Digital Illustration Creativity-Design Blog Post 1

This week, I did a creative exercise found in the book "CAFFEINE FOR THE CREATIVE MIND" by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield. The exercise is on page 27.

Instructions: "Alternate Road Sign Meanings: If we took one class in drivers education class, we are aware of what each of the common road signs mean. If the sign is yellow with a curved arrow pointing to the right, we know there is a curve coming up to the right. But what if we didn't know what they meant? Some of those signs might be communicating more than the designers bargained for. Your task today is a come up with alternate meanings for the following five common road signs:"

"No Positivity Beyond This Point"

"End of the World Ahead"

"Plus-Size Vehicles Welcome" or

"Addition Anonymous Meeting Ahead"

"Cattle VIP Lane or Got Milk?"

"Spinning Rear/Front Wheels (Burnouts) Encouraged"

For the design side of this week we began by completing the bezier game:

We then were to read and practice projects number one and two in the Adobe illustrator 2025 Professional Portfolio book.

The first practice project had us import a raster image to use as a template to create four Art Camp Icons. Here is my finished design:

The second practice project was a bit more involved. We imported a hand-drawn sketch of a sailboat and used a number of tools to create a vector graphic. The first variation included the sailboat, the blob brush tool, applying free-form gradient colors, and using the retype tool to extract font information from another design: