Fruit Ladies... and an Easy Tip for Perfect Symmetry

For my midterm assignment for Illustration 3, we were assigned to create 5 "icons" that fit together under a specific theme. These illustrations are called "icons" because they are meant to go together in a set, and each illustration is meant to fit inside of a 3x3 inch square.

For my theme, I decided to illustrate a set of fashionable ladies wearing cute clothes- and the clothes are all inspired by different types of fruit.

Here are my little fruit ladies (pear, strawberry, pineapple, watermelon, and banana):

Lesson Learned: If you want to make a symmetrical object in Adobe Illustrator, just draw ONE side of it really well, then copy, paste, and reflect it and voila! you have perfectly symmetrical object!