Identification by leaves alone

I have never thought to identify plants by their leaf type before, but have instead used a plant identifying app such as "seek". This therefore was a very interesting task for me to do. I took 5 leafs from varying trees around my local park and used the "Tree Identifying Guide" by Treezilla. 

After identifying these trees to the best of my ability I wanted to represent them in my sketchbook so that I could refer back to them later. This therefore resulted in the following pages within my sketchbook. 






Although I am happy with the outcomes of these observational drawings they are all very intricate and inexpressive, this style is something that lends itself well to preserving indicators needed in order to identify leaf types however I would find it interesting to explore more expressive fluid movements within my artwork, this would also allow me to work faster and therefore generate more pieces as a collective. When I next do this type of piece in my sketchbook I will explore varying line weigh/ media and allocate myself much less time to see how my outcomes differ.

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