Tagged: half-square triangles
Sunday sketch #110
I’m always on the lookout for interesting secondary shapes – those shapes that unexpectedly emerge from the whitespace or background of a design. In one of my recent EQ8 sessions (which are becoming longer and more frequent, but unfortunately no less frustrating!), I played around with some lolly/bowtie shapes, and discovered some crosses in the background. With a bit of ingenious spacing and a handy border, I created even more crosses.
Those red and white crosses are all the same size, but the colouring gives them different emphasis. They’re both brought to the foreground though, with the original lolly/bowties disappearing into the background (for me, at least).
Did you notice that I didn’t include the thin black lines in this design? They’re included by default in the blocks, but you can remove them in EQ8 before exporting the design as a PDF. Sometimes I like to keep them, but this time I thought the design looked just as good without them.
Sunday sketch #99
Last week I mentioned that I’d created a few variations on the same design. Here’s one of them:
Actually, this design came first; I decided to remove those dark triangles, which is how I created Sunday sketch #98. The original shape was that ‘A’ frame – turn your head sideways and you’ll see it. Each column is just that shape repeated, facing left or right. Put them together, and you get those interesting secondary shapes that almost obscure the primary shape.
Turn the whole design 90 degrees, and it looks different again:
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like the vertical zig-zags become much more prominent, and the movement in the whole designs changes a little bit. What do you think?
Sunday sketch #98
I’ve been purposefully avoiding EQ8 lately, to force myself to get back into hand-drawn sketching. Sketching with a pad and pen is probably a bit slower than working on the computer, but I feel like the resulting designs are a higher quality. It’s easy to churn out lots of designs in EQ8, but they’re not all worth sharing 🙂
This week’s design is just a single shape, repeated (along with its mirror image) in columns.
This could easily be made using half-square triangles and quarter-square triangles.
I played around with this design some more (which I find so much easier to do when hand-sketching than computer-sketching), and created a few more versions that I really like. Keep an eye out next week for one or two more iterations.
