Project Zero - Fox (sleep)

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Project Zero - Redux

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Project One - Stabby's Chocolates Critter

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Project Two - Icons

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Project Three - ~IM~POISSBLE TRIANGLE

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Prompt: "anime cartoon squirrel holding a bar of chocolate with a circle border and the squirrel is winking"

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Project Five - Curve Tool Drawings

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Project Six - Curve Tool and Pen tool, two enter, but only one can leave...

I can see why people like the pen tool, but I'm finding the transitions between curves and straight bits tricky: by way of illustration of what I mean, the squirrel's tail is a lot more clunky on the pen tool version. But I suspect the more I use it the better I'll get.

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Others' owls

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Squirrel Redux

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Project Seven: Skill Stacking

A challenge! I found drawing 03 to be the easiest and struggled with the others. I'll like to have another go at this. I talked with a friend and she repeated Dan's advice w/r/t the pen tool: practice makes perfect. Or at least better.

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Project Eight: Mood Board

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Class Projects for Illustrator Essentials - image 15 - student project Project Ten: Pencil tool play

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Project Eleven: Brush tool play

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Project Twelve: Biodegradable Icon

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Project Thirteen: Intertwine

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Project Fourteen: Postcard Fonts

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Project Fifteen: Logotype

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Project Seventeen:GREYHOUND REAPER

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Project Eighteen: Monograms

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Project Nineteen: Colour themes

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Project Twenty: Generative colouring (doesn't spark joy)

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okay one or two of these are nice. i like "pilot the eva, shinji" and, ironically, "these are all pretty bad"

Project Twenty One: Finished Postcard

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Project Twenty Two: Ouch, a papercut!

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Project Twenty Three: Get busy, card

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Project Twenty Four: drip drip type

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Project Twenty Five: sliced text

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this was fun!

Project Twenty Six: Let's do the flag warp again

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Project Twenty Seven: Live Trace

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Project Twenty Eight: repeating pattern repeating pattern repeating pattern repe--

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I want off-piste, slightly, with this. I made the scaling between H and V uneven, so as to give the shapes a slightly organic feel. I then, by mistake, left a stroke on, which I ended up liking. Finally, I added a drop shadow to every second layer to give it some depth.

Project Twenty Nine: Patterns

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Class Project Thirty: Black Friday (not) Sale

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Class Project Thirty One: 3D Inflate

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Class Project Thirty Two: Spoonflower Mockup

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Benjamin

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