i hate illustrator

found some time tonight after getting home to draw the logo up in illustrator. thankfully for me, my flatmate is great with computers etc so he gave me a pretty basic run through of illustrator - something i should have learnt whilst doing my last project in uni but whateverrrr. anyway, here's the nail all draw up:

isn't it just adorable. anyway, got it coloured in etc and then rotated them to make that X shape.

i thought it was still looking a bit plain. i played around with the colours some more but there wasn't really much i could do considering it's such a basic shape with a basic colour palette - literally two colours. so, anyone who knows me knows that i'm in a strong believer in textures... grunge textures to be precise. so i went and whipped one up from the internet and applied it to the image.

immediately i think it looks a lot better. there's a bit more "depth" to it, i guess. adds a few more colours etc. anyway, i'm exhausted. while my boyfriend snored away all night i ended up laying there bored as hell until like 6am, then we had to get up at 9. siiiiiiigh. yep, glad i got these done though!