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Pretty simple to make an evergreen and a deciduous tree, isn't it?
I could have made some fancier ones, but I will leave that for your
imagination to come up with. Anyway, let's add these to the
picture....
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That still doesn't look like quite enough foliage to me, so let's
look at some ways to make some flowers and things...
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subtitute a percent character.
Now, let's add 'em in quantity....
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Notice that I put some of the flowers directly "in front" of our
castle. I knew where I wanted them to go, placed the cursor there,
backspaced, and entered the new character I wanted to use - simple. If
it had looked misplaced, well... that's a lot easier to fix, than
going back and erasing a "real" line on a piece of paper, or finding
some way to incorporate a mistake into an actual painting. About the
only "trick" you see me doing in this picture, is with the
background. I have intentionally left out a space between the
background line, and the castle and tree element. This preserves the
perspective of the text picture, by keeping the background line from
running into the foreground elements, which may confuse the eye into
thinking they are all connected. With a text picture, this can often
be a problem. Some text artists don't do this, because they may have
other ways of keeping the perspective constant. Then again, some just
forget, but don't tell them I said so.
This picture looks almost done, but I think it needs a road up to the
front door...
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