How to sketch and shade a leaf
1
With a carbon sketch pencil draw a line and a pentagon around it
2
With a hb charcoal pencil lightly sketch the leaf inside the pentagon
3
Erase pentagon and thicken stem with an hb charcoal pencil
4
With a 6b charcoal pencil add a shadow under the leaf, and blend softly with finger, and highlight with kneaded rubber
5
With a 4b pencil add shadows on surface leaf and then highlight with kneaded rubber eraser
6
Use white charcoal to add light areas to the surface of the leaf
7
Make the ground lighter behind the shadow with white charcoal and blend lightly with finger
8
Using a 2b and a 4b pencil make the background dark shade shadows on leaf.
