When I was in my pre-teens  I sketched a lot. Life got in the way and my love for sketching got side-lined. Now I am 68 and remembered the joy sketching gives. Graphite, ink and charcoal were always my favorite. I took up the hobby a couple of weeks ago, and videos like yours are so incredible helpful. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.

I have been drawing for years but never have I had anyone explain this to me so precisely and correctly. Thank you!

I just bought my first fountain pen and I was contemplating what to do with it. Now here I am

Man, All my life I saw those amazing old master and renaissance era tree in ink hatching, I tried to find those tutorial for drawing these for years, but you just made it, you are the living and breathing old master of 21st century. Watching your video is truly like walking into a master painter workshop in 1700s. Thanks!!!!!

I like the example "what NOT to do", (at 6:36 ) - all in all a very good lesson.

Thanks for the lesson teacher

I don't know if you still follow comments on these old videos but I just used this video to draw one of my houseplants and I was very pleased with the results! It's reaffirming that if I follow your simple principles I am rewarded for it - thanks for this video - I will definitely revisit it in the future

Hi Marc! Lately I'm leaving comments in some YT videos that have helped me in some way to say thanks to the people behind them. I had never done it before and in a month, I guess this is the 3rd comment I write ever. Drawing trees, grass, landscapes... is so overwhelming for me, but I keep trying it (those days I overcome my fear of failing, oh gosh!). I had watched more videos, read more stuff about the topic, and I have been improving, but with this video my trees have "upgraded" and I think now they're definitely going the right path: they start looking like the trees I have been wanting to draw. Probably, if this had been my first video about drawing trees, I might had still struggled with it. But anyway, I'm happy you did this video, happy I found it just at the right time of my learning trip, and happy my trees have done a breakthrough. Thank you sooo much, honestly.

Great tutorial. Thanks!

Awesome ❤. Thank you for creating such a great lesson.New Subscriber 😊

So happy to have come across your channel. I find the drawings and etchings of the old masters just as beautiful as the oil paintings but I have never heard anyone speak of their techniques in detail. Thank you for sharing 💚🌲

This is the best tutorial on the subject I've seen. The problem I've always had was with line weight- never could get the extremely fine texturing. Your instructions are the key I need to solve this. Thanks!

I am 68 years old and I started 3 years ago I love sketching it's wonderful past time

Marc, this is one of the most helpful drawing videos I have experienced. Somehow, your explanations speak straight through to my inner “artist”, resonating in a common sense “Oh, Yeah,” connection in my brain. Thank you! Extremely helpful.

Thank you for this excellent tutorial.  As an older person who just started on an art journey a few years ago it is so satisfying to find well organized and presented information, complete with historical perpective; a joy!

Your videos are always so helpful and inspiring. I love your teaching style, it's just so clear! It really motivates me to try these techniques myself. Amazing content!

This video was very informative and useful. I will have to rewatch it a number of times to fully understand the process😅. That is how I learn. I am so glad that you kept a pic of the reference tree on the screen the whole time you were drawing it. It really helped me. So please continue to do that in videos.I am a beginner in my late fifties at drawing, only a few weeks in. I am amazed at the different techniques when drawing anything. Always told myself I was rubbish at art but always looked at art resources in shops and wished I knew how to use them. I no longer stand and look at the pens and paper. I have bought the basics and am learning to use them.  I am persevering and although my tree is not at the stage of yours. I am happy to say I have drawn a tree which looks like a tree. I am now starting to really look at trees and see the shadows, lights and textures in them. And its all a 'wow' moment for me. I am seeing nature with new eyes.
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Such a wonderful video. I love how you give us the technical tools like observing the curvature of the hash marks and what that does both for curvature and vertical height as well as visual perspective with the horizon. Such cues are what make this channel a gold standard for learning how to draw. You really take us through the artist's thought process and reasoning. Thank you Marc.

Best explanation on YouTube ❤

Followed this tutorial, made notes with examples and drew a tree🎄. The most challenging for me is varying the leaves patterns and keeping the clumps interesting and distinct.