Future generation, take my world by storm!

Yes. That's my illustration, and assignment 2 for Computer Graphics 1.

Secret meaning behind the illustration...
Well, look at her, she's smiling even though her giraffe toy is burning, and not let go. Why? She's pretty confident she can put it out. You see, the future generation, no matter forced or voluntary, will have to put out global warming, or the world would go kabeesh, gone. As for that small plant on the ground, do you notice there is 1 piece of leaf that isn't burnt? That's a sign that shows that there is hope. THERE IS HOPE. Hope for the better world, hope for a world with decreased global warming signs! Technologies get more and more advanced as time goes on, so what is so impossible about getting strategies to put out global warming in the future? She's smiling, confident. They're confident, innocently confident. Are we gonna let them clean up our dirty doings? I say no, I'm ashamed to let them clean up our mess. So let's start helping today!

Colour schemes used...
Light-ish blue - symbolized calmness. Calmness of how the future generation (that includes us, university students too) takes in about global warming.

Red, orange, yellow - once again, to symbolize global warming ; fire. The earth getting warmer and warmer, until little giraffe is burnt! The giraffe's yellow and orange comes under here too, it's getting hot from the sun, thus, I used yellow and orange.

Brown - For the ground, earth and tree branch colour. Brown. ; for her hair, to show a wee-bit mutation in the human body. Imagine, black hair to brown. ; For her skintone, from getting too much sunlight and thus, getting a dark tan.

Green - the tree leaves, to show/represent the Earth's nature.

A little bit of black - to show the colours of ashes, and what will become of us and the world if we don't stop global warming!

Tools/effects that I used in illustrations are...

• Pen tool (of course)
• Brush tool
• Pencil tool (for the tree leaves so the specified steps' way of blending works)
• Ellipse tool
• Gradient
• Lasso tool (to select more precise than selection tool, especially the fire)
• Eyedropper tool (to select colour for the shadow sections)
• Zoom tool (to go closer, especially when I did her hair rubber band/acessory)
  
• Selection tool (to move the illustration position into a better way)
  
• Some effects like stylize -> inner/outer glow, distort and tranform -> zig zag etc
• Some transparency like transparency -> screen, and multiply

P/s : I took like, 1 and a half day to complete this. Steal this and I can make you enjoy pain by the end of this semester, just like Eddy.