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Description
This drawing is based on two photos I took with my digital camera in 2009. (It's the same flower from two different angles.)

Media = Adobe Illustrator, with very minimal Photoshop use.

The flowers were drawn completely in Illustrator, in two separate files.

I thought if I worked on them in separate files and put them together at the last moment that the software would not be as likely to freeze up or slow down.

However, Illustrator would not keep my masked objects masked in Illustrator (I mean when bringing the flower from the first Illustrator file into the second Illustrator file).

I don't know how to fix that problem, so I pasted both flowers into Photoshop, and the clipping masks seemed to hold just fine.

In Photoshop, I added the following: the background (the circle and yellowish color behind the circle) and a slight blurred shadow behind both flowers (using Gaussian Blur).

Most of the time, I try to keep all my Illustrator drawings in Illustrator, keep them purely vector, but in situations like this, I didn't know what else to do.

"Live Trace" was Not used in or on any part of the drawing

(December 18, 2010)
To everyone who has faved this, (or who may in the future), thank you!

Please do not use this drawing without my permission.

Any Deviant Art groups I submit this to obviously do have my permission to place this in their galleries.

I also do not object to any Deviant Art members adding this to their Deviant Art collections or Deviant Art "favorite" collection(s), and Deviant Art obviously has my permission to have this art on their server(s).

('not authorized' icon courtesy of MyArtPlz )

Description
This drawing is based on two photos I took with my digital camera in 2009. (It's the same flower from two different angles.)

Media = Adobe Illustrator, with very minimal Photoshop use.

The flowers were drawn completely in Illustrator, in two separate files.

I thought if I worked on them in separate files and put them together at the last moment that the software would not be as likely to freeze up or slow down.

However, Illustrator would not keep my masked objects masked in Illustrator (I mean when bringing the flower from the first Illustrator file into the second Illustrator file).

I don't know how to fix that problem, so I pasted both flowers into Photoshop, and the clipping masks seemed to hold just fine.

In Photoshop, I added the following: the background (the circle and yellowish color behind the circle) and a slight blurred shadow behind both flowers (using Gaussian Blur).

Most of the time, I try to keep all my Illustrator drawings in Illustrator, keep them purely vector, but in situations like this, I didn't know what else to do.

"Live Trace" was Not used in or on any part of the drawing

(December 18, 2010)
To everyone who has faved this, (or who may in the future), thank you!

Please do not use this drawing without my permission.

Any Deviant Art groups I submit this to obviously do have my permission to place this in their galleries.

I also do not object to any Deviant Art members adding this to their Deviant Art collections or Deviant Art "favorite" collection(s), and Deviant Art obviously has my permission to have this art on their server(s).

('not authorized' icon courtesy of MyArtPlz )