How to Draw Banana Plants
- 1). Begin with the stalk of the plant. Draw a vertical line in the lower center of your paper. Draw the line as large or as small as you wish your final art to be. Don't worry about getting the line exactly straight; banana plant stalks are slightly crooked. Draw another similar line slightly to the left or right of the first line to make the stalk.
- 2). Add three to five large V shapes up and down the stalk, and erase overlapping lines. This addition gives the impression of the stalk's rough texture. Draw seven to eight wispy lines that extend outward and from all directions to the top of the stalk to create the basis for the plant's branches.
- 3). Flesh out the wispy branch lines by drawing similar lines next the original lines, similar to how you drew the stalk. Draw elongated ovals over each branch you made to create the leaves of the plant. Add several smaller wispy lines on the interior of the leaves to give the leaves depth.
- 4). Draw another single wispy line that stretches out from the top of the plant and droops downward. The length should be about the same as the branch lines. Add a small oval at the end of this line to create the plant's closed flower bud.
- 5). Draw an inverted trapezoidal shape opposite the flower bud, near the top of the wispy line. The shape should have smooth, contoured lines, not angular lines. Use this shape as a template to draw several banana shapes on the trapezoid's interior. Trace your drawing in black ink to make your art stand out on the page.
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