Traditional Rose - Attempt 2.

I've been working on this one for the past few days (2 or more days to be more precise), as a disclaimer I'd like to mention that the colours used by myself look different in person than they do on the images, in person the blue is more of a blue/green, but on the photos it looks like a royal blue of sorts.

The materials used are as follows: 

- Reeves Pencils, H and 4B

- Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils

- Faber-Castell PITT fineliners, XS and F

- Daler Rowney Cachet Sketchbook (A3)

As always I'm going to include a series of step-by step images to show you the process I went through and to show you it was my own work, and isn't traced. 

The reason I've applied a filter to the final image, is because the filter makes the drawing look as close to the original colour as possible. I will also include a non-filtered image below.

As I've said, the photo makes the colour look more of a royal blue, but overall I'm happy with the finished product, on the same page I'm going to be doing other roses in different colours, hopefully looking at adding gradients for shading and other things, one step at a time.

After posting this image on Facebook, I received a message from a friend which has really been a confidence booster for me, it's nice to know people's opinions of my work, I'm going to share it below, but for obvious reasons I've deleted out the persons surname. 

Lovely words from my friend; it's unfortunate that the compliments also come from her still grieving over a lost friend. I'll do my best to design something for her and her lost horse.

Since the comment from my friend was so thoughtful; I've decided to dedicate this post to Maestro the horse, who sadly passed away on the 8th of January 2013.