17/07/24ZHE MELON
THE FLYEST MELON TO EXIST.
a project focused on Refining my skills in Adobe illustrator, photoshop and photography.
process
i drew Inspiration from fruit stickers and stickers in general as well as different logos an designs From Pintrest.
Then I started making a multitude of designs on Adobe illustrator(see further down). while designing i had a main goal of making the everything easy to cut and Utilizing different tools. which lead me to limit the super tiny Details, while focusing more on color grading and learning tools like Color-halftones, object/ text arching and patterns among other things.
while finishing the designs i knew i wanted the stickers to have a glossy finish, after experimenting on different papers i landed on a 115 GSM glossy sticker photo paper.
during the selection of the paper and the designs i wanted to use i looked for the “perfect melon”, once found i scaled my sticker sheet to the melon so the stickers would be an appropriate size.
When cutting out the stickers i used scissors, scalpel and rules so the lines would be clean and perfect.
then i placed the stickers on my scanner and made a short stop motion video as a teaser and a showcase of the designs.
after placing the stickers on the watermelon using the adhesive the paper came with, as well as some pins for areas where it didi’t stick. I Started making my photo booth with long Rolls of white paper. Then when i got the Preferred lighting in my light box i started to photograph it while turning it some degrees each photo, as well as different angels.
when i Finished the selection of pictures i wanted i went into Adobe photoshop, removed the Background, color Corrected and Edited the picture, added a glow around the edge of the melon and put it on a clean white background.
for the finished result i decided too place the melons in threes on one page each making the pages showing all the stickers.I also made a stop motion video of the melon and all its sides to better show that the stickers envelop the whole melon.
