For http://darkgreypages.tumblr.com/ / http://hardlysleeping.deviantart.com/ : )
You said "surreal tree" and I thought of the wonderful Emily Carrol comic http://www.emcarroll.com/comics/skin/ (Out of Skin)
Fairly plain n the background, makes me feel bad, I don[t know my, brain wont let me make it right ):