We've had a productive semester in digital art, learning lots about Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, making animations, scanning images, and more. Our first project involved using Illustrator to make "modules" that could be placed on different backgrounds. Our "modules" were to be images you could find under a microscope -- drawn by hand, scanned into the computer, and then re-drawn using vectors in Illustrator. The backgrounds were made separately (also with Illustrator). We then combined modules and backgrounds -- first in our own combinations, and then having people around the school make up new combinations, similar to what Chan Schatz do with their artwork (see the newspaper article about one of their pieces of art: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/arts/design/05shee.html?ex=1299214800&en=f9023dc8f4bdfff1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss). 
My module was based off of a larval crab:
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