A box of chocolates!
So I got bored and decided to do this just for fun. It's obviously not done yet, but what do you guys think of it so far?



update:

Final product! yay!

So I tried what spambot suggested. Does it look more natural?



c&c is appreciated.

Oh, wow. This looks cool! Although, the wood(?) background is a bit iffy to me. The box and the chocolate looks awesome, though.

How did you make this, if you don't mind me asking?

Haha it looks cute. I can't wait to see the final product with the details and all.

Thanks guys :)
Yeah... I'm still working on the wood... haha
Oh, I made it in photoshop.

Omg those chocolates look so good and real lol. I like the final outcome though!

Oh my, looks awesome! I'm still not really feelin' the wood, though. Maybe because it looks really flat compared to the detailed, three-dimensional chocolates and box. Otherwise, great job!

Thanks! I was craving chocolate the whole time I was making this haha.


Yeah... I wasn't really sure how to incorporate a wooden table without taking away from the box and chocolates, but thanks!

I would suggest free handing your shadows instead of using the drop shadow effect. It will make it look more natural/realistic.

Okay, I'll try that. Thanks!

A-freaking-dorable!

i want some! pretty good, although the background kinda blends in with the chocolate in the box.

Haha thanks :)


Yeah, it does, buuut I didn't know what else to do lol. :P Thanks for the input!

It looks a lot more natural now, according to your latest edit. Oh, and if I could make a suggestion, how about trying removing the wood altogether? It doesn't seem to work very well here, and since this has a nice, smooth, vector-like feel to it, how about a sleek little gradient in the background? Like, a white to a pretty light gray would look nifty.

It just has a weird contrast. The candy/wood has a painted feel while the box (esp. the top/bow) has a very cartoony feel. The rapper to the left throws me off the most.

The candy and box look good individually, though.

So I went with the white-to-gray gradient that Mike suggested, and I like it more than that random chunk of wood :P.
I also tried to make that chocolate piece look more vectored for a more consistent look, buuut I don't really think it's working... haha.

Ha, nice job.

Yeah, the gradient really helped it out. =)

Looking good :) The bow bothers me a bit though, it seems like it's facing forward while the rest of the box cover is facing a slightly higher angle... it may be just me, though.

Thanks guys

No, I see it too. It looks flat to me :/. Maybe if I put openings at the bottom of the bow it'll give it more dimension.

Hrm, actually. I think I see it as well. I'm thinking that the vertical strip has the wrong angle at the bottom. It should be more to the left, in my opinion.

Given the angle of the box, you might not want to have openings at the top anyways, just at the bottom.

Oh yeah, I think it should be too, now that you mention it.


That's true... I'll work on it.

I like this. Maybe instead of trying to make the candy look more vectored you should try to give the box a more painted look. Since it's not very detailed you could probably just add some texture and mess up the blending a bit.

So I changed the opening of the ribbon, moved the bottom of the ribbon to the left a bit, and added a leather texture. Thanks for your advice so far, guys :)

Hrm, it almost looks perfect! I think that leather texture was a pretty good idea, but I'd tone it down a bit. And I think you may have misinterpreted what I said. I meant to kind of rotate it to the left (or right, whatever. I was looking at the bottom). But yeah, lookin' good!

I lowered the opacity of the leather a bit.

Sorry for my slowness I'm a very visual person :P but did you mean this thing?