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Blog Post #9 Proof 2

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Week 13

All in all, I’m pretty pleased with the final results. 

This was a challenging project in that It took so many different twists and turns, but I think just all a part of the design process. 

At first, I felt I had a very strong idea but in the first critique I was given some tips on what to change. I tried a different design based on the group session critiques.

1. The Idea

2. First Draft

Then once I implemented those changes and presented them to The Hired Guns they gave me some critiques. They didn’t think it looked delicious enough and they gave me quite a few suggestions on what I could improve on. 

3. Grand Finale. 

The final design ended up looking pretty similar to what I had in the beginning. With a band around and the cloud illustration. I guess that just goes to show how design work can pull a total 360 in order to get to the desired result.

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Week 12

Rational

Challenge: 

There were a few different challenges I encountered this week in the design process. The first mistake I made was accidentally re-sizing my artboard mid-project. I did a test print a few days before and it was the perfect length to fit all the way around my bottle but I fond it was too tall which didn’t allow it to lay flat against the bottle. When I reprinted I resized the label vertically I also accidentally re-sized it horizontally and it no longer fit around the bottle. 

Another challenge was gluing the label to the bottle and to the cap. I had a hard time sticking it to the glass bottle so I think I’ll try a different glue for my final product.

The third challenge I encountered was putting the liquid in the bottle. Because they didn’t have the proper drink types at Man Lee I mixed a few different ones together. Unfortunately, this created some separation which doesn’t look very attractive for photos, for my final I’m going to try almond milk and food coloring. I think this combo will work better.

Approach:

Based on the critiques I received from The Hired Guns I think I may go back to my original design or at least something similar. 

I liked the idea of upping the size of the cloud and giving the star beam some more “star juice”. They said to “make it look delicious” so I’m going to make it look delicious dammit! 

They also said that there’s a lot of competition with attractive labels in the beverage market and I need to make mine stand out amongst the others. Based on the time I have left to complete it this may be a bit of a challenge to completely go back to my old plan, but I think I can use bits and pieces from my current design. 

Outcome:

I want this beverage to be chosen over its competitors. To do that I have to make it look delicious. After all, when I make purchases on things that I’ve never owned before, I make my purchases with my eyes. Though I was happy with my current design I think I should probably take the advice the Hired Guns gave to me. 

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This week we jumped into packaging design right off the bat and I really enjoyed the first egg-cercise. There was definitely some amazing creativity flowing through the classroom that day. 

I was so inspired by the exercises that day that I jumped right into assignment one when I got home. At first, I thought that I wouldn’t enjoy packaging class because it seems incredibly tedious, but so far I’m actually enjoying the intricacies and subtle nuances that building and designing packaging entails.

So far so good!  

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My rendition of “SK8 or Die!!!”

I was never a good skateboarder, I always wanted to be, but scooters were more my speed. When I was a kid, all my friends skateboarded and I was so envious, but unfortunately I have two left feet so I never became Tony Hawk.

The end.  

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Playing with some plant life on Procreate, the top is Giant Hogweed and the bottom is Scotch Broom. Although these are beautiful plants they are invasive species, I find it interesting that something so beautiful can be so harmful to our native plantes. 

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This week I decided to work on some patterns, as I’ve never really tried doing a  pattern before so this was new to me. 

My inspiration was oranges obviously, I can’t get enough of them Mandarin Oranges I tells ya, soon as they’re in stores I snatch em’ up (YAY VITAMIN C!). 

I worked in Procreate, and tried a few different textured brushes. I also noticed that there were some updates to the program, I’m so glad Procreate finally took the hint and developed some new features like the simple shape function that turns my hand-drawn circles more circle-y-circles (yep that’s a word now, take that Webster’s)

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This week I wanted to play some more with Adobe Illustrator so I doodled a little logo. I wanted to practice using some graphic styles from TrueGrit so I applied one of them to this little logo. I had a lot of fun with this one, its simple but I enjoyed trying something I wasn't really used to. 

Then after I was done I kind of wanted to see what it looked like on a mug, so I popped it into a mug mockup.

