I suppose I should hurry up and start posting here.
Here is one of the oldest pieces I've done. This was done back in November of 2004, with whatever version of Adobe Illustrator I had at the time (I think it was 8 or 9). It uses blends, gradient meshes, and transparency masks to give it the 3D feel.
I was just learning about vector graphics at this time and I was really excited that I could make something like this without using any Photoshop.
