Introduction

Hibiscus Flower is characterized by its signature long stamen in the center which is also used in biology studies in order to teach students the basic plants reproductive systems. It also has many medical benefits and also protects with antioxidants, which helps it too fight inflamation, lowering blood pressure and cholestrol, etc.

However, its flowers should be avoided by patients having asthama since it can induce anaphylaxis.

Blender Modelling

For the sake of simplicity, I will divide the Modelling process into four parts:

Petals

We start with a 2D circle, by dragging its vertices around, we can get a general shape of the petals in 2D. We use Proportional Editing to give the petals a radius in the third dimension.

Now sub-division, and displace modifiers are used to provide a smooth shape to the leaf and add ripple effect in the petals respectively.

Stamen

Stamen is the center long stem of the flower. In order to start making the stamen, we start with a cylinder with 5 vertices. Extrude them in order to make the top five antennas (stigma). The circles are made with UV circle and the hair are populated using vertices selection.

Sepals

Similar to Stamen, a cylinder with five vertices is used to create the sepals.

Texturing and Coloring

A picture of a real hibiscus flower is taken as reference texture and mapped on to the face of the petals. Roughness is added for glossy and dark areas.

Final Result

After 4096 samples, the final image comes out to be:

For some reason when uploading the image on blogger, the quality drops. Also, the sepal is green in color, which is not appearing on blogger. The image output is however alright as .png format on my computer.