Assignment #5: Wired Postcard

Landscape Assignment Part 2: Martis Valley at Dawn

Inspiration Photo

Landscape Assignment Part 1: Tokyo City Scape

I was inspired by a photo of the Tokyo Skyline.  My focus is on the Tokyo Tower.  I kept the lines of the background and foreground buildings at 90 degree angles in order to make the Tower stand out more.  The skyline of Tokyo often looks very flat because of the clouds, fog, and rain; especially during the winter.  I always enjoy seeing the bright red lights on the tower shining through the blue gray fog.

Illustrator Assignment #2- Animal Drawing

Next assignment was to draw another animal.  This time I drew a bird.

I based my drawing from the one below.

Illustrator Flag

I decided to practice some more with the blend tool.  The heart is a symbol and I found out that Illustrator would not let me replace the spine with an object that started out as a symbol or compound path.  I had to redraw the heart outline using the pen tool.  I'm not sure why the heart spacing doesn't look quite right; it may be because the shape is not symmetrical.

Assignment #1 Flag

The first assignment for Illustrator Advanced class: the European Union Flag.

Portrait Final

This is Ryan.  I chose a tilted head pose, instead of straight on.  This took an incredibly long time.  I tried to use some gradient mesh in the face, but it just wasn't turning out right.  I couldn't get it to look not splotchy, so I went with the regular gradient.  The colors were very challenging to work with since there are so many different flesh colors.  I also cut myself out of the original photo, so there was some guess work in some of the shapes.  Overall, I am happy with this.  This is definitely the most difficult illustration to date.