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Better trees indeed. Got the name by doing up some 50 sketches of trees, then sitting down this morning with a regular old pencil, taking 20 seconds to do this, and muttering to myself, "Mmm, better trees."

I tend to think that a lot of the gestural stuff comes out a lot better than careful line work when I'm doing natural stuff, and this is a perfect example. I did this from a memory of what my swamp (some people live on a lake, I live on a swamp that happens before the lake starts) looked like back in 1989 after a particularly bad winter.

So, shot it with the Nikon D70, brought it into Photoshop, realized the camera can't shoot pencil work for any price, and watercolor filtered it. Nearly no change and it brought back the edges I'd drawn in the first place. Damnit, I want my scanner back.

Oh, and I finally got a black and white frame action made for Photoshop. Sod all these fancy frames - all I wanted was a single white surround line and a place for text. Better. And trees.
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