CONCEPT: Blog entry 45

DONE! This one has turned out much better than the others, and I proved that I can do this in a day. If I can do this in a day, I know that I will have the time to make one for each of the species on the R.L next semester for my outcome. Although this isn't as detailed as I'd like it to be. Theres only 5 images that make up the pattern. The background pattern works really well, I think because theres so many different images that make it up. what I have been are just little experiments to see what works, but next time I want to try making the stamps bigger with more detail. 

Experimentation with pattern - White-tailed eagle

Experimentation with pattern - White-tailed eagle

White-tailed eagle pattern stamp

I spent more time playing with the composition on this one, to try and get it right. After looking at lots of other patterns the other day, with this one I tried to make sure that everything was equally spaced, I also tried to make sure that everything was spread further apart, with the hopes that it might make the pattern flow better.

I think this attempt has been the most successful so far. Each one I do they get a little bit better. I cant wait to really get stuck into this next semester.

CONCEPT: Blog entry 44

This is the background pattern that I made for the white tailed-eagle pattern, made up of all the prey that it might eat. All the images of the eagle that I've been working on today will go over the top of this to make up the main pattern. 

CONCEPT: Blog entry 43

I wanted to have one final bash at a pattern before hand in, and theres a couple of ideas for back grounds that I think will make this work better...

so, starting from scratch, with the white-tailed eagle. I wanted to do this one because it's slightly different from the few that Ive done so far, and I wanted to show more how I could incorporate the food aspect of this idea.

Here are some of my initial drawings that will go make up the final pattern;

White-tailed eagle

White-tailed eagle

From all my past experimentations, I discovered that when the bird is all one colour, it is best to use a couple of shades of that colour, instead of just the one colour, like I am able to do with the other more colourful species...these I just use the different colours to give the impression of the shape of the bird. when they are just one colour, if I only use one colour, they lose their shape and definition and look rubbish, so a couple of shades of the same colour help give it back some of that definition, but I still want to keep it to as few colours as possible.

White-tailed eagle

White-tailed eagle

White-tailed eagle