Drawing Bonsai Trees in Procreate Part 1

1. Introduction: Bonsai trees are those little cute trees. I think everyone knows them and probably everyone the lowest them to. Perhaps you have fun or you've seen one that I have some friends, have one scene photos online. What are we gonna do in this class? Welcome to draw a bunch I3 together. I want to show you how to draw a bumps I treat starting from scratch and drawing it all the way. We're going to draw a bonsai tree together just with the Apple pencil in appropriate, without using any special effects, special features or special tools that appropriate office. We're gonna do it from scratch. The first line to totally finished, beautiful, cute little bonsai tree. Yes, you can do that. You can just join them. I'm going to show you this step-by-step, how to create this, how to do this, how to actually draw, really draw in Procreate, sounds like a challenge, but it's a lot of fun gaining the skill just to draw something from an offering, creating something pretty, something beautiful. I want to take you fruit is showing you what to pay attention to, how to draw, how to sketch in Procreate, how to hatch so that we can add some beautiful light and shadow effects to it. And how to just create lovely bonsai tree together. Even if you have no experience drawing it all or you already know how to draw, I invite you to join me in this class, the introduction to drawing pumps I trees. 2. What do you need?: Welcome to this first lesson. First of all, let me walk you through what do we need. Then we're going to set up a Canvas. And in the next lesson we're going to draw together, you're going to need Procreate, obviously and an iPad then because Procreate doesn't work on anything else, well, you could use your iPhone. What I would recommend is the Apple pencil or similar pencil. You could use your finger. If you use your iPhone, you could use your finger for it. Maybe be tricky for the pencil is a lot easier. Attached to this class you will find some photographs of some bonsai trees. You may use them as a reference, but most of them, I'm just going to draw them and explain you what we're doing without really using the references. But for the project. And if you want to play a little bit with this yourself, you could use those references as a guide. All right, well, let us set up the Canvas together then. I started Procreate already. What I want to show you first isn't a file with some trees on it. Now you'll see a number of trees in it. I'm just going to pick one of these trees. Nice thing about Procreate or Zoom at him. There's a bonsai tree. I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with the elements of a tree. First of all, we have course have the leaves and together they make up the foliage. We have branches, that will be the second part. Then we have a trunk that will be the third part. Some of them will have a little bit of routes already, so that will be the fourth part. And the fifth part is on a bonsai tree, is of course, the plant port. The port which they are in. That part is really important because if I do the pot away, let's do that like this. Zoom in, we just simply have a tree. Now, this could be any tree anywhere by adding the pots and it's like different trees like this 12. It gives you right away that idea of dimension that we're not seeing a huge tree, but we're actually seeing a small tree. The smaller the port will be, of course, the larger tree will be like with this one. The larger your plot will be, the smaller your tree will look like. Alright, well that's the thing we're going to make use of that we're going to first do some very simple sketches. But before we do that, let's set up the Kansas now to Canvas size, of course depends on the tree. Now, if she would draw, for example, this tree here, I would use a square one. I will use a portrait one here. This one also a bit of ported one. So that will determine the size of your canvas, will determine the treatment. We're just going to use the standard screen size. Now if you're going to draw them from the voltage, you might change it. I'm sure that later we change it, But we're gonna start with the standard screen size. That's it for this lesson, we're ready to draw. So we're gonna do that in the next lesson together. See you in the next lesson. 3. Basics of drawing Bonsai Trees: Welcome to this lesson. In this lesson we're going to start drawing our bonsai trees. We're going to start really easy. I'm going to just going to show you how to set up the tree to look at and how we can take some simple steps to come to it. Really nice tree in the following lessons. But for this lesson we're just going to do some very simple basics in drawing. So let's do that together. I've got my Canvas setup. I know I need a pencil. What I'm gonna do, you've got to issue. I'm not sure how many brushes you have on Procreate, but slide all the way down, then you have to standard brushes. So what we're gonna do is you're gonna pick sketching like I've done here. And we're going to pick the HB pencil that is good, nice to work with. Now we need a color. So I've got a basic palette, but I don't know if you have the basic pallets. Pallets. So what we're gonna do is you're going to pick this color picker, the circle. So make sure your disk here is set on circle and you're going to just slide it to the red, somewhere in the middle. That's good. Then you take the smaller color picker and you can take it right there that is black. I don't want to work all the way in black. I want some grayish going to go about there. Now I have a nice gray bit more gray color that makes it nicer later on. So slightly agree. So infrared and go a bit to the gray, not all the way to the black. Now, if you'd like black, then of course you can go with black. I'm going with a little bit of gray. Then we get the idea of a pencil. That's all we need. We've got one layer and we can work on that one layer. Now, we had that. I'm gonna take my photo class with them. I've printed them. We have this anatomy of a tree. We've cut this foliage, We've got the bar and we have them. So what we're going to start out with, we're gonna start out really easy. We're just going to take the pencil and what we're going to draw, we're going to draw some foliage like here. It doesn't matter what the shape is. Let's see, I've cut this pencil on a 100%. That is a nice size. I don't want it smaller like that on a per cent. So we've got our canvas, we got a color, we got a pencil. What I want to show you first of all is how to draw. Now you can draw various way. What you could do is in procreate, you can actually draw a couple of ways. The first way would be just draw