More Packaging

I got to do another packaging project. Packaging is one of my favorite things. I decided to do some packaging for jam because I thought it would be a good fit for my style. I did two because I thought doing one would be too easy and wouldn't be enough for a 2 week project.

Here are the proposed jam labels for Smucker's. I did one for strawberry jam and concord grape jam. Overall I think they look pretty good. The strawberry jam label is my favorite because I love drawing strawberries and red is my favorite color. If I would do anything different I would do the type in the banner by hand. I couldn't make the text wrap along the banner for anything in the world. So next time I would do the type by hand. I need to practice hand type anyway.

Here's a picture of the final 3 dimensional product. In the future I would like to take better pictures of my products. Photography isn't my thing. But I enjoyed working on this project and I would like to do more packaging projects in the future.

Store Signage

This post is late. I wasn't going to post it but I decided to go ahead. This project was for store signage which is art that you see in stores. I was really interested in chalkboard signage. I was thinking of doing the signage for Whole Foods or Fresh Market since I know they use a lot of chalkboard signage in their stores, specifically something for the bakery section since I like baked goods.

I did two. I like the first one better since the image is bigger. I wish i would have made the image on the 2nd one bigger or used the space in the composition a lot better. I used chalkboard spray on matte board to create my own chalk board. Then I used chalk markers on the homemade chalkboard. They were erasable like regular chalk, except they came off with water. I had to start over a few times before I started making something that worked for me. 

My friend recently showed me this bakery (that makes the best oatmeal cookies ever!!!) and we both really want to do store signage for them. They don't really have a lot of art work in the store area and it would be nice if they did. I noticed that had little chalkboards and I would love to do work on them. So today when we visited the bakery we got their business card and I think I'll be contacting them in the future. 

Shoe ad

Here is a proposed shoe ad. I chose to do mine on creepers. I thought I could come up with interesting imagery because of the name. Although this wasn't my first choice in terms of composition, I still liked how it came out.

I usually post my work after I've had a critique so I could have more to talk about, but I can't wait. And I already printed this out to be mounted. Basically the creepers are in a coffin shaped shoe box with roses and thorns, pretty simple. It took me a long time to ink all those roses though. But I'm really proud of this poster even though it doesn't feel like an ad to me. I don't even know why. I do think the illustration would catch the eye of someone when they're flipping through the pages of a magazine though.

Our next assignment is to do a performance poster. I plan on doing a gig poster for Toro Y Moi. I always wanted to do a gig poster so I'm excited. So far I'm really liking advertising, I just don't know if I'll get a lot of advertising work in the future. But it's definitely something I'm interested in.