these stars drive me crazy

totally improvised - 5 hours

There quite a bit going on, how many layers?

about 20+

but the flowerstar has another 17

Beautiful work Esper. Keep em coming!

Esper - There is a lot going on there and I like it. I do have a question tho. In your original explanation/tutorial on how to make the star/flower thingy, you mentioned rotating the path. I never did figure out how to do that. I ended up just making my colored layer and rotating that. How did you rotate the path?

Use the rotation tool and change it to path mode (right icon at top of tool options)

Crap! That was too easy. I was looking and right clicking all over the paths dialog trying to find a way to do it. Ha Ha. This is embarrassing.....

Drac, remember, i was going to try to make a gear, so i rotated rectangles with a circle in the middle
the plan was to rotate another, a bit wider rectangular selection, and then somehow subtract portions of the smaller from the bigger one, thats i why i started to make rectangular paths

then i had four of those paths and merged - when i filled them with black i discovered that some of the intersections were not filled and it looked like a flower

then madness came

esper: - everything you do with those rotating paths-flowery-stars is just awesome! i love the diamonds too, i can well imagine that piece took you five hours. stay mad for some more time, please !