Some changes were made along the way, but I will try to describe what I did. The first step was to lasso an area of the green design and rotate it ready to chop.
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Chopping is done and one leaf is ready to duplicate and form arms.
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Dancer is partially completed and legs are started. I used a red background here, but will later change to a gradient background.
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Legs are added under skirt which was created by flipping the design used for the dancer's upper body.
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Here I decided to go back to a white background and have started a tree from fabric pattern using the eraser tool. After one half is formed, it will be duplicated and flipped horizontally.
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Tree halves are merged together, then trees are duplicated. Dancers are also duplicated. I've gone to a longer canvas, but will widen it up later to better accomodate the walkway I plan to do.
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A gradient background is added here to give an idea of sky with blue at top, and then green and yellow hues the rest of the way down.
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A new section is lassoed to start a path through the canvas.
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This is where I added to the sides of the canvas. The path is formed by adding small sections on at a time from the original lassoed piece. Some cloning is done to match pieces up. Finished walk is embossed slightly and color changed w hue/saturation tool.
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Here one of the flowers is being formed from another piece lassoed from source. Petals must be rotated, duplicated, and some even distorted to complete the shape.
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Flower is finished off by adding a stem and joining the petals together then adding a center with brush tool.
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Flowers are placed around trees, changing size for perspective using the scale tool. Colors are varied using hue/saturation and color tools.
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Another section of source is used to create another flower type. Eraser tool and brush tools are used, then scaling and color changes are made.
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3 other small sections are lassoed here to become a bird.
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Shadows were added after placing flowers and birds in balanced little groups. A lot of attention is made to scaling flowers, trees, and dancers.