BONUS CONTENT: Sketchbook: Ciceron
After ditching the idea of the multi-trunk trees, I tried to at least make some free-standing trees that looked a bit different and alien. I do like the diamond-shaped designs at the bottom, with the dense top canopies and sparser branches below that form the bottom halves of the diamonds. In the final art, I don’t think I ever really followed through and showed much of the trees.
On this page, I also did some other types of shrubs and growth on Ciceron, not that many of those made it into the final artwork either.
I’m not sure why, but with exception of the two trees in the bottom left corner, these trees make me think of a more tropic setting.
True. That’s actually why I designed them that way. They’re a bit reminiscent of palm trees, but I thought that juxtaposition might be more visually interesting and alien than regular trees that you’d normally associate with snow. But as I mentioned elsewhere, in the end, I didn’t really do much with the trees anyway!
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1753/52/74/1149024630/n1149024630_30242549_9027.jpg Palm trees and snow.
Great find! “Photochop” away light and houses, and it looks “out-wordly”.
It is not much of a find, it was back in 2008 and I just took my camera outside. The snow found my neighborhood more than I found it.