I did a lot of sketches before actually deciding the shape and colours of the design. I thought that sketching different shapes would allow me to sort of understand how the bottle could look at how the colours could play an impact within that design. I knew that I wanted quite a subtle theme within the colours meaning that palettes would be a lot better.

I did these sketches before researching as it was a way of making different ways of ideas flowing and understanding how gin bottles work.

The one below is a sketch of an oval glass bottle, the thing that sticks out for me with this sort of sketch it it enables me to play around with the logo shape – with this shape bottle it allows a lot of room for me to design and less restricted within the design, Its simple yet effective. Gin bottles come in different shape and forms depending on the purpose of the audience and the flavours. I do not think I will know the shape of the bottle until I have the design in place as then I could work around that.

Within this sketch, I used a water colour brush and did some colour drops off what I think could be involved within the design. Maybe a blue, to relate to the beach, because of flavours I would for greens and reds and pinks maybe even orange. I love the way this sort of shape allows reflection and thats why I am more drawn to it, as it allows the design to fit better, and due to it being smaller makes the logo be the focal point not the bottle.

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Now I wanted to draw a square bottle to see how this could potentially look. I think this looks better in a sketch form as its more structured, however I personally do not think it allows the design to flow, I would have to make quite s strict design for it tofu nicely into this bttoel. The purpose of my brand and also the flavours is the idea of being free and care free, where as this bottle to me is quite structured and in line if that makes sense. I think it could work but like I said it depends on my design first and the route I want to take in that.