I am trying to really push my knowledge limits with Illustrator CS3. The only reason I decided to use a pepper was because it has lots of different shading. It's not like a bottle where I can get Illustrator to fake it for me.

For this pepper, I used gradient meshes for the first time. Holy crap, you can do so much with them. I have no desire, nor the proper knowledge to try to explain what they are.

Anyways, no design concepts or explanations with this guy. This was purely a learning experience.

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