OUGD503 - Responsive - Collaborative Practice - R is for Rivers development

OUGD503 - Responsive - Collaborative Practice - R is for Rivers development

Like the other two boxes, we started off with a sketch:

For a long while we referred to the box as the 'L is for Lakes' with the intention that the whole lake could be cut out and used in the play-set. This was quickly changed as it interfered too much with the other components of the design, such as the nutrition information etc to 'R is for Rivers'.

This box will include a more cartoon version of the man himself, BEAR. We also wanted to include a canoe, and some salmon. BEAR would be fishing in the River.

Here is the basic shape of how we started, all other elements were constructed using the same techniques as on the other two boxes! 

Rocks were borrowed from the other two boxes, and elipses were created using the circle and gradient tools.

Creating the R is for Rivers sign

Creating BEAR

 The most anxious part for me was creating BEAR himself - he represented the company and needed to be done correctly! 

Lots of different 'BEAR's were sketched up but I decided to do a blend of a few different designs.

Here I am going over the basics with the pen tool.

Using the same techniques as on the other animals, such as the gradients and brush strokes I created BEAR! He is going to be holding a fishing pole.

For the bumblebee- firefly element on this box, at first I wanted to go with butterflies as they are quite colourful and pretty for the box. 

However, using this many bright colours and drawings made the overall look a bit tacky! So we instead went with Dragonflies!

The final box design:

I added Danielle's element of the salmon and the canoe, using other elements from the other two boxes such as the trees on the bank of the river. I added a few drawings of reeds for foliage and created the texture of the water using lots of different brush strokes.

I also created the R is for Rivers sign using the techniques I used to create the rocks on the C is for Camping box- by layering up the different shapes to add tone.

In comparison to the other boxes, the R is for Rivers box was completed a lot faster and maybe more details would have been added if there was more time.