What cases / when is it right, aesthetically-speaking, to ignore the rule of "angle the tree toward the viewer"?

[Adair M]

Didn't make it through all 19 pages, but I wanted to propose another anthropomorphic perspective on why the top leaning forward might imply old age...

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That picture was taken from the side. How does that person appear from the front?

 

[leatherback]

How does that person appear from the front?

ok, you asked.