Drawing leaves: Exploring techniques to level up your skills

1. Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to this exciting online watercolor lesson and Natalie, and in today's session, we will explore the item draw when virus leaves through Bright sketches, we will focus on a simple and enjoyable approach to capture the sense or this natural beauties. So let's grab our materials and to get ready to create the brand and energetically sketches wastewater color 2. Materials: Let's talk about necessary materials. Of course, we will need to schedule course sheet of watercolor paper and not less than 200 g/m² density. A watercolor paints in tubes. So parents take Carlos suitable for drove and leaves. Yellow, light green, dark green, orange, maybe brown. If you have latent paint, you can take any street, but of course the green would be better. We need several different brushes and my own cell, which there should be a soft round brush. I prefer scary squirrel brush, a wide flat brush, and brush for details. The rest is your choice. You will also need tissues, water, and liner for the final touches. If possible, prepare a piece of plastic card. If p's are formed and construction or bakery scraper, I'll show what effects can be obtained with them and you will decide whether to use them in the future or not. 3. Watercolor drawing: Well, let's get started. This is a drain in section. So the lower this takes as much as possible. We're going to lower them and warm up. Now. I advise skipping error seen as simple as possible. In fact, one of the main secrets of beautiful sketches is lightness. Let's approach the task with all these. To start with, I suggest you to start with the silhouette or the simplest leaves. Try to make beautiful and confident purines. So somewhere as a print is applied, as transparent as possible, and somewhere as small puddle of paint is gathered. To do this, make a brush stroke and sharply removed by pressing down. Again, I repeat. Start with the simplest leaves, with the simplest forms. You can make a monotonous feel. And after that, at splashes of clean water, try using a plastic card to make a few scratches. This way, you will add details to the drama queen. You could try using a piece of sponge to worry the silhouette. Any sponge We'll do, not necessary or like mine. You can reverse the process first to make this punch prints and then gather them into a leaf. Especially beautiful, this effect will look with brown color. When in the fall, the leaves dry up, becoming semi-transparent, leaving only a web of Wayne is behind. Right now we're just trying different ways of depicting leaf. The next tab. Let's proceed to beautiful prints. We will try to draw a leaf of a share or Owen. You can add water if the paint is to seek. This will result in a more transparent print. On the other side, you can make prints at a slight angle to make it look more interesting. You can add a few details, but still tried to preserve this unique and print of the brush. This will attract attention and Yoav euro will be wondering how was it done. You can try draw when a similar leave but with a different brush this time. This way you'll get more practice and familiarize your battle with the tools. You can take less or more water this time to experiment. You can rotate the leaf to make it more convenient. Remember, don't go into details, keep it light. Now, let's try to draw a no Cleve. I suggest using yellow, orange, or brown. Tried to minimize the brush strokes without preliminary drawing. Start from the top and make prints. I'm gradually narrowing the Silhouette from both sides. Just add water in the middle of the leaf to maintain lightness and get watercolor overflows. Let's draw another similar leaf next to eat. Dry, as many as you want. Train and practice Try to draw even more transparently, even lighter. Bailey add in details. You can slightly outline the veins, but keep the original simplicity. The next method is to use the tip of the brush to create an uneven edge like raspberry leaves, for example. The brush should be semi dry to achieve this effect. So remove the excess moisture with a napkin and fluff Hobbes or brush on the palate and start making prints. Here again, an interesting sketch was made in such a simple way. For the next way of depicting the leaf will need a flat brush and wide flat brush. We'll be drawing a palm leaf. We can prince who is a T pull the brush, will even such beautiful and straight lines. I advise you to make a few attempts. You can take more water into the brush and observe how the brain changes. It's so fun and easy. In my opinion, a very effectively turned out. And the method is very simple. Because the next thing I'd like to show is beautiful color mixing. Let's take a simple leaf shape again. You can even make it similar to this one with simple movements. So we outline the shape, starting with green and transitioning to yellow. Don't mix the paint on the palette. Let ever seen mix right on this sketch. It will look more vibrant this way. The reason