Flower and Butterfly

For my butterfly I made my background green with an inner bevel.  For the flower I made the stem by combining 2 rectangles.  For the bloomed part, I made a circle and painted around the circle to make the petals.  For the wings I used a chamfer rectangle messed with it using the pen tool and sub select tool, and used the brush tool to make the details on the wings and then grouped the wings and details together. For the butterfly's body, I used different shapes to make the body, legs, head, and antennae.  I made them different looking by using the pen tool and sub select tool.  When the body was done, I put the wings close to the body and distorted the wings a little bit to make them look more natural.  I made the dirt with the brush tool along with the grass as well.  For the rocks, I made rectangles and used the pen and sub select tool to make them look more like rocks.  Also, I put some dirt on the rocks to make them look more natural.

Spot Color - Mega Man N.E.S.

For this spot color I chose the Mega Man N.E.S. because I thought it would be easy with the pixel areas, however I underestimated it.  For this I used the polygon lasso for the pixel areas around Mega Man.  When I finished that, I did a control shift I to get the inverse, then I went to the command tab, down to creative, and finally chose gray scale.  The bottom picture is the original looks like.

Spot Color - Apples

For this spot color I chose the apples, because I had an  idea about having one type of apple being in color and the others being in a sepia tone.  I did what I did with the other spot color pictures and used the polygon lasso went around the green apples, however unlike the other ones I pressed and hold shift to get the other row of green apples.  When I got all of them I did control shift I and selected went to the command tab down to creative and chose sepia tone.  The bottom picture is what the original was.

Spot color - landscape

For my landscape spot color picture, I chose the autumn park bench scene, because it felt like a good challenge for me.  I started by using the polygon lasso tool and went around the bench and the small green patch of land around the bench.  I then did control shift I to select the inverse and chose gray scale in the commands tab.  I tried to get any little holes in the bench that showed the golden color around.  The bottom picture is the original picture.

Spot Color - Rain Tree

For this spot color I used the lasso tool to try to get only the leaves.  This was a difficult task but I was able to get a good amount of the leaves.  First I did a rough outline of the leaves with the lasso tool.  Then, I did a control shift I to get the inverse.  Then I went to the command tab, down the creative area and selected convert to sepia tone.  After I did that I tried to get a bet more detail into this by getting any parts that were still not ready.   The picture on the bottom is what the picture would look like without the spot color

Jagged Font - Alphabet

I call this jagged font, because of the sharp point on most of the ends of the letters and other sharp parts.  Most of the end on the letters are sharpened.  I made this by converting text into paths, adding point with the pen tool, and then using the white arrow sub select tool to add the sharp parts.  Inside the center part of circular like areas, for example O, I would try to add a sharp points in their as well.  The dots of I's and J's I made to have a diamond look.  I made the sides of most of the shapes bulkier depending if the surface is flat on the letter.

Cornucopia

For my cornucopia I mostly used fall colors for the background and chose a solid golden orange like color for the background.  For the horn, I made an outline for the cornucopia, then I took a bunch of circles, used the pen tool, and then used the sub select tool tool make the circles look more like a horn.  I also made a lighter brown circle to look like the opening for the horn.  I started with apples for fruit, I made a circle, used the pen tool, then the sub select tool, added a stem and then duplicated the apple and stem and then grouped them together.  For corn I rounded a rectangle then I used the paint tool to make the shuck around the corn, and finally I duplicated them.  I made the grapes by making a bunch of small circles, duplicating them, and then using the paint tool to connect them on a stem.  The potatoes I tried to make look different from one another.  I made them a golden yellow color with a burlap texture, I made separate potatoes and then duplicated some of them.  For pears I basically did what I did for apples, except I made the circles look more like pears.