notice how the lines go in and out of each other. that gives you the layered look to your petals. I do the stamen (dots not pictured) then do 2 zig zag lines and overlap, then 3. you obviously can keep going but I like to keep it simple for now, trying to do more ends up messy and my maria usually isnt big enough. hope this helps some. I just watched kobuki's video like 5 times over and really tried to pay attention to the angle that he holds and all the little things he does but doesnt really say he does as he is doing it. hope thats not confusing lol and another big thing to make sure that you do is leave enough "negative space" in between the lines that will be the petals, this helps to not smooth together and get you some nice separation in the petals. also, try to let the rod do the work and do not compress very hard at all. You wanna let the weight of the rod do most the work when your maria face is on the graphite pad.
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