Very neat drawing, Kat!

Here's another pile of scribbles. I guess I'm just too lazy to find another way to draw leaves Or I haven't met a tree that would ask for another technique...

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Audrius, i guess your are trying to be yourself which is good, that means an artistic approach rather than observing and putting on paper a realistic shape.So to be more clear there are two approaches; one is to copy a shape another is to interpret it. You just draw your interpretation and in my opinion that is what art is all about.

i just found an interesting site on how to draw trees from life. video and masters examples. check it out.see all links on the left under All of my drawing lenses:
to pages with tutorials.
tutorial

cool thanks for sharing elena

Elena, thank you for the link.

Here is another drawing in pen that I finished yesterday. It portraits a tree on the campus, near my office. The rest of the landscape is not as lonely as I drew it, but I simplified

However, the original tree is not as "straight" as my sketch; the trunk has more variations. I wonder, why I always realise those differences when the drawing is finished ??

Besides, drawing from reality was rather ... wet

Claudio

claudio that is a beautiful job..

I like how you drew the bark and crown, Claudio. It's very dramatic.

pine trees seen from my patio.not pleased with this sketch but i'm learning.

Nice sketch Elena. I looks very soft and delicate. I like it.
Claudio

those trees are actually quite nice elena

Here are my trees. I tried different techniques with inkpen. I actually cheated with last one. This is not from real life. The other ones are.

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very nice trees sipsik..the first one..is it pointilism? very striking method of drawing

Yes, first one is pointilism. And thank you!

Very nice work, specially the first one
Claudio

Did this just now whilst out walking the dog. A5 sketch pad, 4B pencil.

Nice sketch Steve! ... Maybe I should get a dog to myself

Everybody should have a dog.

Beautiful trees! very well done!

Here's a very quick sketch of my back yard from my balcony - I would have liked to draw more but it's very inconvenient and rainy.

splendid like always, Sveta.

... and I wonder if your dog always pee at the tree at left

Nice sketch, Steve

Claudio

These trees were several hundred yards from the footpath, up on a ridge. Even my dog couldn't reach that far!

so the poor thing had to relieve himself on Steve's easel's wood leg

Another tiny and quick sketch from my other balcony.

This is really very good sveta!

I would have to have a pen with at least 10 points on it before I'd even attempt doing something that painstaking ..I like the colored ink too..

Very well done.. even got the birds ..

Beautiful .....and I agree ..aren't dogs the best

It's not so painstaking as it seems... I did about an hour and half. I would worked more with that but mosquitos had different opinion.

You Brave Soul.. That's about an hour too long for me..

I kind of forget about time and everything around when I'm drawing.

a quick tree, or an attempt at a quick tree

It's a good start chris.

Thanks Steve!

The quick tree is quite good.

Here's my today little instant exercise - it looks a bit childish. It's the cherry tree growing in front of my house(my grandma had planted it) which attracts the attention of all kinds of people - tramps, yuppees, young and old. Dogs, too.
Everybody, apart from the dogs, is always looking up hopefully.

I've made another drawing. There are quite many trees. This is a view to mansion not far from my home.

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I'm becoming obsessed with ink.

I can understand that! Excellent results! This is very atmospheric! Well done.

Thank you Steve!

my goodness that is beautiful sipsik...just gorgeous..

Sveta: very nice drawng, as always
Sipsik: I love this one! Great mood
Claudio

Thanks a lot, Claudio! You're being very kind to these instant squiggles of mine. There's another one- a trumpetvine in my back yard.

So many trees! We'll have a forest soon.

I love seeing the different styles and mediums emerge.

Here is another I did yesterday - a watercolour pour with a birch tree in my garden.

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Hi everyone !
Very nice trees from everyone. It's interesting to look at all the different styles.
Here's my contribution. I did this a while back. It's a tree in a park close to my mother's previous house in Montreal's suburb in Canada. I believe I took 10-15 minutes with a 2B pencil.

My admirations for that lovely aquarelle.

I did this quick sketch, becouse I try to understand structure of the branches of tree, for this reason I concentrated in the form how branches are united to trunk

Rafael

and today i scratched out a couple, it is so nice out today, between throwing ball for the dogs and other daily duties, I have managed this much..
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Interesting study Raphael. Kay! Love the negative spaces working on this. Makes the lights really stand out!

Quick sketch I did on Bodmin Moor. It was pouring with rain and I was trying to hold my sketch pad and an umbrella! A5 pad, 2B pencil

ty steve and for multitasking yours looks pretty darn good too

Rafael: very good exercise my friend.
Kay: I love how you treat the negative spaces; that's something I still have to learn
Steve: nice style; quite loose but with nice textures.

I've been to the park today, sketching some tree roots; not very good results, but a good exercise. Try to scan it tomorrow at work.