How To Draw Tree

How to draw a tree?’ we decided to make this tutorial here. We made drawings of various trees with step by step instructions. I hope you all download this application.

Learning how to draw trees is a lot easier than you may think. The good thing about learning how to draw trees is that unlike a portrait, where the features have to be in the right place for the face to look right, if you put a branch in the wrong place on a tree, it still looks like a tree.

How to draw a tree step by step with pencil

This tutorial gets you started using basic, familiar shapes you've seen a hundred times. 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 endeavors, not all trees make good subjects. Finding one with the appearance of good balance can take some time.

How to draw a tree with leaves

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.

Texture and Shaping
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.

Tree Internal structure
Internal structure
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

How to draw realistic trees step by step

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.

How to draw a tree trunk

For me drawing trees is all about branches and the crown, and fining a balance that you are happy with. There are many amazing artists, books and tutorials out there all about drawing trees. For example, this application is very good, and my kids and I enjoyed it in the past.

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

Learn to draw trees

Finally, as with many art techniques, learning how to draw trees is often easier to do than to describe. Hopefully, this tutorial has given you a few pointers to give you the confidence to get going.