# How much hard would it be to draw these "leaves"?

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**Category:** SketchUp\
**Created:** [August 29, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-much-hard-would-it-be-to-draw-these-leaves/50771 "2017-08-29T17:26:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![spawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/spawn/32/37792_2.png) [@spawn](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/spawn)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-much-hard-would-it-be-to-draw-these-leaves/50771/1 "2017-08-29T17:26:41Z")

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Hi everybody.

I replicated this image using SU.

 ![CADAvaDes05](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/a/1/a1b3fd5fb610fbe858b8231b94fb0c3dc2aee545.png)

This has been the result.

 ![CADAvaDes05_skp](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/3/b/3b55c2ca08bddbd2fa694ea6e1dbb40d2148a4ba.png)

But I wonder how much hard would it be to make it 3D.  
I thought about drawing the “leaves” maybe using curviloft or vertex tools, I didn’t try it yet, because I’d like to know what tools or extensions you recommend.  
So far I did it the easy part. Can native tools afford this task?

 ![model](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/a/f/af6a20e79221afe008313da90c5009f48dbd7ac9.PNG)

This is my .skp file if it were necessary: [try.skp](https://forums.sketchup.com/uploads/short-url/fUxO240CTIRmFeA57WzzVDGKy5L.skp) (942.4 KB)

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![spawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/spawn/32/37792_2.png) [@spawn](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/spawn)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-much-hard-would-it-be-to-draw-these-leaves/50771/2 "2017-08-29T18:15:37Z")

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This has been my first try with vertex tools.  
But of course the “leaves” still have not the same shape or dimensions, it was only a try.

![try](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/e/d/ed710af996719e3f72fd4e52ca5e44cf9193f2d6.gif)

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**Author:** ![ecati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ecati/32/28643_2.png) [@ecati](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ecati)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-much-hard-would-it-be-to-draw-these-leaves/50771/3 "2017-08-29T18:18:28Z")

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I did it like this.  
[try\_ecati.skp](https://forums.sketchup.com/uploads/short-url/7L9EatpgqdWM1dq3gl2rvrHv3uj.skp) (1001.6 KB)

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**Author:** ![spawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/spawn/32/37792_2.png) [@spawn](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/spawn)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-much-hard-would-it-be-to-draw-these-leaves/50771/4 "2017-08-29T18:46:23Z")

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Cool @ecati, yours is much better.  
This is his.  
 ![muchbetter](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/a/e/aeb1446355b1bf8923895019885ae7c6dbe5fe64.PNG)  
Did you use curviloft?  
I guess your “leaves” can be also done with follow me tool and some edition afterwards, like if you were drawing a hemisphere.  
**EDIT:** Another possibility that came to my mind is to duplicate the “egg” and make it bigger, and then make some intersection to make it looks like … a shell or a inverse “Hazelnut” (probably hazelnut was not a good example xD).

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**Author:** ![ecati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ecati/32/28643_2.png) [@ecati](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ecati)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-much-hard-would-it-be-to-draw-these-leaves/50771/5 "2017-08-29T19:30:48Z")

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Yes, I used curviloft.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/f/2/f2a121500b085ed60806607a82720b092d800bb3.png) [@system](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-much-hard-would-it-be-to-draw-these-leaves/50771/6 "2017-11-29T11:30:57Z")

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