Cereal Packet Design Continued

This week in the process and production studio it was time to tighten up our drawings in order to vectorise our imagery and work towards making a printable prototype.

The first step was to scan in our hand-rendered drawings and edit the levels of the image in photoshop in order to make the lines more defined and subsequently easier to draw around in Illustrator.

I used multiple layers for the box net, outline and colour to make the refining process easier to breakdown. I found that with the lettering and certain parts of the image like the character's hat the end result looked more aesthetically pleasing when I used the pen tool more loosely and allowed colour from the layer below to peek through. I also created a simple graphic for the back of the cereal box as many of the other's I had looked at for inspiration did not use extensive amounts of detail for the back design.

I will continue with this design in my own time in order to see this finished product but I am happy with my progress so far.