DSG 354: Environment: The Healing tree

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Today's topic is: Environment: The Healing tree

[Hagac]

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/hagaart/images/dsg354HAGA.jpg

Not finished yet.

[Twinbee]

-I am. I've been up all evening, and I'm ready to hit the sack:)

http://stu.aii.edu/~twl181/treeDSGfeb15.jpg

[mog]

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/mog/healingtree.jpg

Nice colors Hagac, can't wait to see it finished!

Twinbee - I'm a bit confused :hmm:

[Swoop]

Wow.. nice drawing there hagac :D love the mood.. very midnight/eerie feeling.

Mog: Yours has awsome colors.. really got that sun in the horison, peacefull feeling in there :D awsome !

[Defunct]

A rather quick one..

http://img8.photobucket.com/albums/v28/Defunct/healingtree.jpg

Gotta hit the army once again - yippee! (*sarcasm*)
keep up the good work !

[Schwoassamoasda]

cool, hagac! thats one badass healing tree!

http://people.freenet.de/schwoassamoasda/healingtree.jpg

[Freakt]

I don´t know why you delet my MarsHouse frm yesterday, but here is my Healingtree.

http://www.night-pictures.de/healingtree.jpg

[scumworks]

Lol, a first aid tree... sorry guys.

Gw everyone, and hagac, i be loving your tree :) very nice indeed sir.

keep them comming people.
http://www.scumworks.com/otr/conceptart/healing tree.jpg

[Matt Dixon]

http://www.vortex.plus.com/HealingTree.jpg

Lots of good stuff again - looking forward to seeing your finished version, Hagac!

Back to being busy tomorrow (*sigh*), so this'll be my last one for a bit. Have fun..!

Edit: Your Mars house may have been removed because of the photo background, Freakt. I think that's against DSG rules.

[Jaded]

Nice stuff everyone!

Matt: Awesome love the colors all your submissions rock!

mog: Very serene

Hagac: Can't wait to see it finished looks great

[gekitsu]

beware, cheesy tree of healing ahead...

http://www.polycount.com/cottages/gekitsu/pimp/dsg_healingtree.jpg

matt, i love the delicateness of your tree.
scumworks: the shape of your tree is superb!

[NecroNet]

Decided to keep the lineart on this one, all is done digitally with my wonderful graphire3.
I must thank François Marcela Froideval for the inspiration to this peace. I must recomend his books for the really cool illustrations and story.

http://w1.455.telia.com/~u45516617/Swamp5.jpg


All previous posts are cool, favourites are Matts (as usually =) ) and gekitsus. Btw, dsg roxxors =)

[Signature]

I thought less people would want to paint trees again.
I actually painted a baobab healing tree. Hope it qualifies!?
Didn't put him in a hospital that it still kinda looks like an environment rather than a character.

He can fix anything and anybody btw!

Didn't manage to make it obvious that he is whistling. Oh well.
Image edited after reading Swan's comment.

http://www.andyart.de/images/oldandbad/dsg/baobab_healing.jpg

[JörgenGiftmördaren]

elof you tree look more like an evil bury-people-in-its-backyard tree. oh well, heres mine. about 20 min

http://www.fik.nu/bobo/dsg4-healtree.jpg

[Jeano]

Great work guys but ANOTHER tree topic.
:zzz:

[Jaded]

http://www.xpansionmedia.com/dsg354_healingtree.jpg

This is my first submission just a quick under 10min sketch

[Hazzard]

http://aaronsart.5u.com/images/treelife.jpg

I need to do more landscape. I need the practice.

[SlugMan]

my first DSG entry :) took my a while, as i'm not very familiar with digital painting. Alot of trial and error but i got it to a stopping point.

http://www.mythforums.com/files/SlugManhealingtree.jpg

[Hyver]

http://hyver.com/store/healing_tree_hyver.jpg
quickie while junior sleeps :)

[Railboy]

45 min in PS 6. I was trying for a moody, old-photograph feel. This one didn't turn out so well but I think the technique has potential. Crits? Suggestions?
http://www.atomicagedog.com/art/dailysketch/healingtree.jpg

Signature - Yours made me laugh, especially the hair (leaf?) nets. :)

Gekitsu - Shades of video game design? I get the urge to tile a bunch of them in a row.

