Okay, I made some plant step by step - so I could see my work progress and so you guys can show me were I went wrong. Please note that it's a bit different because I saved it to .gif, mainly (or only) with the brown pixels.
- Basic, rought outline
- More detailed outline; added some plant parts and roots
- Basic shading of the plant part
- More detailed shading
- Basic shading of the roots, also detailed them more
- More detailed root shading
- Adding a simple background
- Detailing the background