Digital Skills: Developed Ideas

I feel like a lot of my digital skills have developed when putting together the artwork for the gardening stationery category. I used Adobe illustrator to play with different brushes and effects to come up with this leaf/grass effect which is seen in the picture below

After playing around changing the colour of the plastic flower I photographed in Adobe Photoshop, I started playing around with different layouts and also adding in the grass effect behind the flowers which I really liked the effect of...

I then started to add 'rain drop' effects by adding circles, triangles and rounded rectangles and amending their shapes until I got the desired effect. I also added some flower motifs in a vector style which I think contrasted nicely with the photographed flower.

FINAL ARTWORK:

This is the final artwork which I will consider for use on flyers and business card designs. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out and I would also like to experiment using different coloured backgrounds, especially with the summery/pastel colour scheme of the artwork!

We also had a group presentation this week where we had to show the group our initial and developed ideas and basically what we had come up with so far. I was really pleased with the feedback I had been given - especially since Allah the girl from IntantPrint was there to give us her opinion directly which was a great help - she told me my designs were looking on the right track and to keep going which was very encouraging, especially hearing it from someone you're working a brief for!