I was pleased to contribute a square in this fifth patchwork collaboration curated by mod.
Where as the previous patches are often standalone pieces of artwork, this one all the artwork patches are linked by blending in small sections from the adjoining pieces. Each artist had only a few days each to create their patch, and you only really get an idea of what you can do to creatively blend your work once you receive the template.
All I could see above my work was a small confusing piece of fish or frog foot(or at least this is what I thought at the time). This left me more than a little stuck as to where to start. With a lot of white space above i decided to build that into a cloud layer.
I created a very stylised rainy backdrop. This took a few revisions, the first being far more complex and random, eventually leading to this simplified pattern like background.
I drew a (farly rubbish yet somehow endearing ‘menacing robot’ silhouette, looming forward out of the rain with some big glowing eyes that seem to draw your focus. I am quite pleased with the final result below.
Much of my work is based around geometrics and patterns, and I hoped that the edges of my work would provide at least something interesting to be worked into other peoples work. Although the lines hitting my edge were fairly simple I was confident that the people following on from my piece would be able to do something great.
And of course the full patch poster (download link for high res below):
Here is a link to the full poster, which you can download and print. You can find the original thread at yayhooray. Hope you like the poster! Please let me know what you think in the comments below.
