Creating Product Packaging in Illustrator
In this Illustrator tutorial, we will focus on creating packaging for a fictional beverage. Software required: Illustrator CS6.
What you'll learn
In this Illustrator tutorial, we will focus on creating packaging for a fictional beverage. We'll get started by building a few elements already sketched inside Illustrator, which will be used for our package design. As we assemble these elements into our design, we'll learn things like how we can create seamless patterns, how we can utilize type on paths, and how we can convert photographic texture into vector form for use in our design. Throughout this course, we will create two different labels, a product mockup, as well as a drink carrier for our fictional beverage. After completing this course, you will be familiar with several tools and techniques that are utilized by graphic design professionals when creating package designs. Software required: Illustrator CS6.
Table of contents
- Building Label Components from Sketches 13m
- Creating a Pattern for the Label Background 10m
- Creating Type for Our Label 14m
- Adding a Texture to the Label 10m
- Beginning to Build the Neck Label 13m
- Creating a Bottle Mock-up for Our Labels with the Width Tool 10m
- Adding Color to Our Bottle Shape with Gradients on a Stroke 12m
- Adding Additional Details to Our Bottle Mock-up 11m
- Beginning to Create Our Bottle Cap 7m
- Finishing Our Bottle Cap 14m
- Applying Labels to Our Bottle Mock-up 13m
- Beginning to Create Artwork for a Drink Carrier 11m
- Finishing the Drink Carrier Artwork and Wrap-up 13m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more