a line like this. There you go, That's the line. There will be a continuous line. Then you just draw from 1 to another point. The second thing which you could do in procreate is draw a line, hold it, and create a nice smooth, strong line. The third thing what we can do is we could sketch the line. Let's say we want to go from this point to that point with the continuous line. We just drew a line like that from a to b. But if you don't have steady hand, you might get a line like this. You don't want that. The third way what we can do is we could sketch it. And sketching is you're going to do small lines and you go from 1 to another. The difference between these and you can see that this will give us, in the end way more lifelike three then this, and if I draw a tree for, I will draw quickly a tree with the continuous lines. Let's say this is my canopy. Here is my trunk. Well, let me do some roots then and let me do parts, then I would get this. No, perfect for forgive me for that. The next thing if I will do it with the other lines. So I'm going to draw my shape, I'm going to hold it. What procreate will do is create this polyline edit shape. I could change it to an ellipse and something else, but I can't get it to this nice line. So for this, I don't want to use that. So that one is gone. Bye-bye. If I sketch the same tree. There you go. I'm doing this really quick. As you can see. There you go. You get this whole other idea than this. This is gonna be a bit more lifelike and what we're going to draw really nice trees later on after practicing, you're going to see a huge difference if you use these continuous lines. So you draw continuous lines or your sketch them a little bit. This will give you a way more lifelike. Three. What we're going to use this, so we're going to use these sketching lines. So if I want to go to from point a to B, I'm just imagining where I'm going and I'm just going to draw these lines like that. And if I miss them a little bit, if I go up or down a little bit, it doesn't really matter. I can correct it. And that will not look bad in the ends. Okay, so that's the first thing we need to know is how to sketch a little bit. Okay, with that in mind, we're going to draw our first tree. Now. We're going to just draw the anatomy of a tree. We know that the tree has a canopy. So what I'm gonna do, I'm just going to draw this canopy of a tree. Now, there is, if you need the guides, of course, does come with it. So you could just look at it and just copy this a little bit. But since it's a bonsai tree, a bonsai tree can have any shape. The next thing we need is a trunk. And I'm gonna do this really easy. I'm going to draw my trunk. We set next part, second part. The first part then would be some branches. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to just draw in a simple branch like that. I'm not gonna do anything more than that. The next thing, I want to have some roots. There you go. And then we have apart. I'm going to just draw a line under here. Now, I want to give some dimension to this tree right away. So what are we gonna do with this part? I'm going to put the pot under an angle like that. And what I want to have is I got these two angles a bit the same. That's better. And then I draw my lines behind it. And I'm gonna do the same here to use this under an angle. And then we have our first very simple bonsai tree. Alright, trust me, we're gonna do a lot more of this. Create some very nice treat as you've seen in the intro. But we got to start somewhere. We got to start to learn how to draw a little bit. Okay, let's continue. So that would be my first street, nice and easy. Now we can take this, of course a step further. What we're gonna do again is we're going to draw the same foliage. Not the same, but just some foliage. There you go, There's my foliage. The next step, what we're gonna do is we're going to draw again the trunk, but not in the middle like here. I'm gonna go a bit off in the middle of the middle, and we're going to draw a second one. There you go. Now we're already getting a lot more of the idea that we've got a tree going on. And I'm just gonna draw this roots in. There you go. Simple and easy. I want a branch. Yes, please do branch. Also very simple and easy. Nothing complicated. The next thing I'm going to draw that plot again. And for this one, I'm just starting at the back, doesn't matter. And there you go. There's my tree. That is a lot further. Now let me show you one more thing and we're gonna do that nicely with another layer. I'm going to add another layer. I'm going to hide this layer if I draw another tree, very simple. And for this one I'm going really simple. All right? There you go. There's my tree. That is very simple. Let's give it a branch there. Alright, what are we gonna do with this tree? I'm going to copy the street. I'm just simply gonna do is I'm going to duplicate this layer. I've cut this layer and I'm going to slide this over to the left and going to say Duplicate. I've got two trees now, what I'm gonna do next is I'm going to just hit that little arrow. I'm gonna move this tree to the side, hit that little arrow again, and then we got to the same trees. I want to show you something with this tree. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to draw a pattern. And the same one we had before, just simple. There you go. This one I'm gonna do the same. What I'm going to give this a nice large, huge parts, the pot, I'm keeping the height and the width and the height. A little bit, depth, a little bit the same. And there you go. Now you already probably see right away what is happening here. This looks like a small tree, looks like a large tree. And you can play with that term. So if you want to get some sense of dimension, you can do a large pot. And then you get the idea that this is quite a small tree. You the other way around, give it a large, a small pot, then the three is suddenly becomes large, but you don't change anything about the tree at all. You keep the tree the same way it is. So that way you determine the dimension of a tree by putting in an extra object as reference points. Now she would draw like Watson, something like that. You often people put in animals, some bushes, clouds, using some humans to give a reference of how large something really is. If bonsai trees, that is really easy, we're just going to give it apart and make it the size we want. And that determines right away the size of the tree. That's it for this lesson. What we're going to start, I'm gonna hide this or what do we started out with? Really simple. The difference between the lines you can use. We're going to use for these lessons sketching lines because it makes it more lifelike. The second thing we practice most, just draw some simple trees. Begin with simple tree to get a little bit of hang-up drawing. Once you've done that, we can move on to a little bit more complicated tree. I've shown you the influence of the pot which determines the size of the tree. That's it for this lesson. I want you to practice this. So draw some trees which are a bit large part, play little bit with this foliage, create different sizes, different shapes, and just look at also a bit of the reference images and perhaps copy them a little bit. Just try to follow them a little bit on the contours of the sidelines. I, once you've done that, I'm gonna see you in the next lesson where we're going to take this a whole lot further than what we have done so far. All right, see you in the next lesson. 