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Design 1 Toile style design to be used for a
fabric and wallpaper design.
Eltham Palace Building I started to develop this idea by using my rough sketches and photos from Eltham as a reference to create a set of more stylized drawings using watercolour pencils. I made them all blue both as a result of my colour research and as this is the tradi?onal and most common colour for toile prints, the colour however wasn’t quite the right shade but as I plan to put the design together digitally the colour can bra manipulated later in Photoshop.
Drawings in water colour .
Eltham Palace Gardens
Figures Inspired by the Great Gatsby Using the same style as the previous drawings I then developed the figures that I had sketched based on scenes from the party in The Great Gatsby, I tried to style them with a hint of the simplicity that art deco fashion illustra?ons were drawn in, in reference to my research into art deco fashions and illustra?on, however it was also important that the designs fit into the toile style and matched with my previous drawings of Eltham which would not have suited this style. The other thing that I tried to do with the couple is to try and give them some resemblance to Virginia and Stephen Coulthard which I think has worked to certain extent on the female figure at least.
Figures and Feathers The figures are of two women dancing, again inspired by The Great Gatsby where there is a shot of two women in matching dresses dancing together, I thought this would be an interes?ng thing to hide within the design, The Coulthard’s were know for causing a liKle controversy so it would be interes?ng to hide something a liKle controversial within the design in a similar but more subtle way to the way that Timorous Beas?es do in their toile designs. I decided to sketch up some feathers to match the designs as well in order to help ?e the design in beKer with the feather inspired concept.
Stylising Expreriments Having done my drawings in watercolour I then scanned them into photoshop and put them through various filters in order to establish the best way of presen?ng them, in the end I simply put them through the stamp filter to neaten them up a liKle and used the hue and satura?on tool to change the colour.
Layout Experiments In order to figure out the layout of the design I put the images into photoshop changing their scale and posi?on. Having recently done the tutorials with Kevin Dean I started off trying a half drop paKern repeat trying to avoid a blocky layout, but as the design was s?ll quite simple the repeat was s?ll quite obvious.
Layout experiments In the end I decided that this was the best layout to bring forward, I liked having the image of the gardens as the predominent image as I think it is the strongest and the use of the figures and the feathers makes the design flow nicely however there is s?ll quite a lot of nega?ve space and the paKern repeat is s?ll quite blocky so the layout s?ll needs further work.
Colour experiments Although my colour research points me towards working with a blue colour paleKe I started to experiment with other colours just incase they might work beKer with the design. I started by crea?ng an almost gray scale color paleKe which works fairly well but I think comes across a liKle too dark and takes away from the party feel that the design is meant to portray.
green and then chose a green colour based on the Pantone research as this colour is set to be on trend next season and works quite well with toile designs but again it has a quite dark tone to it
maroon This one has a bit of a maroon hint to it, I wanted it to almost have a sepia quality to give a vintage effect but it has’t really worked and this colour doesn't’t really suit the design.
Colour Filter In the end I decided that the blue was in fact the best colour for the design but wanted it to be darker then it was in my original images so I made a blue colour dodge layer over the greyscale image which works a liKle beKer but I feel s?ll needs lightening up a liKle.
Pa>ern repeat I put the design into a larger repeat to get a beKer idea of how it was working so far, the darker colour does work beKer on this scale but I think that the grey background is s?ll quite depressing and is only neccicary because of the amount of nega?ve space in the image so the layout perhaps needs to be reconsidered, it is quite simple at the moment so maybe redesigning it in a more complex with more considera?on towards the nega?ve space would help.
Addressing the nega@ve space My first solu?on to the issue of the nega?ve space awes to use photoshop to fill in some of the space using the same style as the photos were drawn in, this does help to blend the images together beKer and creates a beKer paKern repeat but it is a bit messy and doesn't’t solve the problem of the simplicity of the repeat.
Addi@onal Images I then decided that the paKern needed to built upon with a more complex design so I went back the The Great Gatsby and created some more images, I decided that the image didn't’t quite have enough of the twen?es party feel so I went with some images which added a more upbeat feel to the design.
Champagne
Layout experiments I went back to the stage of finding the best layout for the repeat playing with different scales, arrangements and repeats.
Pen Drawings At this stage my feather drawing had been drawn in pen so I decided to create the paKern in a similar style to see if I could make them more cohesive, the design as originally drawn up on a fairly small scale which made it hard to get the detail of the smoking figure right, so I had to re draw it on a larger scale and then replace it using photoshop. The design works quite well but is s?ll quite simple.
Digital manipula@on Here I layered the pen drawing on top of the water colour drawing allowing a small amount of the watercolour detail to come through in order to give the pen drawing beKer effect, I then filtered the image to fit the grey and blue colour scheme which is quite effec?ve but s?ll quite dark.
Screen prin@ng The main problem with the image at this point is the colour, I thought that it needed a liKle more dimension so having recently done a screen prin?ng induc?on I recreated my design, drawing up two layers, one colour, one with the blocks of he shapes and one with the outlines and used to to create a much more interes?ng and effec?ve design.
Ini@al experiments On my first aKempt I mixed the wrong colour and ended up with purple inks but they actually work quite well with the deign, I then however started experimen?ng with blues, and even adding metallic inks, so the lighter blue has a metallic effect to it which works really well.
Colour experiments Here I am tes?ng the colour combina?on using the outline both on its own and with silver, however it looks much beKer next to the lighter blue.
Overlaying Metallic Pen Metallic were something that I wanted to work with this in this project as it gives off the sense of luxury associated with the palace, I had already mixed metallic ink with the lighter blue but I decided to see if the image would work beKer if it hen drew into it using a silver pen, the effect does work but the difference between the mediums is quite clear and I think the original two layer print works beKer.
Textured surfaces I wanted to see if I could make the design more interes?ng by using a textured surface, so I treed to screen print directly onto some different plain textured wallpapers, unfortunately the ink does’t transfer onto the whole surface so it doesn't’t work which means the design had so be printed onto a flat paper.
Background effects I wanted to experiment with giving the background a pearlescent finish, however I could’t source any plain pearlescent wallpaper to print onto so I decided to try prin?ng a a pearlescent background onto the the paper using a blank screen, unfortunately it wasn’t possible to get an even finish, too much ink came through the screen leading to an uneven finish which meant that it would be beKer to just print onto the plain maK paper.
Digital manipula@on I did experiment with trying to create the paKern repeat with the screen but as there were several layers it was quite difficult to line up the screens accurately and it became quite messy so I decided to scan in the design so that I could print it out digitally, this would also give a cleaner effect although unfortunately means that metallic ink cant be used, however it did allow me to manipulate the design a bit, a made the faces of the couples white and added a liKle more detail to the image of the building itself and the willow tree in the garden image. I manipulated the colour a liKle as I felt it went with the chosen colour scheme much beKer.
Final design I then used this design to create the final layout which is an offset paKern repeat, I used the same repeat for the fabric and the wallpaper however I decided that they would work beKer on different scales so the scale of the design on the wallpapers is bigger then the scale of the fabric. The wallpaper was designed at a width of 52cm and the image had to be sized and posi?oned so that it was possible to match two strips of wallpaper which I managed to do successfully.
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