Because many of the work that interested me consisted of textures, I began to photograph textures around my flat and the studio. The quality of my camera is poor and it often struggles to focus, but I tried to use this to my advantage and create more textures with this fault. Although I was trying to find a variety of textures to experiment with, I focussed mainly on finding textures with an 'outer space' feel , similar to one of the illustrations I found on Pinterest. Below are the photographs I took...
As a starting point, I took one of the textures and used the image adjustments to play around with the colours. I wanted to make the colours pretty bright to reflect the colours of space, or perhaps the vibrant colours found in precious stones.
I then worked with this texture in two different ways. At first, I placed the edited texture into illustrator and draw random white lines, forming triangles, over the image. This was a similar style I saw in my research. I then took this into photoshop and deleted outside of the outlines I had created. I feel that the result is good and with some development it could be really successful. I dislike how the shape created seems to look like an animal such as a dog.
I zoomed out to see what the image looked like from a different perspective and I discovered that the shapes seemed to look better on a smaller scale. So, to quickly test this, I copied the pattern and rotated/skewed it to fill the page. The design does not look good as a finished piece but it has given me a good idea of what the design will look like with smaller triangles. This is something that I would like to develop.
My next experiment consisted of creating a large pattern of overlaid polygons in illustrator. This created a geometric triangular pattern. I then transferred this to photoshop and took triangles from the edited textures and laid this underneath the pattern. I initially planned to fill the whole design but this was becoming time consuming.
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I made the pattern invisible to see which effect looked best. I was pleased with the result despite the whole design not being filled in. I added one larger triangle in the design to add an area of interest and contrast. To further imagine this as a product, I placed the words photo frame in arial bold as this was what the font was set to at the time. I felt that this font worked well with the triangular design. I used a darker teal so that the text was readable but was consistent with the colours of the pattern.
Because of the grainy textures created by the bad quality camera, I do not feel that these patterns would work on a larger scale. However, large scale is not a requirement of the brief.
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