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Now for some personal works!

I've been meaning to draw up some treefolk for a while, and produced this one on the car ride up to Michigan. They're basically a plant that works like an animal.

You'll notice I used roman numerals to label certain things, so here's the descriptions that go with the numbers:

I. Treefolk do have "eyes", but they are very simple, comprised of only a pit of light-sensitive cells. This allows the creature to sense what direction the light is coming from, but not much else. To make up for their poor sense of sight, treefolk have a decent sense of smell and can sense vibrations through the ground with their roots.
II. Those green protrusions off its chest are tubers, and are used for the external storage of water, nutrients, and starch. There are several more under the surface, including a central tuber in the chest that stores hormones and other chemicals to govern the other cells, and acts as the "brain" of the creature by releasing them at the appropriate times.
III. Treefolk do not have muscles. Instead, they have long, bundled stems that are powered by turgor pressure. For those of you unfamiliar with turgor pressure, it's basically water pressure within cells that support the plant, for example, well-watered plants have a higher turgor pressure and stay up straight, wheras deyhdrated plants loose turgor pressure and wilt.
Treefolk control their limbs by allowing water to flow into certain stems within a bundle, thickening and contracting the stem much like a muscle. This process is rather slow, so Treefolk have a very delayed reaction time.
IV. Treefolk reproduce through flowers like most plants. Some species produce male and female flowers (i), and some produce hermaphroditic flowers with both stamen and stigma present. Flowers appear on the underside of the creature in the gaps between the wooden carapace. The flowers are pollinated by insects and the occasional bird. Fruit (ii and iii, with a cross section) forms from the flowers, and depending on the species, either drops and germinates on its own or is germinated from a water supply from the parent plant. Young (iv) are small and do not possess the wooded carapaces of the adults.
V. Roots are located on the underside of the front limbs. the digits on the front limbs can interlock to form a spade-like appendage, which is then thrust into the soil for water and nutrients. Occasionally treefolk will use their roots to gain nutrients from a carcass or even more rarely, will use their strong forelimbs to bring down a slow-moving animal for food.

Treefolk can get up to 15-20 feet tall, the young are about 8 inches, and the fruits are about the size of a large grapefruit.

Description
Now for some personal works!

I've been meaning to draw up some treefolk for a while, and produced this one on the car ride up to Michigan. They're basically a plant that works like an animal.

You'll notice I used roman numerals to label certain things, so here's the descriptions that go with the numbers:

I. Treefolk do have "eyes", but they are very simple, comprised of only a pit of light-sensitive cells. This allows the creature to sense what direction the light is coming from, but not much else. To make up for their poor sense of sight, treefolk have a decent sense of smell and can sense vibrations through the ground with their roots.
II. Those green protrusions off its chest are tubers, and are used for the external storage of water, nutrients, and starch. There are several more under the surface, including a central tuber in the chest that stores hormones and other chemicals to govern the other cells, and acts as the "brain" of the creature by releasing them at the appropriate times.
III. Treefolk do not have muscles. Instead, they have long, bundled stems that are powered by turgor pressure. For those of you unfamiliar with turgor pressure, it's basically water pressure within cells that support the plant, for example, well-watered plants have a higher turgor pressure and stay up straight, wheras deyhdrated plants loose turgor pressure and wilt.
Treefolk control their limbs by allowing water to flow into certain stems within a bundle, thickening and contracting the stem much like a muscle. This process is rather slow, so Treefolk have a very delayed reaction time.
IV. Treefolk reproduce through flowers like most plants. Some species produce male and female flowers (i), and some produce hermaphroditic flowers with both stamen and stigma present. Flowers appear on the underside of the creature in the gaps between the wooden carapace. The flowers are pollinated by insects and the occasional bird. Fruit (ii and iii, with a cross section) forms from the flowers, and depending on the species, either drops and germinates on its own or is germinated from a water supply from the parent plant. Young (iv) are small and do not possess the wooded carapaces of the adults.
V. Roots are located on the underside of the front limbs. the digits on the front limbs can interlock to form a spade-like appendage, which is then thrust into the soil for water and nutrients. Occasionally treefolk will use their roots to gain nutrients from a carcass or even more rarely, will use their strong forelimbs to bring down a slow-moving animal for food.

Treefolk can get up to 15-20 feet tall, the young are about 8 inches, and the fruits are about the size of a large grapefruit.