How To Draw A Tree Steps How To Draw A Tree

'How to describe a tree?' is a question that I get asked often, online an offline, so I decided to make this tutorial here.  I made vii drawings of diverse trees with pace by pace instructions.  I hope you lot all find information technology helpful!

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For me drawing trees is all about branches and the crown, and fining a balance that you are happy with.  At that place are many amazing artists, books and tutorials out there all well-nigh cartoon trees.  For example, THIS Book is very good, and my kids and I enjoyed it in the past.

This tutorial is my take on drawing trees.  For these drawings I used a regular sketching pencil, though the aforementioned principal applies to other mediums as well.  I too adapted all the sketches in Gimp 2 so that they are more visible, so in that location will be a slight variation betwixt the photos.

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Alright, hither is tree number one.  I call this one "Tree # one".  🙂

How To Draw A Tree: Tree # 1

I start with a line and the full general shape that I would like the crown to be.

And so I add together a few lines to indicate the main branches.

Make the trunk thicker.  Information technology is thick towards the bottom and the roots, and narrows closer to a betoken toward the top.

The aforementioned affair with the branches. They are thicker toward the base and narrower towards the tip.  Like shooting fish in a barrel-peasy.

At present each ane of the main branches gets a few branches of their own, but smaller and added a squiggle on the bottom to point a scrap of grass.

Even more smaller branches splitting off from the bigger ones.  I also pick an spot where the sunshine is coming from.  I also shade the trunk a flake, using long straight lines.

Putting my pencil sideways, I shade in the area in the crown where the leaves are.  I am going in a sort of irregular pattern of peaks and troughs.

I stop shading the crown area.

I go on working on the crown, now by adding some layers, and outlines. I also erased the line that was giving me the initial crown shape thought.  When shading, continue in mind where the sun is coming from: areas facing the sun should be lighter and so the areas facing away from it.

And go along working on the crown.  Just doodling away until y'all experience your tree crown is consummate.

I decided that the tree shouldn't just hang in the air, and then I gave information technology more grass, and shaded in the background.

Even more shadows in and around the tree.

Then I went all out and decided I am going to employ my eraser and add some dominicus rays coming out of the corner.

Even farther, I got eraser happy and made more rays coming out through the tree and on the basis below it.  Tree # 1 is all done!!!

Tree # two:  The Seascape Tree.

As before, I drew the line and the crown, merely this tree is being bent by the current of air, so the tree will be bending down a fleck.

I add the hill, and brand the torso thicker.

I extend the torso shape upwards.  Equally earlier, it's thicker towards the bottom, and comes to a indicate on summit.

Add some main branches.  Because the wind is blowing, many of the branches are leaning to the correct.

Proceed adding branches, so far all leaning to the right.

Here is more branches.  Hither is the affair near the branches.  The thick, main branches are stronger, so they will not exist every bit afflicted by the wind, but the smaller branches will all bespeak in the direction of the air current.

I shade the torso a fleck and added some roots to the hill.

Alright, now leaves are squiggly lines drawn with the side of my pencil.  Some of them are flying off, then more than pocket-sized squiggles.  I also add together a horizon line: where the h2o meets the heaven and some grass on the hill.

I added some clouds, shaded the water, drew a sand line, and some tall grass on the hill.  The alpine grass is also leaning in the winds management.  I also darkened some of the leaves a bit.

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Tree # iii: Pino Tree:

As before, I start with a trunk.

I add a small triangular shape on top with straight lines all moving to the top.

Add more triangular lines on top of one another.

Go along adding the branches with needles to most half fashion, then sketch a few empty branches.  Thicken the trunk.  Add together a shadow to the tree.

Tree # 4: Umbrella Tree

This tree was especially fun to draw.  I started to describe it by drawing the ovals for the leafage parts.  I decided on four, but if you want more, that would exist quite crawly as well! And so I added some squiggly lines coming down to the same area for the tree torso.

I added more lines to create thicker trunk branches, added more branches going out to the 'umbrellas' and added a few empty branches as well.

I added more details to the torso, fabricated more squiggly branches, and added some shading to the 'umbrella' portions.

A bit of grass, and some textures on the 'umbrellas', also make the 'umbrella' textures thicker on the bottom and thinner on summit.

Tree # 5: The Bushy Tree:

This tree is more of a bush.  All the branches are coming out from the bottom, and growing to near the same size.  I start with 5 principal branches.

Make the branches thicker, and add some more than modest branches.

Even more small-scale branches, making the bush thicker and thicker.

With the side of my pencil I added some shadow to where the leaves are going to be.

I added some more than detailed leaves, simply they could also exist berries, or flowers, or what ever else you would like.

Here is the Tree # six, Or The Lilliputian Tree:

Too often kids (and adults) draw trees which ends in a stump, and has a semi round crown on top of it.  Here I start past doing that, and then work on it some more.

I erased the stump line and gave the tree a few branches, simply instead of doing the way I did the above trees, I concluded them half mode and volition embrace them up with leaves.

Define the leaf areas in the foreground, and add some branches coming up behind them, also a few roots.

Shade the trunk a bit, and and so beginning shading the leaves that are towards the dorsum.

Exercise a bit more shading, and add some grass.

Tree # 7: The Get-go Tree.

This was the first tree I really drew, and I wasn't too thrilled about it, only hither it is anyway.  I start as before, a line for the trunk, and a circular shape for the crown.

Lines for the few master branches.

Make the trunk thicker, and give information technology some roots.

Make the main branches thicker as well.

Split up off some branches from the master branches.

Add even more than branches.

Shade the body with straight lines. Decide on where the sunday volition exist and add together shadows to the areas facing away from the sun.

If yous're feeling adventurous, you could even add together shadows that the branches are casting on the remainder of the tree.  Actually, at this point, I really liked what this tree was coming out like, and maybe I should have kept it as a winter tree…

…but no, I had to go and add together squiggly lines to point leaves.

I kept working on the leaves, occasionally using my eraser to add highlights, until I was somewhat happy with it.

I more than piffling thing I noticed is that I needed to give myself extra infinite.  I would ordinarily run out of space for the tree much quicker and then I thought I would.

In that location you lot go! My trees are all done.  At present go and exercise some copse of your own! Play around, and draw some amazing trees!

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