Workshop 4 - Print for Fabric

RGB, CMYK and LAB.

 RGB

CMYK

 

I decided to try repeat brick pattern again but with a more complicated composition and incorporating wallpaper colour trends for 2013.

 I decided to revert back to creating single illustrations and blocks of patterns with the transform tool as I don't think I was as successful with repeat patterns.

 I will work on this design concept by adding relevant colours from my colour palette selected from dyed cells.

2013 Home Décor Trends

http://www.foryourhome.com/
Includes:
Colour Movements
Predicted Panatone colours to use
Colours for different Home Collections
Décor Features and Motifs

http://www.foryourhome.com/2013-home-decor-trends/

Researching colours to use for wallpaper designs and repeat patterns.

Workshop 3 - Repeat Patterns

 

Brick repeat patterns with 3 motifs 

 From this workshop I decided to create more motifs and experiment with the free-transform tool. I can see this design working well on a shiny fabric, possibly as a print for a scarf or other fashion accessories.

This unfinished piece was inspired by Gabriel Moreno's Santa Teresa where I used the warp and skew tool on the hair.

Artist Inspiration

James Jean

Daryl Feril

A Philippine-based freelance designer & illustrator. His illustration style is freestyle mix of edgy hand-drawn sketches, flowing lines, curves, blowing watercolour and digital. Loves drawing girls, typography, nature & fashion.

Miss Alessia

 Photographer living between Rome and Barcelona.
Started as a model, and then after a while discovered that she liked being behind the camera a lot more than being in front of it. Uses photography as a form to express herself.
Always looking for the beauty.
  Photo shoots and commissioned work: commercial and personal shoot, fashion photo shoots, editorial work, and book or album covers.
Her clients include: Nike, Sony Bmg, MTV italy, Invicta, FHM Uk, FHM Spain, FHM France, Woman, Maxim Italy, Avenue, Cosmopolitan, Max Italy, Men's Health Australia, Label, Mia, Aut, Clara, Tubebe, Singular, it, d-mag, Playboy germany, Bentrovato, Gori De Palma, Ou Es Fantomas, Santa Eulalia, Marco De Vincenzo, Bianca Gervasio, Estefania Borras, Nuna Bascon Bcn, ElTaller, I Guinigi, Power Stock Apparel by Valentina Nervi..

Artist Inspiration

CIL LAURENS

 

Lauren's combines drawing with photography layers and structures in her designs.

Her drawings and paintings are filled with graphic patterns, the structures in the hairs conflict in directions although the total flow is a group, in their uncovered skins the females don’t seem to notice the viewer, and when they look at us masks or fabric covers them.
She creates her paintings by sketching with graphite and then create outlines from these drawings.
She prefers to draw on wood, a material that gives her work a traditional feel.
The choice of wood also makes it a precise and time-consuming job, because the wood has a natural grain that makes it necessary for her to use a very thin pen.

alterlier

Inspired by (artists): toulouse-lautrec, zak smith, tatsuyuki tanaka, range murata. 

Favorite writers: haruki murakami. Tools of the Trade: photoshop

Workshop 2 - Filters

 Colour fill and file size

 Auto-tone Filters

Artist Inspiration

COCA-COLA | 2007

In 2003 Zakee was approached by Coca-Cola to design a textile print using the contour bottle. Zakee paid homage to Andy Warhol's Coca-Cola screen-print by positioning the bottles next to each other but added her touch by giving each bottle its own identity with unique illustrations. The design was received so well that it was chosen for use on a full range of products, including homewares, lighting, stationary, bed linen, luggage, and accessories. The product launched in the new Coca-Cola flagship store in Atlanta.

Gabriel Moreno

Baroque illustration which seeks colour and composition excess; for Santa Teresa Rum’s Christmas press
campaign, hand in hand with Next Door.
PROJECT/ CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN CLIENT/ RUM SANTA TERESA AGENCY/ NEXT DOOR . 2007

Workshop 1 - Creating Patterns

Using spots and stripe patterns and creating repeats from parts of scanned in images. Here I haven't thought about the merging of stripes and my sketch much, so I think that is why it doesn't quite visually work. However the repetition of the sketch is consistent because of the plain black and white theme.

Patterns in Nature

http://technabob.com/blog/2011/08/06/see-through-ant-color-photos/

Dr. Mohamed Babu of Mysore, India shot these incredible photographs, taken as these unusual ants sipped from colorful piles of sugar water. He says that not only did he end up with red, yellow and blue ants, but some of them drank from multiple drops, creating new colours.

Brief

GROWTH

I want to investigate the theme of growth, initially looking at the way natural forms grow and change. I will explore this theme through photography and observational drawing examining organic shape and line. From my research I will produce a range of hand drawings and samples which can then be translated into digital print, experimenting with repetition, scale and layering. To inform my work I will reference contemporary artists Mike Perry, Timorous Beasties and Dan Funderburgh.

Artist Inspiration

M. C. Escher

Prolific artist with mind boggling paintings. Morphing and Metamorphosis.

Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953.
It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, with most of its inhabitants casually going about their ordinary business, such as dining. There are windows and doorways leading to park-like outdoor settings. All the figures are dressed in identical attire and have featureless bulb-shaped heads. Identical characters such as these can be found in many other Escher works.

Antoine Manuel

Wallpaper. Minimal colour with maximum impact.

Anna Giertz

Inspired by micro-organisms and biology. Above is 'Bleaching Agent'

Scott Newlin 

Digital vs hand drawn patterns.

Ben Weeks

http://www.benweeks.ca/index.php?/2011/juniper-park-mural/

Pattern in hand.
Collaborations with graphic artists and advertisers.