Pattern 1
To begin my pattern I started by scanning in one of the drawings I had made using fine-liner based on the words we had been given for our homework the previous week. Firstly I added a layer above the drawing, and lowered the opacity of the drawing underneath so that I could begin drawing over the top with a crisper line. After this I removed the layer with my original layer on it and started to colour in the pizza on a layer that was below the line work. I did this by selecting an area I wanted to colour, from the line work, then changed to the colour layer, and went into the select menu > modify > expand. I expanded my selection by 4 pixels, this meant that when I filled in the area with the paint bucket tool I could be sure that there weren't any white edges where the colour met the line.
Once I had completed colouring in the pizza I copied and pasted it into a new document, size - 1200px X 1200px, and resized it, and moved it to the top left corner. Next I used cmd+alt to duplicate and drag 7 copies of the pizza. Then I used the Hue & Saturation tool on each one to change the colour scheme. I personally think that this gave it an overall Pop Art aesthetic, which I quite liked.
Following the completion of all the colour edits, I made the background layer transparent and selected the full artwork. Next I went into the edit menu and selected 'Define Pattern...'. Then I opened a new document, A3 size, and went into Edit > Fill, from the menu that appeared I chose the 'Brick' fill option. Another menu then appeared which then allowed me to play around with spacing, angle, scale, etc.
Final Pattern-
Pattern 2
Applying what I had learnt after the first pattern I created I used another of my drawings, this one being themed around 'transport'. For this drawing I selected my lines and coloured over the top in brown the change it from the obvious black, therefore applying what I had learnt in the previous week. Once I had done that I filled in the background with a colour which I think complimented the brown pretty well. Due to the fact that I was only using one image for this pattern, but I wanted it to repeat seamlessly I had to apply a filter to the image to achieve this. I used the offset filter and typed in dimensions that were half the size of the canvas I was working on. This function rearranged the image meaning that when I saved it as a pattern and used it as such, It would repeat the image eternally, without there being any awkward joining edges.
Final Pattern-
Pattern 3
Patterns Applied
When deciding on an idea for applying the patterns I had created into an illustration I wanted them to be subtle but still be visible, so that they looked to have a more practical function. Also because I had mostly created food themed patterns I chose to go for a chef character. Using the same method that I applied in colouring in the pizza drawing, I filled in the patterned areas by selecting them and the using the paint bucket tool, set to the pattern option. I am quite pleased with the finished illustration, it's simple yet I think the patterns play quite a functional role within it. However I do think that with this method it does allow for more experimental uses, which is something I would try out in the future.
