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Raiknii (Aug 22, 2005)

An iris, simple enough. I think it's a Japanese one, but I'm not a botanist, so...

This is based off of a photo of an iris at http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/county/smith/media/Iris%202.jpg. since I like having a picture to look at, but I took some creative license. I also took a peek at http://facstaff.hsc.unt.edu/rbarton/Iris/hexas/gigant_ds.jpg for the leaves' color, but I modified to my liking on the leaves, too.

The thing in the background is supposed to be a hedge, but it's sorta hard to tell, isn't it? ^_^

Someday I shall make this into an icon or something. Someday. Knowing me, it'll be a long time.

Raiknii (Aug 22, 2005)
drawn in 2 hours 8 min

My head started to hurt around the time I started on the bottom lower petal (the darker, purple one), so I sort of rehashed all the other colors I used on the other petals instead of matching a new set. I guess it looks alright, but I need to clean up the border.

My head was also hurting while I was drawing the leaves, so I didn't plan properly, and now they aren't iris leaves. I know for a fact they shouldn't look like that... And I need to fix the stem. That is so not an iris stem.

The iris looks strange to me - almost like the iris stickers I had once - sort of fake-looking, but I suppose I can't hope for it to look like a photo.

I'm thinking of experimenting with cel-shading leaves for the background, but we'll see. Perhaps a cartoon-ish sky?

Yay! My file's really small, so I have lots of room to go back and edit.

My god that leaf needs to be fixed... but not now. ^_^

KH44N (Aug 22, 2005)

HOLY CRAP!!! That looks so real! Excellent work!

lycene (Aug 22, 2005)

This looks really good so far. I don't think I'd go with a cel-ish background for this, maybe some soft clouds or something realistic so as not to compete with the flower. I find working detail in small files hard, but you've done it well. (Perhaps the large files are why I am constantly going over on space, the mods must hate me, lol.)

davincipoppalag (Aug 22, 2005)

Very pretty drawing..

Raiknii (Sep 28, 2005)
drawn in 31 min

No, I have no idea what the random junk in the background is. It just looked stupid to me, with just a flower in the middle and lots of... empty space. Anyhoo, it's supposed to be a weeping willow and a rosebush in front of a hedge... Not sure if that image actually comes across.

It still looks stupid to me (unbalanced somehow, I think?), but I've run out of ideas, so this is done.

Maybe I'll come back and edit it a little someday, but I don't think the concept will change much anymore.

KH44N (Sep 28, 2005)

I think this turned out fabulous! I said it before and i'll say it again, excellent work! ^__^

darkshadow (Sep 29, 2005)

wow very very nice great picture
really like the color used