Assignment 4: Place your animal into a landscape

The assignment for this week was to create a landscape and place the animal into it from the last assignment. While not exactly a landscape, I thought it was more appropriate to place it in an environment that was more fitting for the subject. Once again, I used a pen tool to draw out some rough shapes, and then proceeded to shade the individual leaves using the gradient mesh tool. I spent entirely too much time trying to make it perfect, but I'm pretty satisfied with the results.

Assignment 3: Draw an animal

For this assignment were to continue getting familiar with the pen tool by drawing an animal. In addition  to the pen tool, I also used the gradient mesh for some of the more complex textures.

Assignment 2: Drawing numbers with the path tool

For this assignment, we were given the task of getting used to the path tool by drawing numbers. The biggest challenge when drawing with the path tool is getting curved and smooth paths without too many disruptions. Apparently as with design in general, less is better.

Assignment 1: Working with Symbols

In this first assignment, we were asked to explore and create a collage using the Symbols in Illustrator. I took it one step further and tried using at least one symbol from each of the existing libraries. As you can see, there are quite a few Symbol libraries in Illustrator.