Your Choice

I began illustrating for 'Bald man, naughty man, sing a song' 

After Drawing Ross Kemp and half of Hitler I decided that simplifying it a lot would work better and be more effective!

Front Cover development

crazy, messy fun!

Building BLOCKS!

After experimenting with the previous covers I think that simplifying it to these building blocks, would work well and would suit the Fun Box packaging idea.

playing with blend modes

It's your choice

Colour scheme

Acetate belly band:

Without acetate

playing with negative space

this looks a bit too sexy

this looks more like family fun

Your Choice- Design Sheets

After researching board game packaging that I think works well I have decided to design in a relatively modern, bold and clear style without too much unnecessary detail. 

This design sheet explores potential designs for packaging for playing cards and layout for a contents page which will make up part of a book.

My products are going to come as part of a packaged product called the 'Fun Box' which will be a relatively portable size (20cm x 20 x 20) in it there will be a publication (s) that give instructions of games and also the products that are necessary to play the games (e.g. cards, shot glasses, dice etc.)

Other products I could look into adding are a magnifying glass- for novelty, gimmick purposes, or a cd that has various music that games could be played around. Also a shot glass box would be good. I don't want the games to be strictly alcohol related so I decided to include potential forfeit (non- alcoholic) recipes on the sides of the box.

This design sheet explored the  front cover of the book and the layouts and style that would be continuous throughout the graphic range.
I have had trouble in previous briefs where my products haven't worked as well as a set so I want to focus specific attention on making this range of products work strongly together as well as individually.

I have picked some ideas to take forward and experiment with digitally to see which are the most successful and suitable to the purpose of the product.

What is a Line? Evaluation

Overall I was pleased with the finished product. I think that it works well as a poster however it doesn't fold into a square as well as I wanted it to, this was due to the stock being to thick. It's definitely something that I would put on my wall and I think that it would work well as an ice breaker for Freshers as I have had a few of my flatmates look at it and try and identify where slang is from and argue that their slang is better than the others -in a friendly way. If I had time and money to repeat this brief I would get the poster printed on thinner but glossier paper so it folds neatly and works well as a poster. I could also look into accompanying 'old-style' illustrations with some of the slang and maybe blowing the poster up even bigger.

What is a line?- envelope

As the fold out poster didn't fold away very well due to the weight of the paper I have designed an envelope to hold it down when it is in the Freshers Pack.

Colour Theory revisited - experiments

SATURATION & EXTENSION

Keeping the settings on my camera the same I revisited some of the contrasts that we learnt about in colour theory.

Contrast of Saturation is a where a colour is contrasted with a more/less saturated version of itself. 

Here both colours are green but the towel is much more highly saturated and brighter than the desaturated carpet.

Contrast of proportion looks into which colour 'jumps' out of the page more due to the size and contrast of it.

This is more obvious if you look at a digital recreation of this photograph:

Here the green square seems to be closer to you than the darker green square- as it is in the photo above

whereas if you swap the colours around it does the opposite and the darker square sinks into the lime green square.

THE ORANGE EXPERIMENT:

I photographed the same orange against a variety of backgrounds to see how it affected the colour of the orange. I didn't change the camera settings or the light in the room.

This is about as orange as the orange looked in real life.

Putting the orange against a bolder orange demostrates contrast of saturation and makes the orange look less orange than it did before

Against a very desaturated orange paper the orange almost went entirely yellow. I don't know why this happened because theoretically this should boost the orange, it must have been to do with my camera.

I found these two objects that have a very high complimentary contrast.

There is simultaneous contrast happening at the borders of the blue top aswell.

High contrast settings on camera:

There is quite a lot of activity at the border of these two high contrasting complimentary colours

If you just look at the contrast of tone then the different colours are almost indistinguishable.

Complimentary contrast of proportion:

Gradients due to contrast of Hue:

I find it interesting how there are natural gradients formed when you have a blue shape and then but a slightly darker blue under it and a lighter blue over it. but if you cover up one of the blues then the gradient disappears, it's jsut your eyes playing tricks on you.

COmplimentary contrast