All trees have different growth patterns on their branches. Let's take a pine tree. And let's do a very simple drawing of one. First, we take the trunk put a little bit of a ground, it looks like it's in the ground. And now let's look at the pattern of the branches. There's going to be one here, one here and one here.

Pine trees are trees that have radiating branches or radial branches. The branches all go in the same place right up the tree and there's always three or four or five depending on how it grew. So that's the pattern for getting a pine tree. Now the bottom branches are going to point down. We're pretending there's nothing on the tree, the next ones are going to come out a little more, they're still going to point down a bit, the ones right about here, just you're only going to see a little bit of that one, because it's going to be pointing right at you. But now the limbs are going to start pointing up because you're under the tree, and the perspective will look like this.

And by the time you're finished, that's what it looked like. So the leaves the leaves are the needles that attach onto here in different places. And if you look at a pine tree, you can figure out exactly what it's going to be by the look of the needles and the branches. Now we don't need to know the names of trees, but we do have to recognize their growth patterns. And that's what makes certain trees look the way they do. So there's my pine tree and we're looking up at it.

Now a cedar tree is a frond tree. They have little fronds on them like this. And they attached to the branches. And actually the other side shows too, and it's usually darker, so that makes it look like it's hanging. And that's the shape of cedar. Great in the winter because the snow covers over these and the snow usually sits on top of the branch and comes down like this.

And this is a light green so different types of trees. have different types of leaves and different types of needles. Okay, here we go. Let's do some quick little trees. Let's try five different types of trees. Let's try first, the evergreen tree.

Now to get the evergreen tree. I want you to practice this stroke that goes back and forth like this. It's almost like a wiggle or a zigzag. That's more of an evergreen tree, or we might call it like a fir tree. Another way to do it is just put in the trunk. And then this is like a flicking stroke, which works good for pine trees, Tamarack trees.

See a little flicking. You could do this with a brush. And better both evergreens. You can add in here. You can start to add the trunk, and then maybe a few branches to the next one. The hemlock tree.

It's great little tree. We call it the pirate tree here because it has black spots all over it but the hemlock See the little strokes. I'm using Ben's at the top. And then I'm doing this sort of combination of this one and this one. You do a lot with a pen. So there's three evergreen trees.

I like to stylize trees myself. I like to kind of sometimes just wiggle the strokes and make them fanciful. always putting your centerline in. So you can come up with your own design for trees. I mean, look at Dr. Seuss. I don't think his trees really exist anywhere, but they're fanciful and illustrate them.

Those are your evergreen trees. Let's move on.