So my back was out Thursday which left me lots of time to draw petals. After I finished with pencil I inked them. 

I think this represents about 10 solid hours of drawing cherry blossom petals and none of this will be seen in the final product. 

This inked page will be taped onto my light board where I will use it as a guide to transfer it with color pencils. I expect that will probably be another 30 to 40 hours. Those of you who’ve been watching me for at least 6 months might remember flightless flora which took 30 hrs to color. This piece has more petals I’m pretty sure. Oh no, now I want to count them.