Soldier source photo

Ball and rope are chopped to begin image elements.

Petals are formed from a cannon ball using liquify warp. Petals are formed one at a time, making each one a little different.

Petals are ready to join to the center which is also made from a ball slightly flattened with scale tool. Scale and rotate are used to get placements just right.

Other flower shapes are developed from the flower already formed in last step. Some are scaled small enough to be duplicated and added to a green stem made with a brush tool.

Here is the finished bunch of flowers. It will be duplicated, rotated and flipped to be used throughout arrangement.

Here the entire original source photo is rendered with polar coordinate tool. Portion of this will become the container for the arrangement, and a portion will be another flower for the arrangement.

Here is the container using the right half of the polar coodinate image. It is duplicated, flipped then merged to the right side.

Flowers are added now while trying to make an arrangement with good movement and balance, larger flowers at bottom. Dodge and burn tools will be used throughout to add highlights and shadows where needed.

Cannon and soldier are added and given a filter to look more metallic.

An additional flower spike is made from a portion of the polar coordinate image, and then noise added before inserting the spike throughout the arrangement. Background color has been adjusted several times throughout and is finally made dark to bring out the flowers better, and a render light is added to background to give more variation to the background. Rope is added finally to sort of tie together the cannon and soldier into the arrangement. In flower arranging, the cannon and soldier features are known as accessories to the whole image.

Final shadows and highlights complete the image. I also decide to change background color to blue gray colors.