Watercolor Techniques for Drawing Trees: Capturing the Beauty of Nature

1. Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to this online watercolor. And less than my name is Natalie. And today we will be learning how to create bright and lovely tree sketches using a simple and quick approach. So let's dive in and have fun and bring our sketches to life. Always watercolor 2. Materials: Okay, now let me tell you about the materials that we will use in this lesson. First of all, we will need watercolor paper, what I call a clean water. And that can take different brushes that you have. I've got some of them, but to be honest, you can draw different and interesting types of trees with only one brush. But I just want you to show you how to make different effects and use different methods. And it's up to you whether to use it or not. Also, you will need a pen and eraser or a neck. Then liner. Like liner. Also, if you have take a small piece of sponge, that's all 3. Techniques of drawing trees: Well, let's get started. In fact, there are many ways to depict threes in sketching. Today, I want to show you the simplest yet interesting and why Brown techniques for depicting trees using watercolors and liner pen. I will demonstrate how to combine these materials in the best possible way to allow for the freedom of watercolors while it in details with a liner pen. I believe that the possibilities for depicting trees or analysts, ranging from the simplest to the most intricate and unique. Perhaps I will even create an additional lesson on painting trees in watercolors. But for now, I will give you the fundamental techniques that will significantly enhance and diversify your drawing 4. Watercolor drawing: First, we will paint with watercolors. And only after our drawing has dried, we will add details with a liner pen. The first thing we will do is make prints using just one color and a medium sized soft brush. Due to the pressure applied, the color saturation becomes uneven, resulted in some areas being transparent, while others form bright color pools. Draw a couple of uncomplicated tree canopies, preferably of different shapes. Now let's try blending colors directly on the drawing. Let the yellow transition into green depicting the form. Here we have a relatively sharp edges since we didn't tell it line them. And now let's try drawing trees with uneven, jagged edges using a calligraphy brush. You need to find out the brush hairs. Just like this. Don't take too much water. The bottom of the tree is, is always darker. So make a few print there. The next technique is dry brush painting. Start by loading the brush with paint, debit with a tissue, and make a few strokes. Due to the uneven surface of the paper, there will be unpainted areas and ragged edges. In other words, as the more texture the paper is, the more expressive the effect will be. For example, dry brush painting looks more effective on torture on paper. This is a rough surface watercolor paper. And additionally, the intensity of the effect depends on the amount of moisture on the brush. Less moisture, the more unpainted area you will have. Let's move on. We feel an area with quick strokes and abba to the tissue. This creates a light-year texture drawing. The next technique is wet on wet painting. First, moisten the area. Where will be the tree with clean water? Now, apply brush strokes to that area. These type of tree will have blurry edges and convey a sense of lightness. And n is, if you have a flat brush, is great for painting. Cypresses simply make prints to shape an elongated tree. It's easy and straightforward to achieve texture and recognizable silhouette. If you don't have such a brush, you can still draw a similar tree with irregular brush. I have a little space left at the bottom and they want to plan to roll of bushes. They're just make impressions with a brush and you can add different shades for more liveliness. Now we're working with watercolors and ever seen will come to life and be enriched with details later on. What else can we do? We can create splatter effects to prevent splatters in unwanted areas just to cover those places, who is the tissue? The brush with paint and enough water. Then tap it thoroughly without touching the paper. Now, use the resulting splitters to form a tree with a brush. You can also create splatters. So we're dumb **** washed in a small area. Again. By the way, I often use clips when sketching in a sketchbook to prevent the paper from Curlin carefully splatter while covering their main parts of the sheet if necessary? No, you have completely different trees. You can draw them when you want to divert attention or red lightness to the draw when You can also are at a few dark spots to make the trees more expressive. The next technique will need a piece of sponge into a pod of mixed paint and make beautiful impressions. This method strongly resembles for the age, forming uneven edges and leaving on pain today areas. You can make impressions with different colors, creating a gradient. For example, use yellow at the top and make impressions with green at the lower part. Moving on. Now, I'll show you how to use as seen and lawn brush. It's perfect for depicting leaf least trees, focusing only on the trunks and branches. The lines will always be seen. This technique can be used