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Tuition - Improve Your Trees in Pencil with Trudy Friend

Learn how to improve your trees in pencil with the expert guidance of talented artist Trudy Friend!

Trudy will show you how to get your trees just right in this inspiring video guide, from learning how to draw different barks to creating trailing Willow Tree type leaves.

In her clear and straightforward style, Trudy will teach you some of her special techniques for adding texture, reflecting light and casting shadows, as well as using negative space and dark recesses to give a 3D feel to your drawings.

Trudy will show you how to draw trees that replicate nature in such a beautiful way and will demonstrate how to place your trees into the landscape as though they have been standing there for hundreds of years!

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