Although the colors look similar I can assure you each panel of the car is made from one or more pen traces. In total there are over 180 traces but I am happy with the final product.

An SD Unicorn Knight Gundam I painted (in a sort of semi-destroy mode if anyone cares).

Went a little overboard, ended up with about 600 shapes. Fun project.

Mineral:

This was made from  a photo I took of the crystal caves in Bermuda.

Animal:

Dogs!

 

An animal and synthetic pattern.

Animal

For my animal pattern I used a photograph of a giraffe and attempted to create a DNA looking pattern.  I created this pattern and used this color change to represent how all giraffes may look strikingly similar to the naked eye, yet each one possess an individual characteristics as all animals do.

Synthetic

For my synthetic pattern I used a combination of a filmstrip with a dvd. The image represents the change in the movie mediums over the years. Although in a pattern, each color reflection from the dvd creates an individual image within the different squares of the filmstrip, symbolizing how all movies are different.

Pattern One: Beetles

For this first pattern I took a little bit of liberty with the animal  prompt. Beetles are insects, but I figured the prompt is mostly there for inspiration. I photographed a display case full of preserved beetles/bugs at this museum in Seattle, the photo on it’s own is rather cool. I cut out six of the beetles and the scorpion from the image, and arranged them in a circular form. Then I patterned them, with the orientation rotating, over a background I drew. I used a paintbrush with texture, which makes the background appear almost sandy. And in addition I drew up some thorny branches to add some more substance.

Tiling the Pattern:

The tiling of this pattern wasn’t as seamless as I had hoped, the beetles were difficult to have line up properly. However, I think it still remains interesting and with a clear motif, even if it could use a little more work.

Pattern Two: Rayon

For my second pattern I chose to take inspiration from the synthetic. I immediately thought of synthetic fibers, and remembered how awesome they look under a microscope. I sampled this image of rayon under a microscope  for online. I patterned the image using the cross weave option with overlapping pixels and I added in color and brightness randomization. This resulted in this almost patchwork like print of the original photo, in varying colors and brightness. I then deleted sections from the print and placed a white to teal gradient behind the deleted sections. The final result takes this very smooth synthetic and contrasts it against a very geometric pattern.

Tiling the pattern:

I was pretty satisfied with how this pattern tiled, I rotated the original pattern so the center cut outs of white lined up and an overall geometric pattern appeared.

Synthetic Pattern:

This is a tiles picture from when my graphics card unfortunately passed away and left a bloody mess whenever I tried to play games.

Animal Pattern:

“Hey, BooBoo!”

Animal Pattern – Whales

Synthetic Pattern – Baseball

My first pattern falls under the animal category as the background is supposed to be similar to photos you see of animal eyes glowing in the dark.

My second pattern falls under the synthetic category.  I took a picture of a can of Monster I had and used one part of the green “M” for the ring, while I cut the “o” from the word “Monster” for the center.  I did, however, download the lightning bolt in the corner of each tile, but it was edited somewhat to fit better with the rest of the image.

Animal Pattern:

The repeating images were taken from the wing design of a Chinese Moon Moth, an image of which happened to be in my inventory. By taking a part of the wing, blowing it up, and playing with the slanted designs of the pattern, I ended up making something headed for the “synthetic” range a bit.  I was sort of inspired by late-80’s early-90’s backsplash designs.

Vegetable Pattern:

Here, I went for a Mod approach. Inspired by the flow of the Japanese symbol for Advanced Drivers, I decided to go for a long-climbing “Seeds ‘n Vines” look for the pattern. I decided to put a lot of emphasis on the “vine” aspect in both the foreground (the seed/vine stack) and the background (the horizontal vines).