I think I can relate to this man and his botanical affliction of the heart.

After working 7 years as a retail slave my time working on a farm tilling the earth with my hands really made me care about plants for the first time in my life.

Great image.

This is quite AMAZING. And the title is really amazing. I wouldn't have been able to think of it. The art is quite amazing! It can really give a message. :3

Aww, you're too kind. I actually have been drawing people with foliage or plants growing from them for awhile, but they've all been doodles. I finally felt like I should do a full on finished piece to show the idea. Everyone else in my digital painting class thought it was crazy but good. Oh and the title is bullshitted. I hate titling stuff. It all sounds fake and pretentious to me.

Haha, it's all just wonderful! The title seems like it was thoroughly thought through. xD (Wow, those last three words ran weird, haha!) It fits the picture just fine too. It may just be that you named it, so you don't find it original since it's not all new to you and such. ;) It is a wonderful piece still. I favorited it long ago! :D

I don't know. I've definetly evolved as far as how I think of art that I do (as compared to when I was in middle school/high school). Artwork, to me, is a product of a time or a moment in time. Once the process of making is over, the artwork no longer has any personal meaning to me. The personal meaning was the actual act of making that was so important to me and important to making me happy and challenging me mentally. I'm more apt to giving away my art for free if it wouldn't cause me to starve or end up on the streets (even then I could be a folk artist :P). But hey, whatevs. I'm weird.

xD I do love the evaluation. I find my art (my music) something to reminisce to. I mean, its loads of fun to to write, record, and publish, but then you can have something to look back to, I guess... I don't know, it may be different with paintings and stuff. But I just think... 'I created this.' Yeah, I'm dramatic that way. *dramatic pose* xD

I have this theory about artists that you're either an artist who is in it for the process or the final product. I'm a process artist. The number one thing I enjoy is to deal with the tangible things like canvas, paints, clay, plaster, glass, etc. I HATE talking about my art. I hate how I sound when I talk about my art because everything sounds selfish and pretentious, so I just end up making jokes the entire time I talk about art because I can't stand it if I don't. I don't know if I'm way off base with this idea about artists (and a lot of artists don't seem to get the difference when I explain it and they'll say "Well I like making it but I like having the final product", but there really is a big difference.

Yeah, totally, same here. At times, I'm a process artist just because I like having that rush of perfection and OCD, and working on it to make it as best as possible, fitting the thoughts in my head to physical(?) form. Other than that, I like final products to look back on alot. But, just like you, I don't like talking about it. I show my work to others to listen to, but it makes me feel like I'm gloating. And then when they say it's AMAZING, I'm always hoping they're not saying it just because I'm their friend or whatever. I guess being an artist of any kind has it's ups and downs, but nothing life-threatening. ;)