4. Drawing the Bonsai: Welcome to this lesson. We're actually going to draw a tree together. We've done a little bit of practice, but now we really want to draw a nice tree. Take this a few steps further than what we've W4. Okay, Well, let's do that. We're going to draw a tree and what are we gonna do? I'm gonna create a new Canvas. And we're going to say here on new Kansas plus, we're going to create a custom canvas. We're going to create a square canvas. Now since we don't need tons of layers for the streets, we can go decently high. I would say at least 2503 thousand if you want to do, I'm going to go for free thousand by 3 thousand pixels. And the DPI is there, 300? I'm leaving that on the color profiles. I don't care about that at them small because I'm only going to work in greater the maximum layers that depends on your iPad, even if there's only ten layers, 20 layers, that's plenty enough for this demo. We will make it with ten probably for this one. But I'm sure it does more than that. Let us say you want to have at least 15 layers probably, I'm guessing now, let's say around 1520 layers. So if there's too little there, then load these numbers go to 2501, I'm pretty sure, but for most of the Ken most of the iPads, three files by 3 thousand gives you a nice amount of layers. So I'm going to say Create. I've cut my pencil, I've cut my color. Ready? Next thing is, of course, gotta draw a tree. What I'm gonna do first of all, I'm gonna do the same as before. Draw that very simple tree and then create it in something nice. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start with that simple canopy again. Let's say I'm starting around the half of it. Starting around half on half of my page. And I want to draw a canopy, but I don't want the start and the end to be on the same line. I want this to be a little bit higher. I want to add around. They're going to reference points. I want to start out, I'm just going to draw up a little bit, create a bit of a wave line in it. Get the top of my canopy and I wanted around pretty much in the middle. And then I'm going to just simply go down. There you go. Now. That's one part. Now I want to connect these two and what I want, I want them to be a little bit with little bit of wave going up, down and a bit like that. I'm just gonna do it. I'm just imagining going up, over down and meet them. There you go. That makes my canopy of my first tree. The next thing I do want that trunk in, one, we'll say the trunk is somewhere in not totally in the middle. I wanted not everything in the middle. If you do everything in the middle of your page, then just doesn't look nice, but the throwing will pretty much be in the middle, but not every element needs to go into middle. So moving the trunk over a little bit to this side. There you go. The next thing, what I'm gonna do is draw that pattern. I don't want to have a huge pot. I want to have a cute tree, so I'm going to round the size. It looks nice to me. And with the pot, what we're gonna do is we're going to create slightly nicer port right away. We're gonna give it an edge. Then go down on the other side code down to under here. I'm going to create another edge. For now, it's just sketching. So I'm just doing a rough tree and under dead. Going to have some legs on the plot. There you go. That would be that. Now, as we said before, we need now to create some depth finish. So when we will do is I want to create that pot on the back butt. Remember this is just our setup set of my tree like this. The next thing we're gonna do, of course, this doesn't look like a tree. What we'll do is I'm going to add a new layer. And this layer, what I'm going to do is I'm going to the original layer, tap on that end. You see there slide this to half so that I can actually use this now as a reference kinds. Good. Now, on the new layer, the second layer, I'm going to create that canopy a bit nicer than this rough. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to use very small sketching motions, a bit like this to create the idea that we're talking about some foliage. I'm letting my pencil dance a little bit on the canvas. I'm not making straight lines, I'm just making some circular lines. Playing a little bit with going once up and down a little bit also creating a little bit of variation, not following that line exactly. By doing this. I'm creating delusion that we have in actually leaves on this tree. All right. You go. There we go. If I hide my sketch now, look at that. See, you have a whole different idea. Now, that sketch gone, what we're gonna do, we're gonna add some more leaves through it. At least. We want to add the impression of leaves and we're just going to add some clusters here and they're very simple. Let him go pen, dance. The pencil, in this case, Apple pencil. All right, good. Here you go. Now, that looks interesting, doesn't it? We're going back to our original one. So now we have our canopy. The next step we're gonna do, we're gonna add the trunk for that. I'm gonna do new layer, but we could theoretically welcome the same layer, but I want a new layer for that. I have a new layer. But what I want to do first, I want to go back to that original layer. I want some branches. