Who pursue careers in the art will always benefit from being able to draw from real-life experiences? Most people find that it is improbable or even impossible to draw trees. If they could go outside, they may not have access to a mature tree that stands alone, in a lovely secluded location, where they could draw.
Fortunately, trees have many characteristics in common, and if they learn about how to draw trees, they can start making their imaginations come to life in pictures.
The vast majority of people will draw a tree trunk, then cap it with a cloud shape if they are supposing to draw a tree the way they are using to. They might draw trees with lots of rectangles instead of branches when the trees are bare.
A tree’s structure is showing in this tutorial, along with how it follows a formula and has randomness. Beginners could follow my diagrams more closely. Experienced users could vary their approach. There would even be room for leafy bunches in front of some branches.
You will learn how to draw trees in this tutorial using simple techniques that are both realistic and easy. I made some drawings using a regular sketching pencil, but it doesn’t matter what medium you use.
- Paper sheets
- Hard pencil
- Medium soft pencil
- Soft pencil
This is also sometimes calling HB and is a universal tool, but it is not ideal for every task. If you need darker shades, you can use softer pencils. This isn’t a complicated process. Although you may not be familiar with drawing, graded pencils make learning this art easier, and they’re not too expensive.
A pencil sharpener will also need. By using a blunt tip, you will create slightly lighter strokes and disturb the texture of the paper. During this tutorial, you’ll have to keep your pencils sharp. Also, soft pencils tend to blunt faster.
You can use any paper for the drawing. Cheap printer paper would be a good choice. However, keep in mind that smaller pictures require less detail, so avoid making your drawings as large as your whole sheet.
Method-1: Draw a Simple Tree
Step 1: Draw the base
Create the ground upon which your tree will stand as the base for your simple tree drawing. Adding details such as grass and flowers to your floor, as well as experimenting with the thickness of your ground, is a fun way to add details.
Step 2: Draw the trunk.
In your tree sketch, draw two vertical lines for the trunk. The foliage of your tree begins at the point at which your lines extend. To give your tree trunk drawing character, you can make it taller and use different line styles.
Step 3: Draw the Leaves
Draw simple shapes to show your tree’s leaves now that it has a base and a trunk. This will give your tree a bushier appearance. You can use any shape you like, from a simple circle to an abstract and scalloped “blob” atop your tree trunk.
Step 4: Adding Details
You can now add some details to your tree, now that you have drawn the basic outline. Make the roots appear to be lifting the tree from the ground by drawing a small triangle around the trunk. Adding leaf layers and foliage to your tree sketch might also enhance with small, scalloped lines contained within the bushy part.
Step 5: Finishing Your Drawing
Using a pen, outline your pencil design and erase any remaining pencil marks to complete your simple tree drawing. To preserve your tree artwork for future reference, this step helps protect the pencil lead from smudging or accidentally being erasing.
Method-2: Draw a Seascape Tree
The tree bends down slightly because it bent by the wind, so I draw the line and the crown-like before.
I enlarged the trunk and added a hill.
By extending the trunk shape upward. Towards the bottom, it grows thicker and comes to a sharp point at the top.
The next step would be to add a few main branches. The wind has swayed branches to the right because many of the components are leaning right.
As of now, all branches are slanting right.
More branches show here. Here are the branch-related facts. Units that are thicker, more pronounced, and stand taller will not affect by the wind, but thinner, less pronounce branches will affect by it.
Shading the trunk and adding a few roots to the hill is what I did.
So now leaf shapes are drawing as squiggles with the side of my pencil. More squiggles because they’re flying away. Besides the horizon line, I also include some grass on the hill and a line where the water meets the sky.
In addition to adding clouds and shading the water, I added tall grass on the hill and drew a sandline. In addition, the tall grass leans toward the wind. A few leaves were also darkening.
Method-3: Draw a Pine Tree
The pine tree drawing must start again with a general outline. Lightly draw the strokes with an HB pencil.
Create your tree illustration by drawing its branches. Draw the shape of the components without being too precise.
The pine tree branch drawings need some clouds. It is easier, in this case, to make the clouds narrower and more ragged. Separate them with a lot of space.
The trunk should be long and narrow; it should draw in outline.
For this step of your pine tree drawing, shade the trunk with the 2B pencil, then use the softer pencil for the deepest shadows.
Don’t add curls to the pine tree drawing’s “clouds” this time. Instead, make them strung together like a chaotic cloud.
Make needle outlines all around the shape of the “clouds” with the 2B pencil. Cut them sharply and thinly.
Using two soft pencils, draw the branches dark.
Create more needles with the 2B pencil within the “clouds.”
The “clouds” in this drawing of a tree should shade with the softest pencil. To make the “clouds” dark, make the whole thing dark. Trees are naturally rather dark.
Finally, you will now go over your realistic tree drawing one more time with your softest pencil to draw a few dark “clouds” between the branches.
Method-4: Draw an Umbrella Tree
Especially enjoyable was drawing this tree. As far as the leaf parts are concerned, I began by drawing ovals. The four I chose are pretty awesome, but you can get more if you want. To give it a tree trunk appearance, I added some squiggly lines.
The trunk branches have thick, the umbrella branches add, and a few empty units add.
The trunk was enhancing with more details, the branches are making squiggly, and the umbrella portions slightly shaded.
It also makes the ‘umbrella’ textures thicker on the bottom and thinner on top when there is grass and some surfaces on the ‘umbrellas.’
Method-5: Draw an oak tree
Essentially, I start by drawing a transparent diagram of the basic shape. In this way, I can determine the size, width, and height of the canopy and the overall height and width of the tree.
Next, draw the nearest leaf masses. The idea is to create the impression of foliage by using an irregular line without drawing individual leaves. Don’t make your tree look artificial by mechanically spacing the clumps.
As you draw the trunk, connect some branches to others and widen them. Instead of imagining how the components should look, keep your eyes on the real tree. It’s too simplistic for us to carry around in our heads what a tree branch “should” do.
Embrace the branches and the trunk with foliage. Branch and leaf overlap gives the impression of depth.
See if there are any holes in the giant leaves. The “leaf windows” do not have to be the same size and shape.
Undersides of leaf masses should have shadows. Give your upper leaf clumps a rim of light. Your shades will look different depending on how you face the sun and the time of day. Draw shadows the way you see them, not the way you think they should go.
Make the branches and trunk shadowy. Sometimes, light trunks contrast with dark leaves; sometimes, dark trunks contrast with a lighter background.
As needed, adjust the shadow values. I darkened the shadow areas on this branch because it seemed too dark against the foliage.
A pencil drawing left unpaint, or it can paint. You only need to apply a light wash of green watercolor to the leaf masses because the shadows already mark with a pencil.
Contrast the trunk with a dark background to see how it appears brighter.
Practice is requiring to become a good tree artist. You’ll want to model your tree on a specific type of tree if you’re going to go beyond a bare trunk and bushy foliage. For example, different techniques should use for drawing crowns of pine trees compared to oak trees. An old tree’s trunk details and gnarls may deeply etch, whereas a new tree’s trunk will be cleaner and less pronounced.
Any tree you choose to draw will turn out well. You shouldn’t give up if you don’t see the results you’d like. You may need to erase when necessary, but if you can, draw through each stroke. When drawing organic shapes, it’s essential to maintain continuity and energy in your lines.
This blog post discussed how to draw trees these natural wonders using different elements and techniques. You’ll get better at filling in leaves with color as you practice, so start shading them with black to give them more depth. You can always come back here if need be because we’ll update the site whenever new information becomes available. Happy sketching!