This is a poster of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. The poster is designed by Shepard Fairey. The artist used several layers to introduce a 3D effect. Tools the artist could’ve used include paint bucket, filters (to transform the texture from photo-alike to sketch-alike). The major steps for producing this poster would include setting multiple layers with each in different color, filtering, and using paint bucketing.

This illustration of Bob Marley is made with a black background then layers and layers of colored geometrical shapes placed on top of each other. The layers are necessary to get the overlap of shapes and to create the angles that emphasize the details of Marley’s face. The only circular area of this illustration are Marley’s eyes, but aside from this, this entire picture could have been created using both the pen and shape tools. By using white in the middle of Marley’s face, the artist has created the illusion of light shining from the aside which makes the entire piece look more three dimensional despite the hard angles and modern design. What I like most about this piece is the way the artist used all different shades of green, yellow, red and orange which is very indicative of Bob Marley and the way he has always been publicly portrayed. Even with the harsh sides and angles of the shapes emotion and personality still shines through Marley’s eyes and face in general which I think is well done considering the design of the illustration.

This illustration of John Lennon was made using a combination of the pen, brush and gradient tools. When making illustrations like this you have to use multiple layers and change the stroke on the lines to get the nice shapes and harder edges that make this illustration work. What I really like about this one is the expressionistic use of color the artists take on how the light hits the subject. This piece was probably a trace from a portrait of Lennon, but I could be wrong. Either way avery nice piece in my opinion.

In order to create this artwork on Adobe Illustrator, the designer selected a horizontal document. Then, the designer took a photograph of the man singing, and inserted that photo onto the document. In order to create the shapes, the designer probably used one of two possible techniques. One, he or she used the symbols tool and dragged the loop symbols onto the document. The other option is that he or she used the arc tool to make the arcs of the loops. Next, the designer used the shape tool to make the circles. After the designer had all the symbols and shapes in the desired placement, he or she filled them in with different colors using the swatches library. Lastly, in order to create the shading in the some of the circles, the designer most likely went to ‘Recolor Artwork’ and added black or white tint.