by VickiG

PI VERSION: 10 (suitable for other versions

LEVEL: Intermediate

MAIN TOOLS: Path Drawing Tool, Easy Palette, Transform Tool, Path Edit Tool

DOWNLOADS: None.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Open new white canvas 350Wx350H.

2. Path Drawing Tool - 2d - custom shape - S08-heart- any color you want - draw a shape on your canvas approx 180 x 160.
   

3. Go to your EP and under Material Attribute Gallery - Texture, find Fabric 1 and apply. Go up to Adjust - Hue and Saturation - colorize - and adjust these to your liking of whatever color you desire.
   

4. Path Drawing Tool - 2d - custom shape - S08-heart - darker color that you used before - draw a small hear, approximately 75 x 62, then leaving selected, go to your paintbrush, size 10, a lighter color than your heart, go to effect, all, paint on edges. Place this heart in the center of your large heart. Select all, right click, align, align horizontally.
   

5. Duplicate this heart 3 more times and arrange as shown using your Transform tool I did use the burn tool at a setting of about 50 and transparency of about 50 to slightly burn around the outside edges of the butterfly so you could see the outlines..
   

6. Path Drawing Tool - shape - circle - color black - draw a head for your butterfly approximately 60 x 60..
   

7. Path Drawing Tool - shape - elipse - color black - draw the center body for your butterfly. - Go up and click on edit mode, making sure you are in free edit mode, and bring in the two side nodes slightly to shape the body. Click out of edit and put together with the head. Merge head and body together.
   

8. Path Drawing Tool - Line & Arrow Tool - Spline or Freehand - color - black - draw a feeler for the butterly. I used a width of 1. Right click and duplicate this shape and go to transform tool and flip horizontally and rotate until you like the position of them. Then go back to Path Drawing Tool and your Heart shape again. This time black and make a very small 2d black heart and place on the tip of each feeler, rotating like shown.
   

9. Right click, select all objects, merge as single object.

   There you have it!! Feel free to use all different kinds of textures for different kinds of looks!
   

   HAVE FUN!!! - YOU'RE DONE!!! I hope you enjoyed this tut!