An Ode to Chaos and Order

 Ok remember when I said you could put checker on checker and never visually offend anyone? I am here to provide solid evidence that is not always true. To be fair, it depends on how sensitive your eyes are and honestly, if you can handle the Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake denim on denim situation I think you will be ok. 

Last week I met with Nadia and Joey (they are both so wonderful!!) and we chatted about patterns and our program. Joey suggested that I combine a sketch based off of a stack of wood that was heavy on perspective with the pigeonhole sketch which had all the funky shapes inside and see what the outcome was. Well let me tell you, I took combining very seriously. My pattern truly turned into an ode to chaos and order. 

(anyone else trying to write their blog post and end up using the pan shortcut for Rhino in Blogger to scroll down? ugh!!!!!!!)

Determined to combine checkers, perspective, moulding, stairs, profile knives and literally all of my ideas together (hahahah I'm actually laughing as I write this, if anyone is in VCD you know I can hear all my profs screaming at me for doing this), I decided to draw a square with all the pattern inspired by my research inside. Also had to cheat and use Illustrator to pick my colours because the colour panel in Rhino gives me colour block, but I went with a Memphis inspired rainbow. 

Layer Panel!!!

Once I had drawn the square, I rendered it Rhino using my sketch as a loose starting place. Because this wasn't symmetrical to start with I don't have any nice beginning Rhino drawings to show, I just drew and hatched as I went because idk that's just my work flow. Also I kept the curves in black because I was trying to be trendy (is this a faux pas???)

Proofin! Make sure it looks cool side by side

After rendering, changing the colours 400 times and making sure it looked like pattern had successfully thrown up on my screen, I rotated the square three times to make a larger piece of surface design. I rotated from each of the four quadrants so I could see which combination I liked better:

 

 

I chose that last baby because things lined up the nicest on the edges. (RIP me using grid snap and still failing at having everything line up) Here it is in XL! I was going to repeat this a couple more times but I got the spinning wheel of death and froze my computer. Bon appetit :-)

EDIT!!! I have changed my mind on the final because apparently I stared at this too long to notice something really alarming in the middle of the other one so please except this one and all its wonky joints instead.