Hi!
I have decided to get to know my Affinity suite better, and what better way to learn than by doing fun projects, right?.
I really enjoyed this painting technique, it's brand new to me and I can see a lot of advantages of using it over painting directly on a raster layer.
These are the steps for my flower, starting with the reference image on the right, to finished colored flower on the left:

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1. Reference
2. Masking color away
3. Drawing Outlines
4. Painting
5. Smoothing out borders
6. Adding color
I experimented a bit with other blending modes and using gradient images:

I thought about making a pretty composition, but I want to take it slow~ one class at a time, so for now this is it :D
Thank you Isabel!