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Old 4-Dec-2002   #1
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Practice Tree Slanting Style

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Old 4-Dec-2002   #2
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Great contest, Al!

Here's a quick and dirty pass at a slanting style tree. I wanted to crank one out to get this contest up and going!

My five points:
  1. foliage pads are styled loosely as asymmetric trianges
  2. relation among the foliage pads is also an asymmetric triangle
  3. heavy right primary branch dips down to counterbalance the movement of the trunk.
  4. left secondary branch dips down to a second hanging foliage pad to fill some of the weighty space on the left side of the tree
  5. two branchlet (rather than the less realistic but more-common-in-virtuals single branchlet) dip down to form that hanging foliage pad on the left.


So...what do you guys think? Comments?

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Just in case anyone cares - I like to start by sketching the basic shape, and then filling in the details. Here's the sketch I started with.

As far as I'm concerned, getting this sketch worked out is the interesting (and far less time-consuming) part. For actually using virtuals to help style a tree, I think I could stop at this point about 90% of the time without really losing anything.

One other note - can anyone pick up the glaring flaw in the filled out virtual that is absent from this sketch?

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Nice virtual!

For some reason, probably because the first branch is the same size as the trunk, the area right at the branch origin isn't very attractive. I think I would try to feather a little bit of foliage from the right side to hide a portion of that point to make it appear that the branch might be thinner..

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My consideration

Hi Forum, I have raised the tree to the right. I have the green range built up in three equal parts, and the tree into a classic Japan shell planted.
1: First primary branch.
2: The second primary branch on the left.
3: The first rear branch.
4: Upper branch on the left.
5: Second rear branch.
6: canopy.
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Second consideration

I would become the second styling of the pine for leant half Cascade naming.
1: The first primary branch the foliage pads form in cushions downward.
2: The first rear branch.
3: The second branch on the left page.
4: The second primary branch and against branch for the equilibrium.
5: Rear branch.
6: Front branch in the last third.
7: Rear branch in the canopy.
8: Canopy.
I hope you understand my English very much, it was very hard to translate.
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Here's my attempt....
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Here is my effort.

Depth of pot =(roughly) the thickness of the trunk
Rounded crown on decidous tree denotes age
Overall shape based on asymetrical triangle
Back branch gives depth
Slanting style suits decidous as well as conifeous trees

Can you tell I am running out of things to say?

Hope you like it

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