Drawing a Plantain Tree

In this tree drawing challenge organized by the world of Xpilar community, I would like to present my pencil sketch, and the tree I am selecting here is a plantain tree.
Plantain is a herbaceous flowering plant that looks like the banana tree. I selected the plantain because the whole tree has a countable number of leaves and we have some at the back of my house so I can look at it when drawing.

Needed Materials

To draw the plantain tree, I will use a piece of plain paper (A4) as my canvas.

• A4 plain paper
• A Pencil
• An Eraser
• The plantain tree
• Nokia C30 (Camera)

The Finished Drawing

The Steps and Stages It took

Step 1

I got a plain-blank A4 paper which I signed with my steemit identity. I also added today's date as a confirmation that it is a new drawing.

Step 2

The drawing starts with the plantain leaves and I needed to add more leaves to it.

Step 3

This leaves allowed it's midrib to show which is always the case with new plantain leaves that has just unfolded. They are tender and very flexible with a lighter shade of green on this almost translucent broad leaf.

Step 4

We now have some older leaves that has been slit by strong wind, the older the leaves the more cuts it has. The leaves are greener and loose it's flexibility and becomes tough.

Step 5

At this point, I will be drawing the plantain stem and some old dried leaves resting on the stem down to its ball like base.

Step 6

After sketching, this is the point where things could get off the course, it's time to shade the plantain tree.
I tried to maintain a light source for uniform shading. And now my plantain tree is ready.

Me and my Sketch Work

More about the Sketcher

To read more about me, this is a link to my achievement one