My project for this week’s Collab Challenge: ‘Flowering Plants’.
I’m going to try to do this flower I found in my apartment community. It may or may not be a tiger lily.
So far I’ve just got the basic petals, filament, and stigma blocked out.
This is going to be a tough one, as I’m not used to doing organic shapes at all. Any feedback is always welcome, keeping in mind it’s a work in progress. Thanks for stopping by!
Pick a flower head and break it up, gently flatten a petal and photograph it and other parts to use as image textures. Leaf too!
Looks a good start.
It’s a good idea, but I would feel bad, seeing as it’s someone else’s garden. I’ll check to see if any have fallen on the ground.
Here’s an early render:
I slapped a procedural texture on there with a voronoi node to make the spots. I think it looks OK but not great. I may end up doing what @NP5 suggested and take a sample to make image textures from. Does anyone have a good idea for translucency? Maybe subsurface scattering?
After a couple more hours work:
Still a lot left to do but I don’t know how much more time I’ll have to do it, as I’m getting to the busy part of my work week.
Petal shaping, ridges etc look great. Currently looks washed out colours compared to the reference above.
Yeah you are right. I will have a look at the lighting and textures. Thanks
Almost done.
It’s at the point where I’d be OK if I had to submit it, but it still needs some detailing. I’m not totally happy with how the petals look. It’s really hard to capture the lightness of a real flower petal. I’m trying a Cycles render now but it’s going to take a while.
Wow, you did a great job with the shape! I haven’t made flowers before, and it looks beautiful to me. But maybe adding some more variation of color would be good. Orange, red and yellow blends instead of the constant orange.
That’s really nice, thank you! And that’s a good idea about color variation. If I have the time I’ll go in and try to mix it up a bit.
Here’s the Cycles render:
It’s very red. I think it’s due to subsurface scattering settings. For now, I like the Eevee render a bit better, but something about Cycles always looks more real. So if I can get the colors set up right in Cycles, then I’ll go for that.
It does appear to be a tiger lily, even though tigers have stripes. They should have called it a “leopard lily”.
Yes, but the coloration is very tiger-like. So what’s a good name for a cross between a leopard and a tiger? ‘Liger’ is already taken. ‘Teopard’? Not great 
Finished
This is where I’m going to leave it. It’s not perfect, but I’m pretty happy with it and I’m out of time. On to other things!
Respect!
Wow really nice work! Looks amazing. The leaves look great with that ripple effect. Well done!
I think this turned out great, nice work!
Looks AWESOME and extremely realistic 
. Amazing job. LOVE it.
