Final Exam

I used this tutorial to create my snowflake pattern:
http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/snowflakes-tutorial/
I used my previously created gift boxes and ornaments, and I created my own star without using a tutorial. To make the star glow, I used a gaussian blur and stylize>outer glow until I liked the look.

This is my pattern portion:

And this is my completed pattern:



Gift Boxes

 

These boxes took FOREVER. Dividing the ribbon to make it weave between the boxes was difficult because the tutorial didn't explain how to divide shapes, but I like the way it turned out overall. Making the wrapping paper gradients was fun, and making the shapes 3D was interesting.

Holiday Ornament

Yay for Christmas! Anyway, this is the ornament I made following this tutorial. I liked creating the scatter brush and then modifying the transparency and the Gaussian blue to make the snow, but making the tree reflection was more difficult because the tutorial left out a step. I like the way the burst pattern and the snow give the image a feeling of depth and motion.

Dirty Water

I thought the dirty water tutorial was easy (and the water drop is just cute), but sometimes it was hard to find the correct shades of brown for the gradients in the water drop. I also really liked using the new art brush to make sediment in the water drop.

Pattern Creation

I made this pattern using the third tutorial. The base pattern is at the top, and the square is filled with the pattern swatch. I like the flowing lines of the pattern, but the low quality of the image (the source for Live Trace was a .jpeg) really bothers me. I think the gold and white look nice together.

Foundation Logo

These are some of my variations of the Character Integrity Accountability logo for the College Station Foundation. I tried to make the logo look similar to an official stamp, so I included both red and maroon versions. I also included desaturated versions of each variation and shrank the logos down to what I hope is near a business card size. My favorite variations are Groups 2 and 4 because I believe that the retained their legibility when shrunk and they are the simplest and therefore easiest to read and recognize.

Business Card

This is the front and back of my business card using the logos from the previous post. I like the blue gradient color scheme because it feels cool and looks nice with the silver of the logo, and I feel like the silver/blue combination makes it look more professional. I added the shapes on the back using a clipping mask and overlay because I wanted to draw attention to the middle of the card and separate my personal information from the company's information.