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say I want a branch around, starting around. They're not want a second branch going around there. Now. There you go. Now I'm going back to that layer. And what we're gonna do is we're going to create our trunk. Now. We're making it really easy. For now. I want to have a reasonably thick trunk, so I'm going to start right here. I'm just disregarding the branch for now. That will be my trunk. I want to reasonably be thick one. So I'm going to thicken it to this side so that I'm not in the middle. Adults EMF the middle, which creates an interesting one. It's just straight down and then at the end, creating a little curve like that. There's my drawing in my branch. The branch I'm starting at 1, I'm making sure I'm putting this a little bit under an angle. There's a branch ends. The next one I'm going to do the same. This one I'm keeping pretty straight. Now these branches are not nicely connected. What we'll do, let me hide that sketch first. One I'm going to do, we're going to take an eraser and erase it. I'm always using airbrushing. You could do a soft, uh, heartlands. Not a huge size. 2% will be good. With this one. I'm going to erase this part because I want that trunk of sorry, that branch to come in. Pretty nice. I want to erase a little bit more here. I feel erase that part because I want the branch to connect nicer to the trunk at the bottom and the top. What I'm gonna do, I'm going to let it go in like that a little bit to create some depth. If this were creating some depth. Now this one I'm going to leave like it is, I'm actually not gonna do anything there. All right. Going back to my original one, now it's already starts to look like a nice tree. Next thing, what are we gonna do? I'm gonna add a new layer with this one. Let's see. I want some little bit of a hint of that. There is some some muscle or something like that on the floor. I'm going to create a little bit of most. And I might do this first on that practice. Later we done the bottom layer. What I want is, let's say something like that here. I want that down here, up here to maybe another one like that. Maybe one like this. Even going outside of that part. Make it interesting. And let's say I want behind there another one. Large one. That's not nice, not this one. This one is good like that. Let's go for that. That'd be interesting. But only this one. It's too high. I'm going to go lower with this one. All right, now let's create something interesting. Do another one back here too. All right, now I've got that creates little bit hint of a little bit, something interesting going on. Then only just straightaway some lines just to make it a little bit more interesting. What I'm gonna do next is I'm going back to that empty layer I've created. I'm going to draw in my pot first. This one. I want to make it a bit nicer than I have there. I want the edge to be a little bit rounded like that. And I have this line now I want to go for the next line, keep it pretty much straight onto deadline. There you go. There's my plot. Then I'm gonna go down. This one. I've got pretty pretty reasonable angle, so I'm just trying to get that same angle there too. The next thing I'm actually going to draw this in, but I don't want this bottom rim this bottom edge of the rim there to be so focused. I have drawn it, so I'm going to draw it a bit smaller. And there you go. The next thing I'm going to put in the leg. So now I need to extend the leg and I have drawn it since I've drawn this under a different angle. I'm getting legs a bit different site. What I want to do is with that moved in a little bit from here, but I'm correcting that while drawing. I want to have these legs pretty much about the same length and add that thing. There you go. Now on the same layer, I could as well. At the most. I'm playing a little bit with that to go for this one. A go just one goes there and then we have this one. And then obviously we still have that line going there, this line going there, a little bit of the pot, but with the plot, we need to give it a little bit of dimension. What we'll do, we're going to create a little bit of an edge like that. No, not like that. Don't do that. Just like that. We're going to create it like this and here too. The outside. And then we creating the edge, incites her pots simply like this. All right, and now what we're going to do is create it down a little bit to have that sense of dimension. We're doing it like that. See, now you get the idea of depth. Let me height. That's good. We have that pot and the podcasts is an idea of that there is depth. All right, we're getting a nice three already, but we need a little bit more of a sense of depth, vivid. So we're going to add some more elements. Just create that. I want to show you how to do that. Now, this nice tree, but we can do a lot more with this. What are we gonna do? The next thing is what I wanted to do if the canopy, canopy in the back. So that gives me a little bit the idea of a deeper dimension. So I'm going back to the canopy. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to show you that first on the practice layer, what we're gonna do if that is the wrong layer, a hidden layer. What we're gonna do is we're going to add something in the back like that. Then you get a sense of depth. And the next thing what we're gonna do is this tree is now floating in whatever nowhere. So what we're gonna do is we're going to add some lines. Just create a sense of that it is standing on some kind of table, something C, and we're gonna do that. That gives very nice impression of some depth. And that's this thing is not just floating in the air. I'm going back to the foliage here. And I'm going to do the same as with this. I'm just going to playfully these parching button. We want to make sure that I'm not touching, not going over what a tree is. It just needs to stay in the back. And it's now the next thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to add these lines. I'm just tracing them a little bit of sketch them slightly nicer. Making sure they're on the same level. Day you go. Now we've got our tree height of the sketch. Now I've got these lines on the same level, plastic canopy, but it's not a huge problem. All right, this is the basic sketch of our tree. We're gonna do a lot more of this. Yes, because this is just a nice sketch, but we can make this really cute, really nice. Play little bit with light and shadow and even add more the impression of depth and that there's something more going on than what we're seeing now. But let us for the next lesson. For this lesson, draw the tree. And then once you've drawn the street, set it up the way close to what I have, then move to the next lesson and I'll see you in that lesson. 5. Shading the Bonsai: We're ready for the next step. We've got our outline, we've got our basic two ready, but we want to create the hint of light and shadow in it and add even more depth and make this pretty okay, but we want to make something pretty. Let's do that. I've cut my tree. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to go out of this document and I'm going to create a new document and I'm fine with the screen size. Before we're going to actually do something about the tree. And it shows you something. