Hello! this piece has been a work in progress for the longest time, due to the simple amount of effort it took to both draw initially, along with colour in and edit. Since this has taken os long, I actually have multiple images of it through the process. To give some insight on this, this was another pattern based around parties, and so for this one I took a more unusual take on parties, more of a rave/club kind of idea for this.
So, the method we used to make this pattern is called the quarters method. This starts with a drawing in the middle of a piece of paper. Now, from self experience, don't make the middle part really complicated like how I have. This is because you will have to redraw it again. As you can see, I have had made this mistake myself, and it came to bite me back once I got done with the first step.
After making your first drawing, you then cut it into four separate pieces. This should be done as presiclay as possible to ensure accuracy for the next step. You then stick these four quarters onto tape, and orange these quarters into a pattern like such. You then draw something in the middle of your new piece of paper, as you can see, I've drawn things like a music note and the word party itself.
With this drawing now, ups photocopy it to make 4 separate copies of your drawing, and then you stick them together, side to side. This should give you a look a little bit like this. This is also why I warned you to make sure you don't make the middle too complicated, because as you can see the photocopier has cut out the very edges, and has ruined my complicated graphic.
The only way to fix this is by redrawing the lines back again. and for me, this was a very time consuming part of this piece, and finally we were able to add as much colour as we pleased, so I went quite subtle with my colour, its a rainbow kind of theme, but its not everywhere, just in some key places to make it seem a bit more party-like.
Which brings me to the final piece. You can tell I had to redraw the lines again because some of them look a little bit funky, but I think they're simply good enough to get the point across. Now, onto my analysis.
What do I think of the work that I produced? I think this is pretty nice! The colours are bombastic but suitable in this brief, along with an eye catching design that's themed around the rave/dance scene. I was thinking club but that's a bit less experimental.
Was it successful? In the end it was quite successful, for the idea to be an interesting piece that could be wall paper, although a bit too detailed for my taste in wall paper, I could see this design used in such manner anyways.
What would I do differently? I would have changed the design completely just to save time. As you know and have been talking about, this was time consuming just because of the many lines in the design, maybe something like a disco ball, but apart from this, I think its quite good how it is.
What could I do to develop this further? I would first develop this further by adding more colour via a single colour background. This is because, for me, the all white background although looks good, when it comes to being on the wall I can understand how It could be seen as boring. I could also develop this by making simply more of the pattern, since this piece is only A1.
Would I come back to this in the future? Probably not. This is because I much prefer using digital tools over physical tools especially for patterns.
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