Simple Holly Leaf Drawing
Here s my quick little guide to drawing holly my favourite festive foliage.
Simple holly leaf drawing. The following step by step drawing tutorial will guide you to drawing a great piece of holly. May 7 2019 explore ginger davison s board leaf drawing on pinterest. If you can find one in real life that s ideal but a photo from google should do just fine.
If you re a purist and prefer to avoid black go with a very dark green or blue in the shadows. See how the leaf is constructed out of basic shapes. Examine a holly leaf.
Once you have completed drawing all the holly leaves your drawing will now look something like this. Next we ll paint the holly berries. Lobed leaves will have gaps between lobes but will never reach the midrib.
These are fairly simple with plenty of red and a bit of black in the shadows. You can start at the top of at the bottom of the berries totally up to you. You can achieve this effect by using short curved lines that meet in points to form each side of the leaf.
Once you have drawn the stems it s now time to draw the holly leaves. Holly is a great decoration to hang on doors walls or anything that has to do with christmas. Holly leaves are jagged and prickly.
And to guide you through the first leaf i ll refer to the one at the bottom left in the example below. Once you have mastered the technique you can use it to. All you have to do is draw inward curves ensuring that the tip of each leaf is pointed.
Outline a leaf around one of the veins. See more ideas about leaf drawing doodle art doodle drawings. Second and final step simple repeating concave leaves.
A simple leaf is a single leaf that is never divided into smaller leaflet units. 174718 how to draw christmas holly youtube. The 12 days of creativity.
Once you ve got your paths drawn one for each leaf you intend to add drawing the leaves is nice and simple. The margins or edges of the simple leaf can be smooth jagged lobed or parted. It is also great to draw on christmas cards and pictures so i thought i would show you how to draw cartoon holly.
Once that s done you can outline it adding more detail. It is always attached to a twig by its stem or the petiole. 174717 graphic drawing candles and holly berries and leaves sketch.
