clockbirds:

thank you so much, i’ve been adding flowers to my art a lot more this year so i’m glad they’ve been looking nicer! i still sorta wing it sometimes, but here are a few techniques that i find helpful! (also i’m not sure exactly which type of flowers the ask was referring to, but here’s my tut for a generic rose)

  • (1) blob.
  • (2) decide which direction your flower is facing so you can maintain the same perspective, and this will help you figure out how to roughly place in the petals too.
  • 3) for most of my flowers i usually start from the outside in. i use a square watercolour brush to block in the shape of the overall flower with a slightly lighter colour than the base blob. 
  • (4 - 6) i keep blocking in more petals circling towards the centre in a spiral fashion, making the colour even lighter and petals smaller the closer towards the centre i get. once the rough painting is done, i’ll go and adjust the colours/values as i see fit (in this case i used levels to increase the contrast a little, and then hue & saturation to add a slight yellow tint).
  • (7 - 9) this is the detailing/fixing up stage. i’m basically refining the shapes of the petals and adding in a few more to the empty spots (totally optional, depending on how full you want your flower). you can totally leave it as shown in 8, but for more intensity i sometimes duplicate the flower layer then set the top layer to overlay. making your lights lighter and darks darker will generally add a bit more dimension to your rose!

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