This guide was made for entry: dreamy In Contest: flying
step 1 of 7
everything starts with an idea, that manifests itself in a skatch.
step 2 of 7
I added the basic colortheme and started to work on some details
step 3 of 7
working on details.
step 4 of 7
i had no idea what to do with the butterflys. Color, shapes? I decided to fill em in plain purple, and tryed some variations, as u can see in the next step
step 5 of 7
well, what u see here was only fooling around. the color for the butterflys was not working out and the laces were absolutly unsatisfying
step 6 of 7
I defined the wings and found a solution for the laceproblem: I accidently painted smoke. I had no clue how to draw smoke, but hey, doodle some wired lines works. So i was happy to discover something new and to be able to ignore the impossibility to create straight lines with an graphictablet. Especially without beeing allowed to use vectors
step 7 of 7
well, i gave some color to the butterflys, I invested some time in those tiny details, and i discovered the smudgetool, which I didnt use in a long long time. I love the smudge tool.
I added some details on the background, did a final change in the colorsettings, painted some stars and a little dust, and here we go. Hope u like my picture ;)