Wallpaper - Project One.

Here are my finished wallpaper panels:

Panel One

Panel Two

Panel Three

Panel Four

Note: This is just a screen shot so there are shadow marks that don't actually exist.

You can find these on OpenProcessing here.

Thinking and creating - Project One.

I started to experiment with different ideas to get an idea of how I would go about creating an effect like the one in my sketch.

First I had the idea to just put a brown (boring) background:

Then I saw Ben Jack's pattern and thought about using it as a background for my wallpaper so I began to experiment with this idea:

Processing - Project One.

I knew it was going to be difficult to get the same effect on processing but after playing around for a while I found that by using 'curveVertex' I could get a similar effect.

Interim presentation - Project One.

After spending a few hours drawing different ideas, I came up with the idea to have the four wallpaper panels link together to make one image.

This poorly scanned image represents three quarters of my sketch.

I knew straight away that it would be too complicated to complete in processing but I still really liked the idea. I then decided to roll with the idea of just two trees across four panels so focused more on this part of my sketch.

Obviously I would have to tone down the complexity of this picture and go easy on the detail.

Inspiration - Project One.

Initially I had an idea, after playing many rounds of last card, to incorporate the four card suits into a series of wallpaper.

After doing some not so reliable research on Wikipedia I found that cartomancy describes each suit as follows:

Heart - love, emotion or spirituality

Diamond - material possessions and physical well-being

Club - inner wisdom, industriousness and creative enthusiasm

Spade - adversity and challenge.

These descriptions are all relevant to being a first year design student so I drew up some mock sketches and created some ugly and boring looking wallpaper.

So I thought on...

... and remembered this photograph I had taken the other week.

This photo was taken at Erskine College, formerly an all girl's boarding school built in 1905. It's eerie grounds and nightmarish buildings offer effective site locations to films such as Peter Jackson's 'The Frighteners'.

I saw these grounds being relevant to first year design as it can be scary at times but once you have become familiar with everything it is not frightening at all (I grew up next to Erskine College and find it one of the most fascinating locations in Wellington). I also viewed the pathway leading to the gate as the pathway to second year.

So I began to draw.