Drawing trees was hard, until I learned this... [Procreate Tutorial for Beginners]

I've always struggled drawing trees, so a while back I figured it out with a simple method that will allow you to draw any tree.
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CHAPTERS
00:13 - What we’re painting today
00:43 - Part 1: The two hard things about trees
02:03 - Part 2: Early experiments
03:53 - Part 3: How to understand (and teach) trees
04:55 - Part 4: The method
05:15 - Concept 1
08:37 - Concept 2
12:25 - Concept 3
14:37 - Concept 4
20:42 - Concept 5
28:45 - Part 5: Finishing Touches
37:53 - Part 6: Tree Troubleshooting
46:39 - Ohh wow look at this
This is a Procreate Tutorial for beginners, but intermediate artists might find it useful and you can follow along with any software.

[@Emilia-fo7zd]

awesome, could you make a videos about tone scheme? / grayscale? thank you

[@jaywalkerpictures]

I’ll do more color vids and will try to incorporate that

[@gingging3553]

Thank you so much

[@carolin.schueller]

Hey :)
I really like your simple approach to things :) 🍀
While I was watching I waited for the lightest lights on that tree. On a really sunny day, like in your scene, the sun will push some of the greens way more into the yellows. I really miss that on your tree here. It felt like a cool looking tree on a more cloudy/rainy day to me.
The cherry tree at the end fits in way better in case of colors and composition ☺️
Thank you for your tutorials 🍀
I learn something new every time 🙃

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Thanks Carolyn - you’re right, my colours are a little muted. It is semi cloudy in my scene but I’m also afraid to add too much highlights or saturation as my work tends to look too cartoony or video gamey when I do that. But I’ll def do some more vids on color to tackle highlights as I learn more :)

[@carolin.schueller]

@@jaywalkerpictures I understand that :) In this case... I don't think it'll look cartoony at the end if you would choose to put here and there a few little dots of more light colors.
It just felt for me that that tree doesn't belong in the same scene as the rest of your piece because your characters show way more lights on top the heads for eg. than the tree shows the light from the sun.
But I definitely get why you're afraid of going too far with your colors. I felt the same at the beginning and now I am just like "let's give it a shot". If it's digitally I just put a layer on top, try it out and when I don't like it I just delete it.
It's totally secondary anyways because over all your tutorial is really cool and I like your general approach because it's easy to follow and well explained 🙂
I just couldn't help myself of ignoring the highlight thing because I really think a few dots would help that tree really out. 😅

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Haha your reasoning about the characters heads makes complete sense - shows how paranoid I am about adding saturated highlights. Thanks for the thoughtful comment please feel free to critique my work in future as it’ll help me improve (and make better vids for u guys!)

[@carolin.schueller]

@@jaywalkerpictures you really don’t have to be paranoid about that ☀️ in digital art it is so easy to try things out and undo if they doesn‘t work out :) I think art is there for exploring and learn to make desicions even if they won‘t work out. And fun and joy and ease. 🍀
If I‘ll notice something easy to fix in the future I will let you know. Thank you for your openess and taking advice (or opinion) by a total stranger 🧡

[@0rdyin]

I was just looking for a explanation about tree shading… Thanks

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Thanks for watching

[@jefferymiller30]

i love trees! Thanks for your video

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Yay! Thank you for watching