#half drop

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Bright Bright Leaves // 2016.

[ebbbinh-blog]

Half Drop pattern

[prycethomas]

I created this pattern using half drop grid format and using one of my scanned designs. Right of the bat I love the movement of the piece, the positive space creates an implied wavy line horizontally and a straight one vertically. Obviously, the continuity isn’t perfect, but it works well this way leaving the exact direction of the positive space ambiguous, which I find enjoyable. Still there is not very good balance between the positive and negative space, as the negative space almost overshadows the positive areas, leaving a lot of the pattern feeling empty.

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[walkyland]

Practising half drop using old drawings

[fionahogarth]

Although I did quite a few digital designs I wasn't really happy with many of them as nothing seemed to repeat properly without just mirroring everything (which is generally frowned upon as it's a very basic way of doing things and doesn't always create the best results, although personally I think it works really well sometimes). With this in mind I went back to a couple of my original drawings and traced them off so I could adjust them to repeat properly.

This is basically done by cutting the image into squares, moving those around according to the repeat you want to create and filling in any gaps or joins that you don't want. If you want a detailed explanation that actually makes sense try googling the magic square method. Anyway, I used those to create a half drop and a brick repeat which I think work pretty well.