Easy Tree Drawing

Easy Tree Drawing

 Artists often ask me for assistance with the drawing of trees. As with most subjects this one can be broken down into easy-to-manage parts - as I shall explain... 
Easy Tree Drawing With Roots
Easy Tree Drawing Images
Easy Tree Drawing Ideas
Easy Tree Drawing Ideas
Easy Tree Drawing Images
 First find your tree. This is not as easy as it might appear... trees have a habit of looking unbalanced, awkward or just plain crazy! Despite Nature's best endeavours, not all trees make good subjects. Finding one with the Black and white tree drawing Easy Step by Step Follow along to learnHi! I'm Amarduti biswas. Welcome to my Drawing Channel. I always try to show the best d. This charming old tree trunk was copied from an old book. Whenever you find uncomplicated line drawings just like this one, pick up your pencil and copy it - that's ultimately how you learn and progress. You will be proud of yourself when you see your drawing is very similar to the original. Simplicity is the key. Depending on the tree that you've selected, there will be different ways of drawing the tree. If the tree is older, it's likely to be taller, have more branches, and have a thicker trunk. Younger trees are notably difficult to climb due to their lack of branches and thin trunks.
appearance of good balance can take some time.
 Maybe you prefer to design your own? The same rules apply. Unless a leaning or grossly unsymmetrical tree is going to be of some advantage to your drawing, you would benefit from first studying trees and their growth habits to learn the basic rules. Personally, I nearly always work from photographs that I use as a base from which to work. I might occasionally draw one just as I saw it but often I will amalgamate elements from two or more trees into one. But, whatever your approach, one aspect remains constant - trees posses three-dimensional form. For simplicity I will concentrate on common deciduous trees but similar rules and techniques will apply to evergreens.
Overall Form and Structure
 Trees are not flat structures of entwining branches. Some branches will extend to each side, some will recede beyond the trunk and yet other will be pointing straight at you. A country walk in Winter offers a good opportunity to study this. Later, when the trees are clothed in leaves, you can study the same ones again but with a full knowledge of their internal skeleton.
 Brought right down to basics, a tree in leaf is like a lollipop or candyfloss on a stick - a round or conical shape on a long pole. You will see that these basic, three-dimensional shapes conform to normal lighting expectations. They posses a shaded side, a highlighted side and a shadow beneath. You may also incorporate reflected light on the dark side of the trunk if it will help you to better show it's edge.
 Keep this basic shape in mind as you work, coupled with the chosen direction of light, and the tree that you produce will possess an overall reality of form.
 There are, to my mind, three major aspects of a tree that make it what it is. Surface texture and shape, internal bough structure and gaps through which you can see through to the other side.
 These are two major topics that I will return to later. For now just be aware that your tree must look as though it is clothed in believable leaves. It's while you are drawing these 'leaves', keeping the lighting direction in mind, that you will introduce the external shaping. 
 Whether you are drawing hair or grass or the boughs of a tree one important point extends to them all — what you start you must finish. Nothing looks more false to the eye than a bough that springs from nowhere or one that simply disappears. Make your internal structure believable and the eye will accept what you draw as reality.
 Holes through the foliage are a great boon as they enable you to show the far side of the tree and add reality to your drawing. And these holes and gaps often expose the hard edges of the boughs - using these in stark silhouette (they rarely receive direct light) contrasts well with the more enigmatic foliage and can be used to impart a softer look to the leaves.
 It is only by analysing what you see that you will gain the full understanding that allows you to draw realistically. A tree is not an amorphous collection of leaf-shaped items or random marks that, you hope, will fool the viewer's brain into reading 'tree'. A tree is an ordered, layered object with an outer covering (often partial) around an inner armature or core. How you draw it, the technique you choose to use, is determined largely by the position of the tree or bush in your composition - foreground (where each leaf shape is discernible), background (where the leaves form a mottled pattern that describe the overall three-dimensionality) or midground (somewhere in between the two). For the basis of this tutorial I'm going to choose the midground scenario with illustrations of the other two. So let's pick up a pencil and draw tree...
 Think of your tree not as a drawing but as a sculpture - a three-dimensional surface wrapped around an internal armature. The first job then is to create the armature with indications of where the major masses of foliage will be appear.
 This tree was photographed with a 200mm zoom lens at a distance of about 150 metres. The lack of detail is not important - indeed it is a bonus as it concentrates attention on the forms within the tree.
 The internal structure is nicely silhouetted allowing the eye to follow the major limbs through the structure.
 I incorporated this tree into the composition of my drawing Done Balin'. 

