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Hi everybody. Dave, I found some sketches I did for this tree a few months ago. I use rough trees on this website for styling exercises. Yours was interesting enough. I submitted the sketches here for your reading enjoyment. It is in no way meant to tell you how you should do your tree. The sketches are self-explanatory. Plan A is your original tree and is basically what you have now but with the lowest branch removed. Plan B is what I submitted a while back here, and it was my first choice. Plan C is no longer feasible but it was the most proportional in relation to the height and trunk diameter. Plan D and E are still very doable. Plan E is out of proportion here but you get the idea. To me, the rough sketches are very helpful in visuallizing and comparing the composition of the possible designs. Of course there are some negative spaces in between the branches, but one should always consider the silhoutte of the overall design first. Anyway, hope this is helpful to somebody.
Good day!