Project 3

The idea for this piece was the "Bionic Heart" and while I would have liked to have put more computerized textures or patterns into it, I'm happy about how it has turned out. I think it turned out to look mechanical like wanted it too while still holding lots of oranic shapes and the look of an actual human heart. 

For this i only ended up CREATING 5 patterns, the rest of everything was lots and lots of transparency masks because I couldn't figure out how to take the images and turn them into patterns. And of course there's the few pictuers I imported of the wires coming out of the arteries. 

The most difficult part about this project was finding the time to complete it, in all honesty. With my trip to vegas and constant work week- and not a lot of time to come to the school and work, it became a big problem. It also doesn't help that CS5 refuses to open CS6 files- so the option of working from home wasn't there unless I wanted to start completely over. 

Heart flesh, water, bubbles, mushroom cloud, scatterd fragments, cables 1, 2, 3, computer patterning, microchips, brushed steel, broken glass, highlights, fusion star, heart monitor are the patters/masks that I used on the project. 

(: 

-Kasandra Pittmann

My wife and I sold our house and had to move in the middle of this project so this is all I was able to complete.

Project 3

This was made from a painting i did in another class and i and added texture and patterns to each piece in the project. It was really hard for me to make up patterns to use and repeat and i know its not 30 of them either.

project 3

Project 3

Panic by Digital Desire (project 3)

The conception of this piece started as a girl behind a computer, but i changed it to looking through a camera aperture made of metal, cloth, eyes, and ground beef. The chaotic nature of this picture was a main focus point, with the wide variety of things on the internet, it can seem like an overabundance of information. With the subject's eyes filled with static and fear, it is obvious that she has succumb to all the cacophony of the web.
     I hope the concept comes across.

here are the swatches i used

a lot of the patterns were not swatched, but just put on the image

Project 3

For this project I used different sets of patterns with organic and manmade theme. Most of them were found online, but some of them were made by me in Illustrator.
I used two color theories for this project. First was about complimentary colors: greens and reds. I repeated the red color in the image to create color balance. I also used colors close on the color wheel: greens and blues.
I also faced a problem with my computer at home, as it didn't want to work properly with the file. So many objects and patterns in the project made the work so slow, it was almost impossible. I had to save a png file with half of my work done and use it as a background for the second half of my project.

Project 3

My patterns consisted of images that I pulled from google. I then scaled and rasterized them before turning them into swatches. I tried to keep the patterns consistent with the color schemes for each side, with the exception of the one color that was to bleed into the opposite side. The computer side consisted of cooler colors (greens and blues mostly) whereas the body side was more warmer colors (red and orange). The patterns were images representing what they were filling, eg. computer chips on the left and blood/tissue cells on the left.

My color theory element was the use of complementary colors. The blues and greens contrasted with the reds and oranges to show a distinct separation of the two halves.

Project 3 - Patterns & Textures

For Project 3 - Patterns, I really could not stay focused on just one subject.  I liked the lecture and the examples shown of the complexity that can go into vector art.  Also the color theory side of it made more sense to me as I have heard of it before, but the presentation helped out a lot.

As for my list, I came up with 32 patterns in total.

98% of them I created myself from scratch.  The other 2% were photos I pulled and cropped what I needed from them to get what I was looking for.  Patterns #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 & 12 were all photo's I used after capturing them on my phone.  Actually 11/12 were taken with my Canon T3 DSLR.  These patterns were mostly of natural things, leafs, tree bark, grass, and some man-made things such as concrete, rusted/chipping metal, buildings and glass.  Patterns #17-33 I created myself from scratch. I used the pen and shape tool to create organic looking things and also rigid blocky patterns.  What I was going for was to keep a balance of both nature/technology and flowing/sharpness.

Other images I used were circuit boards, wires, cables, copper and steel grates. These were grabbed via Google.

As for my color theory I went with a few, as I wanted to create balance that you see in nature but also the hustle and bustle of technology. Symbolically I was trying to use color that was harmonious and complimentary in the with a Triad color wheel.  The patterns I used were mostly of natural colors so I went ahead and contrasted those colors with bright over the top ones to make the overall feel of the piece pop a little more.

It's very busy, but I tried to make it as complex as I could without over doing it.  It was a fun project.

Project 3

Project 3

A good majority of my pattern swatches started out as photos of interesting patterns that I took with my phone, both in and around my apartment. Some of the textures are cropped rasterized pieces from things like kitchen appliances and musical instruments, while others are from the landscaping around my apartment including flowers and stone wall textures. I chose to go with a complementary color scheme, focusing on orange and blue. I really wanted the colors to pop so to better match the colors I needed to complete the project, I also searched online and sampled some screen shot textures of water and other closely matching patterns to achieve my more desired effects. 

