Digital Repeat Pattern – Jasmine

For the digital repeat pattern assignment, I chose to go with theme 3, of my environment. I sketched out some objects that were on my desk. While sketching, I started to notice a theme, so I ended up keeping some of the objects, such as earrings and a hairtie out of my pattern. I ended up doing two color variations- one a more neutral colored, and one being an almost complementary blue and yellow theme.

Some things I had the most trouble with were adding color to my sketches. I had some trouble selecting in between spaces, which influenced me to create a colored linework pattern instead. In addition, by using linework, I feel that the pattern develops two different scales from being viewed from further away or from a closer distance. A big challenge was definitely coloring certain areas and not others. This may be easier if I started out with a sketch with entirely closed lines, but I really wanted to keep the lightness of the sketch by using broken lines. Moving forward, I might want to add more objects to my pattern, in order to fill up some of the emptier spaces.

Digital Repeat Pattern 2- Marissa

Lemons & Things Pattern Trial

I chose to respond to the third prompt because I want my pattern to reflect elements of my routine and engagement with my environment. I also used the framework of the camouflage prompt as inspiration to look around for objects that may not typically be drawn repeatedly together. For my first pattern, I overlapped serendipitous objects such as shells, pennies, and flowers over a lemon and part of a To-Do list. Conceptually, I’m liking the idea of extracting beauty from the mundane. I can easily imagine this pattern on a tablecloth for my kitchen table where I spend a lot of time completing silly little daily routine tasks.

The hexagonal layout of this pattern works well with the shapes. I’m still getting used to the Illustrator tools, but I was pleasantly surprised by the formation of a triangle between the repeated stray petals.

Skullys Pattern Trial

I did another quick sketch after taking a look around my apartment with fresh eyes. I wanted to experiment with adding color, and while there were many frustrations, I was able to correct for gaps and create a scheme that enhanced the pattern’s intensity. Choosing different primary colors for the corners of the swatch design added direction created more interesting planes of movement in the repeated pattern. As a wallpaper, I think this pattern would create a feeling that’s overwhelming, but as a throw pillow cover, it would go nicely with the pillows currently on my couch. I’m enjoying how patterns can be used to evoke different emotions and convey different energies.

Digital Repeat Pattern Project Beginnings

I was inspired by the digital repeat patterns I had researched in the prior assignment, and wanted to include some symmetrical flower patterns in my design. I was intrigued by the idea of using art to represent womanhood, so I wanted my pattern to emphasize that as well. Below are some examples of the pieces that inspired my pattern drawing!

Shown below is the sketch for my pattern drawing that I have successfully scanned, but unfortunately was having extreme technical difficulties with in order to add color. However, I am very excited by the idea of this more freeflowing pattern, so I am excited to see how this turns out!

Digital Repeat Pattern – Test Designs (Erica Fu)

My original design was inspired by china plates. I really enjoy the blue and white combination and wanted to experiment with variations of a very classic design. This image was something I found online and then edited within illustrator to create the patterns below.

  1. The green and brown combination was inspired by the similarity of the design to cabbages.
  2. The red and green combination was inspired by roses.
  3. The red, blue, and yellow combination was inspired by pop art.
  4. The blue and white combination was inspired by china pottery.

All of these were very fun to experiment with and I tried to add some different sizes of flowers to experiment with adding more to swatches.

I also made another vector illustration for fun.

Digital Repeat Pattern – Rachel

I was intrigued by the prompts of interrupting historical patterns and drawing from your environment, so I thought maybe a bit of both.

This is a woven textile from the Met Collection that I liked. It feels calming and like a leisurely day. So what if I made a pattern with similar colors or in the same style, but more modern and from a leisurely day in my life.

Here is quick sketch of my house, bike, chair, and table of plants.

This is a first draft of what the repeating pattern looks like. I still have to refine the lines and colors, but I like the effect so far!

Digital Repeat Pattern – Elle

So For my pattern, I am playing around with Toile and history. Since toile tended to be manufactured in Ireland for England and France, I decided to depict vingettes of Irish history. I only have completed one such vingette so far, showinng the 1740-41 famine (one of many irish famines) and the little food that was produced being shipped over to England.

Digital Repeating Patterns

By Remi Adeoti

I chose the third prompt to make a pattern using drawn sketched of objects around us. During this project I was experiencing zoom fatigue and allergies, which inspired me to pick my artificial tears and allergy medication. From there I wanted to pick more of my everyday objects that I look to and interact with everyday. I then chose my Carmex and included multiple because I am never only using one. I also sketched a painting that I had done that I look to everyday because it made the collection of objects feel more personal. Finally, I sketched my snake plant and pothos and created a background for this collection of objects.

A challenge I had was learning how to use illustrator and getting through my upload issues and my laptops inability to process so much at once. Thankfully I had Olivia’s help as well as my design and architecture friends to help me through the questions that were not answered through google.

One discovery I found was that using adobe draw to sketch my objects was much more work than I expected. I tried to play with opacities, different stroke levels, and colors to create textures, but all that work is translated into the pattern because they are such minuscule details. Most of them can be seen in a blown up image of the elements used to create the pattern. However, for example the different colors and strokes I used for my snake plant to get the realistic look of the plant cannot really be seen.

Digital Repeat Pattern – Annie

I had decided to go the third prompt: drawing from my surroundings. I had recently got a mechanical keyboard, and decided to base my ideas off of that. The fat cats are based off of cats of a youtuber who I was watching while doing this assignment.

Choosing a color scheme was especially difficult, since I had wanted to make each cat unique in their own way, but I still wanted to stick to a bit more monotonous color scheme. I am a bit iffy about the shading though, since it was difficult to get certain patches colored in properly.

I also wanted to give this a more cartoonish feel, so the line widths of the keys and the designs of the cats were chosen specifically to match that. I feel like overall, the calmer scheme of what I was aiming for definitely worked.

The type of repeated pattern was also easier to choose than I thought it’d be, though I mostly went by instinct. I didn’t want the final pattern to be too crowded, but I also didn’t want to make the repeat block too obvious.

Beginning Repeat Patterns – Maddie

These were the two digital repeat patterns that I made for the beginning portion of the project. I chose to go with the first prompt which was about interrupting historical patterns.

Historical pattern

This is the historical pattern that I based my components of the pattern off of. I redrew the fish and the waves with some of the splashes so that I captured the main elements, but added some of my own as well. I added a little sail boat and a person with their arms up. In the patterns my intention was to make it look like the boat is sailing towards to giant fish and the person tossed in the air and within grasp of the fish. There are many historical tales of sea monsters that attack fishermen so I thought that I would implement that into my repeat pattern.

These were my drawings before I did the image trace in Adobe Illustrator. Once I put the image into Illustrator, I made copies of some of the waves and the small circle so that I could add them to the texture of the pattern. I intended for this to be on a dark background, so some of the colors are very light and hard to see on the white art board.