I chose to do the beginner level for my tutorial because I had trouble doing the intermediate level. This tutorial was quite difficult and as I encountered difficulties, I had to go about in a different route. For example, the hands. I could not copy the tutorial effectively, and had no choice, but to do it my own way, which I thought was also not that bad. The hand has a very slick feel. I thought that the paper would be nicer if it was blue, to match the blue lines and the light, and it complemented the black very well.

Here are my different designs for the the brand logo design. I designed the sun for waitrose in the hopes of bringing across a bright a cheery vibe for my advertisement. However I thought the rose would be apt for the brand since it contains the word "rose" and it blends beautifully. I'm still at the initialising stage and have troubles deciding where to put my logo into and how to put it.

I don't think the picture of pooh above does justice to how bad pooh looks in illustrator when I placed him into the background from photoshop after giving him filters. The background with him in it in my last post was in photoshop, hence pooh's quality was still good. Now, he looks grainy upon closer inspection and the lines of his eyes are crooked. So, I decided to return to my previous unedited version of pooh I drew in illustrator. I found a solution to my previous pooh problems of him holding the honey and finally figured out how to use the gradient to give him more difference in colours, and making him look more realistic. 

I finally found solutions to my previous problem. I made pooh more cartoon like through the use of a filter. It made him more "bubbly" looking and 3d, solving my problems. It made him blend more with the background and not look so out of place.
I found out how to make him a shadow by magic wand to select all of him and make a drop shadow. Then, i edited the shadow to be less opaque and more natural looking. One of my biggest problem was separating the shadow from pooh. However, after a search online, all I had to do was create a new layer out of his shadow, and voila! i can now move it around.
Then, I adjusted the shadow accordingly.

I faced a big problem while trying to combine pooh and the background. Upon putting pooh into the background, I realised he looked too "fake" and didn't fit in. He didn't have the 3d effect and I still have no idea how to change it. Will try to resolve this problem by the end of this week. I think I will try to improve on it by making the honey even more "fake" and adding more gradient to Pooh and add a shadow behind him.

This is my model for the project. I faced some problems with winnie the pooh. Although drawing him out by tracing was a breeze, it was difficult to give him different colours through gradient. I finally did it, though the effect was subtle and not obvious. He still looked too "cartoonish" and not realistic enough to blend off with the background. However, that was the least of my worries.

Making Pooh get hold the honey was the hardest part. I had to redraw his hand, which was difficult because I didn't want to ruin the slight gradient effect and it would not be too natural. So instead, I found another way to go about my problem by outlining the Jar using quick selection and 'new layer via copy' to get the shape of the jar without the hands blocking.

I also changed the honey jar as I feel the design of the new jar fits more with the advertisement. I also outlined him to fit more with his background.

The picture on the top is the original which I took off the internet for Pooh's background.
I made it more whimsical and brighter looking to suit Pooh's bright features. I added the grain filter and made the blues and greens stand out more, and sharpened the image.

Achieving the overall look. Though the difference not obvious.

The bottle on the left is the original honey. The bottle on the right is the edited honey. I first used quick selection to get just the bottle of honey, so as to remove the background for future use. Then, I copied via layer and deleted the original bottle.

Then, I edited it using a filter to make it "brighter" and more attractive. I made the yellows stand out even more, and this resulted in the sticker on the bottle to take on a more ivory colour, which was to my advantage as the look became even better.