Ok , for this brief we had to create something that displayed something about ourselves. I chose to make a kind of symbol of a bird being created by music , for I think music is one of my main drives and inspirations in life. It effects who I am in a way . In this piece it is a bird that is created by the headphones (music) for the bird symbolizes me in the way that I like to travel , and I just thought it would work visualy for its a niece syntrical shape. I'd say I'm free like a bird in my own way (kind of do my own thing). The way the bird is almost an electrical current is also a metaphor indicating my enthusiasm for technology . Any way enough about me. First of all I painted the bird and earphone( I thought this would give it some of my own character) I then scanned it into photoshop , then live traced them into illustrator.
I decided I'd like to use a black background to make my main items stand out brightly in the forground( so I could use a glow which you will see).
So I selected the insides of the headphones and bird , then made them white with the paint bucket tool. I also then doubled the earphone and put them at both sides of the landscape page.
For the bird I edited the feathers with the twirl tool . I did this by tracing the image and then expanding the image (this makes the lies become editable).
I made the wings kind of swirl out towards the headphones , so it looked like the headphones were firing them out . I also distaughted the birds face with the swirl tool , to make it look like electricity. I thought this would make it look even more like it was created by electricity .
At the ends the wings I used the ripple tool to make it look like the wings wete almost coming out of the headphones like sound waves.
After I'd done all this I copied and pasted each element into photoshop so that I could add colours and effects with more complexity.
First of all I deleted the black parts in the headphone hole (to make it look like the wings were coming out of them.
The I selected the bird with the magic wand ( seleceted the black part , then inverted the selection.) and filled it with the live paint bucket and added more other colours onto it , though I didnt think this worked well so I deleted those colours.
I thought Id have to do something to make it look electric , so again I selected the bird area , made a new layer beneath this , filled the selected area and then made a glow behind it. I then also coloured some bits of the bird , doubled the headphones and put them other each other to make them more 3D.

That is how I created my piece , the making of it is above in asending order , you click on them to enlarge them.