Week 6 - Experimenting Digitally

After having thought about all the hand rendered laced patterns I had done, I decided to try out some photoshop. I scanned in my drawn patterns and sketched dragons, tidied the designs up and merged them together to create a laced patterned dragon. I tried a couple of different patterns, with a couple of different dragons. (These are only experiments, which I may take further.)

For this design I used a much larger pattern, which didn't work as effectively as I thought, the pattern completely distorts the Illustration, which is something that really bugs me. For my second attempt I will be using a much smaller laced pattern.

This design didn't work very well, as you can see I had some troubles trying to merge the pattern with the outline of the dragon, creating some sort of fuzzy, blurred boxes around the dragon. This may have been because I tried to enlarge the image and it did not want to co-operate. For future reference I will be scanning in much larger images that work.

This design work well, because the pattern and the dragon merged together nicely, the pattern itself is very small, with larger designs on them, cut off from the sides. I added colour to make the design 'pop' a little more. I also feel the colours work really well together. 

I asked for a second opinion on the designs, as to which one worked better, she said that the third one worked better because lace patterns are very small and intricate, they work better with more going on in the design rather than less. I took this feedback and looked into smaller lace designs, and dragons have more detail.

I feel as if the end result for this experiment worked really well, and the fact I had a second opinion worked even better. I am really pleased with how well the pattern and Illustration co-operated and the colours really compliment each other.