nozzle opportunity to achieve a beautiful effect. It's the use of granulating paints. If you don't have such paint, just watch and get one if possible. It's suddenly what base you buffers. Again, I urge you to draw a simple leaf shape and let the watercolor complete the drawing itself. The granulating paint to create beautiful overflows without your faults. And finally, let's have a little fun. Now I will show you how you can use this tool. Also, you can replace it with a hair. Come. First, I suggest draw when the silhouette of a leaf, even from the side. Let it dry a little and we will try to make scratches on it with a scraper or a card. A lot also depends on the paper you are using. Sound waves, the effect will be more pronounced and somewhere less. You can also start with a scraper leaving imprints on the paper. This effect is also suitable for the picture and a palm leaf. You can add details with a thin brush live in maximum lightness. Now I see a small free area on the sheet. So let's try to draw a eucalyptus leaf here. We semi-transparent paint two, we start drawing round leaves. One can be placed right on the top of another. Now you can add dark Princeton in some places to add heterogeneity and details. Leaves are almost ready, but we have to live in demo with a liner. Though they have already turned out brightened interesting. Now we need to dry them and beautiful accents and finalize our leaves. While they're dry. I will use a hairdryer to speed up the process. 4. Details with liner: Let's take liner and walk out some details trying not to exactly replicate line of the watercolor drawing, but to go beyond the silhouette in some places. Don't hold it too close to the TPP. Let your hand be free. This way the sketch will look more lively. In some places secant line, let it be heterogeneous. Add details carefully, don't overdo it. One of the main problem is over walk in the artwork when you simply don't stop in time. Our task is to simply slightly live animal. The leaves try nor terrain the walk, create uneven ages, skipping a line in some places and leaving gaps in the counter. We also try not to touch the places where beautiful effects have been achieved. We start with a eucalyptus branch. Especially carefully draw with the counters. So this a reliefs. Such deallocate wall can easily be spoiled by a role for uniform outlines. Sarah for minimum details, maximum lightness. Next, try not to reach the end when outlining is to let, let some places just remain with a watercolor edge, especially if it turned out, well, don't outline the leaves from all sides. Let there be light on the statement. Prompt in your view or to examine this catch more closely. In some places deliberately second line, given more contrast and unevenness. Let your lines be really alive. For example, in this leaf, this Teens don't doubt, very beautiful. And I don't want to overload it with details. Let's leave it as it tastes. The contour of the oak leaves, chemo turmeric, Leah. Less outlining here to where it turned out especially beautiful. We did not touch. We supplement and Mason pods. You can capture wide areas of paper, perfecting the contour and creating an imitation of a glare. This will only enhance the sketch. And let's add a little waning. I practically don't want to touch anything right here. I will just make a slight hint at detailing and leave it as it is. We move on to the next leaf, making vault, even a fan, even lines here to wear a beautiful stains have turned out. Try not to cover them up, but just slightly emphasize the shape of the leaf. Let all attention be paid to the granulation effects. For palm branches. Just lightly outline the middle and add a few details here and there. We've already achieved a harmonious and quite finished picture with watercolor. So we will just slightly place axons maintaining the purity and lightness of the sketch. Let's add a few details to the remaining leaves. There is just a little bit left. We will use the liner here to draw what we didn't manage to scrape out. We need this tool exactly to highlight a successful areas and hide Zan, unsuccessful ones. Let's add details to the most, a relief that E, Let's take a look at the result and leaves. If you miss Tennyson and a final touches. And we will stop here. Because it's very important to know when to stop. Praise yourself. This was a great practice. Try to do a similar lights catches more often. It's easier to approach most serious subjects after them. And then the next lessons, I will show how you can use the acquired skills and confidently draw complex catches. And remember that draw when it's easy and fun 5. Outro: As we conclude this lesson of sketch and do friends leaves. Remember, xij practice is essential for honing your skills. Apply the techniques we've covered today and create your own character waiting your leaves catches, share your work with others to inspire and showcase your progress. Keeps getting out. Be sure to check out my other lessons to further develop your artistic abilities. Goodbye