New Worlds #51:: Crystal Forest

This is an idea from
Patrik_P (Thanks!) out of the suggestion thread, but it also is a crossover with the current Creature Forge which can be found at
http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12892 . This environment concerns a crystal forest found on an extremely hot planet composed mostly of diamonds and graphite. (See
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ize-Earth.html ) Over in Creature Forge they are designing a tank creature that inhabits this world. Here we will be designing the kind of forest that might grow there based on graphite or diamonds.
Deadline: midnight December 1, 2012 California time
Deadline: midnight December 1, 2012 California time
Please no tracing. Our rules concerning the use of reference images is the same as that in Drawing Jams: http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4784 though I do not mean to say the use of texture images placed onto a model by a 3D program is forbidden. That practice is more akin to the custom brushes often used in 2D that were based on some shape that arose out of a prior image. Many of the more sophisticated programs have libraries of textures included that were .jpgs originally derived from photographs.