Visual Narratives - Drawing from Adventures

During my trip to Woodhouse Ridge I tried to document some things I saw & did through drawings.

Trees are hard to draw

Singing alone in the woods is very therapeutic

cyclists think people alone singing in the woods are weird.

Different ways of drawing trees. I love the autumnal colours of the first one and how the downward strokes of the tree trunks contrast against the horizontal strokes adding bits of detail. I think the depth in this image is pretty good. Not sure about the acrylic paint though due to the kind of shiny finish it's given.

The second image was an experiment with texture, using a cut up paper plate and printing lines to make fur trees. In theory this worked but in practice not so much. It just looks like a mess. Can I refine this a bit?

I really like the format of the third page it really accentuates the height of the tree.

More tree texture experiments. 

first one really didn't work. I tried to create a tree scape by putting down strips of masking tape and painting over them but when they peeled up they took up half of the page too. Never again. 

The second image looked better before I added too much to it and it just turned into a green/turquoise rectangle covered in lines! do not overdo things! I do quite like the rough bark-like texture it gives. 

The third image I like the best as its the most illustrative, I like how the trees are stylised but still recognisable as trees (remember what I said about not overdoing it) and the small person at the bottom really plays to  the size of the trees.