Improvements to seed project

After our in class critique I left feeling like there was a lot to change which is exactly what I did. First I started in the background and brightened the background colors cause a few of the comments thought it was to dark and I agreed it was dull. The I focused on the pot and plant. Most of the comments on my sheet were about confusion of composition. I wasn't making it clear about what I wanted these seed packets to do. I took a suggestion about making it seem like that clock was growing out of the plant. I redrew the pot to make it look more round at the bottom. Them I changes the colors to a brighter color. I also tried to give the plant more of a lively feel instead of being so static I made one of the blades of the plant more life like and bending over the pot.

Seed packet First Crit

For out first critique we did a silent one where everyone commented on everyone work and wrote comments about what to improve. I received a lot of great comments from questioning concept to questioning color scheme. These comments made me realize how weak my piece was and left lots of room for improvements.

My mood board consisted of colors fonts and picture that gave me inspiration to create me seed packets. I wanted my packets to grow time so that you could give yourself more time went you needed. I wanted to experiment with more neutral colors. I thought this would give the seed packets an older kinda feel to relate back to time.

Mind Mapping

To start brain storming we created mind maps. These maps consist of anything that we can think of within a short period of time that relate to the project we are doing. Its not something that you are suppose to think its suppose to be easy and its a good way to get you thinking. One of the paths that I took was I started at beauty and then branched off to fashion and people  then from fashion I said design clothing and accessories. This path has potential because I thought I could grow accessories since every girls loves accessories and can never get enough. But they do get expensive so it would be nice if we could just pick them off plants.

Mushroom

Logos

For this assignment i had some difficulty i am not use to remaking logos and it was a challenge. I beleive that I learned alot about me skills and how fast i work on projects by this assignment. i learned a few new things that seem so simple but i never new before for example curving the edged on a line using the pen tool.

Circle Exercise

This circle exercise was a quick easy assignment but was very enjoyable. Compared to all of the assignment that are to come this one was more of a practice. Even thought I already am familiar with Illustrator and knew how to do these things it was a good review of the shortcuts and I even learned something new. I started out with doing a spiral with 10 circle and then I rotated and reflected the first pattern to come up with my final pattern.  I think that this pattern looks like a butterfly.