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When preparing your flat artwork, remember that in most
cases you’ll be seeing the side of the box as well as the
front, so you’ll need to draw that as well. Keep a consistent
color scheme on the side, and reuse some of the original
artwork such as the Choco Flakes logo.
4
Darken the side of the box to make it stand out from the
front. Then add some shading to the entire artwork using
the Burn tool: a small amount of shadow helps it to look more
like a real object and less like distorted flat artwork.
D
RAWING BOXES IS EASY – IT’S
simply a matter of distorting flat
artwork using Free Transform, and adding a
few finishing touches. The illustration above,
for ES Magazine, was made slightly more
complex by the fact that the box had a window
in it, which meant drawing the polythene (see
Chapter 9, Shiny surfaces) and giving the inside
of the lid a little thickness (using the techniques
described earlier in this chapter). But the
principles are exactly the same as with the
breakfast cereal box used to demonstrate the
process on these pages.
Building boxes
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In step 2, we could
have created a
Smart Object
from the box front
elements, rather
than merging
copies of the
layers. But that
would prevent
us adding the
shading in steps 4
and 5 – although
we could, of
course, create a
Hard Light layer on
which to add the
shading instead.
5
Since this box is made of cardboard, you won’t get a
perfectly sharp edge where it bends around the corner.
Here, I’ve selected a couple of pixels down the left-hand edge
of the side and brightened that strip up to give the impression
of the cardboard bending.
6
What makes an illustration like this work are the
elements that break out of the planes, such as the spout
on the right. And where would any self-respecting cereal be
without a plastic toy? The wrap for this was created using
Plastic Wrap – see Chapter 9 for how to do this.
2
Create a merged copy so that you’ve got all the elements
in one layer – that is, one for the front and one for the
side. Then simply distort the front using Free Transform,
holding CSO LSA and dragging a corner
handle to make the perspective.
3
Now simply repeat the process for the side layer. If you
only distorted the front of the box on the left-hand
side, the side layer will still be the correct height and can be
distorted in the opposite direction to make the box appear
three-dimensional.
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