week 5 - Creating a pattern

Creating a pattern in photoshop

In this weeks lesson we learnt how to create a pattern in photoshop using our own drawings/Designs

Here was a page of animal sketches I produced, really like the silhouette of the stag the most so we'll use this one first

I cut the image on to the new page

I blended the background of the crop to the white of the paper

Copied and pasted the image to the reproduce the sketch 

I flipped the image to produce a symmetrical view

adjusted the distance to really match up with symmetry

I then produced a copy of them underneath the original

I then put a blue filter on the drawing and made the two deer on the bottom smaller

From the edit button you can access the 'define brush pattern' to make whats on the file at the moment become the designated pattern

Naming the pattern preset

Here is the blank document where the pattern will be made

Here is the pattern as a filter with a bog standard row and column effect

 Here is the pattern as a spiral effect which I think is quite effective

This pattern effect has a colour overlaid on some of the blocks 

This is almost like a lego portrait due to the size of the pattern effect

Here are some of the options when making the pattern

On the second pattern I will use the crocodile head sketch

I cut out the sketch and overlaid the white background

I coloured the croc with the graphics tablet

I moved the croc head to the top right

I then flipped it

I then produced another copy whilst rotating them

I then produced a strange green background which I tried to blend the shades of green with each other and defined this as the pattern

Here is the pattern as a basic block repeat effect

I really like the effect as a spiral pattern, it really draws the viewers eye towards to the centre of the screen

Here are a few more of the adjustable options

This was the effect as a large scale repeat and block effect

 This pattern effect is almost like pop art with each other panel being different colour

Here is an example of the rotate option when making an pattern 

Here is a sketch of a bear that has had a threshold layer over it to darken the sketch

Here is the sketch with a grizzly bear brown coat of paint under the sketch

Here I have used a reference image of a panda to create a panda variant

Here is the panda variant of the bear

Here is the black bear variant

 Here are the three bears as a single image that I have defined as a pattern

Here is the basic pattern as a repeat 'wallpaper like effect'

Here is the pattern as a spiral effect

This is a better quality repeat of the basic block pattern, the bears are spaced perfectly from each other and looks a bit like a high quality paper-chase product 

For the next pattern I made a wallpaper-type of pattern using this owl sketch

Here is the sketch in colour

I flipped the image and made it smaller

Added another small owl

This is the defining pattern

This is the pattern as a wallpaper

I really enjoyed the bear patterns I created with the species colour variants, I think its the blank but still quite a deep expression on there face that adds character to image. The nice variations in pattern style really show how the patterns style changes and the context it is viewed in changes, e.g. the spiral pattern could be a poster, whereas the repeated block pattern looks like a high quality artsy-Card

-Max