Learn to draw a tree in Loose Watercoloring style
To celebrate Arbor Day, illustrator Christin Stapff shows you how you can paint a tree in a loose watercolor style with fineliner elements. The highlight here is that you can dispense with pencil sketching entirely if you so wish.
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- Tombow Watercolor Set Greenery
- Aquarelle paper pad
Step 7: Decorations
Great details can be added with the MONO drawing pen. I trace short little strokes on the left side of the trunk to achieve a shadow effect. I also give the treetop little semicircular strokes for more structure. However, I do not fill in the whole treetop; I just suggest the leaf structure with little groups of strokes.