How to Draw Trees

[@LethalChris1]

Hi everyone! Here are a few different drawings of trees I recently worked on! I hope this tutorial video helps out in some way. It's a bit of a longer video, but drawing trees like this is something I really enjoy and I wanted to share the process with you. Be sure to let me know what you think. And also let me know if you have any suggestions for future drawing videos. Thank you so much for the amazing support! Hope you're having an awesome day. :) -Chris

[@capitanrex9688]

LethalChris Drawing can u do makoa from paladins or widowmaker from overwatch I think she that would be cool!!! 😎😎😎

[@shryke9850]

Yes please do Widowmaker.

[@derpaderp2000]

LethalChris Drawing what do you recommend for beginning artists? I haven't drawn in forever and my skills are pretty bad

[@jayshadex]

LethalChris Drawing i had really hard time trying to draw trees thank you especially the leaves

[@jamesarwinmillagracia3323]

Can you draw Lenka Utsugi in god eater ?

[@AnksDilxMC]

Thanks! Now I can draw a tree properly without drawing a cloud on a stick.

[@memedealer7504]

Relatable af

[@OrchidsStuff]

ikr xd

[@urischic1668]

AnksDilxMC I can’t even draw a cloud-

[@hannahoang8788]

Urischic a thinking bubble, cloud same thing

[@oanad3981]

🤣🤣

[@redsalmon3708]

After 30 min of hard work drawing my little sister walks in and says “nice insect, why does it have so many antennas?”

[@7Heaven646]

WTF 😂😂😂

[@EmeraldEire7436]

That is one mean sibling

[@multitalentbd6334]

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[@GnoneckOG]

Should told her it was a stick bug.

[@shabernaldez1830]

I feel you bruh😂😂

[@reubenstecher9479]

When the shading is right, pencil drawings have a magic that you don’t see in colored art.

[@samdeacon7910]

I agree, for instance the illustrative sketches by Brian Froud... obviously they gain a new dimension with paper, but they also kinda lose something

[@nilsaiivyarts]

Reuben Stecher Absolutely 😊

[@chupacabra9357]

If the shading is good enough it'll easily upstage any pencil drawing. But if you suck at coloring like me pencil is your best bet.

[@ladyiris77]

They sort of give one a feeling of nostalgia.

[@LeonaSim]

Im 40 now i hope i can improve my drawing for coming addtional age :-)

[@MrManAmong]

I know this video is old but I just found it today and I want to say thank you. I was a semi-talented artist as a child but life decided drawing would take the back burner for a while. I'm now in my 40s and I recently picked up drawing again. Thankfully the restart hasn't been too painful. My much older hand gets tired quicker but I haven't lost my basic skill set. Videos like this are so relaxing and informative it keeps the fire burning for me. I've find great joy in drawing (again) and I hope others do too!

[@HeyWatchMeGo]

@MrManAmong Well said. :) A lot of people can relate to your comment. I also thought this was a really good video. Amazing what a person can do with an ordinary pencil (or better yet, a few actual drawing pencils) and a drawing pad from the dollar store. If nothing else the sketches make for great Birthday/Get Well/Anniversary etc Cards! People love them, b/c it shows a bit of effort, at least more than just buying a generic card. Good luck with your art.

[@anon7248]

I used to have a art teacher that would say "practice doesn't make perfect. It makes progress" and I've never found that more true until I tried drawing nature

[@nehalende1149]

True

[@louisovens15]

@karina ha ha

[@brainpowerrb3003]

💯

[@hazzatulislam8054]

Can you explain it a bit

[@anon7248]

@@hazzatulislam8054 the saying?

[@ketu3k942]

i wish we could comment photos on youtube so we would see each other's results

[@kristsays_slackoff]

that would be great!!!!!!!

[@Ale-ig5mi]

@@kristsays_slackoff there's reddit r/art

[@hypnoleaf3390]

That be amazing

[@NewWorldCT]

that'd be tight but youtube is still in the stoneages.

[@kaitouW]

@@NewWorldCT Yea

[@Bluetheinkcat]

Letha Chris: Stay calm, it will benefit your drawing so much Me: *sweating and hand shakes*

[@vijaykumarkatakdhond8629]

I can relate to it...

[@anyarana1774]

omg same--especially on the branches

[@jeutdraw3021]

I love in my youtube

[@someone-vk6gk]

Relatable!

[@alenazhylin347]

same

[@deborahgallo6730]

On the last video of yours Chris, I wanted to know where I was going wrong with drawing trees. Then presto, here you are showing us how. My grandmother was the expert at drawing and painting trees, she was born in 1888 from London. Now I hope I can draw a tree just like her. Thank you so much for the help and huge hugs from Australia.

