Talking to Andy

Today I had a word with Andy for an informal tutorial regarding my Owl brief and how I've had a creative block with it. We discussed where I was with it at this point and what I could do to move it forward.

I showed him both the illustrative designs and the minimal concept driven designs. He said he preferred the illustrative designs but suggested I use patterns within the vectors.

He then suggested that each pattern should reflect the sound of the specific instrument.
ie. The bass drum is a deep, strong thud so think lines were used and the tambourine has a criss cross pattern because the instrument is shaken.

I then started to look at illustrator tutorials to sharpen my technicial skills.

I found this cool tutorial which creates an effective pattern in an effient way.
I started with two circles, one large one in the middle and a smaller circle floating above.

Pressing ⌘ + Y shows the outlines and also the centre points of the shapes.

Using the rotate tool, I clicked the centre point whilst pressing alt.
This brought up the (above) option.

The shape being a circle and 360 degrees, I divided it by 10. This action moves the circle to a specified angle. I then pressed copy, this replicates the movement. like so :

Pressing ⌘ and D repeats the action until this is the result (above)

The beauty about this effect is that you can specify the size and amount of circles as well as how close each circle are to one another.


I've started applying the shapes and textures to the Vinyl. Items such as the vinyl are self explanatory and won't work using another pattern.