Halloween Octopus

Now that my drive is actually working, I can show off my octopus project! Woot!

The eyes and mouth I finished up using a red/orange gradient, and I made the tentacles using the pen tool and the object-expand function on the darker copies of the tentacle and exact copies of the original. Using the copies, I used the intersect function in pathfinder and made sure the result lined up well with the original tentacle to make shading. Once I finished the octopus, I created a black/red gradient for my background and created striping for it using rectangles and transforming them so that they became inverted (they became narrow in the middle but widened out toward the ends).