Caroline
Capture the joys of Autumn with this guide on how to draw Fall leaves! You can make this drawing so much easier by following this tutorial for kids.
I love to walk past trees that are going yellow, red and orange in the Fall season as it just looks so beautiful. It always inspires me to want to make some art inspired by the season, but I used to find it hard to draw a leaf convincingly.
It should be so much easier than you think, but getting it right isn’t as simple as that. That’s why I wanted to figure out how to make it easier, and I want to share what I found with you.
Together we will go through the steps to make sure you can draw a Fall maple leaf, and then you can take the steps and adapt them to any other leaves you may want to draw.
Watch These Steps To Easily Create A Fall Leaves Drawing
How to Draw Fall Leaves – Let’s get Started!
Step 1
Perhaps the most iconic Fall leaf is the maple leaf, so we shall be drawing one in this guide on how to draw Fall leaves.
You may have seen a maple leaf many times before, but they have quite an intricate design that we’ll be replicating.
Using the reference picture as a guide, draw in an angled jagged line that has smaller points at the top and larger ones near the bottom. Once it looks like the picture, we can move on to step 2!
Step 2 – Draw in some more of the leaf
With the first part of your Fall leaves drawing done, we can start to draw in the side section that will extend outwards.
They will have a large point before moving back inwards as you can see in the reference picture.
Step 3 – Now, draw in the bottom left of your leaf
The bottom left part of the leaf will be made up of three jagged edges that move inwards to the bottom of your Fall leaves drawing.
With that step done, you have the first half of your leaf complete and we will be mirroring it in the next few steps of this guide on how to draw Fall leaves.
Step 4 – Next, start to mirror the top of the leaf
As we mentioned in the previous step, from this point onwards we will be creating a mirror image of what you have already drawn.
This should be a bit easier, as you have your own drawings to guide you, but the reference image will also help a lot. For this part, simply replicate what you did in the very first step.
Step 5 – Continue drawing more of your leaf
We shall continue with mirroring the side of your drawn leaf in this step. So in this part of this guide on how to draw Fall leaves, we will be mirroring the section we drew in step 2 of this guide.
It can be tricky, but try your best to get it at the same angle and size as the other side.
Step 6 – Finish mirroring the final part of the leaf
You know the drill at this point! In this part of your Fall leaves drawing, you can finish off the last section of the leaf, mirroring it as you have been doing.
Now that you have the full leaf, we can move on to the next steps.
Step 7 – Now, draw in a stem for your leaf
With the outline of your leaf drawn, you can begin on the inner parts of it in step 7 of this guide on how to draw Fall leaves. You’ll want to use a ruler for the next few steps, as there will be lots of straight lines.
The center spine of the leaf is called the midrib, and we will be drawing it in for this step. As you can see in the image, it will start very thin at the top and get slightly thicker as it goes down.
Step 8 – Next, add some veins to your leaf
Your Fall leaves drawing needs some veins, so let’s add some in for this step.
We’ll keep it simple by drawing four straight lines, with the top ones looking shorter and the bottom ones a bit longer.
Step 9 – Draw some final details
To finish off your Fall leaves drawing, we will finish off the final details.
To do this, simply use your ruler to draw some smaller veins coming off from the veins you drew in the previous step. With that done, you can move on to the final step of this guide!
With that, you have reached the final step of our guide on how to draw Fall leaves. There’s only one more fun step remaining, and that’s to color it in.
There are many beautiful Fall colors that you can use to color in your beautiful Fall leaves drawing.
There are brilliant yellows, warm reds, fiery oranges and rich browns. There are so many options open to you, and you should really let your creativity shine!
If you’re feeling extra crafty, you could find some crunchy Fall leaves if it’s that time of year, crunch them up and then stick them onto your drawing for an authentic look!
You could also experiment with some fun art mediums, such as paints, watercolors and so many more. What will you use to finish off your drawing?
4 More Ways To Make Your Fall Leaves Drawing Unique
We’re sure you will fall for these 4 tips we have to make this drawing even better!
For this Fall leaves drawing, we worked on a maple leaf to create a wonderful iconic shape. We love the shape of the maple leaf, but you could also create a different kind of leaf alongside this one or on a new page.
If you have some leaves in your yard then you could bring some in to use as you draw. That is a great way to really make this a Fall extravaganza! What other leaves could you use for this picture?
Once you have finished designing the leaf and adding the other ones that you want for the picture, you can then decide what you would like for the background.
You could use a solid color for the background, or you could draw some small shapes and pictures to form a pattern.
One fun idea would be to draw lots of small leaf shapes in a pattern to make the page really interesting to look at. What other ideas do you have for the background of this Fall leaves sketch?
This leaf looks amazing so far, but you can also add some small details to it to make it even more dynamic.
This could be anything from small cracks on the leaf with some chunks missing or even some little insects crawling around on it.
These kinds of details can make a big difference even if they’re small. Can you think of some small details you could add?
In this guide, we spoke about how you can use various crafts and interesting ideas for this Fall leaves drawing.
We even mentioned how you can crunch up some dried leaves and stick them on the surface of the leaf.
You can take this even further, as you could also stick a stem from a real leaf onto the image. If you have any other crafts, you can experiment and play around with them until you have a picture you’re happy with!
Your Fall Leaves Drawing is Complete
Now that you’ve finished your drawing and colored it in with some beautiful colors, you have successfully completed our tutorial on how to draw Fall leaves!
We hope that this guide helped to make this trickier drawing subject easier for you. Maple leaves have a very intricate design, so our aim was to break it down in a way that would make it easy and fun for you to learn!
With this guide completed, now you can have some fun putting your own spin on it.
You could draw in many leaves on one page to make it look like they’re falling from a tree or draw multiple leaves and use a different color for each one.
Maybe you could even do a series where you use a different art medium for each leaf you color in! The possibilities are endless and we can’t wait to see what you do.
This guide will be followed by many more for you to have fun with, so please keep checking in on our site to catch all of our new tutorials as they come out.
We would also love to see your finished Fall leaves drawing, so please go ahead and share it on our Facebook and Pinterest pages for us to enjoy! We can’t wait to see your amazing creativity.
