Monster Love

About two weeks ago we were assigned a Basic Shapes illustrator project.
The briefs of the project are:

Now that you have learned many of the basic tools for manipulating shapes in Illustrator, it is time to test your creative skills by working without them.

For this project you will be assigned a BasicShapes.ai file. You can use any of the created shapes in this file to make any kind of image you want.

You can resize the shape, you can change the appearance by using extra strokes and you can rotate them the shapes and of course, change their color. However you may not distort the shapes, bend them, add anchor points. You may not add any special effects (other then a drop shadow or gradient) and you can not shrink the basic shapes so small so that you’re make new shapes with their groups. You can crop the basic shapes by using a mask over the edge of your artwork. You are also free to overlap the shapes as you see fit.

My Project

The first thing I did was make the green(male) monster. Next I made the purple(female) monster. The theme of my scene was 'Monster Love'. So I added flowers and fires and other love type stuff to make the scene seem more romantic. Even though I like the how it turned out, I wish it would've turned out how I envisioned it, I originally wanted the monsters to be giving gifts to each other, basically it was suppose to look more romantic.

All in all I enjoyed working on this project, it really stretched my creativity.

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