How to draw a birch for children on a computer and a pencil

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Beginning artists may not understand how to draw a birch. In fact, it is not so difficult if you know the basic tricks. When choosing a technique for depicting a birch, one should take into account the age of the artist, the level of his skills and abilities.

Primitivism

This is one of the common ways to represent objects. Usually in this technique the most memorable quality of the subject stands out. For a birch, this is its white trunk with unique dark, almost black, stripes and spots. It is this feature that characterizes the tree that has become the symbol of Russia.

Drawing with young children, most often they use the method of primitivism. And since it is easiest to draw a birch by highlighting its trunk, and simply painting over the crown with a solid green color, this is exactly how it looks in children's drawings.

Drawing of a birch trunk in a computer

This method is easy to use when making pictures in computer technology, for cartoons, for example. Since it is sometimes necessary to draw a birch without foliage, it is the trunk that will become the main distinguishing featuretree.

You can do it like this:

1. Save an empty frame in JPEG.
2. Opening the menu in the picture, select the item "change".
3. Draw the trunks with the "brush" function (medium thickness) in black. The lines are drawn arbitrarily, with bends. Do not use the line drawing function.



4. Also arbitrarily apply dark transverse stripes and spots to the trunks with a brush. You can work by selecting the maximum stroke thickness.



5. Save the drawing.

If desired, you can apply additional shadows from trees in the snow.

Master class "How to draw a winter birch"

Landscape painters often use only a simple pencil when working. Making a drawing with them is sometimes even more difficult than with paints. The master needs the skill of applying shadows to add volume to objects.

And since not every novice artist can draw a birch with a pencil, it is worth considering the process in more detail.

1. First, a trunk with branches is depicted on paper. At the bottom, you need to make an extension. These will be the roots. From this picture, it is still impossible to understand what kind of tree the result will be.



2. Now we need to put shadows on the trunk. It is recommended to apply small hatching along one contour line (with an angle of inclinationabout 30 degrees) without pressure.
3. Highlight the junction of the branches with the trunk with shadows. To do this, use strokes of medium shading.
4. Branches that are further away from the viewer are completely covered with light gray. On those that are closer, it is enough to apply shadows on one side, emphasizing the volume.
5. Vertical curved lines of arbitrary length can be drawn in the middle of the trunk. These will be the borders of irregularities found on old birches.
6. Slanted shading is applied along one side of these lines, highlighting the depressions on the trunk. A small depression is lighter and less pronounced. The area behind the line along the large depression is shaded more densely, pressing harder on the pencil.
7. In the area at the roots, shadows show their volume.
8. Spots are applied across the trunk and large branches. They are made different in brightness and shape.



9. Draw winding lines down from thick branches. At the base, they rise up, then a smooth arcuate transition is depicted. These are small branches on which leaves grow. They hang down - this is one of the features of the tree.

Since the artist decided to draw a birch in the winter, we can consider the drawing ready. Additionally, it is recommended to shade the shadow of a tree in the snow.

How to draw a summer birch in stages with a pencil

A tree with leaves is more difficult to depict. Here it is important to emphasize one more feature of the tree: the transparency and lightness of the crown. No wonder poets compare birch leaves withlace.

Because the tree is far enough away, there is no need to draw the shape of each leaf. Here the master can use small ovals. Arrange them on the branches arbitrarily, but given the direction. The shape of the branches of the crown resembles bunches of grapes.

This is done for all thin branches. But some branches with foliage are placed in the background, behind the large ones.

Sufficiently large voids remained in the crown. They can be placed "clouds" of ovals. Here the master will need a sense of proportion. Do not fill the entire upper part of the tree tightly with leaves - there should be some gaps in the crown.

The drawing is almost ready. You can supplement it with grass, small flowers, flying insects and insert it into a frame.