DRAWING CHALLENGE #2 - GOLDEN ROSE (updated)

I just love contests! This time I found Drawing Challenge contest by @helene. This week's theme is flower. I love roses, especially their color diversity. There are red roses, white roses, yellow roses, even blue roses. I wanted to paint a rose with a special color.

So why not a golden rose?

Here you can see all the steps I did.

I can say that the worst thing about painting flowers is to catch texture of their petals, because they are not perfectly smooth. I solved this stuff by crosshatching with a small brush across every petal. Another thing was that I chose black background so I had to struggle with dark shadows too.

Finally I added blurry area in the shades of the colors of my rose, because there was too much black in there.

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UPDATE:

The Detailed Description of My Process

First of all I made the outlines of the whole rose with yellow color.

Then I colored petal's areas and I highlighted shadow's areas with dark color.

In the next step I darkened all areas, because I wanted a bigger contrast between them and lighter colors I used later.

In this phase I was thinking about method, which would capture the petal's texture the best. You can see in the right picture I chose crosshatching with a small brush across every petal.

Actually it works also as well for focusing the blurry areas.

Last improvements.

And finally I added a stem and blurry area in the corner of the backround, because having it only black would be boring.

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Thank you and see you in my next creation!