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Here are my finished business card designs! I really enjoyed this project and had a lot of fun designing my business cards. My favorite design would have to be the yellow card. For this project I played with a lot of different color scheme and designs and took a lot of inspiration from business cards I found online. Ultimately, I really liked working in InDesign and I'm very satisfied with how these cards turned out.

This is my toy edit. I took my inspiration from Tim Burton movies and Coraline, hence the button eyes. I used a lot of different layer masks to create the cracked, pale porcelain look. I also placed myself in the background of a puppet show. I attempted to use the puppet warp to move my hand in a more puppetish way, but I just couldn't get it to look smooth. Overall, I had a lot of fun working on this project.

Here is my example of using the refine edge tool.

Here is my tag brush for photoshop! I decided on this color because orange is on of my favorite colors. Overall I enjoyed making the tag brush and am happy I learned how create custom photoshop brushes.

For my illustrator portrait, I took a lot of inspiration from the artist Shepard Fairey. I really enjoyed the bright colors of Fairey's works and I also really liked how he sort of had different shapes of color on his portrait's faces. I tried to recreate those on mine and they didn't come out as clean as I'd like them,  but I still like the sort of depth it gives my work. All in all, I think this has been my favorite project we've done in class so far

For my gradient mesh project, I decided to use my water bottle. I actually had a lot of fun with this project and it came out A LOT better than what I was expecting. I used about 6 different gradient meshes to complete this project.

Here are the colored versions of my logos. My original colored logo is the orange and red one. I chose those colors because the color orange is often associated with being confident and warm, while the color red is associated with being bold. I wanted my logo to convey a sense of confidance and openness so I decided to go with warm colors.