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Yes, I have an app on my phone called Adobe Draw. I take a picture with my phone of one of my sketches. Then in the app, I create an “image layer” and select a photo from my phone. I then create another layer on top of the photo I’ve imported and “trace” a drawing from there. I then turn off the image layer so I can’t see it and start working with the new drawing until I like it. At that point it was just one single graphic element of the hellebore and stem and foliage. Then it’s a matter of duplicating the that first layer and using the “transform” tool to move the copy around to an orientation in relation to the first one. In this case I simply lined it up above the first one. Then began a series of doing what is called “merging down” to the next layer where I can combine the two layers into one layer, which I then duplicate again. Once I had a vertical stack of blooms and had merged them down to be one layer, I duplicated it again and this time, in transform mode, I flipped the layer vertically and horizontally and arranged it so it fit with the first column. After that I kept doing “merge down” and duplicate until I filled the page, which gave me an idea of what an over all repeat would look like.