Poster

This was one of my favourite projects! We were supposed to create a project that sends a meaningful message and had to have our face in it. I decided to use the quote "Overthinking kills your happiness," because I always have to remind myself not to over think things. 

This is the photo I took of myself:          

Here it is after I reduced it to 3 colors with the Image Tracing option:

Here is the final poster! 

Gradient Mesh

For this Project, we were supposed to find an object in our room, take a picture of it, and re-create it using the mesh tool in illustrator. 

Selfie with the object: 

Here is the object:

Here is the gradient mesh!

Mesh Tutorials

In order to understand how to use the mesh tool in illustrator, I watched a couple that professor Santi provided us. These tutorials were very informative as they taught me how exactly to use the mesh tool and what exactly I need to do to re-create an object. 

Tutorial 1: 

Tutorial 2: This tutorial helped me the most with my project since it looked like the object I chose. I had to use the same techniques that were showed in this video.

Calligram

For this project we were supposed to create an entire image with just text from a poem. I asked my mom to send me her favorite Arabic poem, and created an image that represents it with the text. The poem is about the love and respect a child has for his or her mom. I chose an image of a mother holding her child to represent the poem. 

Here is the image: 

Here is the poem: 

أمي يا ملاكي يا حبي الباقي الى الأبد

ولا تزال يداك أرجوحتي ولا ازال ولد

أمي وانت زهر في عطره أضيع

وإذ أقول أمي افتن بي أطير

عيناك ما عيناك اجمل ما كوكب في الجلد

أمي يا نبض قلبي نداي ان وجعت

وقبلتي وحبي أمي ان ولعت

أمي يا ملاكي يا حبي الباقي الى الأبد

Here is the final product: 

Business Cards

At first when I heard we had to create logos and make business cards for someone else, I was worried. I thought that mine would turn out so bad because i'm not creative like that. Fortunately, they did not turn out too bad and I actually had so much fun making them. Although we were only asked to make five, I ended up making eight because of how indecisive I am. 

Sketches of Logos

We had to come up 25 with sketches of logos that we will be designing for someone else in class. Mine look pretty rough but this is all that I brainstormed. 

 

Outline

For this assignment, we were supposed to choose an image, and outline it using the pen tool in illustrator. I decided to use an image of Donald Duck because he was my favourite cartoon character as a child. 

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Pen Tool

This is an art piece from when we first started using illustrator. We were supposed to use the pen tool and paint brush in order to explore what we can do with the program. This is was I came up with.