I designed the layout of the room using 1-point perspective. This was a simpler to get the first set of measurements correctly. Then I switched to 2-point perspective to draw the right side wall. The intricacy was to get the accurate intersection points to draw the right wall. Once the layout was in place, it wasn’t too difficult to get to the other elements of the room.

The lighting shaft was easy with the perpendicular movement using the perspective selection tool. I used to create a couple of other things like the open drawer of the lower shaft on the right wall and the central partition in the lower shaft.

Rest of the look was mostly use of some great Illustrator effects, texturizing, and gradients!

I’ve designed the watch strap and dial using the Shape Builder tool and the Artistic Effects available in Illustrator.

After drawing the dial of the watch, I switched to the Draw Inside mode to draw the hands of the watch and add some design strokes.

Artwork draw using any drawing mode can be edited in Isolation mode by double-clicking the artwork.

See Adobe Help for more information on the different drawing modes: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WSf01dbd23413dda0e1e23acb6124476da654-7ff3.html

A serving bowl designed using the Revolve 3D effect

Using the Shape Builder tool to come up the initial structure and then used the 3D effect to design the bowl.

A bucket 

You can set the coloring options from the Shape Builder Options dialog box. To open this dialog, just double-click the tool icon in the Tools panel.

Use the option Select the Source for Coloring Objects to set your preferences of either using the color swatches or the colors used in an existing
artwork. Use the Pick Color From drop-down list to select the Color
Swatches or Artwork option.

If you select the Color Swatches
option, you get the Cursor Swatch Preview option. You can select
the Cursor Swatch Preview check box to preview and select colors.
A Live Paint style cursor swatch is provided when you select this option.
It allows iteration (using the arrow keys) and selecting colors
from the swatches panel.

To
change the color of the stroke, move the pointer over object edges
to highlight and change the color of the stroke. This option works
only if the option, In Merge Mode, Clicking Stroke Splits the Path
is selected.

You can select the fill color of a region by
pointing anywhere on the document.

Illustrator’s community experts have come up with some very interesting videos about the new Illustrator features, such as:

• Perspective Grid
• The Width tool
• Using the new Strokes panel
• Creating complex shapes with the Shape Builder tool

These are of course just some of the features that make Illustrator CS5 so powerful and inadvertantly easy to use.

Look at what Terry White, a reknowned design evangelist has to say about the top 5 Illustrator CS5 features:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/illustrator-cs5-feature-tour/top-5-illustrator-cs5-features/ 

For those of you who are more interested in the design perspective (quite literally), here’s an article that puts design in perspective, by Jackie Dove.

http://www.macworld.com/article/150414/2010/04/aics5news.html

There’s another very exciting video by David Macy, that highlights the power of Perspective Drawing in Illustrator CS5. Take a look:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/illustrator-cs5-feature-tour/perspective-drawing

To get a more basic usage of the tool, you can also check this video that briefly describes how you can bring text into perspective and use the tool more efficiently:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/movies/357148/adobe-illustrator-cs5-perspective-drawing-video