Research
is something which I now realise as invaluable, I just wish I had have realised
this earlier on in the project, as well as drawing this makes the backbone of
projects. Sure pattern making and digital skills help, but the core is research
both visual and textual.
From here I
looked back over the work I had created. For someone who is looking a
architecture, all of the design I had created had a floral feel. I think I had
been missing the structure of architecture; this was going to be my new focus
of the repeat structures. I looked to architectural design for further help
with this.
I decided to
create a load more drawings based in situ. I don’t this in two different
locations in Norwich, creating pencil and charcoal drawings of the whole
building, then of details I found particularly interesting. These drawings were
simple line drawings on white paper. I decided that the line quality was more
important than the use of colour at this stage. I could add that in later. I
wanted to start this stage with a set of drawings that I was proud to use to
create repeats from. I enjoyed creating these drawings; it was a different way
of doing it which made me work a lot quicker because I was in the cold.
However, quality was not sacrificed.
When I was
happy with the drawings, I scanned them into Photoshop and began to experiment
with composition and the application of my colour scheme. Unlike the last time
I done this earlier in the project, I was happy with the results. I think it
was still difficult to get the balance between drawing and digital work right.
After
creating the repeat structure on Photoshop, I decided to try to address the
lack of drawing a little. To make sure that the repeats did not turn too
generic, I chose a few of them to draw out. I then scanned these in to
photoshop and repeated them. The larger repeat motif stopped the design from
becoming too repetitive.
These hand
drawn repeats did not look as sharp as the photoshop ones and they were hard to
repeat because of the varying scale. So, sticking with the Photoshop repeats, I
chose one design to experiment with for use as the final scarf pattern. I chose
this design because when you are far away it looks quite structured, but up
close the grainy line quality is amazing.
This is my
final scarf design, using two designs combined, one more digital from before 27th
and one from the new set. I think this works well the grainy line against the
dead straight line. In this project I have definitely learnt a lot. There is an
order for how a project develops and I think I went too far against that.
Research is important which will then lead to drawing and development. This way
there is a natural journey which follows the way that I as an artist work.
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