Shape diversity

This weekend I did spend some time at the shores of the Great Belt. I have realised that the diversity of possible plant shapes are even larger than the diversity of shapes I created in my sketches of imaginary plants. I found a wide variation of beautiful entangled form, the result of an evolution guided by the harsh environment of salt, wind and sea.

Plant (3) - where do plants branch?

Often when I have a minute or two, maybe waiting for a train, I study the structure of plants - how they branch, how they grow. One thing that I have noticed is, that behind the apparent symmetric structure of a plant, looking carefully, a haphazard structure is found. A structure with a lot of false starts and runaway tries aiming nowhere.

Plant (2) - The shape of leaves

Does leaves have a pointed shape? Of course - not all leaves are pointed, but when I draw leaves as a long narrow shapes with a pointed end, the drawings seems to become more realistic.

Plant (1)

I have begun to draw plants - imaginary plants. In a way it is a completely machine independent type of simulation. What I want is to catch the complexity of plant structures on a sheet of paper. The success criteria is that I’ am able to accept the drawing as possible plant that I could find somewhere in nature.