>>1952808Let me try to break this down for you.
Because I want the background and some complex shapes to end at the exact same smooth line I trace the shape, then put the copy-pasted petals/patterns in place, then put the background under it and click clipping mask. Your suggestion was to "Just make shapes in the right priority order." But if I traced that gold pattern it would look worse and different than the other patterns. It would also be harder to get all of it's pieces to end on the same smooth line. Seems to make more sense to not waste time and just do the simple copy-paste method doesn't it?
The facts that the flowers were not just copy-pastes of each other seems to have you upset, but I think you may have misunderstood that as well. You see each flower in the original picture is slightly different. As I said the peddles are copied, but the flowers were not. What I mean is that every single peddle in the image is copied from the first made, but each flower had it's peddles and inner circles moved/resized/rotated. The flowers are not identical, thus they were not just copy-pasted as a whole.
Also, Thanks for the first 4 lines of your post. It made me feel incredibly smug.