I struggled most with this project when it came time to move from the thumbnail sketches into Illustrator. I didn't like the the look of my sketches and didn't feel comfortable when I tried re-drawing the whole thing out in Illustrator, ultimately I reverted back to the many reef and scuba diving images I collected during my initial brainstorming. I started bringing in cropped pieces of the different photos that I liked until I had constructed something close to the layout that I envisioned. Then I rasterized the image pieces and did color image traces. I followed that with live-trace and live-paint actions, further simplifying and altering the image, making it my own and filling it with the patterns I created. About half way thru the project I noticed the file was getting too large and slowing the program and my progress down, even after switching computers. At that time, I decided to export what I had as a JPEG and then brought it back in and started working with the patterns in brush form, adding to the top of the image (and my prior work). I had some fun with this, adding in new painterly elements with even more abstracted patterns and got more comfortable using the drawing tablet in the process.

Project 3

Patterns
Computer Chips:  Created using the line and rectangle tools as well as scanned images of the skull sketches and the brain & tomato clip art.  5 variations used.
Tomatoes:  Clip art edited in Photoshop.  7 variations used.
Skulls:  Original thumbnail and working sketches scanned into Illustrator.  6 variations used.
Brains:  Clip art edited in Illustrator.  2 variations used.
Lines: Just lines drawn in Illustrator with various stroke weight & colored red, green, and/or black.  In a couple of instances I used patterns in the strokes of other objects and increased the stroke weight to emphasize that.  4 variations used.
Text:  My name in caps or lower case in both red & black.  3 variations used.
Image Trace:  I used image trace to get a silhouette from a picture of Einstein and one of me.  2 variations used.

Color Scheme
Began as a monochromatic green with black, white & grey.  When I completed the design I decided to use CMYK red as a way to move the eye around the composition.  So I guess I ended up with a complementary color scheme.

Cory-#3

Cory Clark

 Patterns project #3

For this project I first started by drawing out multiple ideas until I desired on the current idea. I scanned the sketch and used Photoshop to clean it up. I than placed it into illustrator and using the pen tool I traced the drawing and added some details. Using image trace i began taking pictures off the internet of various things and live tracing them and adding them to my swatches. (this is not recommended) Having collected my desired textures and patterns I started the next step.

Adding color to my illustration was one of the easier things I faced. I chose a semi neutral pallet with a mixture of red, blue, green and orange colors in certain areas. These are complimentary colors and add a nice effect to the drawing. I also gave a light blue tint to the whole drawing to help alleviate some of the overwhelming gray. Once the colors where added I went in and placed the swatches where I wanted them but soon discovered that having such large patterns was causing the program to become slow and unstable so I had to

rasterize and image trace certain portions to remove that effect. I then switched to simply using the transparency tool with un-vectorized images to complete the illustration.

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list of patterns.
lava x2
plasma
sheet metal x2
scratched steel x2
digital camo blue
digital camo desert
ink splatter black x3
ink splatter blue x2
ink splatter - randome x2
crosshatch lines
randome dots
metal
rusted metal
fire
leather x2
fiber x3
randome acrylic paint
carbon fiber
circuit board
brown dirt

City Map Pattern

Using different concepts of Japanese art and design, I included them all into the landscape of a map representing one of the smaller Japanese cities.  Using the same color and slight blending it is hard to notice the different pattern twined within the image, but that was my intention was to make it look as a whole when it is really just bits and pieces of images thrown together. Using elements such as waves, koi, wind, trees, cherry blossoms and a rising sun I was presenting the art of nature intwined with that of what human kind has created.

Cory- sketch/themes

sketchy sketch!

The idea behind this is a girl engrossed by the world of the internet, her eyes will be filled with static and the area around her will be an amalgamation of colors, images and shapes. Very bright, very chaotic. this is just the basic sketch, i am sorry its not more.

Working Sketches

Two Working Sketches

I swear they look way better in my head. Right now I have many ideas about textures and patterns I'm going to use on either of them, but I can't show how it will look like on a sketch. At least half of the patterns will go to the background. I incline towards the second one, because it has more patterning possibilities.

The remix

eff yeah illustrator patterns. :D

pattern project

2 Patterns

I mixed some of my patterns together and liked how they look like.

Patterns

Another Logo

Do you see the bottle in this image?