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A few years back I was trying to learn to draw/paint crysanthemums.
Here is an image of how I practiced the sketch of the flower. I practiced quite a bit until I felt like I had a strong mental image and skill to project how the layers of petals and folding would work.
I realize this isn’t the kind of flowers you are doing but maybe my process will help you visualize how the flower petals fall.
I’ve used this for peonies. Similar structure to roses. It’s the same basic technique.
Here are peonies with this technique
Your’e doing great. Go darker with your shadows. Color doesn’t matter as much as value.
I’m not an artist, but I do feel like contrast would help.
sometimes people can struggle to reproduce the complex shapes with shading like this. you can start with sketching them freehand. this way you’re focusing more on the actual shape. start drawing from the outside-in (or inside-out, depending on the perspective), petal by petal. then start shading. that way you don’t have to worry about the color. if you find that you’re still struggling with the shape, you can even start with tracing over an image of a rose until you can freehand the petals overlapping each other.
once you’ve gotten the hang of freehanding the petals all together, you can work on the shading and then the coloring, then you’ll be able to paint it just fine. The key thing is practice, practice, practice, and flower petals can be especially difficult.
Thank you, I’ll give it a try. I’ve seen some people paint each petal with one stroke and make it look so easy. I’m not having such luck
I promise you, those people painted thousands and thousands of petals before they were able to do that. it takes a lot of practice to make anything look that easy ;)
These look like really great impressionist roses to me ….this is a beautiful style. Are you wanting to do hyper realism? That is a different style with a different approach. For realism you would want to get the image on canvas as realistic as possible using carbon transfer paper a projector or a several hours of freehand drawing
They’re very impressionistic but I’m trying to move towards realism but not too much. I like a balance between looseness and realism but not hyper realistic. Maybe I should try tracing to sharpen the drawing with the brush
This is looking good. Don’t worry if you can’t get this one where you want, you’re learning and practicing. I’m learning too, and practicing a lot. I’ve been trying to paint the tree in my front yard, I’ve done a couple of pencil sketches, 2 paintings that are a little abstract, and 5 watercolor that are just the tree. Each practice gives me the ideas of tree shape, and for the watercolor versions I keep getting the branches a little better and starting to add more depth (which was totally missing in my first trees).
Replace that smudgy corner with curling black smoke and you have a surrealist painting that’s museum worthy.
Way better than I could ever. You could get a real rose and spray paint it! LOL.