to portray a winter forest or dried up trees. Next, let's draw a tree. Take a blue green shade. Brush will do, but makes sure it has a fine tip. Their ideal option would be a calligraphy brush, starting from the top dancer brush alone, outlining the branches and making them silica toward the bottom. With the same brush, you can draw a boundary, load the brush with paint. If there is too much water, you can remove the excess moisture with a tissue slightly if I know the bristles and make a few bold strokes from a single point, resembling palm leaves. After that, add that drunk. By the way, you can also add stems to some of the trees. Another technique is to depict and overly smooth and even tree, like a perfect circle or oval. We will add more details with a liner pen later to make it more diverse. Lastly, let's draw a simple shape of a tree and that's blocked or soft clean water. You can use a brush or even your fingers, whichever you prefer. You can even apply a few drops with a brush to create a beautiful texture. That's it. The first stage is complete and the so-called watercolor base. Now let it dry and later we will add the details. To speed up the process. I draw the sheet with a hairdryer 5. Details with a liner: Let's move on to adding details is the most enjoyable moment when the trees come to life. And to acquire that character. First, we'll draw the branches with confident lines. You can leave the edges and touched and draws a branches only within the tree. On the second tree, Let's add a few more details along the outline. I suggest adding more details on the shaded side than on the Allied side. Next, we add hard tune inside the tree to the pig. That dark is Terrace. And along the edges. Let's outline them with uneven, jagged strokes. Let's add more details here. Moving on to the next tree. To add the expressiveness. We can include small leaves and branches and along the edges and inside the tree. The tree is created with dry brush technique. I want to preserve the expressiveness of watercolors. So I made a minimal details, just the trunk and few branches. You can focus more on outlining the trunk on the second tree, making it more precise and small. The lightest tree will be sufficient with just a delicate stem and a couple of additional lines. I don't want to overload it. Let all the tension beyond the watercolors and achieve effects. Let's breathe a little life into our wet on wet dream. Just a few strokes. And the sketch starts to come alive with new colors. Sometimes it was limiting ourselves to avoid a1 unnecessary elements. This skill is precisely what we train in sketches. And the bottom, we have a gathering of beautiful bushes, which only requires light edition of stems. From this plotters and expressive tree has emerged. Now, let's add a few branches that will harmoniously complimented. Here's a little secret. In areas without watercolor, you can let the liner pen take control. This way. There won't be any conflict between the two. Splatters in the wet-on-wet technique or rags land for the baked in the distance background portray entries that don't attract too much attention, blurry, and far away. Perhaps the most beloved to fact is a sponge impressions. It afford Leslie create beautiful silhouettes was perfect for the big ten trees. The secret lies in this simplicity, which makes you wonder how it was drawn Here to keep the focus on the watercolors and don't overdo it with details from the liner pen. However, in dry trees, branches drawn with the liner brand fit perfectly. It adds variety and complexity to the work. We're gonna achieve similarity with the late autumn or early spring forest. The number of details here will depend on whether you want to play the trees as a main characters or slightly push them further into the background. Let's emphasize the branches of the tree in a Callias and bold manner. Relax your hand and confidently draw the lines. The palm tree already looks impressive, but the liner pen will help enhance its recognizability. If we add a few characteristic details, for the most need, Bush will complete it with details carefully and meticulously draw in the leaves. Edit data of playfulness into won't hurt here. It will be the highlight of this particular tree. There are numerous ways to diversify. Watercolor is beautiful precisely because it's impossible to draw two identical sketches. The paint always behaves differently. Creator needs unique and print in the tree with water splatters, slightly accentuate the trunk and cover the areas that I liked the least. I'll leave the most successful and beautiful foundations untouched to draw all the attention to those areas. Well, our trees are ready. In such a short time. We managed to create so many different and interesting trees. And this is only a small part of the possibilities. Definitely try it out, draw your own trees or follow along with me. After all, knowledge is solidified only when you apply it in practice. This is a warm-up lesson. Remove the importance and start drawing with ease and joy 6. Outro: As we wrap up this lesson, remember that practice is key to improving your skills. Use the techniques that we've learned today to create your own and unique sketches. Don't hesitate to share your artwork without us. Happy sketch and see you in our next watercolor adventure.