Butterflies using Illustrator

Hey everyone.....
Here is another post for butterflies illustration made by illustrator software.
This is one of my favorites. Just looking at these colors lifts me up :)
You know what also makes me happy? Is that you can make one shape, duplicate it and recolor it very easily using illustrator! In this case, I drew a butterfly, mainly using the pen tool and ellipse vector tool (for the circles in the butterfly's wings). For coloring the wings, I used A LOT of pathfinder divides to divide the wings to separate parts and easily give each part a different gradient and give it a nice effect. For the butterfly's body, I used the mesh tool and used brown color shades to give it a 3D effect.
I finished coloring this butterfly and duplicated it 8 times and gave each one unique colors using the feature "recolor artwork" from (edit > edit color > recolor artwork). This amazing feature will allow you to recolor each and every color you have in the shape you drew. To neatly finish it, decide on these butterflies' layout & the order of which they'll appear (object > arrange > bring forward / step backward).
So that's it........Hope you like it as much as I do :)

Under the Sea using Photoshop

Time to go under the sea ;)
Here's another wallpaper I've made using Photoshop only. You know what's really cool is that you can make any shape or image a brush. By making it a brush you can scatter the shape all over your image with different sizes.....And that's what I did here with the bubbles. It was an image of a transparent bubble that I changed to a brush to put it wherever I want in my wallpaper. To make it more realistic, play with the blur brush in some areas as shown.
As for the background, fill it first with dark green color & give it a cloud effect. Then with the brush tool use a dark pink color at the bottom with layer opacity 65% . With a dark blue brush color a line just above the pink area and make the opacity 65% (I know the blue color is not that obvious but it gives a very good transition between colors in the end).
My favorite part is the lighting effect under the water. This is made by adding a layer above all the previous layers and fill it with a gradient (make the gradient type "noise", roughness "100%", restrict colors & add transparency). Then make the layer mode "color dodge".
Last, but not least, the text. Type the text, make the fill 0% and then add bevel & emboss, inner and outer glow to give this cool transparent bubbly effect.
I bet this is the longest post I've ever did ;)
Hope you like it :)

Staring Owl using Illustrator

When I saw a tutorial about an owl......I just had to do it myself and post it. My friends and I have this thing for owls ;) so I had to do it and post it for them. It was real fun to learn and do the feathers. I made a simple rounded rectangle with a gradient (transparent to brown) and a beige stroke in the middle....And there you go....A nice feather that you can duplicate all over the birdie's body.
So here you go buddies.....our famous owl :)

Apple Inc. Wallpaper using Illustrator

Here is a new wallpaper I made using Illustrator (this program I fell in love with). I first made the background using the custom shape tool. I used distort>twirl to twist it a little bit. Then I've played with the grunge brush to give this spilled paint everywhere. I gave different parts of the paint different blend modes. I finished all that and I found it was a little bit empty, so I made  and added Apple Inc. logo in the center.
Hope you like it :)

Hexagon Bokeh Effect using Photoshop

Here is another bokeh effect I made using photoshop only. Honestly I never thought that photoshop would give me such a dynamic and colorful effect. It's made by the same technique as the previous bokeh effect, but with a different brush shape (which is the hexagon). Also there's the lighting effect made using simple gradient color and changing its opacity to make it almost visible.

Bokeh Effect using Photoshop

Here's my first work to post. I made this bokeh effect using photoshop only. It was really easy to do and really nice to be set as a background. Actually it has been my wallpaper ever since I've made it.
You can find several tutorials for such an effect. You can also make it with different shapes and colors.