Pencil is a very unforgiving medium to draw with.
A painter would start this drawing with a sketch using a black pencil or charcoal. Then he’d probably fill the background. Wait for the paint to dry and paint the branches and he would finish with the leaves.
But drawing with pencil there are a few limitations.
Color tree 2th sketch
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It is impossible to draw two colors on top of each other without seeing that in the finished picture. Two colors on top of each other either give a third color or sometimes you can’t see the second color.
Light green on top of light bleu gives light bleu. Which might be because green is a mixture of bleu and yellow. So drawing more bleu drowns the yellow out. Or it might be to do with the structure of the paper that some color stick better to the paper.
The fact that I scan my pictures also doesn’t help. After the scanning process sharp lines, even erased sharp lines are much more visible then in the original drawing.
There is only one way to draw a tree like this and that is to start with the leafs, then fill in the branches and trunk and finish with the sky and soil.
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Can you draw the leaves of the tree with the lightest colour first?
Then put a slightly darker colour on top of that where you want it to be darker, and then the darkest colour on top of that for the darkest places?
The middle colour is probably the most important. The lightest only there where the sun really hits the leaves, and the darkest where the sun can’t come.
Groetjes!
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Henk
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