I already knew the basics of Adobe Illustrator that were being taught in the workshop as well, so instead I went to do a couple of quick compositions in the program while the workshop was taking place:
My idea for the composition was simply experimenting with the Distort & Transform effects in Illustrator, so I created a simple narrative to fit that initial idea. For the final version I ended up only using the Tweak effect to simulate video distortion.
Our tutors keep telling us to post sketches for the work we do as well. Sometimes I just go straight to digital without sketching on a paper first, though, so here are some earlier versions, images and discards for this quick composition that I saved:
Early sketches of the compositions (click to expand). 
Early sketches of the composition.
After that I went on to create a different simple composition to try out on the laser cutting induction I was going to have the next day. I followed the laser cutting color guides (but I think I did some of what I was trying to do wrong) and did two versions to try out the engraving as well as the cutting. I made the lines thicker than in the original version so that they’re easily visible in this post:
I ended up not even really using them for the laser cutting tutorial, as I made them thinking we would have more time to experiment with our own designs during the induction.
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