Hello my fellow steemians lovers of art!

How is everything going? good? I'm happy about it! And I'm happy to be able to bring you another post full with artistic vibe and love for you (and I really meant it, with a difficult connection to internet be able to work and post it's difficult).
The topic of today is leaves!

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Emojis just don't have enough space to make all the types of then, and putting aside al the amazing is the biology and studies about them, they also have an amazing use for artists. Well, they have a lot because artists are very creative, but today I'll talk to you about one way they can be our teachers.

Yes, the nature as our teachers. Have you ever saw how detailed are the patterns of the nerves on the leaves? They are so complicated and beautiful! And they can help us to improve our detail skill. This is an exercise that my mom talked to me about. She studied architecture, and she was really pressed to get better at detailing all time, she was struggling with it until one of her teachers told her to try to practice drawing leafs, but not as we are used to, without any details, but find a tree leaf that she likes very much and endeavor to emulate the details of the tree leaf as much as possible. Soon she was able to datils very much, and when she told me that a while ago, I started this practice every time I found a pretty leaf lying in the floor. Eventually, I became better at detailing too and I have to say that I truly enjoy drawing leaves. The drawing that you see here is one of the art this practice inspired me to do. In this one, I have a leaf with heart form that I found a while ago but I have kept it immortalized and plasticized. It has my attempt to emulate how the nerves of the leaf are but reversed too, it's something like a negative of the leaf but with the same color.

This drawing it's made with pencils and watercolors. I invite you to try this practice, go to your garden or the park close to your house and search for a leaf that you like, bring it home and try to emulate the details of it, it doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to be exactly the same, just relax while you are on it and enjoy. It's like drawing mandalas! but with a little bit of time, you'll get better detailing your drawings. It will lift up a lot your skills!

To guide you I'll show you how I made this drawing.

First

I used the leaf to draw the outline of it. This is from where you'll start.

Second

I took my time to observe the leaf with so much attention and a good eye, then I started from the outline to outside (in this case 'cause I wanted to do it in reverse, but if you want to draw the leaf just how it is, start from the outline to inside) look at the nerves of the leaf and with a very sharp pencil and delicacy follow the lines. Tip: start with the big ones the little ones.

Third

Once you are satisfied with how it looks, you can paint it. I painted it with watercolors, I mixed my colors until I got the right tone and started to paint, but it wasn't just one tone, the leaf had a lot of colors so I tried to keep it the closest to the real one as I could coloring my drawing it with various tones of green.

Then just wait for it to draw and it's ready! For me this is a piece of art, it's not a drawing, the leaf, and the drawing fit so perfectly that I feel they have to be exposed together as one piece. If you ever try to do this please tag me. And with this post full of love I left my entry for the nTopaz contest of watercolors.

Thank you for reading until here! I'm trying to build up a portfolio of my art if you have any advice that it could help it would be amazing and really useful!
Have a wonderful and artsy day 🎨🖌

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