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How to Draw Jungle Leaves
Draw jungle leaves in 13 steps, about 10 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: a long leaf.
Step 1: A long leaf
Start on the ground, left of the middle. Draw a long pointed leaf leaning up left, like a long eye.
Tip Make it big: from the ground almost to the top of the paper.
Step 2: Leaf veins
Draw a line up the middle of the long leaf to its point. Add 3 pairs of veins slanting up.
Step 3: The big leaf
In front draw a big heart leaf: a point on top, 2 deep notches each side, a dip below.
Tip Cut the notches deep, almost halfway in.
Step 4: The middle rib
Draw a straight line up the middle of the big leaf, from the dip to the point.
Step 5: Leaf holes
Draw 3 long thin holes near the middle line: 2 on the right, 1 on the left, at different heights.
Step 6: The stalk
From the dip of the big leaf draw a stalk down to the ground, wider at the bottom.
Step 7: A fern stem
Start on the ground on the right. Draw a thin stem curving up and over left, stop at a point.
Step 8: Top leaflets
From a small tip leaflet down the top half of the stem, draw pairs of thin pointed leaflets, growing bigger.
Step 9: Bottom leaflets
Draw more pairs of leaflets down the bottom half of the stem, getting smaller again near the ground.
Step 10: The ground
Draw a straight ground line across the paper under all the stems, with a tuft of grass at each end.
Step 11: Light green long leaf
Colour the long leaf light green.
Step 12: Teal fern
Colour all the leaflets of the fern teal.
Step 13: Dark green big leaf
Colour the big leaf and its stalk dark green, leaving the holes white. Your jungle leaves are done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: jungle leaves, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