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to draw a box. Just simple books shaded like that. So I've got a box now, let's imagine there's this one shining. The sun is shining right there. So we've got the sun. The sun is shining. Or today there's not much sun here, but in our procreate drawing, There's a nice sunshine. And if the sun is shining from this side, what we will do, it will cast rays of light on the box. That means with this box, what happens with this simple box is that this part will be really liked it and this part will be less sliders. Now to draw that in what we're going to do, we're going to use a technique called hedging. Hedging is very simple. Lines under an angle. I'm going to show you that basically is going like this. You're making all these lines under an angle. And as you can see with these even I'm sketching, but I know my light is here. So what we're gonna do is I'm gonna make sure I'm not touching that part. There you go. That is very simple, so I'm just making lines under an angle. I want to draw a second box. I'm doing actually exactly the same. And now if I would swap, use the same light, that means that now the light goes right there and simply said closer to the light is lighter, further away from the light is darker. The great thing about Procreate is of course you can zoom in as much as you want. If I'm gonna hatch like this, I need to spend a lot of distance. I need to do a lot of sketching if I would have shin alliances will take me a long time. What I can do instead, I can just zoom in as far as I want. And now my distance is very short. So what I can do is now with this one, we're going to hatch it. I'm going to actually use lines and we're going to reach across the end right away and I can erase that. That is the advantage of Procreate. Now with this light, I want actually this part here to be darker than that. Then this part, what I can do, I can do a technique called cross hatching and crosshatching simply gone in one direction with my angle, I'm gonna go in the opposite direction. I want to go a bit smaller. And I'm going to go like this. Now. Now you have the idea that this is a lot darker than that. One more example, I want to draw another box. There's my box, but I'm going to actually make a real box of this. I'm going to go with that angle, but slightly different than what we've done with the other angle. But I need to give you the idea. This is a box. Now, this is really a box. When you use the same direction of the light, there's the sun. It will cast these rays of light. All the sunshine comes in a box. That means the top, most of the top would be pretty much totally in light except what I want to perhaps on the back a little bit, attaching, smoke, making my canvas smaller, again, zooming in a little bit, adding a little bit of shade right there. The next thing I know that this side at the back is really dark. So what I'm gonna do is zoom out a little bit. Zoom out and zoom out. I'm going to watch one direction. I'm starting at one angle. There you go. I'm gonna do the opposite angle. And as you can see, I'm making myself really easy. I could do it like this, but I could also tilt my canvas little bit. And now I can reach that part really easy. And there's no doubt about it now, this is dark, this is less dark. But I've still got this part here. And I would say, imagine there's some light going on. Still hear. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hatch that too, but making it small again, to make it myself really easy. There you go off the hedging and the closer you go with hatching, the darker it looks and go. That would be our box. Now, the bottom here I could do just a little bit of cross hatching. That is simply. Attaching, creating some shadow and light through hedging. Now one thing I want to add here, since the light is shining from here, unless again, imagine this box is standing on the floor. That's really bad. Fluorescent it. Standing on the floor. Here you go. Now it's more straight. Then this box would cast shadow. So we're going to add a little bit of shadow and let's imagine light shines them. What we could do is add some shading right there, some lines maybe at the bottom, a little bit like this, and closer to the edge go for another layer of hatching and even add some thicker lines. There you go. And then you get the idea that there's light and shadow going on, on this a little bit larger, making a few more by doing them further apart. As you can see, you get the idea that way you go, the shadow fades away. With this information. We're going back to our original tree and we're going to make something really pretty off the street. Depending, Let's say a lot on the shading, on this shadow technique on the hedging way more than we do actually on the drawing because this will add something nice to our tree. Let's go to the three. Alright, so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to tackle the easy part now what I first need to determine, my light welcome, does it come from I can pick any side. I want to pick a corner. It doesn't matter. You can pick this corner, you can pick that. I'm going to pick this corner. Let's start with this corner here. Light comes from this corner on the street. The easy part is, of course, despite the back canopy, that is just really dark and we're going to start with that. I'm going to add another layer under everything or you could do it on top. It doesn't really matter. I still have the same pencil. I'm going to start with this little bit here and I'm just going to it. I'm keeping them really, really close those lines now. I'm outside a little bit. I'm noticing. Pick the eraser, erase that and problem solved. Now I'm gonna go in the opposite direction too with the angle. So I'm gonna do this part, crosshatch this. And then the fewer gets the idea. This part is really somewhere in the back. And I'm going to basically do the same with the stew. I'm making sure I'm gonna go a different angle than this, so I'm keeping that same angle I had there. There you go. Then I'm going to go the opposite angle again. Zoom out a little bit, otherwise, I make it myself too hot. What I'm gonna do with this one, do the two opposites. Doing this one. Probably you noticed already something I did wrong. I did that on purpose because I want to show you something in a minute. And there we go. Now with their head Xing, what do you want to do is you want to pretty much keep the distance from your lines the same if you don't do that as I've done here, I've done this very quickly. This I've paid more attention to now this looks really strange, that looks out of order. So what we're gonna do with that, I'm going