art 3d drawing old tree

'How to depict a tree?' is a question that I go asked oft, online an offline, so I decided to make this tutorial here.  I made seven drawings of various copse with footstep by step instructions.  I promise you all find it helpful!

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For me drawing trees is all near branches and the crown, and fining a rest that you lot are happy with.  There are many amazing artists, books and tutorials out there all about cartoon copse.  For example, THIS BOOK is very proficient, 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 same primary applies to other mediums as well.  I also adjusted all the sketches in Gimp 2 then that they are more visible, so there volition be a slight variation betwixt the photos.

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Alright, hither is tree number one.  I telephone call this one "Tree # 1".  🙂

How To Describe A Tree: Tree # 1

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

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

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

The same matter with the branches. They are thicker toward the base of operations and narrower towards the tip.  Piece of cake-peasy.

Now each one of the main branches gets a few branches of their own, only smaller and added a squiggle on the bottom to indicate a bit of grass.

Even more smaller branches splitting off from the bigger ones.  I likewise option an spot where the sunshine is coming from.  I also shade the body a fleck, using long directly 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 finish shading the crown area.

I keep 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, proceed in heed where the lord's day is coming from: areas facing the sun should be lighter then the areas facing away from it.

And go on working on the crown.  Merely doodling abroad until you feel your tree crown is complete.

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

Even more than shadows in and around the tree.

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

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

Tree # 2:  The Seascape Tree.

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

I add the loma, and brand the trunk thicker.

I extend the body shape upward.  As earlier, it'due south thicker towards the lesser, and comes to a signal on top.

Add together some main branches.  Because the wind is bravado, many of the branches are leaning to the right.

Keep adding branches, so far all leaning to the correct.

Here is more than branches.  Here is the affair about the branches.  The thick, main branches are stronger, so they will not be every bit affected by the current of air, merely the smaller branches volition all point in the direction of the wind.

I shade the trunk a bit and added some roots to the hill.

Alright, at present leaves are squiggly lines drawn with the side of my pencil.  Some of them are flying off, then more small squiggles.  I as well 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 tall grass is too leaning in the winds direction.  I also darkened some of the leaves a bit.

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Tree # three: Pine Tree:

As earlier, I start with a body.

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

Add more triangular lines on top of ane another.

Keep adding the branches with needles to virtually half fashion, and so sketch a few empty branches.  Thicken the trunk.  Add a shadow to the tree.

Tree # iv: Umbrella Tree

This tree was especially fun to draw.  I started to draw information technology past drawing the ovals for the leaf parts.  I decided on four, merely if you desire more, that would be quite awesome too! And then I added some squiggly lines coming down to the aforementioned area for the tree body.

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

I added more than details to the trunk, made more than 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 peak.

Tree # 5: The Bushy Tree:

This tree is more than of a bush.  All the branches are coming out from the bottom, and growing to nigh the same size.  I showtime with v main branches.

Brand the branches thicker, and add some more than small branches.

Even more pocket-sized 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 detailed leaves, but they could too be berries, or flowers, or what ever else yous would like.

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

Too oftentimes kids (and adults) draw trees which ends in a stump, and has a semi circular crown on top of it.  Hither I start by doing that, and and so work on information technology some more.

I erased the stump line and gave the tree a few branches, but instead of doing the way I did the above trees, I concluded them half way and will cover them upward with leaves.

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

Shade the torso a scrap, and then start shading the leaves that are towards the dorsum.

Exercise a bit more shading, and add some grass.

Tree # 7: The First Tree.

This was the first tree I actually drew, and I wasn't besides thrilled about it, but here it is anyhow.  I start as before, a line for the trunk, and a circular shape for the crown.

Lines for the few main branches.

Brand the trunk thicker, and requite it some roots.

Brand the main branches thicker equally well.

Divide off some branches from the chief branches.

Add together even more branches.

Shade the trunk with direct lines. Make up one's mind on where the dominicus will be and add shadows to the areas facing away from the sun.

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

…but no, I had to go and add 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.

1 more little matter I noticed is that I needed to requite myself actress space.  I would unremarkably run out of space for the tree much quicker and so I thought I would.

In that location you become! My copse are all done.  Now go and practice some trees of your own! Play around, and depict some amazing trees!

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