Here I implemented largely bolded like text for stones and for the gate I used a lighter approach. For the dark stones I used dashed lines and for the light rocks, I used curved lines. To finish up used zigzag lines intersecting to formulate a 3-dimensional vibe to its shape.
Final work
Texture and Pattern project was uneasy to understand in the beginning.It’s a project that taught me how to look to images differently and study them carefully. Definitely, my creative imagination was brainstorming to the limit because I wanted to deliver a great content.
It took me many attempts to achieve the final design and still think that I can do better.
In the critic session, I learned that each classmate has a different way to present his or her project, especially those who got to work with the same images and it was very interesting to see different point of views trying to deliver the same message. I also learned that lines and type could be powerful tools to deliver an idea or a message, for I will use them from now on to express my ideas.
I used different lines thickness and different typefaces to establish a tone and transfer the mood of my images.
There is a repetitive sequence in the knit image which classifies it as a pattern picture.
It’s a black and white image that is also defined by the dark background, and the white part is just popping with a steady and monotonous rhythm. The texture is smooth in some part and scratchy. Through my project, the knit image was hard to deliver in lines because of the scratchy part. I was battling how to transfer it to my sketching and inking presentation. At the end I just leave it out of my consideration.
I never knew that an image could be delivered in many ways. In this project, we learned how to be creative, and play with lines and type to create the same image without omitting the feeling that it contain.
I chose the stones image for texture and the knit one for the pattern.
The stones image demonstrates two tones of stones, a dark gray and white with a very dark background. the background define the geometric shapes of the stones. the texture is smooth and bumpy in some stones, and slightly coarse in the rest. When I looked to the picture, it gave me a nostalgic feeling and took me back in time when I was a child playing in the river and collecting those stones, it is just like a classic song.
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