Month: January 2018

For my patterns, I took photos of some cool things I keep on my desk, cropped them out from their background, did some editing, and made seamless patterns from them.

This is a photo of some Bismuth I own – an artificially grown crystal (cool, right?). Ergo, this could be seen as an interpretation of either “mineral” or “synthetic”. I love the square pattern and I wanted to find a way to make it seem like it stretches on forever. I also love the way it fades from amber to sea green.

These are some photos of succulents in cute glass pots on my desk as my interpretation of the prompt “vegetable.” The background paper is from a source online.

Synthetic:

Vegetable: 

Synthetic and Mineral Patterns

 

Synthetic: Chinese Knot and “fortune” Paper cut

Comments: in the center is a woven Chinese knot we use to symbolize best wishes, combined with a paper cut “fortune” character. Both of which are commonly used for holidays. Images were cropped/selected so that adjacent tiles have seamless transitions.

Animal: Snakes in the dark

Some simple line sketch of snakes, different color schemes were used and parts at edges all connect seamlessly. I meant to have the snakes form some sort of symbol at first, but it didn’t turn out that great so here is what it’s like now.

Animal:

Synthetic:

My first pattern came from the idea of a Rubik’s cube. I was actually playing around with one when I thought of the cool pattern it could make. I created one Rubik’s cube from scratch in Photoshop. I started with a regular hexagon shape and created the 3d cube look so that they would all interlock with each other. I find it interesting how you can see a variety of different patterns depending on where you focus. Whether you focus on the regular cube, the upside down cube created in between these cubes, or even the diamonds created for each side.

My next pattern is an animal pattern, inspired by my pet turtle. I took a photograph of him from my phone and used the various selection tools we learned about to crop him out and make a pattern. I created the water-like background with a texture to get the feeling of movement, and because turtles like water. I also utilized half drop repeats as well as reflections to make the pattern slightly more interesting.

My patterns didn’t fit well into a 4×4, so I created them as I envisioned and then trimmed to the final 8×8. The first is a HotWheels BMW M4, the second is a skin pocketed aluminum tube section. Both originate from old photographs.

Synthetic:

Mineral:

Before

After

This photo caught my attention when i was looking back at my trip to lake Bled, Slovenia. The place was beyond incredible but it was quite a pity that a few pieces of trash got in the way of my shot, so i removed them with photoshop.

Vegetable

Animal

Animal Pattern

Plant Pattern