How to Draw a Tree

In this video, I show you the steps to drawing a variety of trees from start to finish.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to this weeks video where I show you to draw a couple of different trees. I drew these trees in a more lose like style to give them a little bit more character.

I start off the first tree with a line that re presents the entire tree. The bottom of that line represents the trunk and the top of the line where I start to really wiggle it around is the very top of the tree. I do this so that there are no issues with placing the entire tree on the page.

Once that line is done, I then go back in and start to design the trunk of the tree and work my way up to the branches making them smaller as I go. One issue that I had a lot of trouble with was making the tree look organic and less stiff. Avoid straight lines. Instead use curves, wiggles, and corner shaped lines for the trees to keep it looking organic.

Once the basic outlines of the tree is finished, shading comes next. I like to make my tree first look like a winter tree before adding leaves creating a summer tree. Choose a side of the tree you would like darker than the other and begin to shade. Shade in the direction of the tree's movement. This will help to simulate the bark and texture of the tree.

Once all that is done, you can leave your tree at what you have and call it a winter tree or take the next step and add in the leaves and see what you can create. Adding the leaves is much more simple if you think of it as adding in bunches of leaves instead of each single individual leaf. If drawing each leaf is your method of choice, you may be drawing for quite some time. I find that drawing the texture of a bunch of leaves translates to the eye just fine. It is the texture that conveys the image. Use an underhand grip so that maximum amount of graphite is in contact with the paper and use small circular motions while doing this. Use a variety of pencils to get different gradations to create volume.

The Second set of trees is out of my Mountains in the Mist drawing. I drew 3 trees very similar to them. Those I start out by drawing a straight line representing the whole tree. Then I usually start at the top of the tree making some small texture for the pine. I usually do the same underhand grip for this and work my pencil from the line outward in a slight upward motion. That way the branches have a slight arch to them. This helps to give it a bit of character and interest. I do like to make them look lush so I add in quite a few branches. Sometimes Ill make them a little bit more weathered looking by holding back on the amount of branches overall.

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Music Info:
Artist: DJ Lang
Song: Drops of H2O