How to Draw Trees (+Free Download)

Once in a lifetime a tree drawing tutorial stands in your way and dares you to make the change your life needs, desperately...! Are you ready?

You can always pretend this window opened up by accident in your browser and go back to your treeless ways... But I hope I can convince you it was all destined to happen. Hear me out:

Recent studies show that drawing trees is beneficial for your overall health. People who know how to draw trees are statistically more likely to be successful in life, love and money metrics than those who don't... That's what my doctor told in my last appointment... My broken arm is still swollen, unresponsive and sore, but my drawing skills are getting better each day (with my other arm...)!

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Without further ado, here is the tutorial download you must be dying to get started with given all my previous statements... But I should come clean first: I lied! Drawing trees won't make you successful, necessarily...

Probably the most successful people in the world might draw an incredibly ugly tree if you pressed them to do so (good luck with that!)... Suffice it to say, Jeff Bezos didn't draw the tree above... He told us he is too busy hand delivering his Amazon packages... What a bluffer! I'm sure being the boss of the company he only delivers a few boxes during the week...!

But now that you are here why don't you download the PDF and video tutorial below? It's so easy! At least safe it in a folder for later and go on watching Instagram reels all day long (sorry for the blatant internet addict shaming)...

Did You Know...?

Trees come in all shapes and forms... And if they don't naturally, we can do something about it:

Tree shaping is the practice of changing living trees and other woody plants into man made shapes for art and useful structures. There two methods to achieve this: The gradual method slowly guides the growing tip along predetermined pathways over time whereas the instant method bends and weaves saplings into a shape that becomes more rigid as they thicken up.

Look up "People Trees" by Australian artists, Peter Cook and Becky Northey or the "living root bridges" in Nongriat village, Meghalaya for some examples.

Now we know that if you can't get your tree portrait to look right you can always shape the tree itself to be more like your illustration! But it might take more work than learning how to draw them as they are, though...

Alternatively, if you are in a rush to get these trees done realistically, you can always claim you were basing your illustrations on a concrete modified tree that has been shaped to look like an amateur drawing... And you lost the original pictures, of course!

If your tree is shy and doesn't seem comfortable posing for you. in Domestika we can help you find other sources of inspiration:

- More botanical illustration courses
- How to draw a man
- How to draw characters