Yellow Contest_Golden Lilies

Hi friends!

It's my picture for color contest by @deemarshall
Today it's yellow color, and I drew a golden lilies.

Sketch

Color palette

(yes, I draw in Paint Tool SAI now)

Steps
In vercion 2 of SAI you can fill an background with gradient.

I copy a background layer & maked it darken to selected shining petals of lilies.

Details

More deep shadows in the center of flowers

Then I wanted to add a shine to edge of petals.
I added a new layer, painted on it yellow in petal contours.

Blurred it with Gaussian blur filter

I replaced this layer under layer with lillies and changed blending mode to Shine

It seemed to me not enough, and I maked a copy blured layer, replace it above the layer with flowers and changed blending mode to Hard Light.
This view is better!

I maked a centre shadow one more darken.

Finally I added a beautiful bokeh behind the flowers (on new layer) and changed blending mode on Linear Light

Some color correction and final sharpen in Photoshop.
I's ready!

Have a nice day!

Gera