Introduction to Illustrator

So this would be the first completed project of the semester for Vector Illustration, aka the Adobe Illustrator class. The first assignment was to create 10 "logos" or simple illustrations using as wide a variety of the tools as possible. While many of these are simplistic without any real aim behind them, a couple stand out to me as being having a little something special. The Olives logo was the first one that originally came to mind when I sat down to start the project, but I quickly dismissed two ellipses with text as not being creative enough, though the more I thought about the piece I ended up with, I thought how much I would love to see this sign in neon over some little bar owned by a lady named Olive.
Aside from the standard shape tools, I also utilized the Live Trace tool, Type tool, Pen tool, including different brush effects, Gradients, Warps, and Transparencies. All-in-all I think a decent display of my aptitude with the basic concepts of the tools.