Jack Watson

Illustrator Creative Challenges. March 2025

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Below you’ll find a collection of all of the Illustrator Creative Challenges on Adobe Live from March 2025. The starter files, videos, and final art are included, if you want to create along with me!

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Mini World Isometric Art

Skills Challenge; Build a fantasy isometric cozy home! We’ll explore three different ways to create isometric art using Illustrator and Project Neo.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 1, isometric art. 3D pink donut box as a donut shop, donuts sign and large donut outside on the lid. Donut stools and purple counter with bag and donut. Donut shelves in the background and chalkboard sign.

Illustrate a Celtic Knot

Illustration Challenge; Create a Celtic knot style design for St. Patrick’s Day using intertwine and stacking appearance attributes to add varying line weights.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 2, Celtic knot. Left design green and purple knot on a light purple background. Right design green and gold design on green background.

Knock-out Type

Typography Challenge; Explore how to use knockout groups to add effects to your type.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 3, knock-out type. Jorts text in green over a yellow polka dot background. Red, teal, and blue flowers. Clothing line with jorts hanging above.

Vectorize Illustrations

Illustration Challenge; Bring in your hand-drawn sketches and work with reference to turn your ideas into vector illustrations.

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 4, editorial illustration. Two bird illustrations. Left a large yellow sun, clouds, chain link fence, birdhouse, purple and yellow bird on the house. Right yellow abstract line trees in the background, swinging bird feeder in brown, with a squirrel hanging off.

Original Sketches

Adobe Illustrator Challenge 4, editorial illustration pencil sketches. Bird and birdhouse top left, bird and squirrel bird feeder bottom right. Two geese walking towards viewer top right. Two birdhouse styles bottom right.