Final photo type.

After my last blog post I created a design that I was very pleased with and thought it represented what it was that I was looking for. I used the design to do one last proto type of my jewllery box idea of course I don't have the facilities to make it out of material which I have previously stated so I made it out of card again. I didn't match up the pattern rather I cut out the shapes for my proto type randomly. I did this because I didn't want it to be to matching again il talk about the abstractness. I want my kolados cope image to be muddled up again. The negative areas that I played around with I feel worked really well. 

Final design ideas.

I went back to playing around with kaleidoscope idea but I also wanted to combine my initial ideas of playing around with negative space. I also want to bring in what it was that first inspired all of my work which was the butterflies and spider illustrations. 

I really like the second image and that would be what I would take on to develope with digital printing and then find detailed embroidery over the top with the ethos if I could. Unfortunately due to facilities restrictions I haven't been able to do this but this would be where I want to take my work further. 

Jewellery box prototype.

Using card I experimented with one of my pattern work as you can see it has quite work out as I feel there is too much negative space I'm also not keen on the colour pallete here.

Below using calico I have had a go at creating my idea of the zig zag shape jewllery box I have attached a lid onto one part of the box just too see if I preferred it with or with out lids. 

Playing around with colour

Keeping In mind that my colour pallet should appeal to females of all ages my colours need to reflect this. Below I feel are key images of how I have tried play around with different colour palettes.

I find the colours in the image above are too similar to one another mainly the blue and purple I find they almost blend into one another. The colour scheme as a whole here I find to flat and it doesn't really stand out enough for what I'm looking for.

I have tried to keep similar colours through out my work but mainly in different tones I really like the bottom one as I feel it would appeal to a wide age range. But what makes it feminine people often relate pinks and purples with girls and the soft tone of all the colours I feel would be very attractive to women also. Seeing as my final product would be sold on the MMU website (theoretically)  I feel it should also appeal to the people would attend the university.What I'm looking for is a colour pallet / and pattern that could be transferred into other elements of interior design that could be sold in gift shops.

Creating patterned work.

Keeping in mind that my work was going to be for some kind of jewellery box of a form my target audience would be females of any age so I want to create something bright and fun. I always go back to previous drawings I have done and work on them here I have layered different aspects on top of each other.

The image above I found to harsh and I didnt't include any colour in this as I didn't like where the illustration was going and wanted to quickly move on.

I really like the last image and want to see what this would look like if it were a repeat pattern. 

Developing kaleidoscope illustrations

Using a photo editing programs on my computer I was able to scan images into the computer and edit them as if they are being seen through a kaleidoscope. The first image is the drawing I chose to edit and the images are when edited. The first image came about taking the negative area pattern taking the shapes from that and creating a new pattern from that. I really like the graphic black used over the top it's the eye catching element that I have been striving to develope.