And the next step

And here is the latest installment in the Poppy saga. (And I still haven't put a real pencil to paper, except for the first sketch!). This time, again, I started from the traced drawing in Corel Painter Essentials. Then I used a pencil tool from the same program and did some shading on the Wacom tablet. I used a fairly small pencil to start with, then I used the eraser to do the highlights on the stamens.

After that, I increased the size of the pencil about 5 times, and used a very light touch to do the shading on the petals.

Here is the result: