rubios
My husband and I are learning how to draw and paint. We wanted to share this learning process with the world and have fun! That's why we created this blog. We'll have drawing contests every week and you'll decide who won that week! Follow along and learn with us!
Jimena & Iñigo
The Navarro-Rubios
My husband and I are learning how to draw and paint. We wanted to share this learning process with the world and have fun! That's why we created this blog. We'll have drawing contests every week and you'll decide who won that week! Follow along and learn with us!
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