Finally we got to use Illustrator! I have been waiting for this since day one. But I see why we haven’t been using “the big stuff” yet, over the past month we have learn so much that has to come before we sit down to illustrate. It needs planing, sketching, scampering, principles etc. And all that is being processed in my brain, and I like it!
For this assignment we are to design a packaging to the juice “Loose Juice” with the flavor orange and banana. The name and flavor has to be present on the package. We must plan, sketch and scamper it around 15 times. Then we must choose the sketch we like the best and illustrate it in Adobe Illustrator.
I started the planing by drawing some random sketches on a sheet of paper, and then I focused on the ones I like the most. I tried different places to place the orange and banana, behind, forward etc. And I first focused on the one where the bananas is crossed behind the orange, it felt like a pirate skull but with fruit instead. But when I scampered it I felt that bananas looked better in the front and I went for that idea. I believed that some kind of circle around the fruit would look good, but I felt that something was missing, it was too simple. I then thought of the “draw with the pen tool” video we watched awhile ago, and remembered the palette he showed us and how you could wriggle the colour. I did that to make it look like spilled juice around the fruits, and I liked it. I wrote “loose juice” above the fruit and orange & banana at the bottom. When I was done with the fruit in Illustrator I think that “MJ” look better when I put it at the top over the illustration. I put droplets around the fruit and colored them yellow with dark orange lines, and chose an orange background with a green juice splash. I like the result, but think I should have experimented more with the color. But it was fun to use Illustrator, and Im going to practice to get better and better! Now im looking forward to my next assignment! And the moment you have all been waiting for…:
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