I started sketching out the rough draft of how I want my banner to look. Of course, this is subjected to change, but I wanted to get a feel of the silhouettes for my motifs.

Moving on, I did some really rough colour drafts just to get an overall feel of my banner.

Then I did some style tests. I wanted to go for a realistic painterly style but it took up waaaayy too much time so I opted for the last style which is detailed yet slightly stylised.

 

After these tests, I went ahead and sketched my motifs. I wanted to draw a mix of fruits with vines, fruits that are just the cross section, and fruits that are sliced up. This would give me a variety of silhouettes to explore when making my pattern.

Then I went to digitise these. Each motif took around 2 hours.

 

This is just a very haphazard and rough composition just to check if my motifs are looking ok…

 

 

Some swatches from my motifs!

 

 

Then I did some mockups for fun