How to draw a small forest. How to draw a forest with a pencil step by step

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I am sure that almost all of you are interested in the topic of creating landscapes. Landscapes can be very different, showing beautiful and interesting views various corners of our planet, in many of them you come across the task of depicting trees. How to draw a tree that is alive, beautiful and natural is the topic of our lesson today.

Trees are not difficult to draw, but sometimes they come out too drawn or flat.

Basic mistakes

The main mistakes in drawing trees are:

Lack of volume

The lack of volume in a drawing (in color or black and white) is achieved by using paints of different tones and intensity. Even on a cloudy day, some part of the crown and trunk will be more shaded, and some less. The colors are always darker in the thick of the foliage. Think of a tree as a ball (crown) and a cylinder (trunk) to understand how shadows form on this complex shape.

Every 4 seconds, an area of forest equal to a standard one is cut down in the world. football field. This is statistics. Most fast pace deforestation in South-East Asia. The Chinese are multiplying, but they have nowhere to live. So what should I do? We need drawing paper! I want to tell you how to draw a forest with a pencil. This won't restore our fauna, but it's worth a try. Forest Facts:

Aokihara Forest, or Suicide Forest. The strange place deservedly received its name. It itself is so thick that light practically does not penetrate there, and compasses stop working. For some reason, this particular place in Japan has become a favorite place for those wishing to commit suicide (apparently, some do not have the courage to commit hara-kiri).
In the Kaliningrad region there is a forest that local residents called Dancing, or drunk. No, alcoholics and drug addicts do not gather there. The fact is that pine trees grow on 1 square kilometer, which, for a reason unknown to science, twisted their trunks strangely. Some were completely wrapped in knots. As if they were tormented by stomach pain.
It is generally accepted that tropical forests are full of various sounds and noises. I will disappoint you - during the day the jungle is quieter than a sleeping child. The life of all animals there begins at night, and even then they behave very carefully and quietly.

Let's try to draw.

How to draw a forest with a pencil step by step

Step one. Let's start with something simple: draw a horizon line, and with two vertical lines Let's draw a path.
Step two. On the sides of the invented path we draw tree trunks, large and small.
Step three. Let's draw the trunks higher and draw their bottoms with a pencil. We’ll also add some grass at the base of the trunks.
Sha is the fourth. Finally, let’s draw the tops with branches and add shadows.
Step five.
Step six.
Save the forest - use paper on both sides (just not in the toilet). But it's better to plant new plants. I look forward to your wishes and ideas on this page.

Trees are almost always the most striking and characteristic indicator of those geographical conditions, which are characteristic of a particular area. Therefore, it is natural that the artist should approach vegetation with special attention, and his sketches should be made especially carefully. So, for example, if he draws a pine tree, then there should be a pine tree in his drawing, and not just a tree. Let's talk how to draw trees with a pencil.

Trees do not always have such a characteristic appearance as pine does. Nevertheless, many trees have a fairly typical appearance. The most characteristic trees of our forests are coniferous spruce, pine and larch, and from deciduous birch, oak, partly Linden. From the south - pyramidal poplar, cypress, palm trees and some others. It is these, the most typical trees, that we will first get acquainted with.

Children very often draw trees. And the question of how to draw trees with a pencil appeared for many people back in school or kindergarten.

How to draw a Christmas tree (spruce)

Spruce is so characteristic that it is easily remembered and depicted even by children preschool age(Fig. 1).

Figure 1 - Spruce in the image of children

Before you know how to draw a Christmas tree, you need to find out what is characteristic about this tree? A tall, upright trunk, a whorled arrangement of branches, with the whorls of branches going almost from the base to the very top, the branches are densely covered with needles. All this is arranged in a certain regular order. The branches of the upper whorls are short, thin, and stick out to the sides and even slightly upward. The lower whorls consist of heavy branching, rather long rays, which, due to their gravity, hang down. A little later we will look at how to draw deciduous trees pencil.

