The most important and irreplaceable attribute of any New Year is an elegantly decorated Christmas tree. It is she who creates the atmosphere of fun and upcoming holiday in the house. Present a piece of your elevated mood in connection with the upcoming triumph to friends and family by drawing a Christmas tree for them with your own hands!
It is necessary
- - computer program Photoshop;
- - paper;
- - paints / markers / colored pencils.
Instructions
Step 1
You can draw a holiday tree both on an ordinary sheet of paper and on a computer using special computer programs and graphic editors.
If you decide to create a Christmas tree, so to speak, "the old fashioned way," first of all, find the middle on a piece of paper and mark it with a small, barely noticeable dot. This is required in order for the tree to be proportional and all of its parts fit on the sheet.
Step 2
As soon as all the preparatory work is done, you can start the drawing process itself. Since the base of the whole tree is the trunk, then you need to start drawing it first. As a rule, the trunk is depicted as a straight line, narrowed upwards and widened downwards.
Step 3
Branches leave the trunk, so the next step in the process of drawing a New Year tree will be the drawing of the branches. They are drawn on both sides of the tree trunk at some distance from each other, and they can be located at any angle. Basically - under a sharp, but not uncommon is the case when branches depart from the tree and at an obtuse or right angle. Since you draw the tree, then, accordingly, the location of the branches and their direction will also be chosen by you.
Step 4
When the "skeleton" of your tree is ready, you can start drawing the spruce needles. This stage is considered the longest in the entire drawing process, since there are usually a great many needles on spruce trees, one might even say that they are completely covered with them.
Step 5
Now all that remains is to decorate the Christmas tree with a star, toys, balls and tinsel, so that it finally looks like a symbol of the New Year.
Step 6
Drawing a Christmas tree in Photoshop is carried out in a similar way. First of all, create a new document and on a new layer draw a sketch of the future Christmas tree. Then select the Brush tool, adjust it as you wish, that is, select the color, thickness, brightness, etc., and use it to depict the trunk and branches of the tree. After that, create another layer and draw needles for each branch on it. The color for the branches and needles of the Christmas tree can be selected from the available color palette in Photoshop, but the most natural shades will be obtained if you use a real image with real shades as a color palette.
Step 7
Once the shape of the Christmas tree has been defined and sketched, you can proceed directly to shaping the structure of the tree. To do this, create another new layer and draw a trunk with large branches extending from it, and on the branches, in turn, carefully draw needles. You should paint with the same brush as before, only slightly increasing its size and scattering along both axes.
Step 8
To fill in the gaps and increase the number of shades of green, slightly blur your drawing with the simple Spatter Tool (14 Spatter).
Step 9
To increase the volume and splendor of the tree, duplicate the layer with the smudged tree, flip it horizontally ("Edit" - "Transform" - "Flip horizontally") and change the layer mode from "Overlay" to "Multiply". That's all, now the number of branches and needles has increased, and the gaps, on the contrary, have decreased.
Step 10
Once your tree looks like a real tree, you can start decorating it. Draw tinsel, garlands, and Christmas balls.
