Background Creation for Patterns

For 2 of my patterns, I did not create a repeated pattern out of them. The reason behind this because the whole repeated pattern would not look good inside the packaging mockup. The drawings would look small and unrecognisable. Therefore I decided to leave the pattern just the way it is in order that they would be large enough to stand out. After I was done colouring in the drawings I cleared the background with a magic eraser tool, so that I would be able to add another colour to the background.

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I got the image above to see what colours compliment with each other in order to have a contrast between my drawings and the background.

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The image above shows the types of tropical colours I will be using for the background. Since my soap scents are tropical I decided to use tropical colours to give that idea as well.

I opened a new blank layer and used a gradient tool to colour in the background. I decided to first see how the yellow colour would look like as the background. Purple's complementary colour is yellow.

I did not like the background colour as much so I tried other colours to see what colour fitted best.

The pastel colour of orange seemed to fit perfectly and contrasted very well with the passionfruit drawings.

I did the same for the other patterns. I erased the background with a magic eraser and then I added the new layer and added a new background colour. I tested out several colours for the background to see what works better while following my tropical colour guide. 

For the last two images, I just tested out one colour and saw that it worked perfectly so I left it as it is.