Interested in pattern making, I now looked at the works of Jessica Hogarth as a way of developing my drawings into patterns of a different style to Julia Rothman's.
Hogarth bases her work on places she has been to and includes lots of architecture in her work. Although this tends to be old, British cottages from seaside towns, I thought I would be able to use her style to illustrate buildings from New York City. Her method to produce these images often starts with a pen drawing before scanning it in to colour and make it more abstract.
From my collection of New York photos, I made this drawing. I started off by finding smaller buildings or shop fronts from my photos then translating them into simple lines at the bottom of the work. Still returning to the photos for inspiration, I drew upwards from the small buildings to recognisable skyscrapers of the City.
The next stage was to scan this into Photoshop and to apply colour. Some parts would be left white, I sampled the rest of the colours from an abstract pattern Hogarth had made. I was happy that each colour on my drawing was spread out evenly across it.
Now I wanted to make the illustration into more of a pattern so it could be put onto products. Jess Hogarth's works can sometimes look very abstract so I didn't mind too much if the buildings lost their recognisability, as long as the image could be representative of architecture. I created this image by taking a square selection from the illustration. I then duplicated this and placed it side-by-side. I then grouped these together, then duplicated them so it mirrored the image. This created one larger image only using that one selection.
I used this technique again but with a different selection of the original drawing to create these works. I was quite happy with how all of these turned out. They were simple enough to do and I think the selections in each of them fit really well together.
The next development was to make an even more abstract image based upon the original illustration of the buildings. I decided to actually re-draw a section of it and so I drew out a rectangle shape. I then split this up with various lines and used details from the illustration in a more abstract way. I scanned this drawing into Photoshop to colour it based on a different image of Hogarth's. The reason I had chose to draw it in a rectangle was so that I could duplicate it several times and then create a pattern by placing them all together. This was very different to the other images but it still looked like architecture because of the window shapes in it. I decided to put this pattern onto phone cases which could be sold at the exhibition gift shop.
I went back to the initial drawing. I wanted to develop this digitally again but in my own way. I decide I would increase the size of it by duplicating it and putting it side-by-side. I had to change a few lines in it too make it fit all together but was happy with it. I decided to change the line colour so it was more bright.
I wanted this project not just to be based on buildings but include people as well. I took a photo shoot of a group of my friends that I thought could pass as American. I then wanted to combine the pattern work with the photos. I had a range of approaches to this, sometimes I cut the shape of the person out from the image and placed them on top of the pattern. Another way I edited them was by just placing the line work over them. The most effective outcomes were when I displaced the pattern so it warped around the shape of the person.
From my collection of New York photos, I made this drawing. I started off by finding smaller buildings or shop fronts from my photos then translating them into simple lines at the bottom of the work. Still returning to the photos for inspiration, I drew upwards from the small buildings to recognisable skyscrapers of the City.
The next stage was to scan this into Photoshop and to apply colour. Some parts would be left white, I sampled the rest of the colours from an abstract pattern Hogarth had made. I was happy that each colour on my drawing was spread out evenly across it.
Now I wanted to make the illustration into more of a pattern so it could be put onto products. Jess Hogarth's works can sometimes look very abstract so I didn't mind too much if the buildings lost their recognisability, as long as the image could be representative of architecture. I created this image by taking a square selection from the illustration. I then duplicated this and placed it side-by-side. I then grouped these together, then duplicated them so it mirrored the image. This created one larger image only using that one selection.
I used this technique again but with a different selection of the original drawing to create these works. I was quite happy with how all of these turned out. They were simple enough to do and I think the selections in each of them fit really well together.
The next development was to make an even more abstract image based upon the original illustration of the buildings. I decided to actually re-draw a section of it and so I drew out a rectangle shape. I then split this up with various lines and used details from the illustration in a more abstract way. I scanned this drawing into Photoshop to colour it based on a different image of Hogarth's. The reason I had chose to draw it in a rectangle was so that I could duplicate it several times and then create a pattern by placing them all together. This was very different to the other images but it still looked like architecture because of the window shapes in it. I decided to put this pattern onto phone cases which could be sold at the exhibition gift shop.
I went back to the initial drawing. I wanted to develop this digitally again but in my own way. I decide I would increase the size of it by duplicating it and putting it side-by-side. I had to change a few lines in it too make it fit all together but was happy with it. I decided to change the line colour so it was more bright.
I wanted this project not just to be based on buildings but include people as well. I took a photo shoot of a group of my friends that I thought could pass as American. I then wanted to combine the pattern work with the photos. I had a range of approaches to this, sometimes I cut the shape of the person out from the image and placed them on top of the pattern. Another way I edited them was by just placing the line work over them. The most effective outcomes were when I displaced the pattern so it warped around the shape of the person.
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