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Hmm... Looking through my old arts...
Haha does this count?
http://secretaffections.deviantart.com/art/Tree-Nymph-372042754
Just kidding. Well there are some trees in this -

I Also have drawn plenty of trees in backgrounds, and a community project once.

Or maybe this one from a long time ago whee heart

Oh, and just to let you know I moved this to Drawing Help, because I just felt like it fit here better, besides just floating around.

The Second drawing, with the color pencils, the only advice I would have is don't add that pinky-red color in at the top left corner. The other colors are all orange, and bright, not that calm, soothing color. But i know this was also from awhile ago, so you probably know that already. : B

sweatdrop I know the sunset it's kind of weird sweatdrop Anyway don't worry about signatures; it took me a while to decide wich one I would use emotion_facepalm

Here's some great tutorials for trees done by different artists! (Share them and help other artists get noticed!)

Simple Tree and Leaves Tutorial
Awesome Bark Tutorial
Pixel Tree Tutorial
Simple Leaves
Two Part Easy Tree
Water Colour Trees
Simple Bush
Basic Cartoon Tree
Grass Tutorial
Background Tutorial
Tree Bark
Nestly's Tree Tutorial
Pine Tree Tutorial

Great sketch! I like the little details you add, like the swing and in the sunset piece, little silhouetted plants.

Honestly I don't even remember attempting to draw an entire tree, but I have sketches of close-ups I did last year.




I think the thing with drawing trees, is to vary the line texture and shape, like thin, thick, etc. by using the side of the pencil or the tip of it. That's for expressive lines anyway, to give them character. This was something I realized in retrospect, so I didn't do it so much in those pictures...

For entire trees, it's helpful to group the leaves into clumps, then adding detail within those clumps. Only bits and pieces of branches showing amid the leaves is fine if it's spring or summer. Just my $0.02.

Edit: Why does everything show up so big? I have no idea how to resize??