This is my ad design after talking with my client and making some additional revisions. I changed the gradient to a tad bit lighter green to make the text a little easier to read. I also made the text a tad bit smaller along the bottom. And of course I removed the hand with the peppers from the corner to go to a more simplistic design with a more engaging focus on the hot sauce bottle.

This is my hot sauce ad I created to go alone with with the bottle of hot sauce I created. I got practice with the gradient tool along with putting effects on texts (drop shadow). I also used rulers to insure alinement of my my texts and icons at the bottom of the page.  The hand was a little tricky to select, and it was not a full hand so i could only place it in the corner.

Today i was assigned a pen tool exercise in my visual design class. It was pretty easy but a good refresher on how to use the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. I had a little bit of struggle with like click un-click then click again on the same point which I thought was strange. over all good work flow.