Lol the funny thing is I'm studying both of those foliage

But thanks for your advice , basically I have found them yesterday when I were doing more research for foliage etc.

Any ideas what to put above the tree...

Wait up! I think you're moving backwards with your two newest additions.

I love what you did with the leaves on the one with lots of contrast, and I think you should fall back to that one. Are you using any kind of reference for these, or just winging it? If you're just winging it, STOP. It feels like a sin to use a reference I know, but it's not. You're not blindly copying the image, you're studying it so that you know how a tree works. A lot of what makes you able to draw is knowledge of how stuff works, and right now it doesn't seem like you understand what makes a tree a tree in an artist's eye.

You don't need to take a class in botany, but you'll need to figure out how light will affect the tree, what shapes are present, what its proportions are, what colors it has, and artisty stuff. Basically, if you want to get better, you'll need to observe meticulously.

As for what you have right now, your textures all seem the same dither noise. I'm not saying dither noise doesn't ever work, I'm just saying it all feels the same right now. I think that some smoothness in a couple places would help a whole lot with variety and visual interest.

Your leaves seem a little bit too small for your trunk. It's generally good to have the leaves take up just as much or more of the canvas than the trunk...at least for a lot of trees. Also, your coconuts would be in shadow, and they would be much darker.

But yeah, I really like what you did with the leaves on that top one. Keep shading them more like that!

Thank you for your words , I really appreciated it.

I do use refference , right now I'm trying to study these palm trees.

http://www.untiredwithloving.org/palm_tree_2.jpg

And the last palm I were merely trying something new with the leaves by watching this dude palm tree http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/17121.htm I was like why not lets try something near the line like that instead of wasting countless of hours.

But again I'm also trying to figure out something in my own style without needing to copy someone .



Last try for today.

Palm trunk tryout.

I were studying this dude trunk http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/17121.htm.