SomeDeviantOcelot
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🕑 Added 2019-02-11 21:33:54 +0000 UTC"Gratitude. Apprehension. Distress. Fulfillment. The tree's face usually is fixated in a visage that reflects what it feels at the moment. Of course, to a tree, 'moments' span months, even years. So it's hard to see see a tree change expressions.
Must be hard for the tree as well, I assume, since rather than changing them, they seem content with leaving them there, letting them slide along the bark as they grow a new one in their place.
It's funny when you think of it. The rougher, wearier faces are the ones of the younger tree, rather than the old. Unlike us, the face of old age smiles more jovial than the ones from when they're young... Come to think of it, a few people I know are like that too. Maybe they're not too different from the trees in that regard, after all."
I like my plant anthros to be 90% less anthro, 90% more unsettling. Plants are so unlike us that I think it's only fair even an anthropomorphism of them should be incredibly unlike a human being. I like the idea of trees having faces in their bark Pocahontas-style, but having it be less expressive, less like a face, and more like a mask of sorts, is nice.
The last philosophical bit came spontaneously with it, which is why I like doing these clean conceptual drawings. These things always seem to happen when I do them ^^
