Neon Birthday

for my niece

With a bit of help from this tutorial for the "21" and sign gradient. The other neons were made with standard Illustrator styles. I saved some time by using a standard dot fill from the basic dot swatches. The entire design took over an hour to complete.

That tutorial is a good way to learn a lot about the Appearance palette menu.

Merry Happy 13th! You lucky ones ...

Adventure in Text Effects

I started off thinking I would make my name into a Hobbit style effect. I did find a nice related font and then segued into steampunk followed by this.

I'll try again another time.

As an aside, this journey also led into wondering how I could make my website more individual. I ended up with three books from the library but not really any closer to making a new design.