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Photographer Transforms Famous Landmarks Using Paper Cutouts.

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Book of the week: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Day 17: New Year’s Celebration 

December 31, 2016

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! 

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Day 17: Makeup

December 30, 2016

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! 

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Day 16: Coffee Mugs

December 29, 2016

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. 

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Day 15: Stamps

December 28, 2016

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! 

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Day 14: Shells

December 27, 2016

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.

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Day 13: Planets

December 26, 2016

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!

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Day 12: Cookies

December 25, 2016

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! 

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Day 11: Ornaments

December 24, 2016

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.

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Day 10: Fast Foods 

December 23, 2016

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! 

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Day 9: Presents

December 22, 2016

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.

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Day 8: Mousse

December 21, 2016

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. 

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Day 7: Leaves

December 20, 2016

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.

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Day 6: Breakfast Foods

December 19, 2016

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.

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Day 5: Doors

December 18, 2016

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.