Exploring Sugar: Recipe cards

So I started to arrange the recipe cards, It took quite sometimes as I had to change some stuffs with the characters here and there to make the whole thing more interesting and here's how it turned out

front back

I figured out that a gradient would work great with my style and I used the adobe color wheel to help me find some great colors with my characters. I also made lettering for the fruits' name in this same style as my characters as made them the same color as the fruits. The layout is not the same everywhere because I wanted to make it look dynamic somehow to kind of give the feels that the characters are moving around the page.

The illustrations for the cooking part I made with Illustrator and I included a few alternations in the illustrations to match the fruit or honey color. As for the characters I used Clip Paint Studio which has a vector option for the linearts which helped me made the changes on the characters faster. I also used Clip Paint for the conversations as it really facilitates those bubbles talking things. And I arranged the whole thing on InDesign.

At the back with the conversation I placed the sugar as the audience somehow and it's like the fruits are teaching him.

Well that's my progress for now, I need to design the packaging and make the infografic now.

This is a brief sketch I made for the packaging design. for the style of the packaging because I am not really targeting a certain gender I was thinking of not making it like neither cooking kits for girls nor science kits for boys. However I was thinking of using the same kind of gradient background like for the recipe cards and on the front I will have the title "make your own sugar" written like the lettering I used for the fruits except that each letter will have it's own color or something like that and on top of the title there will be the illustrations of the characters cheering.

The packaging will also include information that it's not made for children below the age of 7 and that the parent's guidance is needed for the children to make their own sugar. Also I was thinking of maybe also include line art simple drawing of all the fruits and honey all around the packaging and on the left side provide more details about it's content which will be mainly for the parents to read.

On the right side however I was thinking of making another conversation with the characters to explain a little bit about what's in the kit and the right side is more aiming toward the children to read.

And that's basically it for now...