Quality of genius

A project I had to do for an Environmental Liberal Arts class at my college, which is based on sociological and anthropological reflection.

For this project, we had to study Armstrong's twelve qualities of genius as well as Gardner's methods of learning, and somehow craft a project (paper, diorama, whatever!) about how we learn. I learn by the methods in the top of the branches, and am characterized by the four qualities that you see climbing up the base of the trees.

The numerous stocks I used off of DA here are:
Hand 001 by
Eyeball Stock 2 by
Bonsai Tree Stock by
Orchidee 's Trees by
Spooky Brush Set by

*and a brush set that I can't find here on DA again, but I know they are from here orginally! PLEASE help me find the proper creator so I can thank him/her?? All I know is that the brush file's name is 'SS-clouds-brushes'*

And the 'miscellaneous brushes' that comes standard with photoshop 7.

About 8 hours total, I think? I just couldn't find the right trees to use for the growing fingers!