Digital Painting, or How I Went Crazy Trying To Paint Orchids

Doing things like these is what tells me I would have failed pathetically had I actually gone to art school.

I am so done with painting orchids for a long long time.

Sketch I painted in:

from Sundberg Studio Sketchbook

The nonsense I produced:

My painting style is really...soft. Almost too soft sometimes. :l

and edited again for more shadow definition..