Examples of drawing spruce

Figure 2 - Developed and undeveloped “whorls” of young spruce

Speaking of character drawing of a young spruce, we must remind you of one more detail. Every year a new whorl grows from above. But not every whorl is preserved. Usually the stronger ones survive and suppress the nearest, lower whorls. As a result, quite large distances are obtained between the preserved whorls. From the dead whorls, only traces remain in the form of dried and broken branches. To draw a spruce, it is these features that need to be depicted.

Figure 3 - Simplified drawing of an adult spruce

Look at Figure 2 to see how a young Christmas tree is drawn. The rays of its whorls are still light, and they hardly hang down. Drawing an adult Christmas tree a little different. Heavy lower branches (paws) hang almost to the ground (Fig. 3). If we do not know the nature of the structure of the trunk, the nature of the branching of the whorls, then we will not be able to correctly depict the spruce. Any person who hardly knows how to draw will draw a spruce if he only understands the nature of the structure of the whorls of the trunks. Thus, before drawing a spruce, you need to become familiar with the “anatomy” of a spruce. This is easily achieved if we think through and first draw a simplified diagram of the “skeleton” of a tree (Fig. 4), then a young spruce (Fig. 5) and, finally, an adult spruce (Fig. 3).

Figure 4 - Skeleton of a young spruce

Figure 5 - More mature spruce

When the spruce is detailed, you can move on to drawing spruce trees and the spruce forest from afar. (We need these exercises so that later, when depicting landscapes, we do not need to think about how to draw a spruce, how to draw a spruce forest and in the distance, and near, and on the plain, and on the mountain slopes.)

Drawing a spruce forest

Spruce forests, even from a distance, do not lose their external features. They are distinguished by their sharp-toothed top. We are no longer talking about the characteristic blue velvet tone that spruce forest differs sharply from other forests located at the same distant distance. Of course, we do not yet set ourselves the transfer of tone, but we will have to depict the transfer of the character of the mass of the spruce forest (Fig. 6).

Figure 6 - Drawing Christmas trees at different distances

When drawing a Christmas tree you have to use shading. Distant trees, in which details cannot be made out, can be covered with a simple stroke, the most distant ones - with vertical strokes. Each such stroke should, as it were, emphasize the character of tall and relatively narrow trees. On nearby spruce trees, not only large whorl branches are clearly visible, but also small, usually hanging down, branches, densely covered with needles. We cannot draw such details, but through vertical shading we can convey the character of these hanging branches (Fig. 3). It is clear that there are strokes in various parts ate are not the same. On the lower branches they can be thicker and longer, and on the upper branches thinner and shorter. It is more convenient to make these drawings in pencil at first.

How to draw a pine tree

Pine, like spruce, is a conifer, but there is a huge difference between pine and spruce. Spruce is shade-loving. It can grow in deep forests in conditions of almost twilight lighting. Pine, on the contrary, in highest degree photophilous. Pine tolerates rocky soil, sand, and lack of moisture, but dies with a lack of light. Thus, the pine and spruce completely different attitude to the light, and hence the different appearance, therefore, there is a difference in how to draw a pine tree.

Young pines, growing in an open place, are generally similar to spruce, only the rays of the whorls are spaced less frequently and the needles are longer. The sparse arrangement of branches is already a consequence of the light-loving nature. As they grow, the lower branches, darkened by the upper ones, die off. And the upper branches, in the struggle for light, develop very unevenly. Strongly developed individual rays of whorls turn into thick branches that grow into wide umbrellas. The weak rays of the whorls perish. We see the remains of these dead branches on any pine tree. As a result of the struggle for light, the character of the crown changes so much that an adult pine no longer resembles a spruce, and even the whorled arrangement of branches becomes barely noticeable (Fig. 7).

