18/10/20 update

 I've done a couple more of the single figure illustrations.

Firstly, I did one for a clover:


    Since four-leaf clovers mean good luck, I wanted to draw a gambler. I tried to make her a bit of a femme fetale.

    I also continued with the asphodel flower design I made before:


References

For the clover drawing I posed a model like I've done with a couple of my other drawings.


    For the asphodel drawing, I combined two reference images to get the pose I wanted: Image 1 and Image 2






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