Rose Illustration On Magazine Cover
For this assignment, I had to recreate a photograph in Illustrator using the gradient mesh tool. I chose a rose because I was originally planning to add a quote with my design and because a natural object like a rose would be something that wouldn’t be too difficult to recreate with the gradient mesh tool. I decided to place the final design onto a magazine cover because I felt like it’d be a nice way to present it as well as work with typography and layout. I added the illustration to InDesign and then did the type. I used Photoshop brushes for the clouds and a brush of a single piece of grass that I copied, arranged and transformed to create a grassy field. I’m happy with how my illustration turned out and I feel it’s close to the photograph other than texture which I didn’t add because I wanted it to stay as an illustrated piece.