Wildflower

[alanti]

Something that I started years ago but never got around to finishing. I found it the other day while cleaning out the archives, and decided to get some practice with my new XDP6.

There is a slightly larger version on my web site.

C&C welcome

[bcire68]

Wow Alanti, that looks great! I really like it. Something you might want to try is to feather some of those shapes on the petals a bit more to smooth them into the rest to give it more of a watercolor feel, but other than that, I wouldn't change a thing.

Eric

[Big Frank]

That's really lovely, well done

[alanti]

Thank you both, I will give that soft edged effect a try Eric

[RUSS-USSR]

Congratulations!
I like everything but shadows. It is black ((((
I hope my advice will help to you/ )))

[Penny O'Rorke]

Very nice indeed, it's more like an acrylic painting than watercolour.

[Purrfeck]

Very pretty wildflower I've seen lots of them and yours is well done!

Michele

[alanti]

Hi everybody, thanks for all of the suggestions. I have altered the shadow colour (left hand image), what do you think?

I am still playing with the edges but I think that I prefer the way they are now, because it separates the flower from the blurred background. I must admit that when I started the image I was aiming for a watercolour effect, but as with most of my drawings the end product is quite often very different from the original concept.

I will probably leave it as it is for now, mainly because I have been fiddling with it on and off for a couple of years, I just couldn't get it right. Finally it occured to me that the original didn't have enough contrast, but the thought of adjusting all of the shapes seemed like too much work. Then I remembered a technique I had seen in a XaraXone tutorial, which involved making a bitmap copy of things and applying a flat stained glass transparency, which is what I did for the petal shapes. The image on the right is the one without the bitmap transparency thing, it just seem too wishy washy to me.

OK I'll stop rambling now, except to say thank you for all of the compliments and suggestions