A Work in Progress: Flowers

This guide was made for entry:
Flowers
In Contest:
two colors

step 1 of 19

First I created a petal using pen tool, making selection and filling it with the given colour.

step 2 of 19

I made 3 copies, flipping them horizontally or vertically and moving them to make the first flower. This flower was put into a folder.

step 3 of 19

I made 2 copies of the floer folder, changing the position, size and opacity of each one.

step 4 of 19

Then I created the stems, stroking the paths having "simulate pressure" checked.

step 5 of 19

step 6 of 19

step 7 of 19

I created one leaf and its rib, filling the leaf with black and stroking the rib path with white. Leaf and rib were put into a folder.

step 8 of 19

step 9 of 19

I duplicated the leaf folder and changed its position.

step 10 of 19

I made 2 copies of the flower folder and changed their size, position and rotation.

step 11 of 19

I applied radial gradient (white to transparent) to the centre of each flower. All the layers and folders were put into a single folder.

step 12 of 19

I changed the path I had created for the first petal and created a different flower, chaging its opacity to 70%.

step 13 of 19

Then I created a stem.

step 14 of 19

I duplicated the latest flower folder, changed its size and position and created another stem.

step 15 of 19

Then I created the leaves and ribs. All layers and folders were put into a folder.

step 16 of 19

I masked the flowers folders and applied diamond gradient to the centre of the flowers (white to transparent).

step 17 of 19

I made a copy of the last flower folder, changing its size and position.

step 18 of 19

Then I created one more stem and made 3 copies of it, changing size and position.

step 19 of 19

Finally I copied 2 different flowers, changed their size and opacity and placed them on to stems.

Final result

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Score: 10

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