Blissful Vector Scene

Step 1: Open a new document, 1000 by 1000 pixels. Go to the layers panel and
name the current layer Background.

Step 2: Make a rectangle with the rectangle tool and add a Blue to White gradient
to the page using the gradient tool.







Step 3: Add a new layer, name it Hills. Make a hill using the pencil tool, make
sure it flows nicely and looks smooth. Have it go off the page to give it a
continuous look.


Step 4: Add a Dark Green to Light Green to Dark Green gradient to this shape.





Step 5: Re-do steps 4 and 5 two times and change the opacity for each one. Make
some adjustments if necessary (for example I moved them all down a bit).

Step 6: Lets make some clouds, so add a new layer and call it Clouds. Now go
to the ellipse tool (under the rectangle tool), change the main color to white, and
remove the stroke. Now start making small, exact circles by holding down the
shift when using the ellipse tool. Make them all different sizes and close to each
other.



Step 7: Now go to your pathfinder panel (If its not on your page, look for it in the
Window option menu) and select all the circles, its easier to select them if the
background layer is turned off. Click the Unite option.



Step 8: Repeat steps 6 and 7 at least two more times. Your page should look
something like this.










Step 9: Now change the opacity of all the clouds. I changed mine to 70, but you
can choose whatever you feel comfortable with.


Step 10: Now make a new layer and call it Flowers. Draw another perfect circle,
then go to Effect Distort and Transform Pucker and Bloat. Mess with the
settings until you think your shape looks kinda like mine.



Step 11: Now copy and paste the shape, change the color, and put it ontop of the
original shape. With the coppied shape on top, hold down shift and rotate the
shape 45 degrees. You should probably group them together.






Step 12: Draw a small circle in the middle of the grouped shape. You will also
want to group these together.

Step 13: Copy and paste the flower a few times.






Step 14: Change all the colors, Ungroup the circle and the shape so you can
change all of the colors. Regroup them when you are done.

Step 15: Start changing the shapes to random sizes and place them on the bottom
hill. I added a few more in and moved around my hills so that the flowers would
fit nicely in the photo.










Step 16: Now create another layer, call it Butterfly. Select the Ellipse tool and
make an oval shape, whatever color you want. Then copy it, paste it, scale it
down, and change it to a similar color. Reapeat this a few times.

Step 17: Group all the shapes together, then rotate them 45 degrees by holding
down the Shift button when you rotate.

Step 18: Copy the object, then reflect the copied object by going to Object
Transform Reflect and place it touching the other object.







Step 19: Now make a smaller oval and rotate it 45 degrees (Hold down shift when
roatating to be accurate) and put it under one of the wings, copy it, then go to
Object Transform Reflect and click ok. Put that shape under the other wing.









Step 20: Then draw a thin oval and place that in the middle of the butterfly, make
sure its a tad bit darker. Then group them all together and make nessesary
adjustments (like size, placement, and angle).









Step 21: Using the pencil tool, draw the flight path for the butterfly. It can look
anyway you like.





Step 22: Add a white stroke to the flight path, and add a design to the brush.





Step 23: Now we are going to crop the image. Select the rectangle tool and draw
a rectangle around the area you want to keep.






Step 24: Now select everything by pressing Ctrl+A and then go to Object
Clipping Mask Make. This should crop your image, now your done! c:
Final Product: