Star Wars Birthday Gift Labels

This one was made completely from scratch. I used the pen tool to create the Rebel logo, rectangles for the stripes and two textures for the background.

 I extracted the AT AT from it's background, cleaned up the edges and placed it on an oval with a simple bevel and drop shadow.

I found this image online, did some minor tweaks and added all of the text.

Van Gogh Flowers

Before and After:

Testing out more tutorials for my class... this tutorial needs a bit of clarification before I can hand it off to students... Not hard but I had to improvise quite a bit since the instructions assumed too much.

Tutorial link

Happy Octopus

I'm testing out some Illustrator tutorials for possible use in my class. Here is the first one I attempted. Not overly challenging but I would have to rewrite some of the steps for the mouth and use several examples for the legs.

Tutorial Link

Closing Division Page and Original Photo

 Here is the completed closing page.

Here is the original image. I spent way too long removing the original text. The shadows and highlights were rough but the final result is pretty solid.

Yearbook Division Page

Here is the Clubs Division Page.

Yearbook Division Page

Here is the Sports Division Page design from the current yearbook.

Day 365: The Final Poster

So I duplicated my file name numbers somewhere in the 365 days of doing this project which is why "Day 365" is being posted on day 366. I actually did more than 365 total designs but got my numbers mixed up somewhere. It's hard to believe that I'm finished! What an incredible learning experience. I not only learned quite a bit about the software, composition and ways to speed up my process but also discovered my ability to commit to a disciplined schedule. At the beginning, 365 seemed like such a large number...come to think of it, it STILL does :)
I'm going to take a break from doing another 365 day project this year but I will undoubtedly do another project sometime in the future.

Now I will rest.