Execution Progress

After finishing the book, I worked on the other forms of execution: bookmarks- in which there are 4 and each one will be placed in a pocket behind each page as they will each represent the opposite symbolism of the previous page's flowers; cards, as small info for passerby's to read; and a poster that asks about flower symbolism to pique people's interest.
These are the bookmarks:

The cards:

front

back

The poster:

And these are the printed works:

Book Illustrations Progress

Here are some extremely rough sketches for some of the backgrounds I'm drawing. I could only do 4 as these are the ones whose flowers I have confirmed to be able to obtain, from my house garden and also other houses in my housing area, except for the chrysanthemums, which was bought from the florist at the market.

And these are the progress of the backgrounds in photoshop.

Oleander- hatred:

Chrysanthemum- death:

Basil- hatred:

Balsam- impatience:

And after that was to print out the backgrounds and take picture of them with the flowers

This is the front cover's photo:

And the back:

Placing them in InDesign:

First Digital Painting

So I decided to change my execution method a little. Instead of a photograph of a flower in a controlled environment, the flowers while are still real, the background will be illustrated with photoshop. Because he wanted to know what it would look like, I made one drawing so far for Mr Vincent to check. I have already printed out the background and took picture of an oleander- one of the flower chosen to portray negative meaning in flowers.

Oleander represents caution

While the background was supposed to be a cliffside and the flower foreshadows the warning sign nearby, Mr Vincent told me that there's no sense of danger as it doesn't really strike out as a cliffside. He gave a few sketched examples to help me:

Maybe a person scaling the cliff, or there are obvious thorns nearby, or even a top view-down of someone's feet as they look over the cliff bottom.