Rendering trees using colored pencil

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11 жыл бұрын

Lawrence Tech professor Gretchen Maricak demonstrated the techniques to render a group of trees using colored pencils. Professor Maricak Sadly passed away on February 6th, 2018. This video will remain as a tribute to her and so she may continue sharing her skills and passion with the world.
Recorded on June 27th, 2013. on an iPhone 4, freehand.

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@lindseybeck5176 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to hear of her passing. This tutorial was super helpful! She will live on in my drawing!

@brothelho 4 жыл бұрын

Explanations are extremely helpful as well as tips. I'm a beginner so I need a little more than just watching you do it.

@PennyAnte-nz4ob 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this, beautiful, simple and so easy to follow. I typically get overwhelmed and feel "oh I can't do that, it looks too hard". Thank you for leaving this up.

@themissjap 7 жыл бұрын

awesome tutorial! Clear, precise, great pointers, short and to the point! Thank you!

@blueskyhorsemanship3068 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing & RIP Professor. This is really helpfull I wish one could get more videos like this 😃 Its really a great tribute for her ❤️

@bichtrambumi 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr Scott Hill. These trees is so nice and it's very useful for me.

@rin-io9vo 9 жыл бұрын

Simple yet very understandable. Thank you for this!

@jereferia3372 4 жыл бұрын

best tutorial ever. pretty easy way and yet so helpful thanks for uploading this, this thing really helps me to draw more realistic looks of trees ❤, I hope you have a tutorial for proper blending of grass in landscaping drawing , thanks so much for this .

@RodasBee 10 жыл бұрын

Genius :D Please do more tutorials

@small_creature 9 жыл бұрын

That was gorgeous, watching you turn a bunch of patches of color into a beautiful collage of leaves in a forest, it was magnificent. Thank you so much! Watching this gave me experience for techniques ^w^ I was using a bad technique :P Perhaps it won't be so hard anymore.

@Linda-qq5mg 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. I will try your wonderful technique!

@MrZumoku 10 жыл бұрын

"That is a beautiful tree!" "Actually there's three of them here." "...yes..."

@mariah3140 9 жыл бұрын

What?? (-:

@CesarA365 8 жыл бұрын

yeah that bothered me too, lol

@dchurch2012 10 жыл бұрын

Excellent; very helpful video. Thank you!

@SHUBHAM-hg5iq 7 жыл бұрын

Beautiful trees. It will help me in my elevation .thank u so much.

@nukesakuji 10 жыл бұрын

This one was actually helpful, and I really like the way the trees are made (thin branch). Excuse my prof. pic xD!

@nuchzara97 9 жыл бұрын

you are so good. I always find it hard to use the pencil colour for painting as it barely give the tone ( light to solid). But I bought a lot of them. So now I can try to use it. Thanks

@ArtDrawingss 3 жыл бұрын

Your works are so creative and have different concept always...for this reason i wait for new video from you..⭕❤⭕

@bindumenon9450 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you ...this is so helpful!

@toro_0 2 жыл бұрын

thank you very much, mine turned out amazing! my art teacher loved it :)

@anacatarina117 11 жыл бұрын

i love color pencils! lovely vídeo ;)

@suzanneboily5224 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thank you

@gwin8463 7 жыл бұрын

Wow, really nice and helpful, thank you!

@DavidSamuelBl10 Жыл бұрын

_That's_ exactly what I'd truly needed for!😃

@VenkataramanRamamoorthyraju 10 жыл бұрын

Very useful. Thanks!

@lelearch804 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ☺☺☺

@rupaaayusha7510 6 жыл бұрын

Thankyou ! It really helped me .

@Bushra.S.H 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! this is very helpful :)

@bernardok 4 жыл бұрын

So simple yet so effective

@jaymargalang4886 8 жыл бұрын

I used this technique in painting a tree and it looks very very good

@1114Daisy 10 жыл бұрын

My 'fire' turned into tree now. Thanks!

@toon2toon804 2 жыл бұрын

Really cool! Thank you!

@jess_is_so_kawaixd5982 9 жыл бұрын

Wow this helped alot. :D thanks now i know how to colour trees.

@artisticbuilding6852 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@eipkkuk 10 жыл бұрын

nice work, thanks !

@parsonxiao3249 8 жыл бұрын

Its so cool，benefit a lot,thanks so much!

@zane24 Жыл бұрын

This is was helpful, thank you.

@mariah3140 9 жыл бұрын

I wasn't too happy about how much the camera was moving.. But all in all it was a great video and I actually learned quite a lot from it! Thanks!

