The last few day I’ve been studying trees to find out where the branches go and where the leaves go.
This morning I remembered an advice I read a few days ago on a site about drawing portraits. About the drawing of the ear the site said something like “you can get away with almost anything as long as you keep in mind what the function of the ear is”.
The function of branches is to have a place to hang the leafs and the function of the leaf is to get in the sunlight. This means that branch always grow out of the center. Except when there is an other branch that is blocking the sunlight only in that case a branch will go left or right. Sometimes the branch blocking the sunlight is also forced to go left or right because of a higher branch blocking the sunlight so it can seem as if a branches branched for no aperant reason, but there was a reason.
Color tree 3th sketch
Do you like my work? Subscribe to See me draw
In most cases you can reason which way the tree grew just by studying it.
Only when I reached this point I asked my self why I wanted to know how the branches grew since with most trees you can’t see the branches. Only the leafs. But I have to know.
Next question is how to draw the leafs? With paint you would use broad strokes of your brush to suggest leafs. With pencil you should draw every leaf.
But I can’t. I don’t have the patience.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }