Illustrator Two - Brochure

Illustrator Two - Google

A Clipping Mask was used to add the design to the Google text and then I applied 3D Extrude. I used the symbol sprayer to add a few ants on the lower right. It sprayed too many, so I had to delete a quite few! I also modified the size and outline color of some of the sprayed ants.

Illustrator Two - Website

Illustrator Two - Icons

Illustrator Two - Midterm

Created everything myself... the book pages were quite a challenge...

Used the blob brush for the tree, bushes, and clouds. Used lots of gradients and adjusted images with Overlay and Multiply sometimes. Typed on a path... Mr. Lizard made an appearance... Discarded a lot of ideas, too! :)

Digital Typography - Lesson 1

To view an example of a diagnonal axel, click Here

Image Source
Old Style - Palantino Poster by Samantha M. Hurst

Image Sources
Blackletter
Humanist/Venetian
Old Style - Palantino Poster by Samantha M. Hurst
Transitional - Baskerville
Modern - Didot
Egyptian
Sans Serif

Illustrator Two - Lesson 5

Illustrator Two - Lesson 4

 

Well, Ralph did say the more experiments, the better...

 

 

Illustrator Two - Lesson 3

Cityscape




Lighthouse Landscape

Illustrator Lesson 12

                                                                                                              

The face, facial features, and towel were created with the pencil tool. The hair was made with a brush designed to create hair. I made my own, but liked the ones I had downloaded from Adobe better, so most of those were used. Shadows by lips, eye, nose, and side of face were made with a gradient mesh, and the the opacity was lowered on each separately to obtain the best effect. The towel is made up of two layers so that the top part of the towel would go over the top of the hair, while the lower part and side would allow the side hair to be in front, along with the jaw.

Gradients were used on the lips, eyebrows, and eyelids. Black pencil outlines were used - then I changed the eyebrows and lip outlines to softer colors, as the black looked too harsh.

The area above the lip was the most difficult gradient mesh to work with... working with opacity helped me tone down the highlights and blend the area with the face.

The first image is my favorite. To achieve that effect, I put a copy of the background (background creation described below) on top of the artwork, and gave it an overlay blend. This makes the image of the girl more in harmony with the background, and I think it is more interesting with the patterns it has created on her.

The second image is the original, and the third image has a colorburned overlay of the background on the top layer, with an opacity of 85%. I like the boldness of the colors in the face, and can see a lot of possibilities using this combination of effects on other images.

Background creation: The background was created in Photoshop and "placed" in Illustrator. The reddish part was made from a photo of the side of a rusted gas tank. Two gradients were added vertically, a canvas texture, and an overlay blend. The center rectangle of the background was made from a photo of a rock with blue flecks on it. That photo layer was enlarged tremendously, blurred, also has the overlay blend.