The first doodle is inspired by dead wood/fallen trees and how new plants and animals use it as home and food.
The 2nd doodle is some further experimenting with using white marker as sort of permanent masking fluid.
With the last doodle I just looked a bit at how the colors mixed. Wanted to try a transluscent effect orginally.

Today I did a study of a "sunken ruin" in a nearby forest. It was getting dark, sorry for the photo quality.

I think it collapsed because the river undermined parts of the structure. And then it broke at it's weakest spot (where I think there was some sort of metal plate, acting as a watergate).

Today I did some studies in the forest again. I found a nice pond with the first frog/toad-"eggs" swimming in it's water, right among some young reed plants.

This is a screenshot of a game we're working on, world design and textures by me :)

Explore a tiny, remote island filled with a wonderful forest and crazy characters.
http://www.kelgar.org/

100 Wörter über Waldeinsamkeit

Waldeinsamkeit. Eins mit der Natur, allein mit sich selbst, doch ein Teil des Ganzen.

Der Wald umfängt mich, er streichelt meine Ohren und mein Herz. Gibt es etwas Wundervolleres? Ich gehe durch die Wildnis, das Laub raschelt unter meinen Füßen und die Äste knacken. Ein Reh springt erschreckt aus dem dichten Unterholz und ich stehe wie erstarrt. Plötzlich zerreißt ein Schrei die Stille. Ich bin nicht länger allein.

Neugierig über die Quelle tragen mich meine Füße hinfort. Ein kleines Mädchen ist von einem Baum gefallen. Ich helfe ihr auf und möchte sie trösten. Doch sie lächelt zwischen ihren Tränen. "Das Abenteuer war es wert."

It took me quite some willpower to publish this photo.

I've high quality standards for myself, especially when it comes to photographing tiny worlds. This is especially bad when deciding on images, where I know they aren't perfect, but think they have potential.

Day 3! I usually have too many ideas in my head to implement, so feel free to steal some.
My theme for today is forest.

1. make a game where you are a forest ghost protecting the woods from human destruction
2. hollow out a log and put speakers inside playing nature sounds
3. create a guerilla initiative for keeping the woods clean of rubbish
4. a project where you buy ruins in cities, demolish them and turn the area into a city forest (alternatively do this the guerilla way)
5. create a free game which emotionally connects citizen back to forests
6. paint street lanterns, so they look like birch trees
7. build a watch tower in the woods, which looks like a hollow tree
8. decrease meat consumption, so less area is used to grow food (especially for pigs are large areas needed to grow them food) - turn the areas free again into forests
9. paint on a dead tree with bioluminiscent paint
10. plant domestic saplings at places currently turning back into a forest / in commercial forests

licensed as CC-BY 3.0 (attribute me as Rick Hoppmann - www.tinyworlds.org
The image is not included in the license.

My entry of this week!

more photos: http://www.tinyworlds.org/