Tree Studies

For my required sketchbook for John Clapp's Intro to Illustration class, I tried a few different approaches to drawing trees, since drawing trees was something that was always hard for me before

This is just drawing the shadow shapes, like the self portrait.


I guess this is a cross between line drawing and tonal drawing. Not sure what it is, but I am content with the way it looks.


This is a semi-blind contour drawing of a small piece of some kind of fir tree.


This is a line drawing done in brushpen. Brushpen is fun because it allows you to be loose and "artistic" =).