Figure 7 - How to draw a pine tree: on the left is a pine tree growing in an open place, on the right are simplified silhouettes of pine trees

Having understood the characteristic ones, we better understand how to draw a pine tree. First, we will deliberately make the most simplified drawings, in which all the most character traits(Fig. 7). It is very useful to look at separately growing pines in nature, and then at pines in the forest. It is also useful to look at paintings by artists. In paintings of a painted pine tree, everything that is most characteristic is usually expressed.

Drawing a pine tree in the forest

So far we have talked about pine trees growing in open areas. Conditions are different in the forest. There the pine tree fights with neighboring pines. The fight for light leads to rapid growth up some pines and the death of others that are lagging behind in their growth. As a result, the pine trees in the forest have a cylindrical tall trunk, almost devoid of branches, and a dense top. In a pine forest you can always see trees that differ in their vitality. Some have tall and, compared to others, thick trunks, with a richly developed crown rising above the neighboring crowns. These are the “dominant” trees. Nearby there may be weaker pines with a thin but also tall trunk and a less developed crown. Finally, there will also be pines with very thin trunks and a poorly developed crown that cannot spread out into the open space. These are “oppressed” trees, dying or completely dead, devoid of green needles (Fig. 8).

Figure 8 - Pine in the forest: A- "dominant" b And V- oppressed, G- dead.

Drawing a pine forest

Just as we drew a spruce (first close, then in the distance, then moving on to groups of fir trees and spruce forest), we will also draw pine trees. As you move away from the viewer, the outline of the pine tree becomes simpler, and, finally, the pine tree takes on a form that is close to the conventional pine tree icon used on profiles and some maps (Fig. 9).

A group of pines or a pine forest from a distance appears as a dark mass, which on top has irregular, sparsely spaced, rounded teeth of various sizes. Below, if there is no edge, vertical trunks are clearly visible. It is most convenient to convey these trunks with vertical strokes (Fig. 10). In general it must be said that when drawing pine forest and individual pines have the character of strokes great importance. However, due to the characteristic nature of the pine crown, you can successfully use ordinary strokes.

Figure 9 - Near and distant pines

Pines are not the same in different areas. Thus, pine in the taiga zone is very different from Crimean pine. The shapes of pine trees in Mediterranean countries and Japan differ even more. The latter have a more developed crown width, which gives the pine the appearance of an umbrella with a flatter top. They also differ depending on the conditions in which they are found. Thus, free-standing pines in open areas have a thicker trunk, powerful branches and a richly developed crown (Fig. 7). Pines of mountain gorges, on the contrary, have unusually tall and relatively thin trunks with a small crown at the top (Fig. 11).

Figure 10 - Drawing a pine forest in the distance

Figure 11 - Trees in deep gorges, where there are weak winds and little rainfall. Tree trunks are unusually elongated in height (Altai).

How to draw larch

Larch is especially characteristic of the taiga zone of Siberia. But it often occurs within our European territory. Larch differs from other conifers in that it loses its needles during the winter. The last circumstance in a known way reflected in her appearance. In winter, larch does not have needles - this is already one of its features. Larch branches devoid of needles do not hold snow. Hence the branches, devoid of needles and snow, even with their small thickness, very rarely bend downwards, as we saw with spruce, but more often stick out freely to the sides and in upper parts the trees even bend upward (Fig. 12).

Figure 12 - Simplified “larch skeleton”.

Larch has a tall, upright trunk and a peculiar whorled branching, which is sharply different from spruce and fir.

Let us give, as an example, several sketches of larches made in winter time(Fig. 13 and 14). Larches located at a distance retain their character well (Fig. 15).

Figure 13 - Simplified image of an adult and old larch in winter.

Figure 14 - Simplified drawing of a larch forest in winter

Larches are characterized by a light, bright green color in summer, very pleasing to the eye, soft yellow or silvery yellow in late autumn and a peculiar green haze in spring.

Figure 15 - Highly simplified image of distant larches

How to draw a birch

White bark, peculiar branching and especially hanging thin branches are very characteristic features our birch. Examining the branching of a birch tree, we immediately notice rather thick branches extending from the trunk, at sharp angles, which similarly branch further, turning into thin and unusually long terminal branches.

