Water lilies are beautiful flowers and ideal tutorial material. To get to our result, we’ll be doing a lot of clever actions, mostly rotating and duplicating, and we’ll have a lot of room for experimentation as well. For instance, we can try out different ways to build the layers of petals, and we can play with different shades of pink gradients. This tutorial shows the basic steps I followed; but in creating this flower, I did way more than what is presented here. You see, every creation is never straightforward or perfect right away. It takes some trial and error, because I also needed to find the method that can be most easily explained. Load The Water Lily Swatches To make it easy to apply colors and gradients repeatedly, I have saved the swatches I used in an Illustrator swatch library file . The easiest way to use a swatch library file is simply by opening it as a regular Illustrator file via File ? Open .
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