100 trees challenge
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@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!
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I love following your trees thank you for sharing
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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. -
Hi guys! Here is my tree number 15. I tried another more detailed trimmed boxtree.
Unfortunately, these trees don't change their color nicely in autumn, so no fall version this time.
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Here is another boxtree version. This time a cubic again. Tree number 16.
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Tree number 17 is again an autumn version, late autumn this time.
I plan to intergrate some of these last trees into my Earle adaptation, to test how these guys work in a complete picture.
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I love the crisp, clean style that your doing these in. I'm looking forward to seeing more tree!
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Luckily, also limes are trimmed into nice shapes in parks, so finally I could do my fall colored park tree!
Here is tree number 18.
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With number 19 I tried a young birch for a more spring feeling in this damned cold winter which is going on here right now.
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@Ed-O Thank you, Ed! I am trying to keep up till I fulfill the 100.
So far it has been really fun and I hope I don’t run out of ideas. -
Here is tree number 20. Again a spring version.
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With tree number 21 I tried a hazelnut tree, more summer this time.
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@Jana Can we put in requests for a few more winter versions of trees? I know you are tired of winter in the real world but I think your trees in winter are so beautiful and would love to see a few more!
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@Rich-Green When I look at my tree collection, I had already the feeling that there is some more blue missing.
Honestly, I was out of ideas to make the next winter tree different from that which I got already. But now that you pushed me, I guess I will take the challenge and try some more. Hopefully, I can show you something soon. -
@Jana I really like all of the trees you've been doing. I'm not a Botanist, but have you ever thought about doing more tropical or jungle trees? I'd love to see you do some of those with vines and other tropical flowers on them, too : )
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@Ed-O Hi Ed! Yes, I thought about exotic trees already. Actually, I want to do these awesome baobab trees soon. We call them Affenbrotbaum, which means monkey bread tree. But I focused first to those types of trees which I would need for some fairytale illustrations.
But you are totally right, some jungle trees would be fun as well! Anyway I have 79 trees to go, so lots of options are left.
Thanks for the ideas and for following my challenge! -
@Jana I really like the paper weeping willow
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These are gorgeous! You're doing awesome with this challenge. Are you doing these in Photoshop, or Illustrator, or another program?
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@Jana Number 20 is my favorite! I love the colors on this one!
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@MirkaH @SarahLuAnn @drawingmelee
Many thanks for your kind feedback.
I am using GIMP, a free photoshop-like software. The vector-like look comes from using the path tool for building the shapes.
