Sarah Crispin: Technical Drawing

The Corinthian style is more ornate and heavier than the Ionic style. In Corinthian temples, the columns have a fancier base to stand on. At the top of the columns, on the capital, there's a stone carving of acanthus leaves, under the architrave.
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/corinthian.htm

The Corinthian order is named for the Greek city-state of Corinth, to which it was connected in the period. However, according to the architectural historian Vitruvius, the column was created by the sculptor Callimachus, probably an Athenian, who drew acanthus leaves growing around a votive basket. In the oldest known Corinthian capital was found in Bassae, dated at 427 BC. It is sometimes called the feminine order because it is on the top level of the Colosseum and holding up the least weight, and also has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height. Height to width ratio is about 10:1.

I chose a Corinthian column rather than a simpler design because they are more closely linked with trees. Also as the columns are symbolic of a forest it made more sense to use the leaf design capitals rather than Ionic or Doric.

I found some measurements for a column on the Internet and then used those to calculate the rest of the dimensions. I then used these dimensions on another image of a capital to work out the sizes of the column decoration. These measurements were then used to make an Auto CAD drawing.