[@craigclark3001]

I always thought/said i couldn't draw so i set out to prove myself wrong. This tutorial was great, as a brand new budding sketcher this tutorial has helped me enormously. My trees don't look anything as good as yours but i am so proud of what you have helped me to sketch. This has developed my confidence and desire to sketch even more. Thanks!

[@MegaEvoguy]

Hi Chris, I just wanted to thank you for this video and so many of your others. I am a rank amateur who just started sketching a month ago (I'm an evolutionary biologist and historian of science by trade). I've always told people that I can't draw, and there is no point in my even trying, because my brain does not work that way. It took 57 years, but I realized how wrong I was. Now I am learning to sketch for the love of it, and as means of pure relaxation. Your videos have been extraordinarily helpful on that front.

[@sangkt7779]

whatever you draw simple or not it always looks amazing

[@LethalChris1]

:) Thank you sooo much!

[@gregorymoore1283]

Sasque Uchiha 9

[@JoyChandraDas]

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[@leandrosi4950]

"I'm gonna use my blender" Me: blends with finger They called me a mad man

[@shirodelgado6798]

This guy commentating the video he is like hey let me tell you more about how calm i am and about pencils

[@kobeni219]

Tee hee

[@hibironara7603]

Do it 😂

[@deeveevideos]

I love when they finger it!!!

[@yetiinmyspaghetti2029]

this confused me so much because i thought you were talking about a blender, like a kitchen item.

[@dylancoolidge7113]

Your art style is incredible. These are the type of drawings that I aspire to create. Thank you for showing your techniques!

[@NTHDrawandColor]

yes

[@patricialyons383]

Fabulous. For starters you have such a unique voice perrrrrfect for instructing us all. I have decided to paint with a Van Dyke brown (Schminke) for the background and use gold leaf for the autumnal leaves. I needed to study tree trunks and their branches. Thank you so much Chris for this very natural, relaxed and professional tutorial. Best wishes in whatever way/direction life has taken you today. Patricia 😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉

[@christinelynn8407]

People who give thumbs down to any artistic offerings need to just not be artists anyway. Nothing's forcing you to watch. He's talented and giving you free instruction. Kudos to the artist.

[@kartikkalyan4967]

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[@frankiecarias5071]

happy little trees

[@technoboop1890]

thats so cute =D

[@thedeadpoet_33]

They don't look too happy.

[@bongaslt6543]

Bob eoss

[@itztaylor2.05]

Ré D'Arcy it’s from Bob Ross 😂

[@sigmasides1514]

Lol Bob Ross quotes

[@ravenz3856]

after all these years... that's how you do leaves!? I never knew how to draw leaves until now... great tutorial bro! keep up the good work :D

[@jeutdraw3021]

I love drawing in my chanel youtube

[@ゆい-r4c]

Yes! I would try, and it would look stupid but I finally understand! 😂

[@sataniccrow82]

I literally fell in love with your style. Thanks for sharing

[@multitalentbd6334]

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[@jeutdraw3021]

I love in my youtube

[@marysandrabrininstool780]

Thank you soo much for sharing your talent and knowledge. I'm 61 and picking it back up after many, many years and if God so wills it, I shall be leaning heavily on your tutorials.

[@ygh1973]

Brilliant video, I went out took some pictures of an oak tree, really looked at it and used the photos to organically let the picture grow. I haven’t drawn properly in over 20 years and I spent four hours drawing it and I wish I could show you the results, I’m so pleased. You communicate really clearly. Thank you blood. ✌🏾✊🏾🤜🏾🤛🏾

[@danielaesparza4452]

i love the calm music while drawing really fits in with the drawing about nature and trees. Great video as always and it really helps so thanks for showing us.

[@LethalChris1]

Thank you so much for the support, Daniela. :)

[@artatulsharma8813]

Daniela Esparza #artatul

[@Majortom756]

Love the video and your drawings are beautiful! My suggestion for future video[s]: Do them in real time, maybe where you explain your technique with a little more detail, for beginners like myself who have very little technique. These time lapse videos are good for seeing your overall process, but it would help to see exactly what you're doing with your hand to achieve different effects. Thanks!

[@charlidanielz1617]

It's all about to have a relaxed hand... 😆✌️

[@teflonpan115]

daaym. by minute and a half mark it already looks like something out of an old Disney movie. great work.

