Lace Chromata

I've done it. I've colored the pattern. And it's pretty spectacular.

To make this image, I used color sequences from Munsell's color space. This system accounts for changes to three main variables: hue (the color), value (the brightness of the color), and saturation (the amount of gray in the color).

I really want you to get the full impact of how beautiful this thing is to me, so let me walk you through the five main components:

This is a circular progression through Munsell color space, beginning at the bottom left and extending up to the top right. Note how all the colors represented are the same value and saturation, but all the hues are changing in the order that they would in a typical color wheel.

This is a diagonal progression through a single hue of Munsell color space, beginning at the top and extending downwards. A diagonal progression keeps the same value and hue throughout, but gradually adds more and more gray to the base hue.

 

These two progressions actually use a horizontal motion, but with different hues in each. A horizontal progression means that the color keeps the same hue and saturation, but gradually changes value. In the top example, the base hue is red on the right. Each step moving to the left is another step down in value. In the bottom example, the base hue is on the left and moving right with subsequent steps up in value.

 

Finally, from top left to bottom right, we have the diagonal cross-section sequence. This one gets a little more complex, because we have two variables shifting: hue and value, with the base hue (orange) moving both across the color space to it's compliment (blue-purple) and down in value. The result is a calming transition that avoids creating any of the chromatic gray shades that usually pop up when going from a hue to its compliment.

So knowing all that, join me once more in gawking at how these simple lines drawn through the visual spectrum can be woven together into a magnificently complex tapestry of color.

Lace of the Lacking Lacland

This is a progress shot of a project I'm working on for color theory class. I made this. I like this. This is nifty. And when it's done, it'll likely be a lot more colorful. Because color class.

As it stands, though, this would make a nice internal print for an envelope. It's got that floral insanity thing going for it.

Burst Calendar: August

And here's August!

This one is really sharp, but that's how the inversion of the July theme works. Turns out filling in letters with an arbitrary number of points off them is a sloppy process.

Also there is no proper color scheme for August. Trust me on this. I've tried.

Burst Calendar: July

It's like grass and stuff!

Since I've already done one continuous outline and it's reversal, this one uses a different format. This one's made up of a bunch of long quadrilaterals, so every shape points to two dates. Needless to say I cheated some, on account of the odd number of days in July. See if you can find the odd one out!

Work holidays in contrasting colors to the title, which for July include Sundays and apparently there's some sort of holiday on the 4th of July, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called.

Burst Calendar: June

Same thing as yesterday, but now it's June 2013 and the type in the center is reversed. Work holidays in complimentary colors, which in June are just Sundays.

I've got two more of these as part of a final project for school. I'm probably going to post them one at a time over the next two days.

So you can expect August by May.

Burst Calendar: May

Any of y'all need a weird calendar? 'Cause I made a weird calendar. May 2013 in one continuous, self-intersecting outline of jagged edges and questionable legibility. Dates in the contrasting shade are work holidays, which for May this year are just Sundays and Memorial Day on the 27th.

I'd like to say it was harder than it looks to get this shape to have exactly 31 points and spell out the word "May," but frankly I have no idea how hard this looks.

Abstract Tracts

Another assignment for 2D Design. This is actually the same project as the fish from earlier, abstraction. I have conflicting opinions about this one, in that my opinion that it's awesome conflicts with several of my classmate's opinions that it's weird.

It looks like an old pen sketch of an old locomotive how is that not the best?

Abstraction

2D design class again today. The new topic is abstraction. This is my take on a fish skeleton. I feel like it's too literal, though. Still pretty cool.