TUTORIAL // stylizing trees & plants (Patreon)
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Happy Monday everyone! It’s time for the monthly tutorial! This one is on drawing stylized plants & trees, and the main reason I chose this topic was because it touches on a few other subjects that I wanted to discuss. The main topics covered in this tutorial are:
• Which kinds of reference images are helpful / unhelpful for creating stylized studies
• How to depart from the reference image to create a stylized look
• How to avoid falling into automatic “copying what I see” behavior when rendering
• Balancing detail with simplicity
As always, I’m using the Macalabs HB pencil brush to sketch, and a simple hard round brush to paint and render. Here are the reference images I used (which I got from Unsplash) in case you want to replicate the exercise:
You can replicate this workflow with any brush you like and in any digital drawing software you prefer. Let me know if you have any questions, I’m happy to elaborate on anything I talk about in this video! ❤