Terry Grogan

Well, this was a fun week as well!  I could have just played and played!  I figured I better stop and post something, or this page would really get big, lol.

For the gradient tube, I followed the directions in the lesson, except I used my own colors rather than the black and white. Here's the result. I like the colors.

For the star shape, I followed the lesson and flood filled with my own gradient. Here are my initials using it as a tube. I like this a well.

Ok, now I get to have fun with some experimenting.  First, here's a vector shape I drew - just a simple butterfly out of two ellipses. I saved this as a shape in my shapes folder.

Now a composite using the gradient, star shape, and butterfly. I flood filled with another gradient. Two of the butterflies are "retain style", but the one on the left was done with my "psychedelic" gradient from the previous week:

Well, here are some more shapes.  I have to admit that I'm also in the Vectors I class, so I'm not as afraid of vectors as I was 4 weeks ago, lol.  First, a new shape that I converted to a tube the same as the instructions:

Here's a drawing with it.  I thought it looked like a chinese dragon (the New Year's kind), so I added a tube head I already had to this.

Here's another drawing I did using a fish (I use the term loosely) I created out of triangles and ellipses.  Only the center one is set to retain shape, the others are either filled with a pattern or gradient.  I used my gradient tube to make the "pebbles" on the bottom.  The bubbles are a tube I had collected previously.