In Progress. Most of the shapes are set out, and I've added the first layer of texture. Finished piece. I used multiple textures, shapes, paths, clipping masks, and a gradient.
In class I created these monsters. I used a colored version of the textures I made to fill the monsters. I liked contrasting the texture with blocks of solid color.
Outside of class I made one more monster. With this one I made the patterns more subtle, it may be difficult to notice on such a small file.
Because for every cute Pikachu.. There's an ugly one....
I used a couple different techniques here .. Clipping masks are used for all the larger shapes. For the shading, I turned individual brush strokes into objects, and individually scaled, rotated, and positioned them to make them look more natural. I ended with a splatter texture over the whole background.