to actually add just some more hatching lines in both directions. And now we're getting closer and darker to the other one. Few more in its diagonal. All right, now, that already gives you right away a sense of dimension. We're gonna do that too on our list. Now we're gonna make it really easy for at least we'll say light is from here. This part here, close to this part here would be pretty much than dark. If I will draw an imaginary line, I can do that on another layer. That's nice, favorite Procreate, I'm creating another layer. I'm gonna say the light comes from here. I don't want to have a straight line where it's white. I just want to create an interesting shape like that a little bit. This part, I'm not gonna touch this part. I'm going to hatch, gonna go back to my hedging layer. Might do another layer, this alike. So I want to keep this, so I'm securing this by going on another layer. I want to make it really small. The nice thing about this is I'm going to work really small, but I'm going to zoom in with my camera so that you can see very well what I'm doing and I'm making it really small because that makes it really easy. If you go large like this, you can still do it, but you have to create hatching lines like that. And don't make them out of one piece. That works too. But this goes a lot quicker. Iteration those because now I'm going to change, because I'm going to change. The size and working on, I'm gonna get slightly different lines. I like it like this. I'm pretty sure I can reach this without any problem. At one go and set. I'm just going to do one layer of hedging on this one. I'm going to go there. I got to add a few there. Now I'm gonna hide that layer and I got this look at that. See right away that sense of light. Light is definitely coming from here. Now, I see I've gone outside a little bit. We'll just take our eraser, erase that make it a little bit nicer. Tree suddenly looking a lot more interesting than it was before, before it was just a simple sketch. But now by adding this head Xing and creating this sense of light and shadow and even some more depth sign to look a lot more interesting. The next thing we're gonna do, we're gonna do that trunk. I want to make that trunk a little bit the focal point of this whole drawing. And so we're going to pay some nice, some good attention to this trunk. Let's do that. I'm going to add a new layer. Since I've got plenty of space to do layers, I'm gonna do the trunk. The trunk, of course, a bit of the same principle. Light comes from here. Shadow is deaf, but what I'm gonna do first, I'm going to go back to that line I had here. I'm going to do that the same with the trunk. Now what I wanted to do if this strong, now, this branch here, the light comes from here. Basically, most of it gets blocked from the sunlight. I'm not going to pay much attention to this one. The trunk itself though, I want to do something interesting with it. Let's say I want to create a shadow on the back here. It's not happening because I have my eraser still on. My shadow would go there. With this one. I want a shadow, extra shadow here. And with this tree canopy to cast a little bit of a shadow right there. Now let's go four right there. That's better. It'll all in the line going like this. That's good. Then what would happen around here? I would have some shadow, more shadow around here with this branch to, well, I'm gonna say most of this is mostly in shadow. But down here what I'm going to create, and we're going to create a line like that. And we're going to create lots of shadow there, little bit of shadow here. Of course, at these ends here, I want to add some shadow to, but I'm showing you that this is my guides. I've done it on the same layer. What I'm gonna do, I'm gonna just merge these two layers with all these lines and I'm going to add a new layer. The hair. There you go, that's better. All right, well, let me start with the simple one that is this one. And we're going to start with hatching this one. I'm going to just hatch some nice lines. They're a bit more there. And then I want a bit more extra there and around the canopy here. I'm going to create some more lines like that, right? There you go. For this one, I'm gonna do this branch to branch in a set. I'm pretty much gonna do this all the way till the end, but I'm going to add another layer here. And at the end, we're going to add a little bit darker. You go here to one we're gonna do with this one. We're going to actually go straight down like this. I'm gonna go straight down with this one. I'm going to just add those lines. There you go. I'm gonna do actually pretty much the same at the bottom. I'm gonna make this small. And I'm going to go with these lines. My pencil a bit straighter. There you go. We're gonna do something about dismantling minutes. Alright, that's it. The next thing we're gonna do, I'm going to turn my canvas like this. And we're going to draw a main shadow in the tree like that. And I want it right that to needing to move a paper, making them slightly longer there. And how I got to connect these two. There you go. That's better. I'm going to hide that line I have. There you go. Now look at that, see you getting something really interesting. The next thing I do want to do is I want to create a sense of bark. So what I'm gonna do here, I'm going to just add some lines, some random lines here and there on the street. Short ones, longer ones, few short together. In the back here, I want to actually add quite some more lines to create even a sense of that it is darker there. A bit more here probably ends now the next thing I need to do, if I go back to my reference, I instill need some shadow here. I'm going to go for nicely close together there. Alright, let me write that lining and see, now we're getting something really interesting. Let me do that under the branches to adding some lines, just some random lines here too. Now if these I'm going to let them come out of the trunk. And as you can see, we're going to create that bit of a funnel like that. That's a wrong line. At the bottom. I'm going to want some more lines and at the top there to rights. And now we're going to see, we're getting a nice interesting tree. I want to darken this part, this part one, we'll say Bach this part a little bit. I do want to do that here too dark and just slightly. There you go to get that sense that that is actually where my lines are dark and this part is 50 other ones to go ends. I'm going to do that on this bottom too little bit, and I'm going to add some more shadow on here to make it interesting. And now, looking at this, now this looks a lot nicer right away because we've got a nice focal point