Reply To: How to model these flower petals?
I am back and finished it!
Thank you guys: @thehomme, Omar, and Martin.
I wanted to tell you guys why I modeled it this way:
For this part, I had to find a balance. The real reference is naturally imperfect, but the rest of my model is perfectly symmetrical. 
If I just traced the reference by hand, the result would be more accurate with the ref image and have imperfections here and there like the ref image but wouldn’t fit the clean look of the parts I already made.
So instead, I used circles to build the petals. This kept the geometry perfect and symmetrical (to match my style), but still allowed me to change up the shapes so they aren’t all identical. It gives me the best of both worlds: clean topology, but without that boring copy-paste look.
Thank you again, Martin and @thehomme!
This time I used both of your tips combined. @thehomme, you said to use it as a single mesh, so I did that. And Martin, you told me to merge the upper verts and remove the middle supporting loops—I did that too. Thank you guys very much!
Also Omar, thank you for being blunt and honest. I definitely needed that.
And yes @thehomme, I will finish the task Jonathan Lampel gave us soon! I need to make an isometric room with at least 30-50 objects, and I’ve already completed 17. After that, I’ll jump right into sculpting… thanks for the tips, mate!
