on vegetation.

I have this kind of unearned confidence when it comes to sketching vegetation. Y’know: the trees, shrubs, small plants that populate my urban sketches. I know this because I tend to follow the less-is-more rule when it comes to sketches where the focal point is the architecture—leaving the vegetation as a kind of quasi-cartoonish detail filling in the whitespace—versus when I actually try and draw, say, a copse of trees as I attempted this weekend. When I do the latter, my trees look generic and silly, even though they are the same kinds of trees I draw around buildings. I’m not sure if this means (a) I need to stop trying to draw pictures where the focal point is large vegetation or (b) I just need to practice my trees more. I’m leaning the second option.