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. 

Drawing References + Designs

The research and drawings I did for the last project was a good starting point for this collection, I am going to expand on the old prints with new drawing references. By the end of last project I began to be interested in chimney tops and layers areas, finding that these images gave me a great range of new shapes and pattern ideas. I have become very interested in how pattern is created, through combining shapes together to form one surface. I have researched into brick laying, knit patterns and woven surfaces to learn about their structures. This has allowed my prints to be planned in multiple new ideas through simple rotations and scaling.

To accompany this, I have researched into optical prints. To be able design my own I have been learning how an optical print is created, what shapes are needed, spacings between lines etc. 

This was harder then I had anticipated, the shaping and layers of a design had to line up perfectly otherwise the overall print would not work. As each design is drawn by hand it has taken a lot longer then I had hoped, meaning that the time spent creating these drawings in a specific way was time taken away from developing them digitally. The collection of final drawings, ready to be taken into digital work, I am very pleased with and I am excited to see how they work once repeated.