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Doodle-ish thing I spent way too much time on in the endΒRelated content
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I absolutely love this! I like how the colours go together and how everything looks realistic, it's wonderful. 
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Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
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Brrrrrr, not the best first thing to see, when I just came from the outside. It's already pretty cold out there.
But that little unpleasantness aside, this is a wonderful drawing, good work!
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Oh, sorry. I agree, it's already pretty cold here and it probably gets even colder where you live!
Thanks though!
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Okay, so...from artist to artist I wish to ask forsome advice.
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How do you start when building a tree? Do you start with the base or branches, and how do you pan out judging if it is too cluttered or not cluttered enough?
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That's... tough to answer I think, since I don't really have any set workflows for much of anything.
With most things I think it's better to start with the larger shape and then work your way down (or up) from there. In the case of trees I would say that's the base trunk as well as the entire silhouette (though the latter doesn't apply in this picture).
I try to work with some bit of randomness added and divide the branches where it feels natural. There's a lot of trial and error involved and sometimes I'll keep painting and erasing a subdivision in different places until it looks good to me.
When you have some larger base branches done you can then add smaller offshoots to those, I only added the very small twigs near the end of the picture in this case.
I hope this helps somehow!
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