100 trees challenge

[drawingmelee]

I absolutely love your challenge! Loving all those trees so far. My favorite tree is your first tree with the paper cut style and texture. Keep up the awesome work!

[Jana]

Thanks @Lee-Holland and @drawingmelee ! You are motivating me a lot.
Actually I planned to finish ten trees after this weekend, but I noticed this challenge will take for ever!
But I finished eight which I sum up here:

Thanks all your feedback so far.

[Kevin Longueil]

@Jana These are nice Jana! The last two look especially nice to me. I was thinking about what you said about Mary Blair - i love Mary Blair too - i think that if you cut and paste a tree of hers onto a blank canvas it will be nice but it will not have that emotion that it had in the composition (i'm sure i am stating the obvious here) Her trees have a relationship to the scene or the characters in the scene - edges often seem soft except when they are guiding your eye to the main focal point like a bunch of fingers saying "look here then look here and when you are done start over here again" - here colors seem to evoke a mood too - so i think maybe if you were trying to get to the same place as Mary Blair with the trees you could add a figure with a neutral expression and try to evoke a mood through color and composition while only using trees as your tools - anyways.... i am really enjoying seeing your trees!

[Jana]

@Kevin-Longueil You are totally right, Kevin. That is also what I asked myself: How would these trees behave in a complete composition, in which a character is a focal point and not the tree? Anyhow, I feel that this challenge is really pushing me further because I am forced to think about different shapes and different colors everytime. I also noticed that I get faster in drawing them. My hope is that while I am going through this challenge I find a style and a technique which I feel really comfortable with. In the next days I will try to set my donkey character next to the trees and see how they fit to each other.

[DanetteDraws]

@Jana your trees are looking so great! And I think the texture really helps and you have a handle on it now in your latest 8-tree-in-one post. I agree with @Kevin-Longueil that the last two really jumped out for me. I love the varying autumn colours in the 2nd to last one especially.

[Jana]

@DanetteDraws Thanks, Danette! That means really a lot to me. I also feel pretty good with the last two. I will go on with this style for a couple more to see how it goes in a long run. I feel that going not too much paper-cut style makes the trees more organic and less stiff.

[drawingmelee]

The two last ones are also my favorite. Those autumn colors really stand out.

[Jana]

Here is tree number 9 and 10!
I am still trying to get some apple tree variations done. Here is an old and a young one.

[Dulcie]

@Jana These are very nice! I also really like the autumn trees with the different colours, really nice - though there are great shapes going on in all of them

[Jana]

Thank you @Dulcie! I also totally fell in love with the autumn colors. I am really motivated to make an autumn landscape soon.

[Jana]

Hi, guys! This time I tried some of these weirdly cutted park trees. I guess they are called boxwood in english? In German we call it Buchsbaum. I always liked them in Disneys Sleeping Beauty. There are plenty of these cubic trees. What do you think?

[drawingmelee]

@Jana Very interesting take on your previous trees. My favorite is the first one!

[Jana]

@drawingmelee Thanks a lot. I also like the first best

[Jana]

Hi! I tried a winter tree today. Does that work? What do you think?

[Rich Green]

@Jana I am really enjoying following along. I love the recent set of boxwood's and I love this winter one even more. Really fun and beautiful designs!

[Jana]

@Rich-Green Thank you, Rich! That means a lot to me. You guys are really super motivating. I am happy that I can share this with you.
I didn't expect that I will enjoy this challenge so much. Since I am doing it, I have noticed that I look different at trees around me. When I walk home from my lab, I often wonder how would I draw this or that kind of tree.

[drawingmelee]

O wow, my new favorite!

[Rich Green]

@Jana Hi Jana! Isn't it a wonderful thing to realize that you are starting to look at the world around you differently because your art? I had a very similar realization around this time last year when I stopped and paid close attention to snow and all of the colors it really is. Or the colors of clouds and so on. All of these little details your mind was so used to before and casually glanced over, are now key details for your next illustration piece and so on.

It is really fun to see you exploring this in your wonderful tree designs!

[lmrush]

I love following your trees thank you for sharing

[Jana]

Thank you Lisa!
Sharing them here is boosting the whole challenge a lot. I don't know if I would be so motivated without all the kind comments here.