One of the reasons we chose the name 'Taboo' was the whole Adam & Eve covering themselves with leaves, so we decided to go with a leafy pattern as we also wanted it to have a natural feeling to it. So I've started off just drawing leaves, we don't have a set colour scheme yet so I've been doing green, purple and orange because I consider those pretty neutral colours plus leaves generally are green, or orange in autumn.
I did one painting of thorns because I was trying to think of something that would be natural and leafy but also have a bit of an edge so it didn't seem too feminine. This got me thinking about different kinds of plants, like venus fly traps and poisonous plants but I thought this is probably too sinister for a beauty product!
"Feeling Thorny?" on the thorn painting was playing with the idea of being risque or putting jokes on the packaging to link back to the name 'Taboo' - I'm not sure how well this would come across on packaging, it might be interpreted as crass especially as we're trying to come off as sophisticated and consumable by a mass market.
I felt like to make a pattern I needed something more shape based, some of my stronger work from another module had been shape based too so I made a lino leaf. Instead of printing it with actual printing ink I did it with watercolour which gave this quite nice and soft blotchy leaf shape, which I really like! I've tested making another leaf shape out of this in a darker colour, and combining it with paper cut to make a bamboo type pattern. I think both of these have the potential to be transformed into viable gender neutral patterns.
I'm going to play with this stuff digitally, I have never made a pattern before so I'm hoping I can learn how to do it!
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