Project: Rebus

I miss doing Illustration Friday but time was so crunched at school.

Project

Make a rebus.

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Can you guess what it says?

Method

She showed us the mesh tool in Illustrator, though I used the time to work on the poster project on Caslon. And I thought she said we had to use it but only two of us in class did.

At first I had the simple default mesh and was trying to figure out what point this was. I could do this with a radial gradient:

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And then I got inspiration (but ran out of time):

As you can see, you click the dot and make some color. It really was nice to get shading in Illustrator. And I think it has a smooth, painterly look and if I put in enough points and perhaps looked a real object, it could look like a photo of an olive.

The background is made of three copies of the same blob with different transparencies. One has a mesh on it. I then wanted to try breaking a frame again and put the box in.

And then…

I would have liked more time to make more mesh lines. I also think the font was a little thin. But I like that I stretched the tops to make it point like the tool you use to grab an olive.

I [heart] mesh!