Week 2 - Repeatable Pattern Documentation

Alright, here comes quite a hefty blog post. Brace yourselves.

In the following image I created a version of one of my symmetry sketches and then turned it into a pattern...

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...then checked out how that looked when I repeated it on an A4 page.

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I then duplicated the pattern and rotated it by 90 degrees and changed to opacity of the layer to turn it grey. (Did you know that if you have the marquee tool selected and then type a number on the numpad it will automatically change the opacity to the typed number? Neat aye?)

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I then turned this into a pattern and had a look at it.

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This repeated well though I thought it still felt quite empty, so I continued on with the process.

Here I tried ways to incorporate the initial sketch.

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With it roughly incorporated this is how it turned out...

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...and after a bit more refining and duplicating here is the final repeated pattern on an A4 Page:

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After this pattern I moved onto a selected figure ground sketch. Here is the recreated sketch overlay in photoshop.

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And, like before I created a pattern to see how it looked as a straight repeated pattern on an A4 page.

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Then duplication the pattern 3 times and overlayed them each at 90 degree rotations to get this interesting effect.

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I found the A4 page of repeated patterns to be even more interesting.

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Here is a detailed screen cap.

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Again I chose to incorporate the original sketch. Here I have decided to see how the 'Divide' layer mode looks...

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I liked it. Here is the A4 page of pattern.

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Here is a detailed look to better see why I liked the result.

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From here I moved onto the next image which was a sketch I selected from the proportion composition group. Here is the digitally recreated version.

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So, like before here is the repeated pattern on an A4 page.

 

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As with the pattern before I duplicated the sketch 3 times and rotated them at 90 degree increments. I also decreased the opacity each time I rotated them.

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A detailed capture of it repeated:

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In the next iteration I made the opacity of each layer darker; I thought it was more striking than the lighter version.

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Then I inverted it just to see what it looked like.

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Like the others before it I decided to add the original sketch back into the pattern.

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And here it is inverted.

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After this I moved onto the chosen hierarchy sketch. This image is me digitally tracing over the original scan.

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And this image has the original scan hidden.

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Here the pattern is repeated on A4.

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With this rendition I duplicated the layers and spun them 90 degrees each time. That just seems to be the first step I take in the process for each pattern.

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From here I take the whole pattern tile and angle it by 45 degrees, make it smaller, then place it in the centre of the pattern.

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I dont like this effect because the circles dont match up, so I go back and change the original tile. Instead of rotating the original pattern, I flip it horizontally and vertically which creates this outcome.

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I re-add the original sketch and do the same flipping horizontally and vertically as before so it nearly lines up. I also change the blending mode on the sketch layers to color burn.

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This is what the current pattern looks like as repeated on A4.

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And here is a detail screenshot.

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At this stage I take the tile, make it smaller, and rotate is by 45 degrees. I also change its blending mode to exclusion (which seems to invert the layer to the opposite of what is behind it).

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And here is a detail shot of the pattern at this stage.

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From here I move onto the final sketch recreation, which is contrast.

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As you can see I vertically flipped this one just to see how the repeated pattern would turn out.

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Here it is as an A4 page. It has a vaguely interesting look to it.

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I add the original sketches to this pattern, just like the patterns created before this one.

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I dont like the way the original sketches are arranged, so I change it. 

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To beef up the pattern I duplicate each foreground element and flip them horizontally and each background element vertically.

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A final detail shot of the contrast pattern:

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And there you go! What a long post! Thanks for bearing with me and getting to the end :)

Update: I seem to have left out rhythm/repetition and datum so here they are.

This is the direct reproduction of one of my rhythm sketches.

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Here is it repeated.

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Here I made the first alteration to it. I duplicated them and flipped the layers vertically and horizontally.

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Repeated version:

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I added the original sketch back in and did the same as the step before it.

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The repeated final texture on an A4 page.

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A detailed look at the repeated texture.

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I seem to have lost my progress screenshots for my Datum pattern but here is the repeated pattern as it is now:

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