Tree with Character

This weeks Visual Design project was to design a tree with character. Not a character that is a tree but a tree that has character to it. So to start I created a moodboard of trees.

Next I created some roughs on paper and some sketches of bark for reference.
Then I created more roughs in Photoshop.

I chose to take 3, 4, and 6 further.

I decided I liked the middle tree the best and I knew I wanted to have lightning in the final piece. I am very happy with how it turned out but I think that there should have been less rim lighting on the right hand side of the tree.