038-Weber

Started this on Saturday when I was grilling some chicken skewers. Another study in simple shapes but with some reflections this time. Vector on the left, photo on the right.

037-Battery

Followed this tutorial. Opacity masks are cool but cumbersome.

036-Pencil

Not much to say here. Some basic shapes and a few shadows.

035-New

Ran across the book cover for New Typographic Design and got inspired. Found out that to extrude two or more objects at the same time in the same way, they need to be a compound path first.
Fonts: Helvetica Neue 45 Light, 77 Bold Condensed

034-Inspiration

Saw these desktop wallpapers and got inspired. I don't understand why the shapes get all effed up after you expand the extrude effect. Vector texture in the background, too.
Font: Myriad

033-Swirls

This took way too long to have it turn out like this–a mess. Followed this tutorial on swirls. Did learn about the Feather effect and replacing the spine in a blend. Good stuff to know.

032-Diamond

Another tutorial. Pretty simple but learned that you can make a layer a Template layer that will lock and make a graphic transparent for easy tracing.