Prints in repeat

The designs I have created through hand drawing has a taken a long time, however the time spent making them accurate has been necessary. I have drawn in three different styles, optical, angular and shapes. These different style of drawing have given very different outcome when put into repeat.

Through researching and experimenting with how repeat patterns are put together, it has allowed each design to be utilised into creating multiple different prints from one image. The orignal drawings have been scanned it at 600dpi to allow the prints to be blown up into a large scale without loosing any quality. Some designs have worked well as a drawing but when repeated have created obscure prints that do not work as well as I had hoped. This has meant that I have gone back and altered certain drawings to allow them to repeat better.

The optical style prints have worked the most successfully, moving my work away from the graphic style construction and into a more pattern based outcome. These prints have also had the most outcomes through rotation and scaling, with many of the prints creating tonal levels though I am still working in black and white.