OUGD405 STUDIO BRIEF 1 - DESIGNS TWO AND THREE

After collecting photographs in Hyde Park to use for my other two designs, I then created my lungs outline to built my patterns around.

This is the photograph I used to create my own outline of lungs.

This is my own outline I have produced from the photograph above. I created it on Illustrator using the pen tool.

This filled in version of my outline shows more clearly the areas that will be filled with pattern. 

I then started cropping my leaves photographs to start producing my pattern with. I also thought about combining leaves with flowers to make it a bit more colourful, and when looking through my own photographs I found a massive variety of photographs of flowers which I could use for this brief. I also started cropping them to use as part of the pattern.

These are a selection of my partially cropped leaf photographs. I hadn't cut them out properly because I just wanted to cut them out roughly using the lasso tool on Photoshop and then go back and completely remove all the background.

These are my original flower photographs I used. I took these photographs back home this past summer in a nearby park, where the grounds people had planted wild flowers randomly in the park.

I also started cropping these photographs on Photoshop.

This photograph was the point at which I decided to stop cropping the photographs as this flower was just way to complicated and delicate for me to effectively crop, and even if I did manage to finish cropping it then it wouldn't be crisp but would look wiggly and wonky.

After all this deliberation I decided to still use these photographs I have collected from Hyde Park and from previous photography outings, but instead of cropping elements of them then I decided to just put all the photographs on one page on Photoshop and erase parts of each merging them all together to make one mass pattern. I also think this will make a more fluent and natural pattern, rather than trying to make my own from scratch. This new decision means that it would be really hard to make a pattern out of my leaf photographs as I have just taken photographs of individual leaves, there isn't any natural pattern in the original photographs.

I therefore decided to create a flower pattern and a grass pattern, as I think this still effectively represents nature, and will produce a much more coherent pattern.

This is my finished grass pattern I have produced merging the edges of the photographs together. To merge the edges to create a more fluent pattern I used the eraser tool as 0% hardness and at a reduced opacity and flow at times as well. I also used the clone stamp tool to copy areas of grass into different areas, to fill in any gaps and to make the type of grass more even throughout the whole page. I found it quite tricky to merge the lines effectively so you can't see the edges of the photographs, without reducing the quality of the photographs, as I found that using the eraser tool at reduced opacity makes a blurred effect, so the whole page started to look a bit fuzzy. Also when I started erasing parts of the photographs the background colour started coming through which was white, so I had to change the background colour to a green shade that matched that of the grass, so that you couldn't see the gaps in the photographs as easily.

This is my finished flower pattern where I have merged all the flowers together. I found it a lot easier to merge the flowers together because it is a more complex pattern and therefore you couldn't see the mistakes as easily. I think I made a mistake by including the photograph on the bottom right, and possibly the one to it's left as well, because it is a completely different shade to the rest of the photographs, and that made it stand out like a sore thumb on the page.

I just opened the grass pattern into Illustrator initially and placed it behind my lungs outline, and thought how it appeared behind the red lungs in all the bronchiole stems look really interesting and I liked how the red contrasted with the green really well.

I positioned the grass behind the lungs as I wanted it to appear in the lungs, then created a clipping mask using the outline and the grass pattern. I am really pleased with this outcome as I think the bronchiole stems stand out really powerfully against the green of the grass, and the image as a whole looks fresh and refreshing and vibrant.

I did the same with the flower pattern as I did with the grass pattern, effectively making sure the bottom right corner photograph wasn't in my clipping mask, so that it didn't look so out of place in my final image. Overall I am really pleased with the way this has turned out as well, as it also appears like a unique, fluent pattern.

I then applied these designs to the same typographic layout as on my broccoli lungs layout, just copying and pasting the text over.

This is my grass lungs final backing paper design. The only thing I have changed is the frame dimensions, so that my frames are 3 different sizes to fulfil the brief.

This is my flower lungs final backing paper designs. I changed the dimensions of the frame, but apart from that nothing else has been changed type-wise.