Ten Lines and value studies of a variety of trees.
There are several ways to think about drawing and designing trees.
Spend time getting familiar with the character of trees prior to designing or painting a landscape featuring them.
Develop your understanding of a tree's character by completing gestural studies that emphasize your favorite:
Complete enough gestural studies of trees to form a personal conviction of their character.
Find 5 tree photographs of trees against the sky and, in your drawing journal, practice drawing both negative and positive shapes.
Always think about shape-making, considering sky holes and the exterior line. Focus on different proportions of shape and scale with every shape.
Begin to think of how you are going to manage trees. In your writing journal, write down your observations of trees and how you would like to manage them.
Now go outside and draw a volume of trees in your drawing journal. The more you do, the more they will become your own.
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Scott uses a blurry photograph to demonstrate the use of a limited visual vocabulary to experiment with the design and placement of major forms.
Scott uses a blurry photograph to demonstrate the use of a limited visual vocabulary to experiment with the design and placement of major forms.
Scott uses two landscape photos where the shapes of the main subjects are difficult to discern and resolves this dilemma by creating a series of abstract shapes that establish a design which implies the major forms.
Scott uses two landscape photos where the shapes of the main subjects are difficult to discern and resolves this dilemma by creating a series of abstract shapes that establish a design which implies the major forms.
