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Lobed Leaf Drawing

The first leaf is the lobed leaf. Draw a slightly curved line as the stem of the leaf. As with most leaves, the stem tends to be thicker at the bottom and thinner at the top. You can achieve this with thicker pencil lines at the bottom and then lighter at the top of the stem. The next step is to draw the outline of the leaf. The bottom of the leaf starts slightly up the stem. Draw a wavy line for the leaf outline around the top of the center stem and continue down the other half of the leaf back to the starting point. Draw in smaller veins down each of the wavy parts of the leaf.

Obovate Leaf Drawing

The first step is to draw a slight curved line for the center of the leaf. Starting on the left side, draw the side of the leaf with small slight rounded curves with the tip of the leaf with a v shape. Then continue with similar rounded curves down the other side of the leaf. The bottom of these leaves have u shapes. Add the smaller veins with slight curve off the central line.

Sagittate Leaf Drawing

The sagittate leaves are teardrop shapes with a u shape curved in at the bottom. For this leaf, we recommend starting with the outline of the leaf then straight lines down the middle for the stem. The veins of this leaf are rounded y shapes towards the bottom and then smaller curved lines towards the top of the stem.

Reniform Leaf Drawing

For the reniform leaf, start with a outline with each half being a broad rounded oval shape. The stem is thick and rounded at the bottom and then draw a vertical line right up the middle to a point. There are four main veins off each side, with smaller veins curving off each of those.

Linear Leaf Drawing

The linear leaves have a different look than other leaves. They are thin small leaves. The first line is the stem of the leaf. Then draw the outline of the leaf. It is thin and meets at the top of the leaf in a point. Then draw small straight lines for the veins fairly close together all the way up the leaf.

Cleft Leaf Drawing

The cleft leaf is a fun leaf to draw. Start with a curved line up the left side. Then draw the fan like edge of each side of the split leaf with small crinkled line and then it comes down in the middle. The leaf split has a sort of heart shape with a v in the middle, so create the right leaf similar to the left and then bring the line drawing into the stem and down.

Acicular Leaf Drawing

The final shape is the acicular leaves which are needle-like leaves that come together in bundle with the bottom piece called a fascicle. Start with a small bundle shape. Then draw out a number of thin needle like shapes all coming from the fascicle

The last step is to outline each of the your leaves with a black marker and erase any of the extra pencil lines. The