How to draw bamboo with a pencil?

Bamboo is an important element of the interior in the East Asian style. He was loved to paint in antiquity, and is still loved. It is depicted by both professionals and amateur artists. Now bamboo is popular all over the world, many houses have bamboo plants. In this article, you will find several options for drawing bamboo with a pencil. The first method is the easiest, the second and third are a bit more complicated. But don't be scared, bamboo is easy to draw. This article will answer your question: how to draw bamboo in stages?

Did you know that bamboo is the fastest growing plant, and it is a symbol of longevity? Would it be nice for myself to create a small symbol of a long life? Now you can learn how to draw a bamboo.

Preparatory stage

Tools you will need to draw a bamboo pencil:

• simple pencils of different hardness (hard and soft);
• a sheet of paper of a suitable size;
• eraser.

It is important to understand what bamboo stems are made of. The bamboo trunk resembles the bones of a skeleton (joints play the role of bones, and the internodes look like cartilage).

Start drawing

Let's look at the first option, how to draw a bamboo:

1. Sketch four long cylinders for bamboo stems with a hard pencil. Draw them a bit at an angle. Arrange them the way you like.
2. Add four long thin bamboo stems. They are a little further than the stems from the first step, so they are thinner.
3. Draw the articulations of bamboo. It is necessary to depict four small ovals, dividing the stem into five approximately equal parts.
4. With distant stems, repeat the same actions that you performed in the previous step.
5. Let's move on to drawing leaves. Remember that leaves extend from the internodes. Scribble bamboo leaves, they should be behind the bamboo stems.
6. Draw the foliage in front of the bamboo stems.
7. Work out black and white relationships. On the one hand, more light falls on the plants, therefore, it should be lighter. The opposite side is in the shade, so the hatching is darker and denser there. Thinner stems are further away, which means that you need to shade them more tightly.
8. Erase all unnecessary lines and dark spots that may have formed at your work during the drawing process. If you could not immediately identify the bright areas, then you can do this with the eraser. However, it is better to try to do this immediately and only with a pencil so that excess scuffs do not form on the drawing.

Second way

Drawing bamboo is very easy. It is enough to repeat these few simple steps. Here is the second option, how to draw a bamboo:

1. Make a light sketch of the main stems with a hard pencil.
2. Draw joints and internodes.
3. Work out the chiaroscuro. It should be noted that on one side the light falls more, therefore, it is lighter, the other side, on the contrary, is darker. For drawing shadows it is better to use a soft pencil.
4. Draw a few leaves from different sides. They should move away from the internodes. They also need to be decorated.
5. Erase all remaining sketch lines and dark spots.

Third option

And here is another option, how to draw a bamboo:

• Sketch a picture by simply sketching the location of the stems. For sketching it is better to use a hard pencil.
• Give volume to the drawing by drawing the stem with lines parallel to the outline.
• Outline internodes and joints.
• It is necessary to draw leaflets grown from the internodes of bamboo.
• Draw leaflets.
• Work out black and white relationships. One side is darker, one is lighter.

If you overdone and made the drawing too dark, highlight the desired areas with an eraser. For coloring it is better to use a soft pencil.