Week 7 - Creating different repeat systems

Lea went through different methods of creating working repeats and assuring that the working copies blend. The random repeat was the most difficult, as the canvas needed to be divided up with guidelines, and dragged to create a blended working repeat.  

Blending half drop with PS tools

Working repeat

Working half drop

Ramdom repeat

Thinking about the assessment....

Thinking about the requirement to use my local environmental attributes to assist in the design motivation for the textile design, I wandered to the creek all of 30 metres away from my front door to see what I could find. I really had no pre-concieved idea of what I wanted to find, or really what part of nature I wanted to focus on, I thought I'd just let the natural setting guide me. I headed to the creek around 8.30am, which was such a great time of day for lighting. Due to reflection created by this low light I was able to see different environmental interpretations of the shapes of the leaves, trees and all the things lying around the creek bed.

What stood out for me the most during my little trip to the creek was the large creek lillies. Initially I thought that perhaps the micro fern moss had potential, but the reflection and the shadows of the lillies on the water surface was so interesting, with a painterly quality. 

My next move to begin the designing process is to place these lillie leave images into PS and manipulate to extract the shapes for me to work from.

Lillie leave reflection on water

Lillie leave shadow on water

Top of the lillie leave

Lillie leaves hanging over creek edge and reflection

Lillie stems

Week 6 - Repeat Tutorials

The first tutorial that Lea went through with us was the stripe design. Simply starting from a square or rectangle canvas, the rectangle tool was used to select vertical strips in succession, then each was filled with the paint bucket. After a number of strips, the motif was selected then copied to fill the canvas. We then defined the pattern, created a new canvas and selected 'fill.'

Stripe Pattern

The second part of the tutorial was all about creating a pattern using downloaded brushes and making a motif to put into repeat. I selected a brush in a bird shape and used transform and duplicate to flip and rotate the bird into a symmetrical motif. After creating my motif I selected an area to use to 'define pattern' which was then later used to 'fill' a blank canvas. This area selected must be a square or rectangle. The pattern differed depending on whether or not I selected a rectangle or a square to define the pattern.

Rectangle defined pattern

Square defined pattern

Week 6 - Samples of repeat systems for textile designs.

I loved this task! such a great way to recognise the different methods of textile designs and also to find some inspiration!

Mirror
(image from http://www.repeatssosweet.com/2011_05_01_archive.html)

Ogee
(image from http://www.trueup.net/2010/the-daily-swatch/daily-swatch-pattern-types-ogee/)

Diamond
(image from http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-diamond-vector-repeat-tiled-pattern-image17721587)

Tossed
(image from http://www.trueup.net/2010/the-daily-swatch/daily-swatch-pattern-types-two-way/)

Half drop
(image from http://joannewebbblog.wordpress.com/)

Brick
(image from http://www.trueup.net/2010/the-daily-swatch/daily-swatch-pattern-types-brick-repeats/)

Stripe
(image from http://www.kidsfabrics.co.uk/paddock-mango-stripe-fabric.html)

Spot Repeat
(image from http://orronfearon.blogspot.com.au/)

Week 4 - Blog Title

I thought I should sum up the blog title I created, which was supposed to be done week 4. Lucky for me I had already done this after our week 1 lecture, and it also happened to be the week that a graphic designer friend had introduced me to dafont.com and this is exactly where I got my blog banners' font from.

Brushes - Week 5

After completing this post after the week 5 lecture, my computer decided I was going to quit all applications and have a little sleep. I thought that I'd lost all of my weeks blog, until today when looking at up-loading images for my working journal for the first assessment. Alas! I came across drafts! So pleased I didn't need to go back and re-write the week 5 summary, and I am no longer on blogger hiatus! (Lea, please note this was actually written after week 5, but my blogger frustration got the better of me)


This week Lea spoke to us about downloading brushes and creating our own brushes and making a stencil from an image. The fist part of week 3's tutorial Lea talked us through creating our own graffiti/spray can effect using a found image. The image's we chose were black and white so that a strong contrast was allowed to set up a stencil. I selected my image and after eliminating the grey tones with the adjustment graph on PS, selected the area with the magic wand and spray painted it with the spray brush. The end result was a graffiti like image, as posted below.

The second part of the tutorial was about using an image, selecting it and creating your own brush tool that can be used just as the other brush tools that are already in PS, or have been downloaded. The image we created was a sequin that was made into a brush, with the image also posted below.

Brush selection tool

Stencil for graffiti effect

Watercolour brush tutorial (from my own image)

Our homework task of the tutorial was to download watercolour brushes and complete the outlined task. The most major issue I encountered in the task was the fact that we needed to download different brushes than those that were outlined, therefore making the instructions just slightly difficult to follow. But this allowed for more creative and individual result in the tasks outcome. The end result is posted above.

Week 3 - Some more Photoshop

Photomontage

Photoshop selection tool utilised, magic wand and additional selections removed/added with lasso tool.