My Expression

This is a project that I did in Adobe Illustrator. I decided to take a chance and do something different. Basically, I took a picture of me (terrible, just terrible), opened my head up, and made it look like all of the text is coming out of my head. The "thought cloud" is separated into two different sections. The first section is my depressive side and the other is my true side. I don't like expressing my feelings to others because I don't want to sound winy. On the depressive side, the text is more straight and boring, and my other side is flowing and different. I liked this project and I'm glad I was able to express myself.

Realistic Flash Drive

This is a flash drive that I created in Adobe Illustrator. Using shapes and gradients, I made the flash drive look real. Pretty easy and simple. And yes, the flash drive can hold over 9000 terabytes of information.

Flower Pot

This is a flower pot that I created using Adobe Illustrator. In Illustrator, I created a base shape using the pen tool, then I used the 3D revolve effect to create the pot. Then, I used map art to put my flower creation on the pot.

Creating Flowers in Illustrator

Using Adobe Illustrator, I was able to create these flowers. I used the pen tool to draw the outlines of the flowers, then I filled them in with a radial gradient. The filaments inside of the flower were also created through the use of the pen tool and gradients. After I finished with one, I duplicated it, and scaled the three flowers you see here to size.

Snowboard Tutorial

This is a tutorial that I did in Adobe Illustrator. In this design, I used Live Trace to take a real photo of a snowboarder and turn it into what you see here. I also used the pen tool to make the swooshes in the background.

My Logo Recreation

This is my recreation of the YouTube logo design. I used Adobe Illustrator to copy the original font and scale it to the same size. During this project, I didn't run into any significant problems because it wasn't too challenging. Overall, it looks fairly identical.