Steps in Producing Assignment 2

Firstly, I open the pencil sketch of my tree in Illustrator and used pen tool to draw the outline of my tree. I separate the lines into a few layers that is the pencil sketch layer, tree trunk layer, background layer, leaves layer, hill layer, firefly layer and also another layer for my logo.
Next, I make the lines of the whole image becomes thicker by changing the stroke of the outline of the tree to 10pt. Then I fill in the trunk of the tree with brown color by using Fill Path technique.
On the leaves layer, I fill the leaves with color by using Fill Path technique and add some gradient to the color of the leaves by mixing 3 colors that is dark green, light green and white color. Besides, in order to make the leaves appear more coordinate, I rotate the angle of the gradient by changing the angle of the gradient, some remain 0 degree, some into 90, 180 and 270 degree.
After that, I fill in colors for my Hill layer also by using Fill Path technique at the same time adding gradient to the hill. For the Hill, I mixed only dark green and light green for the gradient. Then, by using Pencil tool, I draw some grass free handed so that the whole picture won't look so dull.

Next I create a new layer which I named as Firefly. For this layer I try to draw fireflies surrounding the tree. I used Ellipse tool and randomly draw some circles on the picture then fill in the circles with orange color which I blend in 3 types of orange and 1 type of yellow color and I change the type of gradient into Radial gradient. In order to create the soft and blurry light carried by the fireflies, I choosed Gaussian blur in the Blur tool, and change the pixel to 9.o and alter the size of the firefly some into small and some into big to create distace effect.

To accentuate the color of the firefly, I fill the background of the whole picture with black color at the same time also because firefly usually active in the night.

This is how the whole picture looks like after changing the background to black color.Finally, I open up a new layer and put my logo in assignment 1 on the bottom right corner of the picture.