Next up – pattern testing! I took some of the previous drawings I did and tried different ways of creating some form of repeating pattern. The different styles I did in the previous segment definitely helped here, as they suited different ways of repeating themselves. I tried to include both simple and some wackier designs, from simple repeating patterns to inverting, overlapping, and reflecting the linework.
I didn’t do much testing with the old drawings I had of the blind buildings, as with them being such rough, random and erratic shapes, I think they will suit just spreading them out on the fabric, without them being joined in any way, and keeping them all separate, as we’ll see in the final designs made.
Personally, my favourite ideas are the simple minimalist design repeated vertically, the design that includes all the drawing overlapping one another to create a faked skyline, and the low-angle building rotated and inverted to make a disorienting zigzag of perspectives. The simple repeated and flip-repetition designs are simply too… simple, and the ‘reflection’ design is just a bit too busy for my liking.
Callum Falconer - Tradigital Artist 