Sushi clip art - before and after

This was a part of the newsletter assignment that I just completed for Advanced Graphic Design Projects. Our mission was to take a standard web clip art and alter it. Working on the sushi theme I found this fun clip art of a happy sushi roll. I opened it in Photoshop and using the eraser tool, removed the face and rice on the front of the roll. I imported it into Illustrator and used the pen tool to illustrate the roll. I added a few gradients to the colors to give it a more realistic feel. I drew a few pieces of rice, grouped them then copied them all over the top of the roll. The final product is an Illustrator vector file so it can be used on any size project from web to print and billboards.