08-01-2017, 08:53 PM
(08-01-2017, 08:40 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(08-01-2017, 06:44 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP - I can understand the leaf margins being important, but why veins?
What I have learned from studying the small plants is that the botanical information is often concentrated in the leaves in general: their shape, margin, and I guess also the veins, though this will be much more important in the large plants so I'll take JKP's word on this....
The small plants seem more like quick sketches, so perhaps the illustrator felt that context (among the other small-plant drawings) and a quick sketch were enough to identify them on the small-plant pages. Also, some of them match to the big plants, which means it wouldn't be necessary to draw in all the details the second time.