Well, okay, so I scaled them down, and dialed down the bright tree-colors, and got this:

weird forest.jpg

Which, although not as scary as the first, now just looks like green spots on the page. *sigh*


So,... guessing that either A) I should just use them for individual trees (or not at all) and find another way to convey forests, or B) Try it by drawing smaller more detailed trees from the start... then again, that gets into the color variation issue, so....

Yeah, I don't know where to go from there

I think I might try to switch to a more simple line style (whatever it's called?) on parchment, and see how far I get with that?

Or keep playing with my trees... I'm not sure atm because it's past my bedtime