Scumworks - Definitely my favorite. I love the starkness of the red cross. Question - how did you pull off the blurred branches in the background?

Twinbee - Crit: There's too much detail all over the place. I'd clean up some more areas by bringing the density down a bit. Your eye needs a place to rest - it took me a long time to figure out what's going on.

Matt Dixon - Intimidatingly good.

[Hunger_Artist]

Railboy - old photograph feel? try making a layer on top of the work set to "overlay" and experiment with putting different textures on it, or mabey yellow it a little!


SlugMan & Jaded -welcome!


Technically, this is more of a scene than an environment:

http://members.tripod.com/carlbeu/78563cf0.jpg


I looked at some of these before I started mine, whats been contributed so far is very impressive/ inspiring!

edit: 2 hrs. of photoshop tweakage..

http://members.tripod.com/carlbeu/786895a0.jpg

[Amerasu]

I was thinking witch doctors and shamans. The tree was going to have bones hanging off of it but that didn't work out so well...

http://amerasu.randomleft.com/ca/feb15_04_healingtree.jpg

Very nice railboy, I like the perspective

[NecroNet]

You know that giftmördaren that I cant paint anything non evil/creepy looking. Not that I can paint that either but anyways. Like yours 'pretty colors' hope I'll see more of yours here in dsg in the following week =). Gr8 work everyone

[Jaded]

thanks Hunger_Artist not very good for my first one but didn't have much time

[apache]

http://w1.168.comhem.se/~u16802303/tmp2/htree.jpg

[davi]

Http://www.creatureone.com/dsg/dsgg036.jpg

[Swan]

The children of the local village always held the Healing Tree in reverence, in part because getting to it required tromping through mud, sticking thorn vines and menacing dark underbruth. It was a tradition that had been passed on from brothers and sisters, oldest to littlest, since time began: to come to the Healing Tree with tiny cages filled with captured glow bugs, tie them to the branches, and thus insure the speedy recovery of loved ones. Sometimes though, some lost traveler would blunder into the plant-grown clearing that held the Healing Tree, and not understanding the local customs, be amazed at what could only be magic...

http://www.jenniferwilliamson.com/dailysketch/healing-tree.jpg

Trinbee - Umm....I believe everyone else's comments on this are on the mark. It's a bit too confusing to be comprehensible.
Freakt - Like the color scheme and the idea (you do have great ideas) but are the white halos around everything intentional? Looks like the edge created by paint bucket fills.
Signature - Reminds me of a children's drawing (note: NOT a bad thing). I think the musical notes would show up better if they were a different color from the tree.
Jaded - Is the tree supposed to breaking down the barbed wire? What a cool idea.
Railboy - yeah, I think it has potential too. I like the textural quality, although the ring of brown at ground level is...inexplicable. Is the tree on an island?

Wow...a LOT of sketches today, and all really nice too. If I pulled out a comment on your work it's only because someone pointed out that my comments were getting a bit longish. *cough* *blush* So I pulled out all the ones that basically said 'that looks cool!' (They ALL look cool...)

[mog]

Worked a little more on it. Damn I wish I had a wacom!

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/a-z/mog/healingtree2.jpg

[EndDrive999]

http://img23.photobucket.com/albums/v68/enddrive999/DSG/DSG-HealingTree.jpg

apache i really like that one, a nice "ends of the earth" feeling

[SABRE]

HO GUYS, AMAZING WORKS TODAY!!

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/SABRE/CONCEPTART%20ORG/DSG_354__HEALING_TREE.jpg

USE REFERENCE FOR THE GIRL....


WOW, DSG ITS MORE GREAT DAY BY DAY!!

GREAT WORK ALL!!



CIAOO.....................................

[Railboy]

Swan - I like the harsh contrast in your colors.

The pool of brown is supposed to be blood - the island is sitting in the middle of it. Not very clear, I know.

