How to draw a tree?

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How to draw a tree?

Welcome to the tree tutorial! Bryant Koshu shares step-by-step instructions on creating a stylized tree. Follow these steps to draw the most fantastic tree ever.

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Overall Sketch: *The most important part* Build the foundation. Capture the gesture. This step will set the tone and direction of your tree. Do multiple sketch if you have to.

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Fill in the sketch: Under the line layer, fill in a general tone of the tree. Make sure the fill layers are separate. Ex: the leaf has its own layer. trunk has its own layer...

Step 3

Establish light direction: roughly airbrush in a general lighting and shadow. *adding a warmer colored light + cooler shadow will add more life to painting*

Step 4

Shadow detailing: Borrow the tone close to each other using the eye dropper tool to detail in the shadows.

Step 5

Light detailing: similar process to the shadows. but this time, focusing on the lighting. Make sure to focus ont eh overall leaf shapes. not individual leaves.

Step 6

Adding style: Push the style and vibrance of painting by introducing some new color source. Ex: warm yellow from the sun. the cool shadow from grass.

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Clean up: Refine the leaves and the trunk. Add some extra branches and leaves to make the silhouette bit more interesting.

Step 8

Final touchup: Add extra detail and love to make it your style. Ex: bloom, rabbit for scales, some pop of accent reds, brush marks, etc...

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