Illustrator Creative Challenges. January 2024

Below you’ll find a collection of all of the Illustrator Creative Challenges on Adobe Live for January 2024. The starter files, videos, and final art are included, if you want to create along with me!

Brand Discovery

Foundations Challenge; Create a brand statement, and develop a moodboard, colors, and fonts based on your statement. Explore color palettes using blends and recolor art.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 1, brand personality. We are classic, playful, approachable, simple, calm, natural. We are not modern, serious, exclusive, complex, high energy, industrial.
Adobe Illustrator Challenge 1, brand statement. Loaf is a breakfast restaurant for families providing a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere, and a menu featuring diner classic with a playful twist.

Color Palette & Fonts

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 2, colors and fonts. Yellow, orange, brown primary colors. Primary type DSA, secondary type Router

Logo Ideation, Sketching to Final

Logo Challenge; Use shapes and guides to plan your logo composition, and create variations using shapes to “fit” your logotype or logo mark into the space.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 2, Loaf logo. Black and white toast icon with "Loaf" overtop, "O" looks like an egg.

Building a Logo Family

Branding Challenge; Design a consistent set of logos for a brand identity including different type lock-ups, a submark, 1-color, full-color, light, dark, and mid-tone variations.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 3, Loaf logo color variations. Logo in large and small scale variations, on dark and light backgrounds.
Adobe Illustrator Challenge 3, Logtype. Logotype variations on light and dark backgrounds
Adobe Illustrator Challenge 3, Logo lock-ups. Full color and one color lock-ups on dark and light backgrounds.

Product Concept Mock-ups

Marketing Challenge; Use your own photos or Adobe Stock with the mock-up tool in Illustrator to apply your logo to products or packaging concepts that align with your brand’s services.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 4, mock-ups. Vinyl decal and metal mug logo mock-ups.
Adobe Illustrator Challenge 4, mock-ups. Loaf logo on a takeout container.

Challenge Recap

A community livestream where we celebrate your work with live Q&A!