Tagged: squares
Sunday sketch #69
Following on from the past two weeks, I’m still exploring this idea of interspersing randomly placed shapes amidst an ordered pattern.
Here, the black shapes are evenly spaced apart, and the pink shapes are crowded in-between, wherever they might fit (without touching other pink shapes).
This design could be made into a quilt pattern using half-square triangles (3 per shape) and squares (for the background areas with no shapes). I always design with solids in mind, but you could just as easily use patterned fabrics – in fact, it’d be another way to differentiate the two groups of shapes.
Sunday sketch #68
Once I hit on a design I like, I like to modify various elements to see what else I can come up with. Following on from Sunday sketch #67, I kept the black bars static but mixed up the red bars:
Like the previous sketch, none of the red bars touch each other; they just float amidst the regimented black bars. Chaos and order in harmony!
All you’d need to make this design into a quilt pattern would be squares and rectangles.
Sunday sketch #67
On a recent work trip to Tokyo, I popped into the Shibuya branch of Tokyu Hands, a kind of department store with a pretty awesome stationery section. I picked up a new dot pad! I thought nothing could beat my Rhodia dot pad, but this one is spiral-bound, which means it lies flat as I sketch, and it’s got really stiff front and back covers, which means it won’t buckle as I’m sketching at weird angles. I’m in love. If it had perforated pages, my (sketching) life would be complete.
I don’t know if it’s the new pad, or my recent attempts to introduce a bit of colour into my designs (and Instagram feed), but I’ve had a fairly productive sketching week. Working with two colours (rather than my usual black or blue) has opened up some new sketching directions….
Of course, I had to mix order (the black bars) with chaos (the red bars). Whereas the black bars are spaced evenly apart – two rows and two columns away from their neighbours – the red bars can appear anywhere, as long as they’re not touching another red bar. Yes, even with chaos, I need to impose a few rules 🙂
This design could easily be made into a quilt pattern using rectangles and squares.
