Spring tree

I wanted to take the “waking forest” further and make more friends of mine into trees. The waking forest was originally Illustrations for an article called ‘A rural idyll` from Vogue interiors about how the nature (and forest in particular) wakes up in spring time (written by Rob Penn). This was a project we had in university during my illustration course. I wanted to draw living trees waking up and stretching their arms/branches. I used Liquid watercolour ink, pen and pencil. These trees are based on my friend Phuong Nguyen who modeled for me. (check out his work: http://www.phuong.no)