[@debbiejohnson781]

I’m new to your channel and love it! As a newly retired Elementary Art teacher, now I’m hoping to do more Art for me, (rather than lesson plans and samples!) A student asked me early in my teaching how to draw a tree…I broke it down and called it a “Y tree” basically you add lots of Y’s and W’s etc then add details and shading! I had two fellow teachers, that had been my students, that both remembered and use the “Y tree” method to this day!!

[@Shonas78]

I'm your fan... your techniques are inspiring, to say the least. Thank you for all your posts. Kudos from Brazil, man!!!

[@LethalChris1]

Thank you so much for the support!! :) I really hope these videos help out.

[@sunshinegirlart866]

I love how excited you are about trees.

[@ginasartcorner5686]

They all look amazing! Great explaination :) I think its great that you show how to make it simple and yet realistic

[@dodo.3462]

How to draw a pine tree for kids

[@NTHDrawandColor]

me too

[@bkjnr2]

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I am learning properly at 38, and it almost feels like cheating to have such good tuition. All the love to you and yours

[@Ratatosk80]

Thanks for the tutorial. Made a drawing of the first tree. Found it tricky shading the trunk but got the hang of it eventually. Also made so many branches that when I added leaves it ended up a formless mess, no breathing room. Managed to fix it by adding an additional darker shade of leaves. Using the darker leaves to create forms in all the densely packed leaves. Happy with the result.

[@simpleartideas]

Wow! They look like real trees... even better than that. Love your simple and detailed video of drawing basic things. Nice!!!!

[@LethalChris1]

Thank you so much. :) I really hope this video helps out.

[@cerisskies]

Felt really stuck with drawing trees and then watched just the first 55 seconds of you laying down the roots (pun intended) of that first tree, and I already felt that I knew where to go cheers

[@JustMe-uc1lt]

Watching this yet again, Chris. It remains the best tree drawing tutorial on youtube. Well done.

[@DonST22]

This was my first try and . . . . . Have to say I was not expecting the result I got. Your suggestions are really useful, thanks to you I drew really nice trees on the very first attempt and I'm an absolute beginner in drawing. Thank you

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

I’m a bonsai enthusiast and lover of trees. This was a great video Chris - I’m binge watching your content now. Relaxing and also instructive. 👍🌳🌲🌴

[@jacobknox2380]

Man your trees are incredible! You've definitely inspired me to keep trying to get better. Your leaf advice was a life saver 👍 thanks

[@susangurvich910]

I really like this video. I've been using tutorials and working from reference photos, and I am so excited to be able to draw without doing that! This is what I am working towards. Thank you Chris

[@annaheya2109]

This particular video got me into drawing! Five years ago and now it’s been recommended to me WOW

[@bernarddoitch2805]

Nice Work, and great lesson, simple and not a lot of blah, blah, blah; I've been drawing my entire life, literally, i taken classes and it always seems that there is so much more to learn. thank you for the inspiration and how about teaching rock and boulder. i think with you teaching style it could be something easily learned. thanks again, sincerely Bernard

[@annemorin1857]

I liked your relaxed style of teaching. My results were better than before! My problems are with shadows on branches; I still need to work on that and will watch your video several more times. Thanks.

[@marou.u]

That moment when you stop everything you are doing bc it's a LethalChris Drawing notification x)

[@LethalChris1]

:D Wow! Haha thank you so much for the awesome support!!

[@marou.u]

Thank you for your reply !!!!

[@edbrookes6593]

Marou r

[@fletcherkoehrsen1879]

I like the simple look of the trees, the nature drawings are always my favorite!

[@LethalChris1]

Thank you. :)

[@Nicole.Loves.Beauty]

Can’t wait to try these trees. I’m new to drawing and I enjoy landscape, especially trees. I loved how how some of your tips were very vague but had an impact such as using pictures as references/inspiration not to be exact. And then when you went over the leaves. I spend SO much time on the leaves and it looks forced. Your voice is soothing too. Glad I found your videos.

[@SoulForce999]

Actually, I have been in a performance anxiety since school days as I remember getting high marks in drawing. Now, 40 years later I'm going to practice myself again to get the hang of it and to go through that rotten fear of failure. Drawing with tips is good to start with. Thanks for doing this.

[@libimyheart7855]

I agree with you. If I try to copy something it doesn't work well but when I just simply use it for I aspiration it works much better.

[@dynamitethunderstruck8723]

I just tried this out and just a TIP for the first tree: make sure that your branches are thin enough :) Mine would've turned out much better

[@Joebbbbbbb]

yeah thats what i found trying to draw the tree also

[@kaiyan425]

the leaves were so satisfying thank you. I will try this tomorrow

[@LethalChris1]

Really glad to hear that. :) I hope this helps out! Thanks so much for watching.

