Draw a Real Looking Tree in 3 Minutes! - 3 Easy Steps 

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It's interesting that you mention being a comic artist. If I recall correctly, I brought up the topic of computer animation in another comment section of his. I definitely often think of comics or cartoons, when I watch these videos.

That’s great to hear. Thanks for telling me 😀

It’s not an area of experience for me, but I’m really pleased my videos are relevant for background art. 😀

Making comic book is 10% drawing and 90% figuring out how to not spend 100% of the time drawing.

Sounds like you know the way ahead. You’ll get there quick enough, I’m sure. All the best with it 😀

Welcome back to the adventure of learning Sanli. Have fun. 😀

They are so different to European trees in the main, and do present some challenges. Work at observing how they grow and particularly how the branches change direction at times. When we live looking at our subjects it will always be a good session 😀

Great to hear Sky. Keep onwards!😀

Great to hear JB. I think it’s an effective approach 😀

Hope this has helped. I have a tree playlist if you’re interested in more on this 😀ru-vid.com/group/PLwjv2r1KZs1T6N8jxkM-M6r8m3_hX1Q1v

Have fun. 😀

Wonderful Alyson. Thanks for telling me 😀

Thanks for telling me. Much appreciated 😀

Really works for me Barbara. Have fun. 😀

Glad to help. Here’s my Drawing Trees playlist if you’d like some more: ru-vid.com/group/PLwjv2r1KZs1T6N8jxkM-M6r8m3_hX1Q1v&si=RZ3g87qf7wfndfAN

😍 Thank you, Stephen. I have watched a few videos of yours about drawing trees this morning , but it is wonderful to have this playlist. Much appreciated!!!@@stephentraversart

Glad it’s so helpful for you. Please do me a favour and tell your friends. 😀

Thanks. Yes, this video and drawings happened so easily. I think the best ones do. 😀

Great to hear. Thanks 😀

My pleasure Kathy. 😀

Glad it was helpful!😀

Hope this reminds you. 😀

Excellent! Thanks for telling me 😀

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So good to hear. Thanks for sharing it with me. 😀

Glad you think so. Thanks for telling me 😀

While you look for a bit of variety on a landscape that large, don't forget some trends in the "personality" of the trees... While his over-all shape works well for most pines, and some firs, there are cedars and hemlocks (if I recall correctly) where the branches are a tad more springy, preferring to reach out and UP, to make a more "artichoke shape" of the things... rather differentiated from a "sagging cone"... Just a thought... along the way... haha ;o)

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Cheers mate. Yeah, I try to give the trees a bit of character as I go. I'm working from photo references, so there's a variety of images to work from (my training as a botanical illustrator also helps a little 😀).

Thanks Ian. In Australia, we call everything like that a pine tree, but I’ve been corrected in the past. So it’s a fir, not a conifer? I’m on a learning curve here. 😀

@@stephentraversart A fir is a type of conifer, but not technically a pine. Pines carry their needles in bunches of two, three, or five, while firs and spruces carry theirs as singles. I tend to generically refer to conifers as firs because that's mostly what I'm painting here in Canada 😀

@@iansaxby9264 That's cool. I've just worked around enough remarkably old-school wood craftsmen to get how a man can look over a quarter mile away and KNOW FOR FACT that he's looking at a Douglas Fir, or a Spruce, Hemlock, Virginia or Tabletop Pine, etc... Works fairly readily with the broad-leaves, too. Each species has a sort of character to its silhouette and then color and a few other things from proportion to a dubious tendency toward where they sacrifice branches (creating bare-spots) if you know what to look for. I'm okay finding some species that way from a distance, but I still occasionally get shook by the old timers... haha... Anyways, granted you won't be out to impress a guy who's been 40 or 50 years as a work-a-day sawyer... BUT the odd tip here or there to show a few different characters can help simplify the means by which you're NOT just stamping out the same trees... kind of like "how to avoid same-face syndrome" with people... Good luck in your work... ;o)

All the best with it. I have a tree drawing playlist if you want more on this. 😀

My pleasure Tim😀

Thanks Joni. Must say, I’ve never heard anyone else make that 11:59 point. 😀

Great to hear Ali. 😀

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Thanks. 😀

I love drawing trees😀

My pleasure 😀

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My pleasure to help Farid. 😀

That’s great. Thanks for saying so. 😀

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If we have a reference, that tells us. I just drew these quickly from my imagination so I chose where the sun was and imagined where that would create shadows. Both ways work.

Here’s a link to one my videos on this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DJ3JYVmjkAg.html

You have just shown me a different way to draw trees. Thank you. I think I will get my pen and paper and start giving this technique a try. -OkieSkeetcher1949

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I’m sorry Jaraki, I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean where I draw?😀

@@stephentraversart Yes. Do we need a table tilted to draw? Sorry about my english 😅😏

@@jaraki This is 7 months late, but don't worry about that as a start. Especially if you are sketching an smaller paper. Tilted drawing board might come handy if you are drawing something bigger so that you don't view it from angle or you don't need to hunch over it which can lead to back or neck pain over longer time. But in general drawing flat is fine way to go I would start and later you can get more equipment depending what you want.

Crazy good i hope!🤣

@@stephentraversart this is crazy fast to me

No problem!😀

Have you seen my videos on drawing effect, not detail. I have a playlist list that shows how it works on different subjects if you’re interested 😀

Sounds like you’re on the right track Bruce. All the best with it. 😀

It shows how the steps work for different types of trees more effectively I think. But you don’t have to agree. 😀

Never mind. Most of my tree videos are just one tree. 😀

Sadly, I have the urge to pull out weeds every time I pass my garden. Even on my way to record a video. It’s so much a part of my life I do it like breathing - without thought. I’m trying to remember to check now, but this is an old video. I hope the teaching was more helpful.😀

man the video is gold but you could prepare everything before to shoot it.@@stephentraversart