Drawing Trees

Assignment: Draw a tree with shading.

You can make art out of anything, you just have to be creative and learn to look.

  1. Watch videos (there are three) to help you along the way.

  2. Sit outside on your front or back porch and take a look at the trees around you. Find a small one, find a big one, find one that you like.

  3. Use your contour line skills as well as your ability to shade a cylinder. There should be a trunk, branches and twigs. NO LEAVES DRAW ONLY BRANCHES AND TWIGS. (don't show me a lollipop tree, I want to see one like what is pictured below.)

  4. Send your line drawing for feed back to kgmortensen@gmail.com:

  5. Send your final shaded tree to kgmortensen@gmail.com for feedback.

PICK YOUR TREE

Video 1: What to look for in nature when it comes to drawing trees.

Video 2: Shade your tree

Video 3: How to draw trees by Lethal Chris

What you need:

Your eyes

your creativity

9x12 paper, pencil, eraser and a blending tool like a tissue.

Relax and have fun.