#diamond grid

This pattern uses the diamond gird. For this pattern, I turned my first square at a 45 degree angle. After that, I also copy/pasted three more squares of the around the original and rotated them so they formed a diamond and just copy/pasted everything so there was repetition. This was one of my favorites and one of the more fun patterns to create because of how well it came out. 

To start this pattern I cropped down one of the scanned images of the stencil I created prior. I copied and pasted the cropped image and decided to rotate it only 45 degrees and then copies and pasted it at that new angle. Unintentionally, I created a diamond grid. I started flipping some of the cropped images and then placing them in the diamond grid, soon enough the grid was finished. There is a lot of contrast between the figure/background. There is a strong figure/ground relationship since it is so clear where the eyes should flow on the image. There is a lot of negative space, but it works for the image because it creates further emphasis on the positive space. The diagonals create a of movement as well as continuity through lines (implied or not).

Draft Patterns (order in tags)

This was the grid that gave me the most trouble. I couldn’t come up with any patterns that worked well by using the single motif at a 45 degree angle. Therefore I put 4 motifs into a diamond shape and formed a V shape using the positive space within. This pattern has strong contrast and a clear figure/ground relationship. The thinner, less narrow zig-zag is slightly darker than the thicker, narrower zig-zag, making the two appear to be weaving in-and-out of each other. This gives the pattern a nice movement and continuity. This pattern doesn’t feel too unique though, as it is similar to my basic grid design, only less dense and busy. To include some variation, I made the outer points of the thick zig-zags only connect at every other diagonal row; creating a slight variation in the negative shapes.