Victorian's Textile Pattern

Victorian's Textile Pattern

The idea generator of the swatch is inspired by the Victorian period. The elegant and continuous curve, sophisticated column and ceiling decoration and luminous lighting found in typical Victorian architecture and its interior indicate essential components in Victorian period which are used to guide the swatch. In addition, romantic roses and lovely angel are commonly seen in the Victorian period. Those elements are put together to represent the Victorian. There are asymmetrical balances create by two girls image on the focal point and leaves image at every corner. There is also a symmetrical balance creates by the continuous lace frame. The analogous colors are used to create a harmony and the complementary are seen between the corner and the borders to create a contrast and grab your attention.

To my astonishment, the repetition of my swatch create such a harmonious textile pattern. I really love the circle formed by corners of  my initial swatch. In fact, that's the effect I did not make it on purpose. I just wanted to create a frame around my initial swatch and it end up forming such a great pattern. In addition, the circular pattern really bring eyes in and catch attention.

Victorian's Geometric Pattern

                                         

Victorian's Geometric Pattern

     I like the pattern I created and I am glad that I can learn so many useful techniques in Photoshop through creating the pattern. The images were mainly based on typical Victorian style and then manipulated in Photoshop to make them become attractive. I can see a perfect match of black and pink images. To my surprise, the yellow and orange glowing images manipulated by accented edges is originally the picture of a building. I love the effect it creates. However, the image surrounded the large square is a little light and thus it seems that it is lack of solidness.

Sketch

I finally bond those sketches together and create a cover and a back for it. I feel so proud of myself and I feel a great sense of achievement.

sketch#10-2
Trying to show the value change in the space using high contrast methods.

Sketch#10-1
I drew the space in one-point perspective and try to show the depth of the space.

Sketch#9
I find it difficult to draw this sketch because I didn't know how to get started. I have to focus on the negative space and let the positive space in blank. As a result, the positive space becomes very bright and apparent.

Sketch#8

It's cool to draw on black paper; however, I hope there is sand paper I can draw on as the paper I drew cannot present the density and vitality of colors. 

 Sketch#7
It is fun to trace the figure as I can clearly feel the movement and flow. I can concentrate on the contour line and focus on the details.

Sketch#6
It is really interesting to draw the dissection of some fruit. I find it hard to use black pen and color pencil together cause it somehow becomes blur. I think I might only use color pencil to draw the next time when I want to show colors.

Sketch#5 Corner

This is a corner of my room. The cross-hatching skill is a good way to create shade and tint. However, I feel that I intended to keep the edges of the corner and thus cannot show the real shadow. I think I need to have more practice to improve my cross-hatching shading skill as I am used to applying hatching shading. The important thing might be find out the way to produce smooth cross-hatching shade.

Sketch#4

I really like the chair I drew and I found it interesting to look through different angle. This kind of drawing help me build up the sense of three-dimensional space.

Sketch#3

It's cool to draw something on napkin. Actually, it's not easy to draw on napkin because of the surface.

Sketch#2

Creating a mind map inspired my creativity and imagination.  I figured out that the words first came to my mind were mainly related to my background and experience. Therefore, some words might not make sense to other.

Sketch#1

I think this sketch is really successful as we can see obvious contrast between different value. The tint and the shade really form a solid outcome.

In Class Sketch
I think the keys are fine; however, the wallet is not good at all as we can't see the depth and thickness. If I can do it again, I will focus on the fold of the wallet and try to show the thickness.