How to Draw a Spring Meadow Series Part 4 - How to Draw Detailed Trees

Welcome back everyone to a new real time drawing tutorial series. In this series, I will take you step by step to show you how to draw a spring meadow.

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Drawing trees is probably going to be one of the more time consuming aspects of the drawing. With some practice and patience, they will begin to take shape on their own. For drawing these trees, I wanted to use a darker pencil so that they would stand out more against the sky. So I used more of an HB to 2B pencil range. After the skeleton work of the tree is completed, that is when I start to work on the leaves.

Drawing in the leaves can present its challenges. First off the average tree probably has over a few hundred leaves. So drawing that many objects is very time consuming. Although drawing each leave would make an amazing looking tree, I just really don't feel like doing that so I spent time finding textures that would best be suitable for drawing them. So what I ended up doing was using a sharp pencil and using it on its side. Making small scribble like movements helps to replicate thee leaves of the tree. This method eliminates a lot of time that would otherwise be spent on drawing each individual leaf. I also enjoy doing it this way because it gives the tree a bit more character.

I hope you all enjoyed this video and stay tuned next week for part 5! Thanks everyone for watching!

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