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.
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Using the brush tool, 'line material' is added to vase.
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Here are the steps for forming the leaves from the pills using the liquify warp tool.
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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.
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Here a background pattern is added, however, I will later create a different background from the source photo.
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Here are 4 steps to creating the white flowers. The liquify warp tool, smudge, and eraser tools are used.
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Smudge, brush and burn tools are used to finish detailing the lilies.
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More work here on leaves and line material with eraser tool and burn tools for shadows.
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Now the orchid flowers are being shaped using the liquify warp and eraser tools.
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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.
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To start a background from the source pills, liquify is used in crosswise lines.
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Liquify is now done across in opposite direction.
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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.
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Background is inserted behind vase, then table area is added with brush tool and shaded with burn tool.
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Here are the steps for creating the butterfly using the brush tool, smudge and eraser tools.
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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.
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Last of all, a brown filter is used over all merged layers and cut back in opacity to about 50%