The sun in retreat made the skyline look like crooked teeth

Tomorrow is the last day of my 2-week adobe illustrator class. I'm really glad that I took the class because I was always afraid to open the program and use it before so I just avoided it and stuck to photoshop and indesign. But this class forced me to figure it out and I think I learned a lot. A frustrating part of this week was when I had to make my first assignment which was to create this landscape picture of suburban houses based off a picture he gave us. I spent forever working on it because I was working on the old PC in the other room. It took maybe 5 hours. I was happy with it and saved it to the desktop, but the next day it was nowhere to be found on the computer! Totally gone! So I had done all this work and I couldn't turn it in and I looked like a slacker.

Today's assignment was to take a family photograph and draw it in illustrator. The boundaries were pretty loose so instead of a family picture, I wanted to make the project applicable so I chose one of Ewan McGregor smoking a cigarette and drew that. I made it into a movie poster that I imagined would be called The Wanderer and would star Ewan and also Natalie Portman and Jason Isaacs. Hopefully this one will make up for the lack of first project.




Also, last night, matt and I went to see The Wind Fisherman at AFI. It was a year ago that we worked on it. I remember how hot it was during filming. People were running around in 100 degree heat all day but when you saw the film nobody looked sweaty or red which was surprising but good. It looked really great with the original score added and the CGI work. It was also nice to see all the people who had worked on it. I like to be on the AFI campus because it's up on a hill and has the most amazing views of the LA skyline.