@jigary 7 жыл бұрын

This is great. you should do more vids!

@Hudoke 10 жыл бұрын

Awesome, just what i needed. Indigo is good because it represents "black" which actually does not exist in nature. The only time you get black is if you are in a vacuum in space...good render man, wish me LUCK with mine lol. I'm a 3D generalist. ;)

@lithonianinja 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@rohitb405 7 жыл бұрын

thanks for the video!! 'twas a great help

@juditharowland3461 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks you. What type of paper are you working on? The trees are really helpful and your teaching style makes it easy to understand.

@scottrichardhill 8 жыл бұрын

I believe that was Strathmore, the sketch pad that has a woman's face on the cover

@courtneyl2050 8 жыл бұрын

amazing!!!!

@onyedikachukwundimako4399 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks a zillion Mr Scott... This is quite a knowledge. could you also recommend a colour pen?

@ParvejAlam-xp3bj Жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton

@yacinekherrab5919 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot ! you really help me 💕😘

@_yojanaregmi 7 жыл бұрын

thank you verrry much..

@horendeka4031 7 жыл бұрын

I can't can say how beautiful it was xtually i have to in a drawing competition and i also have drawing in my school

@sasafwk1 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, very helpful, but I am very dizzy after watching the video, it will be great if the cam can be fixed in one place take the video, no need to move follow the hand. Just a suggestion.

@rabindrashakya7839 7 жыл бұрын

So nice ..Thank you so much...

@mythrin 8 жыл бұрын

"That's a beautiful tree" "Actually there's three..." Rekt XD

@onyedikachukwundimako4399 8 жыл бұрын

would really love to learn more.

@stu73ke 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks, very useful

@leevold3056 4 жыл бұрын

This is amaaaaziiiing

@LegoQueenLego Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@hanapavlickova2950 9 жыл бұрын

beautiful :O

@HossamAhmed-ye8hq 9 жыл бұрын

thank you its very nice

@finegirl1993 9 жыл бұрын

thank you this was very helpful

@COLORPAPERPRINCESS 8 жыл бұрын

like your videos!!! ;D

@lithonianinja 11 жыл бұрын

What kind of color pencils are you using? I use Crayola. Does it matter which brand you use or will I have the same result?

@josefinasantos4303 3 жыл бұрын

Buen video, y entendible ya que dividió los pasos, al igual que las instrucciones para mejor comprensión.

@karenshaw9074 9 жыл бұрын

Great but it would be very useful to give us the name of each color used - Indigo was the only one mentioned. Nevertheless, it is a very useful tutorial. Thank you.

@lucinadecena 10 жыл бұрын

Ahm, I just wanted to know, what brand of color pencils are you using? Coz I'm finding the best quality and i don't know what to buy. That would mean a lot to me. Thanks.

@kaylanafbb 10 жыл бұрын

@ lucina decena: They are PRISMACOLOR wax based colored pencils.

@scottrichardhill 10 жыл бұрын

Right, as I previously stated

@ChaitanyaVyas 10 жыл бұрын

How one holds pencils makes strokes different.

@Flutter3ye 9 жыл бұрын

very informing, but it would have been nice to know the prisma numbers you are using ?

@oldnorse6306 8 жыл бұрын

very nice

@alexyangfox 9 жыл бұрын

cool... thx.

@jere868 10 жыл бұрын

Holy shit Scott, this got a ton of views

@luisdanielgomezloayza2858 9 жыл бұрын

In most of books or tutorials about polychrome pencil the first step es with the darkest color and the second step is with the middle color or mayble con middle pressure. If I start with the step add dark value and then with the middle value, have any problem?

@philipwagner9169 9 жыл бұрын

Luis Daniel Gomez Loayza I think that whatever works for you is good. Like you, I usually work light to dark, or dark to light, but now I'm going to try a picture starting with the middle value, just to see how I like it.

@intheblackworld 8 жыл бұрын

畫樹可以參考他的技法跟配色架構蠻詳細的

@candaceklein4259 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@bharathyadav1042 6 жыл бұрын

Tq sir

@anmsk1ngf3n1x2 4 жыл бұрын

What colors did you used?

@rhythmsbeat3079 3 жыл бұрын

What brand or type of color pencils did you use ???

@MiizzPriivOna 10 жыл бұрын

Do more videos!

@oilyyy 8 жыл бұрын

nice,it is difficult for me to draw trunk and branches to make them look more natural and balance

@savorlens 6 жыл бұрын

Which brand pencil colors you are using?

