Exercise (1) Sketching Individual Trees. Project (1) Trees.

I love drawing trees, and enjoyed these exercises very much... and am looking forward to the rest of the project.

I think trees such a good things to draw, 

I could draw the same tree 100 times and not feel I had done it justice.

In this exercise I wanted to incorporate a range of varied types of tree, using a range of  materials, and see what the best results were.

Fountain pen.

I like this quick sketch,

I am trying to be freer with my lines (as the feedback from my last assignment suggested.) and I think it worked here.

 Two shades of brown watercolour pencils 

(water applied,) and fountain pen.

Don't like this one so much, it seems a bit rigid, it doesn't have much of a flow to it.  

Fountain pen (sepia ink) and wash.

Watercolour and fountain pen.

Marker pen.

Graphite pencil.

Watercolour pencils and water.

This is one of the more worked drawings in this exercise. I have been experimenting with different ways of drawing foliage, and think this is quite a successful way. 

Graphite pencil. 

Don't think I got the lovely sweep to this tree, it had a beautiful curve to it, not too bad a drawing, just a bad drawing of that tree. 

Red chalk pencil. 

Trying my hand at weeping willow's leaves, lots of fun.

Whiteboard marker and watercolour wash.

Fineliner and Conté.

Black felt tip pen and watercolour.

Maybe this was taking the free lines a bit too far? 

Not sure, But it was fun playing with the washes of watercolour, putting a yellow everywhere the strong sun light falls and a blue in all the shadow areas.