I was in Chicago the other night and on my way in from the western suburbs I snapped an image of the Sears Tower with an elevated platform for the electric train line in the foreground. Once I had a chance to sit down and look at the image I decided I would stylize it a bit and see what I could come up with. The platform was a bit rusty, so I decided to build upon and strengthen that look throughout the composition.

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This is something that I worked on as a school project well over a year ago and just happen to come by as I was browsing through some of my past work. This was done predominantly in Illustrator with a few visual tweaks added via Photoshop. This was originally done as a 11×17 poster for print and looks good on screen as well.

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I had some time today to play around with good old Photoshop and came up with an interesting “water effect” composition after a little bit of trial and error. It had been a while since I had the time to simply do something for fun with being busy with school and work, but I hope to try and exercise the creative juices more often in the future. Plus, I always have fun when I sit down and try something new while hopefully creating an interesting design in the end.

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