水墨画竹之画竹叶法之一

　画竹叶先画三笔的“个”字法，如汉字的个字形，第二再学“分”字法，分字的草书写法是。画写意竹叶一般要用大笔画小画，切忌用小笔画大画，选购时要买大号“兰竹笔”。下笔画叶要按提迅速，一扫而过，切勿停顿或过慢，画出的效果会不舒展。画竹叶之前要了解竹叶的生长结构，不妨到竹园中观察写生，还有一种观察办法，就是拿一块白的丝巾，在逆光中近靠对着竹，竹子的造型投影在丝巾上，犹如欣赏一幅天然的水墨画。按照如图多练习就好了，就能熟能生巧了。
Welcome to learn Traditional Chinese Painting
Lesson 8. Drawing bamboo in Chinese ink and wash painting—the method of drawing bamboo leaf
Drawing bamboo leaf first should outline three lines like Chinese characters “个”，and
Then learn to draw the lines like Chinese characters of “分”, drawing method in cursive hand is outlining bamboo leaf at freehand brushwork， should observe the skill that is using the large-size of the brush to draw the small painting, and the contrary of it should avoid by all means. Buying the large-size of brand of “Lanzhu Pen”. Quickly to press and lift at beginning to outline the leaf without any pause or slow of it to avoid of folding to that effect. Before drawing the bamboo leaf, should know the growth structures of it, the better way to know it well is to sketch it and to observe it in the bamboo garden, and another method is to take a white scarves closely to the bamboo at backlighting for a effect, and then, the silhouette of the bamboo appeared in the scarves just like admiring a natural landscape. To have more practice according to the pictures provided, always remember that practise makes perfect.