A Work in Progress: Lilies in Crystal



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Vase is started on a 10 x 30 canvas. A row of pills is rotated and duplicated and placed on each side of a single pill that is also rotated up and down. This is repeated, then the two sections are merged together.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 1

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Using the brush tool, 'line material' is added to vase.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 2

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Here are the steps for forming the leaves from the pills using the liquify warp tool.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 3

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Leaves are duplicated, some scaled larger and smaller, and some flipper horizontally then they are inserted into the vase in a balanced design. They can be moved more after flowers are inserted if desired, so they can't be merged to vase at this point.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 4

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Here a background pattern is added, however, I will later create a different background from the source photo.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 5

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Here are 4 steps to creating the white flowers. The liquify warp tool, smudge, and eraser tools are used.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 6

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Smudge, brush and burn tools are used to finish detailing the lilies.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 7

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More work here on leaves and line material with eraser tool and burn tools for shadows.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 8

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Now the orchid flowers are being shaped using the liquify warp and eraser tools.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 9

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Orchids are finished here doing detail with brush and smudge tools, then duplicated and scaled to varying sizes. Brush tool is used to draw in the stems where needed and to create the little buds.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 10

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To start a background from the source pills, liquify is used in crosswise lines.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 11

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Liquify is now done across in opposite direction.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 12

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The design formed with liquify tool is scaled into long, narrow strip with scale tool, then duplicated enough times to fill width of canvas. Every other strip is flipped horizontally to make the design match together better.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 13

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Background is inserted behind vase, then table area is added with brush tool and shaded with burn tool.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 14

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Here are the steps for creating the butterfly using the brush tool, smudge and eraser tools.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 15

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Butterfly is added to canvas then color changed with hue/saturation tool. From filters, the brush strokes/ink outline tool is used to add design to wings. Distort tool changes the position of wings on one of the duplicated butterflies, and the one in side view is made by cutting it in half, then flipping the cut-off side and offsetting it to show behind the other wing.

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Step 16

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Last of all, a brown filter is used over all merged layers and cut back in opacity to about 50%

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Final result

Creation of Lilies in Crystal : Final Result

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