Final Print 1

The large scale drawings have been used in photoshop and put into a half drop design to create this wallpaper. The black and white creates an eye catching image, with changing angles and built up areas. The sections that are complete blacked out shapes work well to break up the pattern, as it would look too crowded if those areas were not there. The visualisations are to a double scale of the print design, the prints works better when enlarged. I have begun changing the print into different colour ways, however I have not finalised a colour pallet as I struggle to find colour schemes that are fitting with current wallpapers.  

Final Humpties Submission

The Humpties external brief as a whole has been a very useful step in my print design process, it has brought to light flaws in my work and also encouraged me to work in a different style. As the largest size humptie is 920mm, it made me design my work on a much larger scale then I have ever worked before. As all my work is hand drawn, it required a lot more time and effort to create these designs, pushing my limits of how much I can achieve when pressure is added into a situation. The designs have been sent off to the company, which added another element into the work, the professionalism of my practice as seen by an external company. I am happy with the designs I have achieved, however if I had more time I would add colour into these designs and also change the print more obviously. The designs do have slight variation, but I would have liked them to be more prominent. I have also re-done the boarders, I felt they needed a more digital look compared to the very loose hand drawn designs I previously had done. 

Large Scale Drawing

The design brief for Humpties brought up a few flaws in my designs, they were not strong enough or large enough to be used on a bigger scale. As I intend on having my prints as wall paper or wall panels it is crucial that they can be applied to large surfaces. This has been a bit of a step back, as I have needed to go back and re-do most of my drawing. It has however allowed me to really refine my patterns and the shapes I am creating. Whilst drawing these new, larger images I focussed a lot on line qualities. This included the thickness of lines, variation in pens used, line relationships to each other, broken lines, angles of shapes and composition. These drawings were very time consuming, however they have left me with a stronger starting point to create prints. 

External Brief

www.humpties.com

The brief I chose to base my external project on was to design print ideas to be applied onto 'humpties' The information given was to design different sized circle prints, with corresponding boarders to go around the edges. From the drawings I was working on, I created these circular prints for the company.  I feel that the prints work well in a circular form, it adds another element into the design and also creates a new shape. My work was easily transferable into the design templates, however when scaled up to the required size they lost sharpness and went quite blurry in some parts. I have decided to create a fresh set of designs, drawing them initially on a much larger scale. This will provide a print that will fit the requested templates for the company. 

Line Drawing

The images below originally came from the same image, deconstructed and rearranged. The shapes they   created were the starting point, from which I have added line drawing to connect sections. The additional  drawing has unified the image and added more depth. The final image was created by combining the two  previous images on a larger scale. Again, additional line drawing was added to connect sections together. It  is not as successful as I was hoping, the areas of just line drawing are a lot weaker then the built up areas from the previous imagery.