A Work in Progress: Flight...



This guide was made for entry:
Flight...
In Contest:
new perspective


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Draw a hexagon using the pen tool.

Creation of Flight...: Step 1

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Using a pencil brush, start adding colour...

Creation of Flight...: Step 2

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Add 2 colours, which you will further smudge individually...

Creation of Flight...: Step 3

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Start blending the colours by smudging with a soft brush.

Creation of Flight...: Step 4

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This is the result after a lot of freaken smudging-adding colour(highlights) and shadows...

Creation of Flight...: Step 5

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Add a dark grey background using a hard brush.

Creation of Flight...: Step 6

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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...

Creation of Flight...: Step 7

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add some sun and reflections....

Creation of Flight...: Step 8

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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..

Creation of Flight...: Step 9

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Draw..draw , draw, draw and draw some more... to fill all the blocks...

Creation of Flight...: Step 10

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Finally when all are completed, I add shadows and highlights/shadows, using soft brush .

Creation of Flight...: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Flight...: Final Result

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