My husband Joseph Barham’s undergraduate thesis project centers on the study of Linum lewisii, a type of blue flax. I designed a few graphics for his thesis presentation deck.
I started by making a batch of vector assets for use throughout this slide deck in Illustrator – flowers, buds and stems/leaves from various angles.
Flower, bud, stem and leaf detail heavily uses this drawing by 19th-century botanical illustrator M. Hart as reference: http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=27919
I also referenced several photos of Linum lewisii from around the web to provide examples of what my final work should look like here.
Additionally, I made a few slide ornaments & themed the slides around the colors of the flowers.