A line is a dot

My original idea was to literally have a line that morphed into a lot of little dots that then morphed into something else, perhaps ants or fluttering butterflies. I interpreted 'a line is a dot' as something that could transform or morph into something different. I decided to use lots and lots of little butterflies that together represented one large butterfly. I stumbled upon this image on the internet and liked the idea of it. It became the inspiration for this piece. .

I used these butterflies as templates for butterfly shapes. I used these shapes and rotated them so that I could use them in different directions..

Once I had my brush presets I found an image of a butterfly to use as a template and point of reference so that I would end up with a credible shape.

I then saved the image without the butterfly template and opened it in a new page. I dragged an image of ink over the top and created a clipping mask so that the ink would only be seen where the butterflies were.