YCN... patterns

Me and Baljeet agreed that the original patterns that we each created on Illustrator didn't work with our idea of what the packaging should look like. We have taken inspiration from an artist that was featured on Lola&Graces blog, Ramzi Musa. I really like his style of work and think that if we combine it with the style of the jewellery it could work really well.

Here is what I came up with.

I altered the colours in Photoshop and made it into a repeat pattern on Illustrator. I made the colours on the floral pattern more red and pink to suit the Lola&grace brand. I also altered the colours on the crystal pattern, I prefer the purple to the grey colour and I think it will work a lot better.

Here are Baljeet's final patterns.

There has been a massive problem with file size after having to make them into repeat patterns. Each full page has taken about 40 minutes to print off. I think this is because we edited the single image on Photoshop, and then repeating it in Illustrator just multiplied the file size. Unfortunately saving the file as a jpeg just means that the quality of the image is lost.

To solve this, after printing each pattern off once (which took a looong time!) we scanned them in, which managed to retain the quality of each one.