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I love drawing and making things out of my drawings. I typically do a lot of post-processing in Photoshop to take my creation a step further. I find it fascinating how technology can transform and enhance art. While most everything I create turns into a stationery item in my Etsy shop, some pieces are standalone prints.
Today I'll walk through the process I went through to create these butterfly blank/note cards:
I'd been wanting to do something involving butterflies for a while but found the task of drawing a butterfly daunting, because I was afraid it wouldn't turn out the way I'd want it to. I started off with this pencil drawing:
I decided not to bother drawing the other halves because I knew I'd never get them exactly right. I scanned in this image and opened it up in Photoshop. I duplicated the wings and flipped them to match up, darkened the blacks, and took out the middle whites.
At this point I had several decisions to make: what colours would I use? How would I fill in the spaces? I came up with a couple of versions:
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Once I'd come up with these 2 versions, I decided on the multi-coloured version and took it one step further: overlaid wings to create flying effect, and more colour variations.
The final step was to come up with a layout for a card:
These are available for sale at my Etsy shop, and can be customized with a message, or can be recreated in an entirely new layout for a different type of card. Thanks for stopping by!
