#5 GRADIENT MESH: Get a picture of a three-dimensional fruit and then convert this object into vector shapes using gradient meshes.
Which one is the real strawberry? Are you having trouble figuring it out? I'll give you a hint... it's not the one that looks like a cartoon...
This project, to recreate a fruit in Illustator, was not hard, but it was time consuming. It was mainly the seeds that gave me trouble, but there is much more than that going on. If you notice, there are multiple different shades of red in the strawberry that I created. First, there was just the plain gradient of kinda dark red to kinda light red, and then there was the highlights, and of course, the lowlights. I never noticed how much dimension there is to a piece of fruit until now.
The easiest part of all of it was the leaves. They were actually the most fun too because it was really cool to get to see them coming out basically as the originals did, at least by color. The actual easiest but most boring was the seeds... I traced one then just kept copying and pasting it and changing the size, color, and orientation. Not a hard thing to do, but very boring and when there are that many, you just wanna quit and call it a day before you fall asleep and drool on your keyboard.
Overall, this was a really, really cool project. I did not expect my strawberry to look anything like it does and I am super proud of it. If I had more time and more texture packs, I would add in more details to the leaves and even the fruit itself, but I have another project that's even cooler to finish, so I'll be spending my time on that one.
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