Oops! I didn't know it would show up outside the white area! Well to begin with, it was very hard for me to come up with what to create, but I started out just making one object at a time. First I started out with a primitive oval shape to make the sun and used pencil for the rays. Next I used object drawing to make my blue background. Then I used merge drawing to make a small red balloon in the back left and used the pencil tool to draw the string. After, I used the pen to make Bezier curves on the clouds to them to look "cloudy" by creating anchor points and modified them to curve. Next, I needed a gradient shape so I decided to make a bouncy ball flying through the air with gradient colors. I started painting the background with the paint tool and used the paint fills, which helped alot for filling in the mountains and ground. This was helpful because I could go over lines and objects already created with the paint brush and it would disappear after letting go of the mouse. I used the pencil to make the birds' wings and the paint brush for the bodies. I personally find that using the paint brush tool is better than the pencil because it has alot more options and styles to choose from, such as the different brush shapes and sizes. Since I had to transform two objects I picked the balloon and the bouncy ball, and skewed both of them and flipped them as well. Overall this picture was hard to create because it was difficult to pick the tools to create a "put-together" picture.