Georgia McCoy's A2 Unit 4 blog: Final

My final box colours are green, orange, yellow and red. I decided to do four due to these being the most popular colours for fruit and would be the most recognisable. However, I'm sure when this brand took off and were profitable, they would expand their product portfolio and would produce a variety of colour and ingredient combinations. I created a brainstorm to illustrate my ideas which I could refer back to when creating the design. I decided that in the green box there would be lip butter flavours of Kiwi, Apple and Pear. In the Yellow there would be lip butters of banana, lemon and mango. The red box would contain watermelon, cherry and strawberry flavour butters. Finally, the orange box would contain pots of pineapple, orange and peach.

I then drew these fruits so that they could feature as a pattern on the lip butter pots as shown in my drafts. I went round them in pen so that they could be scanned in so to be edited and used on the design.

I then scanned them into Photoshop and started editing them. I did this by changing the threshold and black and white layers, so that I could use the magic wand tool to remove the white. This would allow me to begin colouring the fruit on a layer behind the outline layer, ensuring that the colours did not overlap and ruin the pen drawings.

Here is a screenshot of me colouring the document below. I chose bright colours for the illustrations so to make the pattern for the pots bright and vivid. I coloured the illustrations by opening the colour box and choosing colours that were the most recognisable for that fruit, and making them as brightest as they can be.

Here is the second page of illustrations in Photoshop. Like the first, I experimented with different colouring techniques such as colouring in the lines like the leaf, using gradients as shown on the mango and using different brush textures so to achieve different effects for the fruit so to make them more realistic.

Here is a close up of the watermelon illustration below. This is my favourite illustration!

Below are the two pages of illustrations below. These have been fully coloured in on Photoshop so that I can now use them on my pot designs.

I chose a circular template so that I could start creating the design with the illustrations I made and the logo I designed.

For each pot I put the right illustrations on each pot - such as the mangos on the mango design pot. I then put the right coloured hexagons on the pots. I used the sheet to remember which fruits were used for the particular colours. I also added the logo at the top of the circle so that the packaging was linked to the brand. To ensure the pots were recognisable, I put the name on the pots in the same font that I used for the hexagon box. I also added the bee trail and the bee illustration which was also used on the hexagon box, so to create a sense of continuity.