iScribble is an web based art application.
I've brought a few of Mabination's members over to iScribble for a run through before, but it didn't go too well.
It's the most basic of all basic art applications, as you can see. There is no undo, there is no circles or squares. The tools you would be able to access would be the pen, the line, your colors, the blur, and the auto-circle tool, which is basically the blur tool, but much more effective in a way because it does not induce transparency on the layer you're trying to blur.
Currently, I'm staying away from the Blur and the Auto-circle tool because they're a little annoying to control, so I would draw either everything and color it with just the pen and line tool, or I would draw everything with auto-circles and circle tool (
Which is shown in the Hachune Miku WIP board that I once had posted, ain' gonna post that picture again.). Ultimately, it's down to patience.
Since you do have excess to "higher quality tools" rather than iScribble, you can try layering, which is basically layering colors on top of each other with a softer brush, which brings out a kind of "petal" like quality for flowers.
I will do up an example and post it up in this thread, later.
[Image: http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff309/Nyaruato/Color1.png]
Petals are naturally soft and smooth in a way that it's very much different fron the style you're using right now. The above colors are the ones I would usually use for pink roses. It's to be taken note of that a huge soft brush would be better because it's ... Soft?
Well, you would want to have a solid layer of color instead of many different strokes. Most flower petals are of a single piece, of course.
If you're doing it anime style, then that's all the color you need. However, if you're doing Realism, it is to be noted that the colors do go really deep at certain points and your current color palatte doesn't have the required darkness ampitude for it.
Secondly, flowers would usually have thin stalks. The stalk of a flower is usually thin, but woody. On the other hand, if you're drawing creeper style plants, the stalk of a flower would be soft, tender, yet covered with tiny hairs. What kind of flower are you attempting to draw?
The leaves require a different style of finishing. Most leaves are glossy, unless you're talking about temperal plants, which would have hair covered leaves. This means that most leaves would be either glossy (
More shine, over there!) or wooly (
Soft coloring). Rarely would you see a plant with both, or nither.
The middle portion of the flower requires more details too. Not all flower pollen is dyed yellow, sunflowers have a naturally brownish/ blackish middle area, whereas Yellow might be a good contrast with Purple, it's still good to remember to add in a base color, like dark brown or black just to show what's under the pollen section.
When you're trying to color in a color pencil style, you'll have to color in the same direction all the time. This requires you to make use of multiple layers, so fret not and use as much as you can. Clean the petals up at the end to show that it's a solid piece instead of having loads of fibers.
Here's another example I've dug up:
[Image: http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff309/Nyaruato/Yukishiro.png]
Notice how the artist only used a 3-color-layer style approach?
Base color
Shade color
Dark color
On the other hand, further in the background is the lighted color for the flowers. This, however, isn't used for the sample because of the differences in position.
That's all for now, as for the tutorial, I'll do it some other time. It's 1:14AM over here and I'll have to sleep soon.