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First, as soon as I imagined the hands on the end of the branches I started looking forward to detailing them. I’ve gotten some done, I have been starting with the central image of the string on the antlers and working out in my cleanup sweep.

I did some work on the largest fruit’s face. It’s still unclear whether it is a mask or a face, and that’s my intention. The fruit has no nose, if you were reading before when I first sketched the faces, because I don’t think anyone would find a nose appealing to eat. Trees make fruit for eating and seed pooping. So these faces must be edible and delicious looking to qualify as fruit!

A lot was done to clean up the strings, and some of it I’m very proud of but isn’t easy to see from this image.  At some point before I finish this wip someone please remind me to do some string closeups of the real highlights.

This design is going to really suck at being a stained glass window.

In this step basically I did two things. One, I straightened out his antlers so they look more natural. And two… well.. I figured branches have knobby parts and so do elbows and wrists. Elbows and wrists have hands at the end of them, and so should these branches. It’s also a convenient way to attach apples to the tree. Can you imagine how fun it would be to pick apples if you could tickle the palms of the little hands afterwards?  And tiny obscene gestures are just cute. Tiny anything is cute.  (Strings coming soon I’m sure)

I think these things sort of happen as they go.