Some are praising the tree as a creative work of art, ... Visitors look at the cardboard Christmas tree in the center of the Grand Arcade of Convention Hall in Asbury Park on Dec. 1, 2021.

2. Create a Grid . To keep your generations straight and your tree even, you'll need to make a grid on your paper. Here's how ...

The cardboard holiday sculpture known as The Giving Tree has returned to the Grand Arcade at the historic Convention Hall in Asbury Park.

Grab a drawing or photo and cover it with a thin piece of paper to start, drawing over any lines you see. Faint sketching. The next step to learning to draw can be through faint sketching.

People walk past "The Giving Tree," a 17-foot cardboard Christmas Tree in the Grand Arcade in the Asbury Park Boardwalk by Mike "Porkchop" La Vallee and Bradley Hoffer is shown Wednesday, December ...

Paper artists: For the shadows on the tree trunk and branches, use a blending stump with a fair amount of graphite embedded into it. For the shadow on the ground, use a soft pencil like a 4B. 5.

ASBURY PARK - For some at the Jersey Shore, creating art is preferable to cutting down a tree to celebrate the holidays, and now that abstract idea is gradually turning into a boardwalk tradition.