This structure of the branches is what causes them to droop. And the overhanging branches largely determine the unique appearance of the birch tree, which we all know so well. Note that when drawing a birch just as in other cases, the most important thing is building the base of the tree: trunk, branching, the nature of the final thin branches and, finally, the foliage (Fig. 15 and 16).

Figure 15 - Simplified drawing of a birch without leaves and with leaves

Figure 16 - A row of gradually receding birch trees.

Drawing trees: aspen and poplar

Aspen, growing in the area of forest fires and clearings, is distinguished by a thin, high, upright trunk and thin branches extending from the trunk successively, most often at an angle of 30-40° (Fig. 17). The thin branches of the aspen do not droop, the outline of the crown is simple, in the form of a lancet blade. There are also other forms of aspens with a powerful trunk and thick branches. This form is quite close to our usual poplar (Fig. 17).

Figure 17 - Left: We draw a young aspen without leaves and with leaves. On right: Branching pattern and crown outline of a common poplar

As we see, the question is how to draw trees with a pencil, is not clear. Let's look at how to draw a tree like this Lombardy poplar. It is very typical for our southern regions, especially for steppe areas. It grows in small groups near rivers and other bodies of water and is especially common near dwellings. The appearance of poplar is very typical. It is determined by the presence of a tall, upright trunk and a kind of branching, as shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18 - Pyramid poplar without leaves and with leaves

How to draw a tree with a pencil: linden

The appearance of linden is such that it can be confused from a distance with some other deciduous tree species. Nevertheless, linden also has its own characteristics, which are easy to notice when comparing, for example, with. poplar or oak. Linden is characterized by the division of the trunk into thick large branches, which most often extend from the trunk at sharp angles. The branches reach long length, densely branched towards the end. This dense branching leads to increased weight of the terminal parts, which in turn leads to some drooping of the apical branches. The overhang is significantly less than that of birch, but more than that of poplar and oak (Fig. 19).

Figure 19 — Drawing a linden tree

From a distance, linden groves and forests are distinguished by the soft rounded outlines of their crowns, reminiscent of the tops of cumulus clouds.

Let's look at how to draw trees like oak with a pencil.

How to draw an oak tree

The oak tree has a different character with its strong and slightly bendable branches. Unlike drawing a tree such as linden, poplar and some other broad-leaved tree species, oak branches extend from the trunk at angles close to right. The branches of the second and third order also roughly extend out (Fig. 20). The branches are distinguished by their thickness, knobbiness and dense pubescence at the ends (the pubescence consists of thin branches and dense foliage).

This peculiar branching pattern is observed not only on large mature trees, but also on young ones (Fig. 20). General outline The crown partly resembles the outline of an oak leaf, but with secondary, pronounced serration (Fig. 21). At all appearance oak expresses the inflexibility and strength of a mighty tree. No wonder oak is a symbol of resilience and strength.

Figure 20 - How to draw an oak tree correctly: Left: Simplified image of an oak tree without leaves and with leaves; On right: Young oaks without leaves

Oak trees in the forest have a more elongated upward shape, but the main features remain approximately the same.

Figure 21 — Outlines of an oak tree

Without being able to dwell on the characteristics of our other less common or less characteristic trees, we will touch very briefly on some of the most typical southern trees with which we often encounter. This should include cypresses, palms, baobab and some others.

Drawing a cypress

Cypress a very typical plant for Mediterranean countries, widespread as well as ornamental plant By south coast Crimea.

Strongly elongated upward, narrow, slender, with a sharp top, the cypress is easily conveyed in the drawing. Its strong upward elongation is due to the large height of the trunk and characteristic branching (Fig. 22).

Figure 22 - Cypress trees and a diagram of their trunks and branching patterns

How to draw a palm tree

How to draw a tree like a palm tree is also of interest.