Hunger Artist - Thanks for the tips, I'll give them a shot. :idea:

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/712c0791.jpg

15 minutes of faffing

[Freakt]

Swan: Thanks for the crit. About the white halos, it was unintentional. As you suggested, created by paint bucket fills, but I kind of liked the effect. After consulting my girlfriend, I left it that way. Considering that I've only posted pictures in five threads, I appreciate you liking my ideas. Thank you.
:-)

[Amerasu]

My second version, the happy one. Looks sort of Dr. Seuss-ish.

http://amerasu.randomleft.com/ca/feb15_04_healingtree2.jpg

EndDrive999 - love it :D

[micmac]

http://www3.sympatico.ca/michael.macvicar/michael/mm_dsg_07.jpg

Apache - The sun reflecting off the water gives the piece some nice contrast and does a great job leading your eye through the piece. Looks great!

MM

[Swoop]

Here goes about 15 mins in photoshop. Tried to use different brushes which i'm bad at:

http://www.reflection-design.dk/images/dsg354.jpg

PS: Anybody know why my files gets soo dark when i save it. When i was working in photoshop it was much much brighter...

[beetlebum]

http://www.beetlebum.de/misc/dsgbaum.jpg

j0j0

[mintyfreshdoom]

I think he dragged himself here, away from some battle, to die in quiet and peace. But once he had stripped away the chainmail and tumbled into the pool, he found that the tree had other ideas.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/sheepdeprivation/healingtree.jpg

I need one of those trees. The tablet is giving me hand cramps. Grr.

micmac- I dig the way the tree is radiating light, and I like the ritualistic context you've put the concept in. Nice. :)

amerasu - I really really like the symbolsigily things carved into the trunk. They convey the idea that the tree has some sort of imbued purpose while the surroundings make it look like you could come across it in any forest.

[Mykro]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v20/deadlybacon/healtree.jpg
Wow, been a while. Wimmen troubles and creative blocks. What else is new?

[micmac]

Swoop - Not sure why your colours are going dark. If you're working over a transparent background, try adding a white filled layer below your other layers. It's a shot in the dark. Repost it if you get the right colours. I'd be interested to see the difference.

MM

[Swoop]

Just found the sinner i think. Adobes gamme loader, which i usually remove. But i forgot after my last format.
Anyways i took a few mins and added some more "lights" to my image to make it more light in the mood.. here is my revised dark/light version :D

http://www.reflection-design.dk/images/dsg354_1.jpg

[Cybot Floor]

cool ideas, nice pics!

not much time today - and i dont really like those tree-topics...
http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/44/555744/800_6130383765313132.jpg

[Zwalharulzuki]

http://host.imageshack.us/files1/tree.JPG

[scumworks]

tx for crits :) and kewl scene apache.

railboy - Lol, just used a common gaussian blur with a gradient selection :) no dark magic. I like ya pic, does the tree cleanse the blood or live of it?

gw

[OrganicJerk]

Well I guess she can heal in some spiritual way...eh?
My original idea got mind-scrapped in the process...
http://images2.deviantart.com/i/2004/07/9/b/DSG_354_Healing_Tree.jpg

I guess it looks ok for my first time ever using painter..

[OrganicJerk]

The pre-sketch to my last submission .. I actually like this alot better....I guess I just need to get a grip on my coloring...and learn some computer "painting" techniques...

http://images2.deviantart.com/i/2004/07/8/3/DSG354_HealingTree_Pre_Sketch_.jpg

[Sapphire]

I'm thinking of adding a creature in this one, but first I'll post it without. I was working on another piece of art today so this was a quickie. Done in "procreate painter".


http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v35/Sapphire8400/healtree1.jpg

[shadoman]

Wow, some very amazing trees today.

