Week 9- Box Cover

When designing my game box cover, I looked at multiple box covers comparing and contrasting each one to decide what I think would work well for my specific box and what I would not want to use for my box. I truly can say I did not know what I wanted to design my box around until I started working looking at both the box covers and my own personal game. After looking at all of the boxes I decided that I wanted to incorporate my name into my illustrations, but also be sure that my name was very clear. I decided this because I felt that every game that had a clear name but was also surrounded by other things that represent the game made it such as Cranium, War of Terror and LIFE. To create my box I had to copy the box cover cut out and open it in adobe illustrator. Next I started to design my box. I knew I wanted to incorporate the leprechaun because it is the main thing on my board that represents the Irish theme. I then started creating a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end because that is the main point of my game, to be the first to get tot the pot of gold. I did this by making a U shape on adobe illustrator using the pen tool. I then created each layer under that doing the same thing but with smaller margins. I used the fill and decided the color about each level of the rainbow. I next wanted to draw a cloud underneath the rainbow to put the name of the game in. I did this by making small U shapes and making the cloud long and skinny.  I filled it in white and used a blue outline to emphasize that it was a cloud. FInally I added the name of the game onto each side of the box. I thought it could use a little more of an Irish theme so I traced a shamrock and shrunk it to fit on each side of the name of the game.