Ampersand for the cover of CAP&Design

Ampersand for the cover of CAP&Design - student project

Ampersand for the cover of CAP&Design - image 1 - student project

To this project I worked alongside with a cover for the swedish magazine CAP&Design. I wanted to illustrate the cover but I never made an ampersand before so I started out fresh and sketched a lot. The ampersand above is what I ended up with in Illustrator.

Ampersand for the cover of CAP&Design - image 2 - student project
Then I put on some color, texture and effects.

Ampersand for the cover of CAP&Design - image 3 - student project
Then I put on some letters with the same effects. I did not illustrade the letters due to lack of time before the deadline for the submission of the cover. The next step is to do it all the way and illustrate the letters too.