after showing my designs to Patrick, he suggested making the landscape drawing into a vector on illustrator so it is more defined as a solid line drawing instead of a sketch. - it will also make it more consistant, and will avoid being pixelated when the design is blown up to the size of the magnum box size.
i am really not confident on illustrator, so found myself you-tubing how to do certain things i had forgotten after the illustrator work shops we have done in the past to refresh my memory. after finding out how to make my image into a vector i managed to change the colour of the lines to a golden colour.
i chose to change the colour to this to compliment and represent the companies brand theme and colours they have had on previous boxes. it is also the same colour as the emblem/logo included on the box template.
another reasoning for this chose of colour is because feel it best connotes the target market - sophisticated, middle class, a product for dining and is is a victorious colour to celebrate Churchill's legacy.
Annoying, after finding out how to change the colour, a grey tinge of lines were still present and i couldn't find a way to make the whole thing completely gold.
so i decided to take the initial image back into photoshop and play around with the colours first, making the line drawing the golden colour first and making it into a vector after. - i found this a easier option as i am quite familiar with using photoshop, therefore this saved me more time then trying to find out how to use illustrator. - although there is probably a easier way!
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