25.1.21 - Observational drawings and Repeat Patterns

With my photographs for reference, I used continuous line to draw the glass animals, mostly looking at the image rather than the paper when drawing. I really enjoy this scribbly style and I think it makes the animals look very characterful and animated. For the next set of drawings I drew directly from the objects, paying slightly more attention to the shapes, and painted them loosely with watercolour. I used fine-liner on top and created highlights with white pen, and added  detail with sparkly gel pens to create shine on the animals that have metallic effects beneath a layer of clear glass, such as the blue pig, although I'm not sure if the scanner picked this up, so I will have to take some close up photos in daylight.

I decided that the pink horse was my favourite from the watercolour paintings because the colour is subtle so the fine-liner is more present compared to the darker, more solid paintings like the frog which didn't go well. I took the image of the horse and created some simple repeat patterns through re-arrangement. I really like how these turned out especially in the second image where a flower pattern appears in the centre of the four horses, so I took it further and created a pattern that looks like it could a wallpaper or fabric design. If I wanted more of a challenge I could try and add another animal into to the pattern, possibly the dolphin because it has a similar quality to the horse with the pale colour and visible outline.




UPDATE;

These are some versions I made of the same pattern but this time with the dolphin. Unfortunately a lot of the image quality is lost through taking screenshots to make duplicates out of but the overall impression is still there.







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