here right away. We notice this tree, it has some foliage. Got this nice focal point there. We've got these parts now the next thing, what I wanted to do a little bit, make this a little bit more playful. What we're gonna do is I'm going back to where it can appear. That was this layer. I'm going to this layer and what we're gonna do is just randomly, I'm going to add some lines and dots here. Here too. At the bottom. There you go. There are two that makes it more playful here to random. This is really random. I have no system for this. I'm just adding this just to make it a nice tree. And the next thing we can do is give this a really a hint of that. It really is a tree width leaves. And what you could do for that, I'm going to create a new layer anywhere right here. I'm going to create a new branch. And I'm letting that branch go like this. I don't like the part of this one. Erase that too fake. Right now I'm debt. I like a lot better just adding a branch here. And what we're gonna do with this branch, and at the end we're going to just create a couple of leaves. Vary randomly day you go and look at that. You could do that on this side too, if you wanted to. Want to have some more there, there you go. I want this a bit stronger here to bit more playful here, a bit. That's better, good. Now you're getting the sense of, hey, look at this. This is a tree with three leaves, but now I've done this. I need to give this leash a little bit of a shade away from the Sun. That's enough. Now you could do that with more, you can put here when you could even do a little one. That's a bit of straight with shading on that to create that sense of tree. Now I don't want this here. You could do that since this is a bonsai tree and what people do with bonsai trees, you probably know what people do bonsai trees. They cut them nicely so they wanted to have a nice shape. So we're not gonna do that, but that one is nice like that. Okay. All right, We're getting that. Next lesson. We're gonna do the pot and at most, and the floor a little bit. And that will basically done with the street starting to look nice. We need to improve it a little bit. Work on this part we haven't worked on, and we do that in the next lesson. See you in the next lesson. 6. Shading the Plant Pot: We've got that tree ready to work on the pot and the floor to make it one complete nice bonsai drawing. Let's do that. Looking good so far we've got some nice focal attention right there. And we've got this everything else to support that nice focal point. So that makes it really nice. We've got now a hint of this is a tree with leaves, not a pine tree, but we need to work on this. What we're gonna do is I'm not sure where I am with my layer stack on top of the shaded tree, I'm fine with another layer. We're gonna work on this. Okay, let's see. What we're going to tackle first is probably this part here. This is the easy part. This is just can't get any light, so I'm just going to straight on hatch this as close as possible and hedge that down to there you go. Good. And I'm gonna do that right here to there we go. That was the easy part. Let's do this too, but hedge this the other way. Good. Now you have the sense of if you go into a different direction, you right away noticing that this is going in a different direction. So this is not the same part, is this part it's two different parts. Now this answer is pretty much catching all the lines. I'm not gonna touch that same here. I'm going to leave that like this to extend it a little bit. I'm gonna work on the most. This one is too easy most what would happen with this must most light would get here. We're going to hatch it in. Simply like that. Proves that piece of muscle right away. Simple like this. I'm going to do the same actually on this one. But I'm going to go a different direction because we want to make sure they're all in the same direction hatch because then you think it's all one part. I'm gonna go like this. And there you go, I'm gonna leave this light. So you get that idea of light and shadow. I've got this most now I'm going in the opposite direction with this one again. There you go. Now I need to add that line a little bit. All right, and now with this big one, I'm going actually opposite of this one. I know that's probably not much light getting onto this part, but this might be some more lights. We're gonna do the same thing. Start large and small. And then you get the distinction between all the parts to now I'm noticing here, let me see where that is. Got to find a tree. That is a tree. I got to erase that. This bit should not be there. There you go. That's better. Then with the head showing here of the tree itself, I've gone outside. So let me correct that a little bit here to go. That makes it better. Improves it right away. I'm going back to my layer, but I'm hedging it. That should be good question. This layer here. Yeah, that's the good one. All right. I'm going back. I'm noticing that some of that line is gone there. I'm heading that back in little bit there too. All right. Hedging now this one, I'm going to do the opposite direction again. I'm only leaving the top and this one, same here. There you go. That's good. Leaving the top. Light it again. Alright. That's that. Let's see. You want to add a little bit of an idea of this is not just some circles, some lines doing the same as on the foliage. Little bit of interest might do that here to edit on the top of this one. Here too, you wouldn't see that this one you would see some short lines, so that's not good, not going outside, Don't do that. Might do some on here too. There you go. I didn't prove it. That's that part. Now we only need this part and then the floor. This one I'm gonna do really easy. Let's see, I've shaded this direction. I'm going to go with a straight direction for this to make it easy. This would be pretty much in shadow. And I'm going to let the light come in decently of these simply pretty quick. Going shorter and shorter and shorter and I'm done. I'm gonna leave it like this, That's good. Now under here, we're going to create a shadow line that functions as a h. Then you get that really seeing that this is an edge on it. And there you go. Adding a bit of an edge. We're gonna do that right here to this one. Just creating a little bit of sense of an edge. Now I need to hatch this one. I'm, I'm gonna do that under an angle probably not straight. I will do this one straight again, this one we're gonna do under an angle and making it small to make it myself easy. There we go. I want to touch the top a little bit. And now I'm going shorter and shorter. And shorter. There you go. I want to create a little bit more dark