Palm trees are different, but they are characterized by the absence of branching and the frond emerging from approximately one point. The correct representation of the shape and character of the palm tree primarily depends on the correct depiction of this frond exiting from one point. The general appearance of the crown is round and often easily fits into a circle (Fig. 23). It should be remembered that the upper fronds are the youngest, they stick up, and the lower ones are the oldest, they hang down and die.

Figure 23 - Left: Drawing a coconut tree; On right: Drawing a date palm.

The trunk of a palm tree is most often slightly curved in its upper part. The date palm has a slightly different character.

How to draw a baobab tree with a pencil

Very interesting for drawing baobab tree. The baobab has a very characteristic trunk, branching and crown. The baobab tree is characterized by a very thick and, compared to its height, short trunk. The height of the trunk before branching begins is usually only 2.5-3 times its thickness. The trunk at a certain height immediately begins to divide into 5-7 (rarely more) thick branches. These main branches immediately begin to branch and very quickly lose their thickness. Unlike a cylindrical trunk, they have a conical shape. The baobab has a dense and very wide crown (Fig. 24).

Figure 24 - Baobab without leaves

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What you will need

In order to draw a forest we may need:

Paper. It is better to take medium-grain special paper: beginning artists will find it much more pleasant to draw on this kind of paper.
Sharpened pencils. I advise you to take several degrees of hardness, each should be used for different purposes.
Eraser.
Stick for rubbing hatching. You can use plain paper rolled into a cone. It will be easy for her to rub the shading, turning it into a monotonous color.
A little patience.
Good mood.

Step by step lesson

True nature in all its beauty can only be revealed if you draw it from life. It will be much better to draw if you look directly at the forest. If this is not possible, then they can help regular photos, which are simply in abundance in search engines.

By the way, in addition to this lesson, I advise you to pay attention to the lesson “”. It will help improve your skill or just give you a little fun.

Tip: create a sketch with as thin strokes as possible. The thicker the sketch strokes are, the more difficult it will be to erase them later.

The first step, or rather the zero step, is always to mark a sheet of paper. This will let you know where exactly the drawing will be located. If you place the drawing on half of the sheet, you can use the other half for another drawing. Here is an example of marking a sheet in the center:

Step one. Let's start with a simple thing: draw a horizon line, and draw a path with two vertical lines.

Step two. On the sides of the invented path we draw tree trunks, large and small.

Step three. Let's draw the trunks higher and draw their bottoms with a pencil. We’ll also add some grass at the base of the trunks.

Sha is the fourth. Finally, let’s draw the tops with branches and add shadows.

Step five.

Step six.

Save the forest - use paper on both sides (just not in the toilet). But it's better to plant new plants.

So you learned how to draw a forest, I hope it was interesting and informative. Now you can pay attention to the lesson “” - it is just as interesting and exciting. Well, the buttons social networks It's not just like that =)

Every 4 seconds, an area of forest equal to a standard football field is cut down around the world. This is statistics. The fastest rate of deforestation in Southeast Asia. The Chinese are multiplying, but they have nowhere to live. So what should I do? We need drawing paper! I want to tell you how to draw a forest with a pencil. This won't restore our fauna, but it's worth a try.

Forest Facts:

Aokihara Forest, or Suicide Forest. The strange place deservedly received its name. It itself is so thick that light practically does not penetrate there, and compasses stop working. For some reason, this particular place in Japan has become a favorite place for those wishing to commit suicide (apparently, some do not have the courage to commit hara-kiri).
In the Kaliningrad region there is a forest that local residents called Dancing, or drunken. No, alcoholics and drug addicts do not gather there. The fact is that pine trees grow on 1 square kilometer, which, for a reason unknown to science, twisted their trunks strangely. Some were completely wrapped in knots. As if they were tormented by stomach pain.
It is generally accepted that tropical forests are full of various sounds and noises. I will disappoint you - during the day the jungle is quieter than a sleeping child. The life of all animals there begins at night, and even then they behave very carefully and quietly.