[@loricharpentier1654]

Those are gorgeous! You made it look so easy. I never even thought about the bark of the tree or what kind of tree for that matter. Thank you for this lesson. Amazing!!

[@yaseminmae1314]

This video is amazing. For the first time in my life, I managed to draw a tree that doesn't look like a elementary school drawing! Amazing explanation and of course drawing skills :) Thanks!

[@Xturnia]

When drawing trees you break the rule of consistent smooth lines.😂 I like it.👍

[@crystalcub3027]

Plzzz do one of theese following things: •An enchanted forest •The 20 style challenge •Realistic vehicle tutorial •a clothes tutorial Or a flower tutorial

[@LethalChris1]

Amazing suggestions!! :) Thank you so much.

[@lennie4778]

I loved your idea of how to draw the leaves, thanks!

[@mojopikon2910]

Beautiful tecnic and results. I allways thought the most difficult is to create branches that come to ones view or go towards the fuge point. Thanks for the video I'll try to apply these advices.

[@moniqueabbett]

I made the aspen twice - once into a birthday card for my son along with a quote about forest bathing. Love your drawing lessons!

[@SwoleTommyPickles]

How the hell am I here 1 minute after upload, I'm not even subscribed

[@LethalChris1]

Haha! :D Thanks for watching! I really hope the video helps.

[@яєѕтєѕѕ]

Luck

[@czpv2128]

Well get on that

[@mikemurray3518]

you must have clicked on something that brought you in here my friend lol have a nice day

[@zmanv568]

Swole Tommy Pickles magic

[@nolanmarec7770]

"the idea of details" one thing that took me years to understand

[@richu399]

Thx for the help but you do realize that your shading is on like God tier to us right and give almost no explanation on your technique and it's difficult for beginners

[@kartikkalyan4967]

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[@baridharap9798]

Helpful. I have tired this. As I am not a good artist like you, I couldn't draw as beautiful as you. But your tutorial really help me to improve my sketch of trees. THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@eddiejohn2060]

Only took up drawing recently . Did the first tree ,took time but not too bad . But oh the second one . It took ages but got there in the end . I think the problem is we always think of trees with thick branches but these are like boney arthritic fingers . Took a lot of concentration and a heck of a lot of erasing . One thing I have trouble with is keeping it vertical so I draw a faint vertical line and draw the trunk either side of that, might help someone . The leaf idea was great and very effective . Thank you very much for the tutorial , learnt an awful lot .

[@prodbyevanhardt]

I cant believe how good this is

[@LethalChris1]

Thank you!!

[@happymicrobe8123]

Awesome drawing, very helpful! I have my troubles with natural randomness although it creates the picture magically on the paper all by itself. I don‘t know whether you made a video on drawing rocks and stone and boulders etc. before, but this would also be very appreciated. Thank you and keep on drawing! :)

[@oliviaharpwood9751]

Your art is so amazing! And what you said actually made some sense, which is worrying but refreshing

[@ThePubliusValerius]

Beautiful. I love your technique to add the "idea" of detail. I often get too hung up on the details, and need to learn this technique.

[@TaneKarnes]

A little tip..use white charcoal pencil to give a few highlights. You will love the results. Makes details pop. 😃

[@s.gerritse3038]

I'm sending pictures of the most amazing trees, you will be obsessed with all my forest expertise

[@prettyupsetnerd5118]

I can't escape from musicals anyMORE

[@bunkerjonesy7905]

Rainbow Dragon

[@mikemurray3518]

I would like to see them

[@priceless444]

lethal Chris,,,, you are my new art teacher

[@LethalChris1]

Awesome. Thank you for the support. :) I really hope my videos help.

[@priceless444]

Sure they do,,,, all the way from Africa am looking forward to your support artwise

[@rachmalabyad1138]

thank you very much, this tutorial really helped me a lot in drawing trees for my architectural sketches.

[@heartsource417]

I really enjoyed this video. I love to draw trees and your tips will help a lot! I haven't seen your videos before but now that I have, I will enjoy learning more from you.

[@garyfriedrick9941]

A wonderful touch. Thank you, LethalChris, for sharing.

[@noname-sq3js]

You deserves more subscriber cause theybway you teaching are good and clear

[@eastrosecollection7544]

this is a fucking amazing channel, been watch your videos for years watching your tenchniques

[@LethalChris1]

Thank you so much!! That means a lot. :)

[@phillee2711]

Its Friday night and I'm here learning to draw trees.

