I had the most issues with picking a topic over everything else. I decided to do jellyfish because they have a very interesting life considering they are technically immortal. I chose the colors of my favorite type of jellyfish. I was having trouble deciding how to display the different stages because I wanted to do something different than a typical lifecycle diagram. So I decided to display the stages vertically. It wasn’t easy at first to read the order of the stages with a solid color background, so I then had the idea to create different colored boxes and make them larger the higher the stage of the life cycle was. I used different opacities, blur effects, and gradient tool to make my diagram seem more realistic.