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Just a little something I’m working on for a client. Going for lighter line work and a watercolour feel. I really want to try something completely different for this coming week though. I’m really digging some of the “anti-line work” style I’ve been seeing in class lately. Where there’s a whole lotta shapes and textures, but barely any lines containing them. Imma try that for my next post. ✌️

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So for this week we were given the challenge to draw people doing stuff. So here’s an illustration of me drinking some coffee. I’m definitely feeling pretty proud of this one. 

I worked exclusively in a digital format this time, and I used a bit of a different method then I usually do. 

I started out by sketching with a super light pencil brush in a reddish colour, I noticed a lot of tattoo artists use this method when they’re free handing without a pre-made stencil so I thought I’d try it out. I’m super satisfied with this method and I definitely think i’ll keep doing that for future projects.

After I was happy with a basic sketch I moved on to a new layer and fine lined the sketch, and once I was happy with that I moved on to a new layer for each different section of the illustration. 

After I was satisfied with the final illustration I brought it in to Adobe Illustrator and added the text. Then I posted a blog about it. 

The end... 

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For this week we were asked to work with texture, I had no idea what to do at first but I gave it a go and was inspired by a show I recently watched called Over The Garden Wall, it’s pretty cute and I thought I’d draw one of the main characters, Greg. The style of the show is illustrated so the characters are very one dimensional but the backgrounds are detailed and textured so I decided to keep him pretty simple ( also he ended up looking pretty simp because drawing in illustrator is hard :(, now that I have my Ipad I can’t stand using Illustrator for Illustrating, but I thought I’d give it a go so I don’t get completely out of practice).

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I brought my little house into Procreate to make more of a finished product. I guess I could make it into a Christmas card. Playing with the different kinds of brushes was fun, but in hindsight I think next time I’ll stick with a select few.

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My Happy Place:

My happy place would be a home of my own, not too big, not too small.  Christmas time is my favorite time of year so I added some Christmasy elements. I’m going to take this into a digital medium and change it up. 

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Ok so, I figured out how to stabilize my paint brushes! Thank you sweet baby Jesus! Today is a good day... 

I wish I knew how to do this before I submitted my B&W Illustration for the coloring book...I’ll definitely be going over that project again... Also, I’m officially in love with Procreate! Thanks to its flexibility, ease of use and awesome brushes, my spaceman is now complete! My dad dug this illustration so much he wanted a print. I used a bunch of really cool sparkly brushed to do the light beams and the spray cans for the galaxy. 

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Space man (WIP). This is one of the first digital drawings I’ve done digitally so I’m still kind of learning the Procreate App. It still needs a lot of work, but I thought I’d show you what I’m working on this week anyhow. 

I can’t figure out how to make perfect circles in this program so I’m going to have to do some researching. It would be nice if there were some like basic shapes nested in the paintbrush tools, or even if I could figure out a way to make the brushes a little more smooth or something. I’m hoping to work a lot more with Procreate as I think it’s pretty well done as far as apps go.

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Here’s my blog post illustration for this week. I decide to step a little bit out of my comfort zone and try some watercolour work. It’s a tricky medium in my opinion because it can be really unpredictable. I started out by drawing the girl out in pencil, and then after I was happy with her, I filled her in with water colours. I just got some new watercolours so it was nice to try them out, they were capable of some really vivid colours so that’s sweet. After I filled her in, I outlined with black Micron pens and added the flower petals. The flower she was holding kinda ended up looking more like a spray nozzle but I’m ok with that cause the petals look like water droplets anyways. I’m digging the contrast between the black and the blue.

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Here’s an older illustration I did a few years ago in pencil. I’ve been planning for a while to bring it into a digital environment and kinda around play with it. 

To make the background I stuck some iridescent cellophane in a scanner and moved it around. It’s kinda crazy and in your face, but I had fun with it I think I might tweak it some more.

 It kind of makes me think of that theory that if you play Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon at the same time as The Wizard Of Oz it syncs up perfectly... Never tried it, but I suppose it’s possible. 

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