La
Fantaisie
I’m studying on the word
“fantastical” about why fantastical elements in different ranges are becoming
more popular, why people want to have a fantastical character on themselves,
and how fashion helps to approach it.
For
this pattern design assignment, I first created an asymmetrical motif that was
related to my theme, fantastical. It is a squiggly symbol that is
drawn by hand without me thinking about the design. I thought of the word
“Fantastical”, put my pencil on my sketchbook, and that was what came out. For
this particular pattern, I rotated the original motif to a
different angle, created a reflected version of it and put them two together
with a part overlapping. Then I made three copies and rotated them into
different angles and put them all together like a blooming flower. I chose a
cloudy dark blue for the background and pastel yellow to pop out the pattern. I
also gave a tan to the outline of the pattern to show the details of the
squiggly lines. Each “flower” is symmetrical and is lined up with the space
that other “flowers” create to make another simpler flower.
While doing research on my theme,
fantastical, the image of what fantasy look like slowly became more distinct.
As I’m a person who relates to vision, words are always transformed into images
through my mind. Though I was reading words for most of the time, the image
of “fantastical” was pieced together
like a puzzle. Dreamy, wispy, stacked-up of squiggly lines and pieces, surreal,
etc. Elements from images I found during the research also helped me fulfill
the image of “fantastical”, thus, when I was designing the pattern, I had a
clearer image of what it’s supposed to look like, what kind of shape and color
should it have that would create a feeling of fantasy.
