This was a request from a client. Personally, I am not a big fan of roses. Although their strong red color does catch my attention and was what I wanted to highlight the most. This was really a challenge for me since I don't know much about color so little by little after failure and fix I was able to find how to contrast between the different shades of red by looking at the reference photograph. I learned throughout this illustration how to find the color I need by using the base color plus a bit of black many times, and keeping them to get the shades needed.

Esta fue una petición de un cliente, en lo personal no soy muy fan de las rosas. Aunque su color fuertemente rojo si me llama mucho la atención y fue lo que más quise resaltar. Realmente esto fue un reto para mí ya que no se mucho de color así que poco a poco tras fallas y arreglo pude encontrar como contrastar entre los distintos tonos de rojo observando la fotografía de referencia. Aprendí a lo largo de esta ilustración como encontrar el color que necesito usando el color base más un poco de negro muchas veces, e ir guardándolos para ir consiguiendo los tonos necesarios.

I was really struck by how the image started to take on much more realism the moment I decided to put white which made me really fall in love with what I was doing so I could finish it. Thanks to this request I think I came out more pleased than even my client and now I don't like roses as much anymore ;). I hope you like this illustration as much as I do.