I took a picture of my 'actor', and ran it through a few photoshop filters - this isn't anything like how I intend to draw the character, but I wanted to give it a flat feel. The purpose of this was so that I could see my character within the background intended; I figured that his colorization would affect my approach for the forest. Indeed, it is going to be much more desaturated and have less contrast than my original versions of the trees.