For my second collection of designs i decided to build off my family brick repeat. Despite not being fond of it myself i have had some good feedback from it and feel i could develop it further.
For what will become a secondary design i started to look at how i could repeat imagery to create a pattern. Overall this did take me a vast amount of time as the form of the characters are all so different so do not easily blend together. What i was trying to achieve was a good mix of scale and imagery whilst creating a seamless interlocking pattern. For this i experimented highly with different rotations and repeating structures trying to find a way for each motif to link together.
Eventually i found this design would be better if it had two different repeats going on within it rather than just one structure to help break up the evident repeat. Despite being somewhat happy with this outcome i feel it could still be developed further. I hope that when coming up with a hero design for this collection it will give me some ideas so i can return to this outcome and make it stronger.
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