Adobe Illustrator is my favourite creative playground, so in all my gradient experiments I tend to keep all artwork as vector and only resort to a few raster effects when needs must! But in most cases using pure vector elements is enough to create some complex and fun stuff, and what is even better is that you don't need to wait for anything to render and documents are super easy to work with and the file sizes are very manageable.

And I often find that to create something exciting you just need to play around and find more experimental ways of using pretty basic tools, and I hope this class and these examples gave you some new ideas how you can use familiar Illustrator tools to create different effects!

Thanks for watching!

 

P.S. Don't hesitate to check out all of my Gradient Studies projects on Behance.

— Gradient Studies: www.behance.net/gallery/51830921/Gradient-Studies
— Gradient Studies: Encore: www.behance.net/gallery/90851835/Gradient-Studies-Encore
— Gradient Studies II: Metallics: www.behance.net/gallery/59118355/Gradient-Studies-II-Metallics

And if you’d like to see me dissect any other of my gradient designs, please leave a comment with the design name and number on the Discussions board for this class, and I’ll be sure to consider it when making future classes.