Surface Design Study





When it came the planning stages for this project, the very first picture I took determined the theme of my design: 



I love incorporating animals/creatures into my art, so when I saw this wallpaper when I was waiting in a Tim Hortons, I got super excited and immediately started planning in my head while I continued to find examples of surface design. I didn't end up incorporating everything I found, but I did use aspects from these images (below). The first image was the inspiration for the top of the hat I put on my goose, the second image was the inspiration for the hat as well as the stars, and for the third image, I took inspiration from the way the white portion from the bottom trickles up into the green portion with leaf-like silhouettes. 


       
(My favorite, after the geese)




Pre-Feedback



After some experimenting on paper and in Rhino, this was my first draft. General feedback I received was to adjust the positioning of the stars to fill up some negative space, and to create some sort of alternation between the petals to make it more interesting. Specific feedback I received was to create an outline around the outside of the design, and to include a nostril on the beak. At this point, I hadn't experimented with colors yet, but I knew with the theme I had chosen I wanted to colors to be pastel/sort of whimsical. 

In my final draft, I ended up getting rid of the thought bubble and replacing it with a larger star, and I used the feedback I received to tweak the design until I was happy with it.

Although I ran into some challenges (I mostly had trouble with not being able to hatch due to self-intersecting loops I couldn't find, something I ended up fixing through a lot of trial and error/remaking shapes), I had a lot of fun with this project and am super excited for the next steps!! 


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