About 1.5 hours in Photoshop.
http://www.shawnadomanis.com/dsg/dsg354.jpg

Hagac - Wow. I love the mood. And you say it's not finished...
mog - Very serene and warm.
Defunct - Cool idea and you beat me to it. You should of had the symbols glow more though.
Matt Dixon - That just takes my breath away. It just pops!
gekitsu - That's cool. Looks as if you work on modular video games like Neverwinter Nights.
Railboy - You always have such cool perspectives and a cool dab-style of painting.
Hunger_Artist - I love the style.
Amerasu - I like the lighting.
Davi - That's a different looking tree. Your painting style is really cool too. Do you always work on one layer?
Swan - Reminds me of the trees from Evil Dead, sans the glowing berries. Nice work by the way.
micmac - That is just awesome. Lighting and shadows look really nice.
mintyfreshdoom - That is a nice idea. I really like the luminosity of the water.
Mykro - Nice lighting. Makes me want to crawl in.

I'll be back Tuesday—snowboarding tomorrow!! Yea!

[gekitsu]

shadoman: you humble me. the only part that is connected to rpg's in that piece is that i did look a lot at old black isle concept art. and i liked the idea of isolating a piece of environment in a tile.
skill wise... i have a long long way to go. :)

i like the icey look in your tree. the streaks of higher saturated blue work really good.

enddrive: now that i call a very unique approach to the topic.

railboy: thanks :) putting more of them side by side would probably throw the balance of the level off a tiny tiny bit ;)

necronet: thank you very much. :)

hyver: hehehe ;) :chug:

[Sapphire]

shadoman: That is just gorgeous... it looks like it's made of ice and spun glass. I love it!

[Zwalharulzuki]

Here's another by me. I like this one more.

All these look so good!


http://host.imageshack.us/files2/tree3.JPG

[Iotrez]

Lots of nice images today.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simon.davies/HealingTree.jpg

[Thrash]

http://www.chaingunstudios.com/ArtGallery/dsg/slides/DSG354ThrashHealingTreeWeb.jpg

lots of filters and the dreaded maple leaf brush.

[shadoman]

Sapphire - Thanks for the words. I didn't see yours til after I posted. I really like that sign above the doorway. Cool lettering.
Zwalharulzuki - I like the floating "entities" around your tree.
Iotrez - I logged in just to see your image. So original. And I love the buggy the old guy drove in on.
Trash - Were you intending to have this be a reflection of the tree from a pool of water? It looks as if the leaves are on top of the water. It is a bit busy though. And the leaves that are in the foreground that are out of focus see like they're floating because you do not see any branches.

[Antilight77]

If a tree heals a deff man in the woods ,... does it make a noise?

http://www.digitalmack.com/Pages/TempPostings/treeofLife.jpg

~Nice work everyone.

[Klymestar]

I've been slacking here. (trying to use this to get used to school before I go back, lol)

http://www.keltaria.net/DSG/354.jpg

[Blitz]

Great stuff everyone

My little KegTree
Nothings more powerfull than the healing power of Fresh from the Tap Beer.

http://blitz.scattereddelusions.com/Sketchbook/TreeKeg.jpg

[Mykro]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v20/deadlybacon/healtree02b.jpg
I was in a good mood today, I guess. I did another.

[charger]

So fare they are looking good i will post mine some time when i am able to use my scanner.. that will not be to night

[Thrash]

@shadowman - I was trying to do a short focus of the center of the tree so that the near and far leaves would be out of focus. It enden up looking like seperate layers instead of one mass of leaves that get more into focus. Oh well.

[BlkCelebration]

I got inspired by Matt Dixon's piece, I love the way the tree looks in contrast to the background.

http://9doublebass.homestead.com/files/newart/aatreeo.JPG

[Brium]

Wow, all of you are excellent artists! I hope I will get near your level one day, and I guess the only way to do that is to practice. Though this is far from top quality, it's a quick painting done in Pixia using a mouse (waiting on my Wacom and better software).

http://brium.net/images/art/healing tree small.png

[Doodle Bob]

didnt do the last tree topic...thought Id do todays.

http://9doublebass.homestead.com/files/uploads/tr33.jpg

as always...very impressive work from everyone. Great job!!

[Sunny]

barelly in.

http://www.planethalflife.com/detailed/new/dsg/healingtree.jpg

[trelogy]

http://www.trelogy.net/art/sketch/tree.jpg

im a little late but i did this just for this dsg, in 35 minutes. pen.