@miracleshappen4483 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. May I just suggest to place the camera somewhere steady next time as the moving around was a bit disturbing. Great job by the way!

@wtinnen 10 жыл бұрын

Great trees, but I think I'm getting dizzy.

@mangekyorinnegan95 9 жыл бұрын

does this work with all kinds of trees? cherry blossoms for example?

@ooXChrissieXoo 9 жыл бұрын

it could, just find the different shade of same color family.

@nocorruption2011 8 жыл бұрын

I'm only into one minute of your video and like i;, I wish you would go through the first 5 steps step by step. Just to show them quickly doesn't give us the gist of how you are doing things, Thanks LKT

@philwright7833 8 жыл бұрын

are you trying to be funny or just impatient?

@nocorruption2011 8 жыл бұрын

Neither sir, I would just like to learn to draw step by step as I have never had the time before. Since becoming disabled, I have lots of time to learn. But for me it is a slow process.' So I guess impatient would be the word, I like to watch things such as this in series. Please, I meant no offense. Best Regards, LKT

@philwright7833 8 жыл бұрын

but it shows step by step later on in the video. thats what i meant by impatient. watch to the drawing a forest bit. it is the best tutorial i have seen so far. regards

@Artba_Kreasi Жыл бұрын

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@scottrichardhill 11 жыл бұрын

She used Prismacolors. She prefers Prismas or Derwents

@jaredwarner8070 8 жыл бұрын

Im copying wallpapers from no mans sky for fun and this might help me with the dang trees

@beverleygardam151 9 жыл бұрын

what is the paper that you are using for cp trees?

@mariah3140 9 жыл бұрын

It'll work on any kind of paper. Water color paper seems to work best for me because it provides texture to the trees themselves and makes them more realistic. But that's just me.. You could use any kind of paper you'd like. Even a canvas would work (-:

@beverleygardam151 9 жыл бұрын

I am just a learner and a bit scared of coloured pencils , but one day I will get the courage , thankyou for responding to me .

@mariah3140 9 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

@philipwagner9169 9 жыл бұрын

Beverley Gardam I would avoid any sort of shiny paper - it doesn't take cp very well. As for the courage, just go for it, and use any mistakes to learn from. You don't have to show anyone! Even better, some "mistakes" will actually produce a cool effect which might be exactly what you want in a different picture. I'm just a beginner too. I have about half a sketchbook filled with, not pictures, but just practising laying down colour with different types of strokes, graduating from light to dark, one colour to another, and coloured-in doodles. Give yourself permission not to be perfect first time! Good luck...

@beverleygardam151 9 жыл бұрын

I have stongehenge canson mi_ tienes tex and other drawing papers , thankyou for your help , I will give it a go . bev .

@annatruong3646 Жыл бұрын

Only one clip?

@Drezzy888 8 жыл бұрын

ill never draw like this😧😧😧😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔

@mythrin 8 жыл бұрын

Believe! You loyal...

@rikuv9495 7 жыл бұрын

nice drawing, useful tips, but world be better if you put on some music

@g.rodriguez7445 10 жыл бұрын

No separation between the trees.... You can't pick a particular individual tryy... The effect is more bush like, with three trunks... The piece looks so-so--I prefer lost and found edges, so that each tree is an individual.... That is a mass of color....

@scottrichardhill 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. What Professor Maricak uses this technique for mostly is trees in the background of a drawing of a building. This helps to put a building in context, without overwhelming it.

@g.rodriguez7445 10 жыл бұрын

Thats cool, but not if the forrest is part of the main subject. I'm a watercolorist, who uses colored pencils in my work, so I understand how she uses the trees for background.... Still to have some of the trees individualized, you can create so much more depth. She would have to create more shadow, or actually create textures in the two side trees, so that the third tree receedes into the painting. By using shadow to shape, she could also create more form in the trees and painting, and make it look less flat, the trees would also cast shadows, grounding them more into the work, especially if they are being lit by the light. The shadows would reflect the direction of the light as well

@marcosarg1 10 жыл бұрын

Maybe is her style against yours, doesn't make it wrong, what i can see here is more like how an architect would design a tree ( i am one), either way, you can tell there's a forest there...

@Hudoke 10 жыл бұрын

depth perception...aerial perspective, 2 point perspective, if you want to get technical. All he is showing is technique on how to color. Rendering trees using colored pencil...

@Gr8Success 7 жыл бұрын

the problem is if you don t have those specific type or colors and exactly type or pencils it wont look good ...'if you have only a generic set of pencils it wont work

@Gr8Success 7 жыл бұрын

also that specific type of paper