 The internal structure has been explored to some extent, the major holes through the foliage mapped out and the main areas of shadow noted.
 Note that the tree originally had two trunks. One has been removed and the emphasis placed on the centre and right of the tree as the composition requires other trees to overlap the left side.
 This is not drawn on the final working surface but is a separate sketch for later transferral. The benefit of this is that it allows unlimited exploration of the form - in this case the masses of foliage tend to have rounded tops when viewed straight on and others to the side sweep downwards as they decrease in depth. We can put this understanding to good use later. 

 The completed tree as it appears in Done Balin'. Note that the left-hand side is invented, the right hand side conforms only to the photograph's outline and some of the holes through the foliage have been closed.
 Only the 'spirit' of the tree has been used to depict it - the actual structure of the foliage masses has been altered to better suit my requirements. Photographs can provide detail but they are better used as compendiums of overall information - they give a 'feel' for the structure and add realism to your invention. 
 To make life easy the 'clothing' of a tree can be broken down into a collection of similar elements. Just experiment with small sections until you arrive at a texture most resembling the effect you wish to attain. In this case the tree is in the midground so the 'leaves' only need to appear as highlighted points where light reflects from their variously angled surfaces.

 The basic guidance drawing. This exercise measures 2'×2½' and was completed in just over 1 hour. 

 Here I'm establishing the darkest and lightest tones and beginning to get a feel for the form. Don't add tone yet to the white, negative points. 

 When you've established and delineated the shadow and highlighted areas, add overall tone to provide lighting that conforms to your chosen direction. 
 My technique (as shown above) involves three stages: Map out a loose framework for the internal and external structures.
Working in random patterns, create a flat depiction of depth. By this I mean vary the weight of your pencil marks, graduating from dark to light, leaving more negative space between the marks as you progress. This method involves a combination of negative and positive drawing - the shadows rely on the positive, weighty pencil marks and the highlighted areas are produced by drawing around the white 'leaves'. More leaf, more highlight. Less leaf, more shadow. Work quickly - speed fools the brain. Tap into your creative side by working too quickly for your logical side to keep up.
Finally, reinforce your deepest shadows (leave no negative spaces) then add overall tone as required to each area of foliage so it possesses a roundness that conforms to your chosen direction of lighting.

 Adjustments can be easily made with Blu-Tack, which is why I advocate placing the final shaping-tone on top. Blu-Tack can lift this off so gently that the detail below is left undisturbed and can be continually adjusted and re-adjusted with little harm to the under-drawing.
 With practice some of the early stages can be dispensed with. For example, the trees to the left of our example tree (see below) merely had their positions marked in my line drawing. The trees themselves grew organically as I worked. I had only to decide where the sun would catch their tops before starting out.
Trees and Foliage examples...

 Don't get obsessive about the time taken to complete a drawing. Taking longer doesn't necessarily mean 'better'. If the drawing took three weeks to complete then that's what it required - it wouldn't be any better for a month spent on it. In fact, taking too long may result in the drawing being overworked. When you begin a drawing don't have any preconceived ideas about how long it will take. It will take as long as it requires.
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Everybody knows how to draw a tree. So what is the point of this tutorial? The main point is the detailing. Since, drawing this is easy we are concerned how to make it more realistic. You can think of various types of trees such as during the Christmas eve and draw it for further practice. I will also be showing various types of techniques to draw different kinds of trees.
Trees are the most important part for maintaining our ecosystem. Trees help to clean our air and provide us with oxygen. They help to clean our water and provide a cool environment. The key factor is they try to minimize the climatic change effects. Deforestation leads to global warming which further leads to melting of glaciers and which in turn causes climatic changes. The human greed has rose so much that it will adversely affect us in the upcoming future. So kids I hope you know the importance of trees. So, after learning to draw a tree, you have to go and plant a sapling in your own garden. These small steps taken by you children will help us secure our future.
Kids always be energetic and use your own creative ideas while drawing. If you find some new ways or you disagree with me, please be free to leave a comment. Now, get ready with your pencil and paper and follow my steps.
How to Draw a Tree step by step?Step 1 In this step we draw the outline for the trunk and branches. The branches should stretch upwards.
Step 2 Always draw branches in pairs. Draw multiple small branches from the bigger branch as shown.
Step 3 Following the outline from Step 1 draw the contours of the tree and branches and complete the trunk.
Step 4 Now fill the branches with leaves by drawing small curved lines.
Step 5 This step is difficult as we have to form the leaves. Draw small ovals for each of the lines in the previous step.
Step 6 Add some details and remove anything unwanted. Give strokes of water color to complete it.
Basic Steps to Draw a Simple Tree without Leaves or Dead TreeStep 1 Draw a single line for the trunk and a round shape for the crown.
Step 2 Draw few straight lines for the branches
Step 3 Now we draw 2 parallel lines around the trunk to make it thicker and also draw the roots.
Easy Tree Drawing With RootsStep 3 By following the above step we also make the main branches thicker as illustrated.
Step 4 Now we draw more sub branches from the main branch.

