Add 2 colours, which you will further smudge individually...
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Start blending the colours by smudging with a soft brush.
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This is the result after a lot of freaken smudging-adding colour(highlights) and shadows...
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Add a dark grey background using a hard brush.
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Start to paint what the butterfly would see..
I decided to paint a sun/sea duo since it's something a can easily paint repetitions of to make the image identical.
Using a soft brush begin to paint a blue background and add some clouds...
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add some sun and reflections....
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Now do the same for every single hexagon block-
changing the perspective somewhat to imitate how a butterfly eye would actually view things..
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Draw..draw , draw, draw and draw some more... to fill all the blocks...
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Finally when all are completed, I add shadows and highlights/shadows, using soft brush .