Flower Tutorial - Peony

Before anyone comments on how the flower doesn't seem to rest on the rim of the bottle... yeah, I forgot about physics. Ufufufufufu~ Oops. .____. You might want to download this for the full, high-res experience... if only because you'll actually see how the brush strokes were put together. I think this literally took no more than about an hour and a half. Feel free to use as many or as few layers as you want. Heck, when I started shading/lighting, I used one layer for every petal and just merged it into the previous layer every time I was done with it. XD;;;;

This was requested quite a long time back by who said he'd like to see a tutorial on how to draw a flower. This just happened to be a double tutorial on how to start painting something in color rather than just a black-and-white base. Hope this helps people!

Bamboo Fun tablet by Wacom.
Photoshop CS5