Before we start just a quick word on supplies, they're not particularly super important for this class. So I'm just going to run through them now. So I'm going to be using a sketch book a very basic one. 220 grams. pretty cheap, just kind of with a spiral thingy. Yeah, you know, just a normal thing you can take with you on a walk.

But here I'm actually going to just get with normal printer paper, it's even easier. my pencil is an HB pencil here. Pretty standard, nothing fancy. I could also use the three B one for defining kind of darker parts. I could also use a mechanical pencil, but I think I'm just gonna stick with normal one for this. And I'm, I've got a kneaded eraser to erase things because this eraser, to be honest, is absolutely awful.

So yeah, I'm just going to use one. Very basic supplies. Otherwise, you can use whatever you like. You can use charcoal, you can use ink, anything simple, you don't really need to go in color with this stuff. Because we're just trying to look at form and structure and make some quick studies. But as you like.

So before we go too much into sketching, I want to just say, emphasize the importance of first observing your subject. So for example, people tend to jump immediately in and try to capture everything they can about the pose about what they're seeing. But sometimes it's better to just get to know your subject a little bit before you do that. So first I put down that we observe. And we don't just observe but we can also make a little studies and little observations that we jot down about it. So think of it as a kind of a nude model.

If you're looking at the tree because that's what it is. It's taken his clothes off. for you so that you can draw it, you can see it's fine, you can see the bones and it's just standing there taking any kind of pose food. And you can find trees of various poses, which I'm going to show you in a minute. So think of it that way. Then what I like to look for, is typically personality.

So what kind of personality does this tree have? Is it kind of more shy? Or is it a very confident one? Is it a very young tree or somebody who's been around for maybe hundreds of years already? And notice plays very well. Also, what kind of mood is there?

What kind of action so what pose does it take? These are very important things that people tend to tend to use for for example, life drawing, things like this, but not always for for trees, but it's, it's for me, it's the same and some of the things are manifested through. For example, there action. So when I talk about direction is the same as also gesture or plan of action. So essentially, it's in our life drawing class or if you're doing gesture drawing at home, what are you try to capture post? So which direction does it go to the axis of the points of someone's bending down, turn on the head would be there.

For example, if somebody's looking up, someone's lying down, you know, had knees. So it's the main axis the, the spine is the gesture of something. And I think it's the Save trees. So very often you could find trees are going to go this way. Something that goes that way to the side So imagine if kind of, then branches don't see like this. So it's like a dancing finger, which is also a tree.

And it's the same kind of thing. So we don't forget that there is always a line of action even it can be you know, someone lenses, the kind of bends a lot or other kinds of eye you can even have very straight ones. They know completely straight but they can be pretty straight. There is also like a split. So you know, when you have a direction but then it also has like a secondary direction there on the side. So these are some things to notice.

Which I think are very important, then of course there is the, the trunk. So how big is the trunk? Is it this or that? How tall is it doesn't go all the way. You know, these are all different before the branches even begin, you have this. So that's an important indicator of personality and material.

So for example, let me show you. So if we think of a tree as a fairly delicate trunk of a lot of branches going up this way. So the way I like to dress, I like to think okay, and what kind of proportions Can I see here? Well, I can, I can first look at where it starts from the soil and where the trunk becomes branches. Yeah, I know that the odd one always or often. appears there as well but I like to see where they actually with a group of practice starts.

So this measure for me it's quite important and I would call it trunk before branches and you could also tell it how many of these are in the tree and that way you could capture the proportions of the tree for example here I would say it's two and a half. So from bottom to top two and a half of this and then the other thing is where this trunk and so for example, here and of trunk, okay. Next one would be the size of branches. So until where do they go and practice? Then of course direction of branches. Also very important because you know often we have She's gonna go like this, but you also have Trisha, totally get up, you also have things that really go up like a brush or a fork or something like that.

So these are important. Important things. Obviously, of course, you can also have them totally down. So, there you go. That's why it's quite, quite a significant thing. And now, the other thing is also, are your branches wavy?

Or are your branches more angular so for instance, you have trees, where it's really very angle and so you know, the motion of making branches would be something like this, the cross but across angles, you see this. Whereas you have something like oak tree, bigger trunk, which is wavy, Essentially, this is the motion you would use to create. It's true, it's branches, they're big, much bigger. And they're they're wavy so difference between angles and waves. And also how big the branches are, you see here, it's a lot wider than for example, this little guy. So branch weights, nuts, individual branch weight.

So these are the things that you consider very important. Also, I discovered this little trick that I don't know if it always works, but the shape of branches, the direction of branches is kind of like the same as the leaf and the tree makes so you could you could enclose it into this kind of silhouette. And that will give you a pretty good direction or which way the branches are pointing and what form they will take. So Just to give you an idea, also, it's a few of these ones kind of go like that up. And you can also draw a little line around it. And that's a leaf.

So it's kind of fun. And it's just fun thing to observe, but also it gives you an idea. if you for example, if you see it and if you start with it then kind of gives you an idea which way the branches would go. And of course, you can just raise it and you know, just keep keep the branches by themselves once you've done it. So there you go.