Wings

I'm doing next try on Illustration Friday with the topic "Wings".
I found it is kind of interesting, and the first thought come to my mind was a butterfly. I really like a butterfly with a nice shape and nice color as well.
The following is some butterflies I found on the internet.


It looks really cool with the awesome effect. And I was trying to do something like that.

First, I draw a vector butterfly using Illustrator.

Furthermore, I placed it as a smart object in Photoshop. I used some cool effects like outer glow, some blending option effects to make a butterfly more stand out.

The next thing is I created the light background using the brush tool and some Free transform and changed the color using Hue/ Saturation to make some lines become obvious.
 

 I repeated this step by duplicating it. The result is I got more lighting lines. I also changed the color as well. And some of that line got more and more standing out.

Then, I drag a butterfly that I added effects on it into my background and changed the display mode to screen.



























Lastly, I used the brush tool to create some smoke effects to make it like an abstract background.