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The foliage is very yummy. so detailed and colourful.
... but those eyes. :(
I don't concentrate on a personal unique style. My treefolk avatar is at least something which gives me a recognizable note because of this I think I'll stick to it. Abouot the lips: guess you are right and the highlight is maybe a bit to bright because I simple deleted the brightest color in the end and I was to lazy to rework the whole foliage again. But I'll keep it as it is - it's also something like a milestone for me, I'll see what things will change the next months - I have lots of ideas.
The Foliage is an upgrade of the spring gnome's foliage texture. I kept the general form of the brightest highlight (single cluster in the spring gnome) for all the leaves and replaced all the single pixel noise with clusters, so all got a bit bigger and the forms unified. I have still some ideas how to improve the texture but I'll try this with the next tree. Adding a draker shade between the highlights would lead the focus finally away from the face, and the face is more important than the leaves.
Thanks for your kind words =)
Having no internet is worse, having new internet during holidays is a really bad joke. Yeah the interne tis pretty important, I need it for school and for spare time and the worst thing about all was that I recognized that most of the new games needs at least an internet connection to start them (I don't play a lot but I wanted to play skyrim during the holidays and it wasn't possible to start it). Really bad holidays.
Some of the best leaves I've ever see, very nice work !
Awesome and lovely piece!
The pixel clusters on the face highlights are unnaturally roundish, some slight bark-like texturing could help instead. Also the (otherwise excellent) leaves have a higher degree of detail and sharpness than the face, this tends to draw the eye away from the main focus (the face).
Welcome back Thomas - I'm also feeling so disconnected to the world when my IP connection is not working - makes you realise how much we depend on internet these days...
As always good to see new work from you, and although I already had a sneak preview on dA, I agree with slym that your avatar just scratches the surface of this beautiful end result!
Nice!
...but would of liked to have seen the hands look more "tree" like. (branches?)
Very nice, my favourite part is how you emphasized the "semi-transparency"of the treecrown throught the shadow.
Holy.... ok was not expecting this. The preview definitely doesn't do this justice. This is incredible. I love texture you made with the leaves (though in some places the highlight gets a bit too strong in my opinion). Amazing work :D
Hätte niemals einen Baum erwartet, als ich das Gesicht zum ersten mal im Atelier gesehen hab 
Funny that you are always using a treefolk man as avatar. But you improved very much since you did your last treefolk, your color choice is beautiful and similar to mine, lol. I really like the branches, the face is also good. Just three little things caught my eye: The mouth, the moustache and the leaves. In my opinion, the dark line which is sepperating the lips is too thick. Also the upper lip looks a bit weird, almost like a beak. This is because it's shaded with the same itensity like the lower lip, doesn't really gives the required depth. The moustache is ok, but a bit out of place. I would move it some pixeln rightwards. And to the leaves: Maybe a nitpck, but they look a bit flat at the brightest spot. Some darker outlines would help (It looks like Kiwinoptuô would render a tree, never liked this style).
However, very good sprite!
You could have won in the AFRO challenge LoL =) good job man