Because I don't have any automated tools to produce the geometry for a true ogee repeat, I had to devise all sorts of tricks to make templates and guides for these patterns. I managed to get the spacing perfectly even between the long ogees above by making a 'pixel counter': Procreate's crayon brush has a good texture, so a boldly-coloured block of that exposes the pixels clearly when zoomed up close. I moved the block around the initial pattern tile to measure the distance between components. I also made good use of Procreate's built in accurate click-to facility, and the canvas crop function. The image below shows the assisted quadrant rotational drawing function at work over a home-made guide which looks like a windmill. In addition, the ellipse tool is a bit too random to create perfect circles to use as guides for drawing S shapes, but I got around that by using the vignette frame tool in AfterLight on a plain square canvas. I did 'cut out' the circle very carefully so I could manipulate it, but just the plain flat image AfterLight provided is a good guide tool. Below is the result: an elegant, flowing line which creates a true ogee pattern, very pleasing to the eye. I actually love this kind of problem-solving and inventing new methods, all based on how these patterns would be made by hand using curved templates, compasses, rulers and tracing paper. I have shared more images of these 'tools' here on my Heather Eliza journal.
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Welcome to my illustration and patterns blog!
I illustrate under the pen-name of Binky McKee, McKee being my mother's maiden name. Binky was the name of every single cat my great-grandmother kept - allegedly about 40 of them during her 94 years of life. I changed the website address a few months ago, so some older links on previous posts are broken. If you click one of those and it takes you to a strange page, simply replace the .co.uk after the binkymckee. with weebly.com and it will work again. I hope you enjoy your visit! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I keep lots of scrapbooks and sketchbooks where I develop ideas and design little creatures. Here's a peek inside one ...
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As you may know, I am also known as Heather Eliza Walker.
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This time, take a peek into my ceramic design sketchbook. I actually made some of the mugs, but I kind of prefer the drawings! The plate designs are painted on paper plates, a most liberating process.
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These watercolours are from my pattern sketchbook. I used coloured wax crayons to resist the washes of watercolour, also home-made rubber stamps dipped in bleach then printed on crêpe paper - the bleach takes out the paper dyes.
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A sketchbook I used for mark-making with unusual objects - corks, seed-heads, feathers, home-made rubber stamps, my fingers and lots of flicky things ...
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