Sunday 5 August 2012

Tree Pencil Drawing

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Tree Pencil Drawing Biography
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 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.


Analysing what you see
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.

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.
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.

Holes and gaps - negative areas
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...
Tree Pencil Drawing
Tree Pencil Drawing
Tree Pencil Drawing
Tree Pencil Drawing
Tree Pencil Drawing
Tree Pencil Drawing
Tree Pencil Drawing
Tree Pencil Drawing
Tree Pencil Drawing
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