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.

Illustrator Lesson 10

Image with texture layer. Click the image to see a larger version!


Image without texture layer.



Original image from tutorial: CLICK HERE to read the tutorial.

Illustrator Midterm

I have long been a fan of M. C. Escher's creations. The first Escher images I ever saw were ones that created feelings of moving through infinity and illusion. His creations always had many details to them and seemed to hold an element of surprise.

Elements of this poster which are Escher's work: The background image of the eye, the colorful patterns inserted into the text on the headline, and the self-portrait within the pupil of the eye. I modified the self-portrait by first doing a simple live trace, and then applying a 3D extrude and bevel with wireframe.

Illustrator Lesson 6

These items are part of a still life that I arranged and photographed a few years ago for a watercolor project. I decided to trace it for this Illustrator assignment, as it is a very colorful arrangement. I am still getting used to using the pen tool, and I love the gradient mesh tool!

Illustrator Lesson 5

This image is made up of various fonts. The creature's head is a portion of the letter M. The scales are made from the letter C. Circular images are the letter O.

The pinkish orange animal is a cat. The mice are riding in a houdah on the cat's back. Can anyone tell me what letter the houdah is made from? :)

Note: A howdah, or houdah, is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other animal, used most often in the past to carry wealthy people or for use in hunting or warfare.

ECommerce Lesson 5

Note: widgets have been removed, as they were slowing down the loading of the blog. :(

These are possible widgets for a site that provides customized mobile apps and widgets. Various brands of cell phones are offered, as that relates to the hardware in which the site's products would be operated on. There is an instruction manual, for those who are inspired by the site to make their own apps (the site will consider templates submitted for purchase). Also offered is a book listing the best Android apps for people who wish to explore choices for that type of advice. (Ideally, some of the site's products would be in that book!)



The only concern I have about the above widget is that the "bounce" could distract site visitors from the content on the page. I like the bounce, though -- page selection and placement will be important when incorporating any object that moves or changes, i.e., fades in and out automatically.

On the right, I'm testing out a "cloud" which is set up to list cell phone products. Hover over the text to see how it works. Note: After the class ended, I removed the "cloud", as it was unattractive and just one more thing to make the blog slow down when loading. :)

Below is the Amazon Carousel Widget. I like this one because it is attractive (clean, professional look), and does not have continuous automatic movement. It only spins once when the page loads. But you can press (and hold) on an arrow and watch it spin anytime you want!

Note: Amazon Carousel Widget removed.

Ilustrator Lesson Four

Created a simple landscape with the pen tool, made the dog into a symbol and added several smaller versions. Created a tree with the pen tool and also made it into a symbol. Played around with the transparency options a little. :)