Though the top image was photographed second, I believe the doodles are arranged by date of creation. The first one was 1/3 of a (roughly) 9x12 sketchbook page—leftover from some colour swatches I worked up for our downstairs bathroom wall. It's actually shown sideways: the right side was drawn facing up, and it's my preferred portion of the work.
This piece, as is obvious from the printing in the lower right corner, is part of an envelope or other junk mail I scavenged to test out some ideas for rendering lilac flowerheads.
I have long admired the works of Alphonse Mucha, but I realized that I was going to have to figure out how simplify complex flowers. Mucha worked from photographs for the human models, from specimens (I suspect) for individual blooms, but given the way complex flowers or clumps of vegetation were rendered, I wonder if he relied upon photography to flatten those as well. Certainly he had a real talent for drawing petals and leaves as they appeared in all their perspective glory.
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