I met Rodrigo Perez-Segini at Adobe MAX, where we cemented a friendship over a night of wandering around the Las Vegas Strip and talking about art, inspiration, accents, roller derby, and dude-bros. We went our separate ways the next morning - him back to Chicago, me to Boston.
Missing the energy of being surrounded by Adobe nerds, I asked him if he'd like to collaborate, and he offered up some of his recent photos to see what I'd do with them.
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Vector drawing in Adobe Draw and Adobe Illustrator.
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Outlines and shapes. This one was so complex that I had to send it from my Draw to Illustrator a few layers at a time over a couple of hours.
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Process shots.
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Adobe social media tweets, and Facebook posts, November 2017. Thanks Adobe!