This is my first project for Advanced Computer Graphics and it was definitely the toughest up to this point. Our assignment was to photo-realistically recreate a mechanical object, in my case, my Nokia 6263 (it’s the nicest thing I own.) Only it had to be done entirely in Illustrator. Not only is this extremely difficult, but tedious as hell. This was exacerbated by the fact that we had only a week to learn the techniques and execute them. I was getting very frustrated since it wasn’t coming along as quick as I’d hoped (I need instant gratification); but I think it came together pretty well in the end.

I’m also including a sheet that shows my progress. As you can see, it’s just a matter of getting the right shapes and playing around with gradients.

Again, done in Illustrator CS3.