A detailed lesson will help you learn how to draw leaves in stages with a pencil. Leaves are an indispensable element of any summer or autumn landscape. The nature on our planet is incredibly diverse, and therefore there are many varieties of leaves, so drawing them is always very interesting. Drawing leaves is not difficult at all if you have quite a bit of time at your disposal, as well as suitable materials. We will show you how to draw leaves with a pencil step by step. Try to draw with us, and you will definitely like both the process and the result.
An easy way to draw a maple leaf in 6 steps:
We draw a simple autumn leaf. This lesson will be useful if you are drawing a detailed tree. Pay attention to what colors we use and what transitions they have.
Draw an oak leaf in four easy steps. You don't even need to use an eraser, it's so easy!
And now - a more detailed lesson on drawing a leaf.
So, to draw leaves, we need a blank sheet of paper, a simple pencil and an eraser. First of all, let's mark the sheet, draw the base, so that in the future it would be easy and convenient for us to draw. In this case, we are drawing a beautiful maple leaf, so the base will look like this. You will only need four lines to draw the base for the leaf.
Now we need the shape of the sheet so that the further drawing is neat and beautiful. Focusing on the previously depicted lines, we begin to draw cone-shaped figures, in total we should get five of them.
Next, we begin to draw the outlines of the sheet over the sketch. The base lines should be barely noticeable, otherwise the leaf pattern will turn out to be dirty and ugly. The jagged outline of the leaves is not difficult to draw if you try. If it doesn’t work the first time, use an eraser, you can practice on a draft until it starts to come out pretty.
Gradually draw the entire outline of the leaves. You should end up with something like this. Next, you will need to arm yourself with an eraser again and delete all unnecessary lines, leaving only the outline.
To make the drawn leaves look natural, you need to draw a twig and veins. The veins will not be even, so just draw by hand, do not use a ruler.
The final step will be coloring. You can draw leaves using colored pencils, watercolors, gouache and other materials, you can choose exactly those that you like best. In the end, this is what we ended up with.
The following picture shows how to draw beautiful tropical leaves in the shape of a heart.
- First, draw a base that resembles a heart. Draw a line in the middle.
- We begin to draw the edges. There are notches on the edges of such tropical leaves, they must be marked.
- We draw the veins with a double line, here they should be neat and repeat the shape of the leaf. I also add some holes to the surface of the leaves.
- We color the painted leaves in a tropical style. I use cool turquoise green, you can get it by mixing green with blue. On the edges, I add warm shades - they are easy to get by mixing yellow and green. Don't forget to leave the holes unpainted.
There are many more ways to draw leaves. For example, if you are a complete beginner, you will love the doodle technique. To draw such leaves, you will need paper and a pen.
In the previous lesson, I showed . This lesson will be like an addition to it. Here we will consider how to draw leaves with a pencil step by step. As an example, I will show how to draw a maple leaf. The drawing process is not difficult.
Step one. I start with markup. I draw something that looks like a hieroglyph. Each of these lines represents the main network of veins. 
Step two. Let's draw the contours of the maple leaf itself. Remember that this is still a sketch, so you do not need to put pressure on the pencil. We will erase these lines later. 
Step three. We take a colored pencil. I leave the choice of color to you. I took green, even though it's already autumn, but I like green. We trace the contours and erase the auxiliary lines that I talked about in the previous steps. 
Step four. We take another colored pencil and decorate our sheet as we wish. I got completely green. But you can make any color. In nature, there are many different leaves, so there are no restrictions. The result will be something like this: But this is not the end. This time I decided to show how to draw leaves with a pencil completely, from sketch to coloring, and not just coloring as in the previous lesson about autumn. It turned out very realistic, what do you think?
And I also give you a cheat sheet (or just remind you how they look) the leaves of other trees. I collected the collection myself. My classmate and I walked through the park and picked leaves for ourselves. This is how we have fun: 
I also really wanted to draw chestnut leaves, but I did not find a single good copy, they all fell off. Therefore, I give a picture from the network: 
And here is the entire harvest: 
That's probably all. You can also draw other vegetation.
Here you can download for free pictures of the most diverse tree leaves that can only be found on our Planet.
Poster
Your child will get acquainted with tree leaves such as - linden, chestnut, juniper, bay leaf, mountain ash, magnolia, maple, mulberry leaf, oak, maclura, dwarf palm, pecan, persimmon leaf, cercis, pine, poplar, mahogany, sassafras , sequoia, red spruce, magnolia three-petal, liquidambar, sycamore, larch, carcass, hawthorn, hemlock, hickory, holly, red alder, white ash, aspen, cypress, American linden, beech, birch, walnut, catalpa, cherry, red cedar , white cedar, coffee tree, deltoid poplar, dogwood, American elm, fir, willow, yew, Douglas fir, apricot leaf, yellow poplar, tupelo, walnut. To download free pictures of tree leaves - click on the picture below to print:
You can use this tree leaf material as a poster. Place it on the wall at the level of the child's eyes, from time to time go up to the poster and study which leaves are shown on the poster. In addition, you can print a second copy with tree leaves and cut it into cards and match the tree leaves on the poster and on the cards.
