I looked at this earlier in the day, and came back back to view the image again.
What you’ve done so far is very interesting. The leaf textures are outstanding. The child’s face is quite well done. 
Thank you for your kind words Filament9,… Jotajota , my spanish is not so
good that i understand all , but i believe you don’t like the facial expression of
the child, as for my method in creating the image…i used my digital camera for
the leaf textures, made 3D-meshes in diff’rent meshresolutions from the leaf-alpha’s , made a little Zsphere hand, Zbrushed away and used the fiberbrush
to “shred” the leafs and to create a “noise” that looks like a naturel groundplane!
This new image started as a doodle but it looked interesting ( i hope ! ) so
i decided to post it!
Perhaps a picture explains better, by lowering your meshresolutions when making
3D from a alpha , you can get a sort of “ïnstant” decay for your leafmodel !
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hey Jantim gracias… 
me gusta su ultima imagen …mejoro la expresion ahora se ve mas infantil …el follaje se ve excelente …
Hi jantim, that is an interesting ‘decayed leaf’ technique. I’ll have to try that. 50.
Made an update on the face( hope jotajota likes it;) ) made a new treematerial
and used 2 variations in projectionmaster , i used no textures only materials !
Made a few snapshots of the same branch and used my leaf-alpha’s to spray
a sort of leaf/ funges on the branches !
jantim
:eek: :eek: :eek: very good ，i like it ，i am doing a flower pic，:lol: i use the same me
thod:)
Charming and good use of the Alpha
Pilou
Time for an update, made a new tree-character, a sort of treespirit !
For the tree’s i used two materials, i used one alpha 3d-mesh for cutting into
the tree’s , as a sort of barkmaterial !
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Amigo…que buenas texturas…un muy buen trabajo prefiero la primera imagen el enfasis en el tronco es mas natural …las manos le restan credibilidad a la imagen…
I think this wip is finished now, …i made the trunk of the "spirit"tree , looking
less like dead wood by using fresher green leafs, made the background tree’s
material a bit more blue, to make the main trunk more in front of the picture.
Made some bigger leafs, …i hope it looks greener and not to cluttered 
The hand of the baby is perhaps a bit to large,…ah well, so its a kid with big
hands:p
I really enjoyed watching this work progress, great looking from the beginning to the end. Great use of colors and allot of detail!
Matt 
Thank’s mmbenya
Glad you liked my wip, i think it’s alway’s nicer to see a work from start to
finish…instead off :" Hey look at the head/alien/monster i made"
I Would like to see more wips and finished works on this forum:)
jantim
…me sigue gustandosu trabajo de texturas…
interesting version - of your own living forest
I still really like the original WIPs - the firast two images you posted.
Understated, but they work really well both in composition and texture and colour.
I very much like the last couple of images, but still prefer the slightly surreal aspects of the first two. The materials in the last set of posted images (the tree spirit ones) don’t seem to blend as well with each other…
Still, great work, and interesting to watch it all develop
Lately i was playing with Silo, but i made some small changes: i used only
two lights: a sun and a spotlight, to make the main tree stand more on the fore
ground i used fog , the reason for the two lights is the fact that fewer lights
seem to make a better 3D effect in Zbrush
Cool stuff!
Reminds me of the Cabage patch kids from the 80’s
BTW if you like Silo, you will LOVE wings3d 
Lots of features, Plus one of the best UV mapping systems on the plannet… Plus you dont have to pay to beta test it all for FREE!
http://www.wings3d.com/
I had a copy of wings on my computer but i did not do much with it, only after
i started using Zbrush i felt the need for a good "old fashion"polygon program!
I’m very happy with the way Silo works and i don’t know much of UV mapping
i do all my rendering stuff in Zbrush, so in the moment there is no need to use
UV mapping features, and i believe that Silo is working on a UV mapping and
texturing feature, for their future release .
jantim
Wings has a bunch of other things that sillo dose not.
Scale radial on axis— Very handy tool
Extrude edge- Silo has extrude edge that I somewhat like… it leaves a Hole on one side of the extrude. Wings dose not do this… it gives you the choice to make the underside a Hole by just adding a material after the extrude. in silo is quite time consumeing to add a new patch over the hole.
Extrude vertex… I am very supprised that Silo dose not have this feature… great for teeth, Spines, spikes,hair, Etc… very useful tool.
Complex rotate features- Wings has a few ways to rotate things. you can do a conventional rotate and then there are advanced rotate that lets the user define a point to pivot the rotate… This is AWESOME for makeing hoses, wires, and such things…
Well this list is going to get very big if I keep typeing…
I stopped giveing feedback in the SILO forum after I realised that My only reward for helping them out is possibly going to be them Chargeing me more money for the product I help to develope. They are saying that at version 2.0 is going to have a price increase. I am saveing my FEEDback time for Open source GNU projects that wont charege me for the products I helped to develope. I am not sure if they are going to tax us for the upgrade or not, I am going to save my feedback untill I see that I am not going to be penalized for helping them.
I like how wings is a donation only program… if you like it you can name your price and send it to them VIA Pay-Pal. Over the years I think I have donated close to 500$ … Every time they improve or add a feature that I use, I wire them a couple of bucks to say kudos.
In the end it all boilds down to an artists prefrences… Silo is definately a good program… I own it, and I can definately see it being one of the best modeling packages out there when they are finnished with it (I wonder what it is going to cost people that point). There are a lot of people who already like it, and use it. I think it is cool in a lot of ways, I still find myself useing wings over Silo.
I drink Coke over pepsi, and I buy Levis over Wranglers
Have a good one