One of my favorite things to do is walk through the woods and look for trees that I can manipulate into faces. I used to have a dozen or so but over the years the folder got lost. We took a walk yesterday and I took a few pics that hold possibilities, this is one. Yeah, I know it's dumb, but it's fun.

That isn't dumb. I do the same thing with some of the wood grain and metal patterns I have.
I just sit back and look at them until something shows that I can start with. Anyway, I think it is very good and that is the kind of thing I like playing with.

Looks like lots of fun, GMS. Creative and clever.

gms9810: fun!! i think this tree person looks a little melancholy, though.
i like finding faces in stuff too - i have a whole gallery of characters that i've found on trams and buses here in town, i've never taken photos of them but i've sketched them often enough.

I don't give em moods, I just bring out what's there. If you were a tree wouldn't you be gloomy if you were just standing there and some goofball started taking your picture without even asking?

nope, just Gimp.

Have you seen The Forest Has Eyes? Reminds me of the faces in that painting

Nice, Has a sort of Gorilla feel to it.

gms9810: if i was a tree and some goofball took pictures of me without even asking i'd protest the best way a tree can: i'd fall on him, with a heavy bang! that would teach him. aren't you glad i'm not a tree?

Since I didn't have any pictures of interesting tree trunks, I did a search in Bing and found these tree roots here.

This was a lot of fun. I flipped the results vertically and got this funny monster. I used a brown layer set to Grain Merge to color it.

Nice O, looks like a cute little face hiding in the roots.

O: that little guy would fit very well in a fantasy illustration, looks good with the colouring.

i was looking for some of my tree pictures to join in the fun when i realized i actually had a tree person readymade - me and my friend found this fellow on our walk in the woods near her house this summer:

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Roots! I hadn't thought of those, you opened a whole new dimension to this, O.