Today I have tried a new design direction and thought I would focus on the peach as it is the main object of the book and title.
Using the image to the right (google image) as reference I had a go of drawing it and trying to exaggerate the angles and pen width to make an interesting vector.
Below is the photograph of drawing and screen shot after altering the exposer to define the black.
Live trace to convert into vector.
Then applied colour in illustrator, live paint mode. I tried to keep the colours bright and surreal to appeal to the child audience and portray the surreal/ magic side of the story.
I like this vector and think it looks quite professional and very fictional. This could be quite a nice style to produce the rest of the range in. I think the colours my need some more work though and remove the water droplets and some of the lines.
Over all I think this is a nice drawing style that i think could work across the range. However I would probably re draw this one as the peach looks more like a pumpkin, due to all the lines. Also this design does not give a sense of scale and size of the giant peach. Perhaps I should put another image in of James to show size comparison.
