Creating the Honeycomb Design

As seen on my final draft, the top section of my design features a honey comb pattern. This is the main feature of the design as the hexagon design links to my bee theme, due to hexagons being the shape of honey combs which bees make honey in. I made this design in Illustrator using the hexagon and pen tool. 

I then duplicated the same shape and ensured that the shapes were aligned with an equal space between them. I felt that these were really looking like real honeycomb.

I then filled the page with the hexagons so that I could transfer them into Photoshop.

I began to add the hexagons onto the hexagon outline I have in Photoshop.

After I had arranged the hexagon pattern, I began to colour them in.

I decided to go with a monochromatic colour scheme due to the colours being the same colour but different shades. As I can only use one colour for each honeycomb design, due to the boxes being colour coordinated.

After I had coloured them all in yellow, I would colour the different shades in separately. However I decided I did not like the black outline on the hexagons.

Therefore I deleted the black outlines and began to colour the hexagons with different shades of yellow.

Here is the finished design in yellow. I will now do the same for each of the designs and will remove the extra hexagons that are placed round the border.

I then used the fill bucket tool to colour in the design in red. I chose a shade of red that I thought was suitable and then used four different colours from that one specific shade of colour.

However after colouring each hexagon in manually, I realised that I could use the hue/ saturation tool to turn the whole pattern and shades into a different colour. I did this with the yellow pattern so to turn it shades of red, orange,  and green. This was a much easier way to colour in the pattern and saved me time and ensured the designs were the right colour and the hexagons did not clash colour wise. I used this technique for each of the colours as seen below.

Here are the four finished designs, featuring a orange, pink, yellow and green honeycomb pattern. This is the main design for my boxes and now I will add further detail such as the product name, illustrations, brand name, logo, description, etc.

Orange Design

Pink Design

Yellow Design

Green design