Step 5 Add more sub branches.
Step 6 Shade the trunk. The areas facing sun will be lighter and opposite the sun will be darker and remove the circular crown. Your task will be to draw the shadows of the branch falling on the ground.
Way to Draw a Christmas treeStep 1 First draw an isosceles triangle and a rectangular shaped trunk.
Step 2 Now we work on the body. Draw 5 curves equidistant from each other which shows the leaves from top to down.
Step 3 Now we draw the leaves on the edges of 5 curves by little pointed curves.
Step 4 Make semicircular outlines on the tree where we draw small Christmas light balls which are small circles.
Step 5 Draw the Christmas star and add decorations as you wish.
Step 6 Erase the outlines and color it.
Way to Draw a Pine treeStep 1 Draw cylindrical base where the pine tree stands. Draw two long imperfect parallel lines for the trunk as shown.
Step 2 Now draw the branches which are sharp curved lines. Longer near the bottom and shorter near the top.
Step 3 We now draw cones to show buds.
Step 4 Now surround the whole branches with small needle like lines which will form the leaves.
Step 5 Fill the branches with small needle lines to make the leaves and remove the outlines.
Way to Draw a Palm treeStep 1 Draw a curved line for the trunk and five more curved lines at the tip for the outline of the leaves.
Step 2 Draw the leaves by keeping the 5 lines in between.
Easy Tree Drawing ImagesStep 3 Draw some extra leaves in between the main leaves.
Step 4 Lets shape the trunk. Thinner near the leaves and becomes thicker slowly and thickest at the ground.

Step 5 Add more sub branches.
Step 6 Shade the trunk. The areas facing sun will be lighter and opposite the sun will be darker and remove the circular crown. Your task will be to draw the shadows of the branch falling on the ground.
Way to Draw a Christmas treeStep 1 First draw an isosceles triangle and a rectangular shaped trunk.
Step 2 Now we work on the body. Draw 5 curves equidistant from each other which shows the leaves from top to down.
Step 3 Now we draw the leaves on the edges of 5 curves by little pointed curves.
Step 4 Make semicircular outlines on the tree where we draw small Christmas light balls which are small circles.
Step 5 Draw the Christmas star and add decorations as you wish.
Step 6 Erase the outlines and color it.
Way to Draw a Pine treeStep 1 Draw cylindrical base where the pine tree stands. Draw two long imperfect parallel lines for the trunk as shown.
Step 2 Now draw the branches which are sharp curved lines. Longer near the bottom and shorter near the top.
Step 3 We now draw cones to show buds.
Step 4 Now surround the whole branches with small needle like lines which will form the leaves.
Step 5 Fill the branches with small needle lines to make the leaves and remove the outlines.
Way to Draw a Palm treeStep 1 Draw a curved line for the trunk and five more curved lines at the tip for the outline of the leaves.
Step 2 Draw the leaves by keeping the 5 lines in between.
Easy Tree Drawing ImagesStep 3 Draw some extra leaves in between the main leaves.
Step 4 Lets shape the trunk. Thinner near the leaves and becomes thicker slowly and thickest at the ground.
Easy Tree Drawing IdeasStep 5 Now we draw the bark of the tree by drawing curved lines.
Step 6 Some detailing is done to the leaves and the palm tree is ready.
How to Draw a Cherry Blossom tree for Kids?Step 1 First we will draw the roots which are upside down V's.
Step 2 Now we draw the trunk, which is in the shape of a concave lens thin in the middle and thick at top and bottom.
Step 3 In this step we will draw the branches of our tree. We begin from the left side of the trunk, we draw two curved lines coming out of the trunk going towards the left only. We draw more of these double curved lines coming out of the trunk in both the directions to fill it. Now we make more sub branches of V shape starting from a branch only or in between the branches.
Easy Tree Drawing IdeasStep 4 Now we draw the twigs that come out of our branch and they can be subdivided further. Twigs should be present on all sides of the tree.
Step 5 We now draw the leaves around the twigs and as well as some in the branches which are small oval like shapes.
Easy Tree Drawing ImagesStep 6 Last step is to show the cherry flowers. We draw a small circle and ovals surrounding it to form the flower. We can place as many flowers as we want in the twigs. Your cherry blossom is ready. Are you proud of your drawing? Feel free to leave a remark in the comment section.