right there. I hope that that's not good. There you go. Might want to do a little bit more dark. Cut this. Alright? Want to create this little bit better? There you go. Alright, now I need to do this, etch what I'm going to take this way first. There you go. We're gonna do this one. We'll do the same as on the top. I'm looking at the top where the light would pretty much go less. That's around here. Going less and less and less. There you go. Now I need these parts on the bottom here, the legs. I'm going to go opposite direction of this. These are pretty dark. You won't see much light on this. For this one. You see some light on it? No, not really. We're gonna go dark. You won't see much light. On that edge here would block it all. Now look at that. That looks really nice. Now the next thing we're gonna do is we're going to work on the floor. I want to have a new layer. My probably my finally, I want to do some shadow first. Under here, the shadow fiercely. I've turned my canvas, I'm going to add some shadow on the floor. Let's see. I'm just come like comes from here. I would get definitely under here some shadow. I'm just going to sketch in my shadow. Go and I'm gonna make this darker under here. I'm going to add a shadow to make this inline, the ego. Now I'm going to just add some shadow. At the end. I would say around here is good. Some extra lines. A little bit more. Here. Good. There you go. Either this good, only once, probably at this bottom here. Now I want to zoom in. I'm going to keep seeing these edges well, dark and closer to it. A little bit good. And do that up there to around there too. Good. Leaving that bit lights close to that good. That looks nice. Now the next thing I'm gonna do is create a sense of that this is not just some plain, so what we're gonna do is on the same layer, I would say some lines, little bit as we've done on the bark, but where the edges are going to thicken that a little bit. I'm gonna do the same here too. And add some random lines here and there. And of course down here we need to do the same. Make it one whole drawing. All right, good. This one is touching that, right. There we go. Let's zoom in. All right, Good. Taking a final look at it, I would say this is pretty good. What do we have some shadow from the tree right here on this. I don't think I've gotten no distri here. Doc and just a little bit with probably catch some shadow on the back part but I'm not gonna lift, I'm not gonna do that. We're going to leave it like this. We're not going to worry about that. It's good like this. Alright, let's look at it. The only thing which I want to do, this is quite dark compared to this one. I want to go back to the layer of the tree here and just making sure adding some lines. But I'm now going shorter at the bottom. There you go. Now it's more in line with this one. A bit of balance. We have a bit more balanced. We're almost done with this. Now, when I look at this drawing, I'm happy with it, but there's a few minor things I see. I would really like to change to just improve the bit more. Let me show you what I mean. I'm looking at this, okay, now this is quite empty. Let's put it that way. What are we gonna do with this? I'm gonna go to the layer where I've hedged on this one. And I'm keeping, keeping this pen but straight and we're going to add some dots on it to give a little bit D idea. Appropriate is making them disappear again. To add a bit of a hint of texture here to the width. And the bottom rim. Course. This lex to look at that, that improves that nicely. And, um, I want to do that upon this a little bit. Just make it a little bit more interesting. Now looking at the tree, what I do think is the light comes from here. This part here in the back would be a lot darker. So I need to find my tree where I hedged my tree. That is this part, yes. It is some gonna go reasonably like this. What we'll do is I'm going to hedge this part in. And I'm going short here and then with longer here and then ending there. Longer strokes. And simply ending there. There you go. Now that unlike a lot better, just a little bit small improvement. And we've got some texture on the PO2. And it makes it nice. And I think I'm done with this. I'm looking let me look at it one more time. Yes, we're gonna stop here. That is our first bonsai tree. We're going to stop here too. We've created a lovely bonsai tree. Now in the next class, what I want to do is create a pine bonsai tree we've done now one with leaves, my foliage. In the next class, I want to create a nice pine tree. But for now, we're going to end this class because we create something really pretty acute bonsai tree. The next step is the project. I tell you what you can do more. But before we go to the project, would say draw this tree if you haven't done so already. Then once you've done that, check out the project, I'll see you in that video. 7. The Project & a little Extra: Welcome to this project. Now in the previous lessons, I've shown you how to draw really cute, nice bonsai tree. Now, supplied with this class, There's a number of photographs with other shapes or forms, audit trees. I would say pick one of those trees and create a new bonsai tree of it in the same way we've done following the same guidelines, setting it up, really simply then expanding on it, and then eventually shading it into a nice tree with using that hatching and crosshatching. My challenge, I'm going to do the same. I want to pick one of those trees. And I'm just going to create a nice, lovely tree in the same way what we've done. Now, I'm not going to talk you through all of that. Of course that's what the lessons were four, but I'm gonna show you that now. Just speed it up. And then you can just look at it. Probably get some inspiration from it and enjoy watching that. And perhaps even recreate the one that's fine too, if you want to do the same one as I'm gonna do now, that's fine too. Thank you for being with me in this class. Next class will be the pine tree. We're gonna work on a pine tree tube because now we've done this tree of leaves, but of course we need one with needles too, but that is for the next class. Thank you for being with me in this class. I hope to see you in the next one. But in the meantime, what you can do, of course, what's your other class? I've got plenty of Procreate classes here on Skillshare for you to enjoy. I would say pick another class while waiting for the pine tree that is still coming. While enjoying doing the project. Don't forget to post all the treaty-making. We would love to see them. I would love to see them and I'm sure others would love to see it to what you are creating and really looking forward to that.