I call her Nellie.

This is from the first assignment in my Brand Identity class. We had to create a "mark of identity," from a zoo animal. Part of the assignment was to focus on using the "Pen," tool in Illustrator, creating the mark so it would be closed gestalt, as well as using as little detail as possible and still having the mark identifiable. I really liked the assignment.

Here is an early version:

Always interesting to see where the process will take you. That's what I LOVE about design!