We started off with making a value scale that includes three different types of scales. One that is hand drawn, one that we made on illustrator, and the third value scale was created using patterns and changing them to grayscale to match the illustrator value scale.
I ended up taking a lot of pictures of different types of patterns such as the road, the wall, and the different fabrics and different textures that I saw.
I tried to make multiple different hand drawn patterns that focused on different patterns such as the criss-cross and circles, however it took me while to be able to get the visible progression in the tones from light to dark.
Here are a few examples of the hand drawn patterns that I created:
While making the patterns, I also had to think about the fact that the I needed 9 boxes not 7, for some of the hand drawn patterns that I made, I had seven boxes. I also had to focus on the progression of the change in the boxes. For example, the third and the fourth box looks very similar, and if seen from a further distance it could be considered as one box.
I then put in the photographed tones and the hand drawn tones along with the value scale made on adobe illustrator together. Here is my value scale:
As I mentioned above, in the texture or photographed value scale, I took images of fabrics, the concrete, plastic bags and so on.
Once the value scale was made, we moved onto drawing figures. In the figure drawing session we had two models come in and had a one hour long figure drawing session. During the figure drawing, we had to think about the different tones and make sure we were able to get all the shadows and highlights on the figure.
Here is my figure drawing:
I decided to draw both the figures in my figure drawing. Once we finished the drawings, we then focused on transferring the drawing onto illustrator. Before we transferred the drawings onto illustrator, we made the hand drawn patterns and the textured/photographed images that we took and made them into a pattern that fills the whole page.
Here are a few examples of what the hand drawn patterns looked like:
Here are a few examples of the patterns that were made by the photographed images:
Once we created these patterns, we worked on putting the figure drawing into illustrator and then fill the drawing with the patterns that we made.
Here is the first draft that I made using the hand drawn patterns:
The problem with this one was that arm of the model sitting on the chair and the background pattern is the same, hence the hand is not clearly seen. I needed to increase the contrast between the two so that the arm could properly be seen.
Hence, I decided to add more shadow onto the arm itself. Here is the final image.
The contrast between the hand and the background wall is a lot higher, making it a lot easier to differentiate between the hand and the wall.
