Botanical Beauties
Bulb Bag
Botanical Beauties is a bag that holds bulbs for Pacific Ocean Dahlias. For this project, I used the elements of illustration and photography combined to create a bag for these bulbs. One of the hardest parts was the diagrams on the side, but it was a great learning experience!
Sketches and Doodles
These are some sketches and doodles I made to start coming up with ideas for this project. This always helps me get some fun ideas, even if I don’t end up using most of them. Sometimes you have to weed through some bad ideas to get to the really great ideas.
Hand Final
I’m honestly skipping a lot of preliminary steps, but I figured I would get to the point to save time. This is the hand final. I decided to go for the Botanical Beauties name and to advertise the pacific ocean dahlia bulbs. It’s more finalized than my other ideas, but still needs some work before it looks like a product to put on the shelf.
First Version
Third Version
Second Version
Fourth Version
Black and White Progressions
This is the next step for me. Honestly, it’s always super exciting to start working on the computer and to start working with colors, but it’s more important to get the design nailed down first than to jump right into the colors. For this project, I’m grateful I finalized the design first. As you can see, there are some drastic changes that happen between the first and fourth versions. I had a lot of help from my professor and classmates and took a lot of their different ideas and did my best to produce what I thought looked best. I’m really liking how it’s starting to come along nicely.
Color Studies and Combinations
I had a lot of fun messing around with color. This was a three color job, so I tried to see which colors would go better together. I also tried some overprint on some of them, just trying to do something new and give the feel that I had a fourth color. I tried to choose bright colors since this is a bag that is trying to entice customers to buy these flower bulbs. None of these were working for me the way I wanted until I found a color combination I hadn’t tried yet. It’s on the next section, but I ended up liking that version much better. I’m glad I did so many different options because it helped me see which options I definitely didn’t like as well as versions that could work with more tweaking.
Turned In Final
This is the version that I turned in for my project. I am super proud of how far I came up to this point from what it originally looked like to what it looks like now .It’s a giant step up. During the project critique, I got some great advice and some fun ideas on how to make it better than it was. I agreed with a lot of their comments, one of them saying it’s not bright enough to stand to stand out from the other bulb packages, After they mentioned that, I realized that they were right and tried to make the appropriate changes, as well as other needed changes.
Result After Revisions
This version looks so much better than the one above! I am so happy that I learned from my fellow classmates and made certain changes to make the design better and cleaner. Even though the project is over, I wanted to keep it at the three colors. I know it would be easy to make this a four color job, but I like the challenge of keeping it to three. Overall, I am very happy with this project and smile whenever I see what I created.
