@rationalrats Thanks Peter! I felt that to get the tree to do what Vadim had painted I needed to manually place the tree limbs. The Sapling tree generator is great and makes fantastic procedural plants, but I needed more control. I then used the particle system to place the leaves and quickly lost that control. Ha ha.
Going organic in Blender is not as expensive as it is at the grocery store. It also has a certain freedom that comes from the random nature of the subjects. The sculpting features of Blender are so much fun too. I’m still amazed to have the modeling power of Maya and the digital clay of Zbrush all in one free package. 🤯