Orfil_Olmos_Butterfly_2012

This project is my butterfly and I started by making the canvas which was a 5" by 5" and with a 200 resolution. After I made that I made a rectangle that covered the whole canvas and I added this red color to it. I made an additonal two rectangles. I placed one over the red and added this white color to it and made sure that the white rectangle was slightly smaller than the red one. I did the same thing again only now I gave the new rectangle this green color and made sure that it was slightly smaller than the white one bellow it. After I did that I started with my flower. I went over to the shapes and chose the rectangle and I made it tall and thin so that it would look like a flower stem and I gave it a solid brown color. After the stem I made the leaves that were on the stem by making two circles and giving them a dark green color and I used the subselection tool to bring in the sides a little bit and make the circles look more like leaves. Then I made the center of the flower just by making an oval and adding black to it and I placed it at the top of the stem. Next I started adding the flower pedals to it which I made by making ovals and adding a dark orange color to it and a black outline. I used the scale tool to make all of the flower pedals slant and fit together to make one big flower which I placed on top of the stem. After that I did my name by by just typing it in using the text tool and I used the Old English Text to make the letters look nice and classy. To make my sun all I did  was a circle and I made it yellow and added a drop shadow to it. Finaly I made my butterfly by making an oval for the butterfly's body and adding black to it. After the body I made the eye for the butterfly by choosing the circle out of the shapes and making the outline white and the center black. Next I made the antennas for the butterfly by making two super skinny ovals the color black and then using the scale tool I put the two antennas on the butterfly in a realistic position to make it look like one antenna is going one way and the other antenna is going the other way. Finaly the last thing I did was the butterfly wings. I made two circles, one big circle and one median circle. I used the subselection tool to shape the wings and make them look like real butterfly wings. I added a dark blue color to the wings and also a black outline and a drop shadow.
The last thing I added to the butterfly wings were the spots. I made lots of circles with a thick black outline and I placed them on the butterfly wings. Thats all I did to make this project, I hope you like it.