[@uke5455]

Dude ur the most easy person to watch, like i lost track of time!😂 and not just cuz of the amazing drawings, ur voice, the piano in the background and u seem super nice!!! Im high af btw so idk why im commenting this but this was the best 11:27 minutes of my life

[@Maxx.brwwnn]

Dude these are ridiculously good! I surprisingly copied pretty well. My class says I’m amazing at drawing trees but now my old work is laughable

[@dramrulkhokhar6156]

your sketching is very good. and the tips are helpful

[@LethalChris1]

Thank you very much. :)

[@stevenskadal]

Great tip! I especially love the way you do the leaves. That's going to help me a ton with future projects. Thanks!

[@Gimlo_Goblin]

I despise the 6B pencil 😒 Edit: You are a genius, I frikin love the 6B pencil!!!

[@angusclark6170]

Yuga Aoyama what

[@susanleitch1230]

Loved this. So helpful. Never has anyone sounded less like they deserve lethal in their name

[@grahamwevans9383]

Thank you Chris. Beautiful drawings and great instruction!

[@soviet_onion_4208]

🧖🏿‍♀️

[@kommissarlive9773]

*Puts on monocle*

[@tilly4108]

*Eats Crumpit*

[@soviet_onion_4208]

u tryna say somthin boi

[@っっ-t6h]

????

[@mydiyjungle6075]

i love drawing trees i seem to be deeply connected with trees i do put doors windows and climbing vines in them even staircases and such .... thank you for these examples great work

[@twinkieproduction4802]

The texture and shading for the leaves really help me now thx alot❤

[@maddoxhill9773]

same here

[@adrenalinerush7869]

Bro makes drawing trees look easier than going outside and looking at one.

[@islafletcher1877]

I was looking at how to draw different types of trees and found this very useful. Thank you so much for creating this so now my trees will look a lot less awkward and planned.

[@keemusachi]

I think the reason why we’re trees looks bad because of the shadows I also think that if we add a good shadows the art is good as well.

[@sristipriya4145]

I wish I could draw like you😌😌

[@insertusernamehere1889]

Even when I followed your steps my tree still looked bad :(

[@redyoutubelover3617]

sameee. but i believe with practice anything is possible

[@technocracyglobal9287]

try again

[@jdouglasj2000]

My first oak looked terrible, but then I focused on making sure I had really light areas bordering the dark areas. It helped a lot.

[@ghassanalhammadi7690]

I advice you to try to draw another shape of tree .That's helpful

[@lucerogroves]

Think positive. With practice you can do it!

[@hypnoleaf3390]

This helps so much. I also learned new textures just with a pencil. Thank you so much!

[@cherylhancock1183]

Your tips on drawing leaves was so very helpful to me in adding leaves to my trees. Thank you so very much!

[@harrywest5447]

OMG amazing trees are my fav spent two year studying them so thanks for this video 😊 Would be cool if you did some fantasy trees too. Also how do you do your black borders?

[@LethalChris1]

Thanks for the support! I hope the video helps out. :) Ooo that's an awesome idea - definitely interested in attempting fantasy trees!! For the black borders - I measure them out and pencil them in first, and then I use a Pigma Micron 08 over the top.

[@liamkim7062]

Him:drawing some cool trees Me: watching this video and slowly falling asleep

[@jaimeyule647]

Liam Kim he has a relaxing voice

[@tkotko5321]

Same 😒😂

[@DD-xt6vo]

Yep, me too, phone woke me up when it fell on the floor....

[@cooperwilliam4044]

Your art is beautiful

[@LethalChris1]

Thank you so much, Cooper. :)

[@sharonaleong2748]

This really got me going with getting back into art. Thank you. I appreciate your talent and calm and instructional way of teaching. All the best

[@necropious3273]

I love the way that you make it easy to understand what you are doing and why. Beautiful drawings!

[@badluck7467]

I have a very heavy hand, imagine my fear when he said a relaxed hand, then I'm working on the branches, I look back up and he's doing the leaves already, I try to copy what he did, and I couldn't find any regular pencils, but lets get serious here. How the hell did you draw so good?

[@jiaochen3983]

i was did well until my pencil touched the paper

[@dasheetwarmer9338]

Same bro

[@FarzamF90]

I have been trying this since 12 am and now it's 4 in the morning, I can't tell you the amount of times I've wanted to wake somebody up and punch em because I can't draw anything

[@Perplexual5]

Try drawing at different times of the day.

[@tarapeters5496]

great advice about being loose and organic also the tone of your voice is relaxing too!

[@debbiedodge2108]

Beautiful trees. This is my favorite tree video. Thank you.