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Getting ready to welcome the New Year with a party! It was fun to play around with shading, using paths and the live paint tool to fill in a fun disco ball. In addition, picking some fun color schemes was entertaining! 

Figuring out perspective, especially for the lipstick and mirrors on the palettes, presented a challenge which was solved by vertically manipulating the shapes and adding some shading! 

Transforming shapes into mug forms was interesting because I had to use the curvature tools to manipulate shapes! In addition, playing around with different, unique designs was fun. 

This was super fun and exhausting to do, because each had to be scaled down significantly! I learned a lot about how strokes and line thickness becomes more flexible when scaled and had fun representing my and my best friends’ schools in these fun designs! 

Working with a color scheme and learning how to do some basic contrast and shading was interesting! In addition, manipulating shapes into organic forms with ridges involved the usage of the anchor and curvature tools.

This challenge was a little different and I took the preset ellipse shapes to see how I can manipulate it in different ways to form various pictures. Every single form, even the organic ones, were derived from a circle!

More holiday cheer, these cookies were fun to make! It was interesting uniting different shapes in order to make the organic lines and shapes for the snowflake and cookie, as well as creating outlines of type for the m&m cookie! 

In honor of the holiday spirit, I made these fun decorations! It interesting playing around with shading on the lights as well as making simple holiday designs.

These involved some shadow play, as well as adjusting the opacity of different items. The placements of the sesame seeds and pizza toppings was also hard to balance, so they took several iterations! 

These were a bit of a challenge figuring out more 3D shapes, but super fun nonetheless! Christmas is almost here, and I was feeling inspired. Opacity was a useful feature, primarily in the mason jar hot cocoa gift.

There were inspired by some yummy desserts I had earlier in the day, and I wanted to experiment outside the duotone color scheme I’ve kind of adopted. There’s less of that sort of shading for this piece! Each cake involved the grouping feature to keep the several layers attached together. 

There were lots of fun shapes, so I used the direct selection tool combined with adding/deleting anchor points to make different curves. The stems were all manipulated from shapes, rather than paths or using brush tool.

These had a lot of interesting shapes, so I gained more mastery of the curvature tools and anchor points. The smaller elements within the larger shapes were all aided by the grouping feature.

These stuck primarily to the present Illustrator shapes, but there was a lot of variety with color and arrangement despite being derived from such a simple shape! In addition, I discovered how useful the grouping feature can be.