For part of my practical work, I decided to experiment with different types of patterns in my design. This was useful as it allowed me to experiment with varying ways of using lines and colours, which gave me a range of possibilities and inspiration for designs to use for my can and the brand.

The first one I did wasn’t as much a pattern but was more a way for me to experiment with the different types of colours that I was thinking of using, giving me a visual idea of how they worked together. This was one of the main prompts that I had to use the yellow a lot more in my designs due to the way it stood out from the rest and therefore made me think about the way it would make the Midnight colour stand out in my designs.

The next pattern that I worked on was a way for me to experiment with light, by putting in a central object and then creating a basic gradient of colour around it, gradually getting darker the further away it got from the middle. To fit in with my theme of midnight, I decided to make the light source in the centre a moon. Then, to fit in with the overall night theme, I used a variety of colours in shades of blue, while also having slightly different shades, such as a turquoise colour. Overall, this pattern was good as it let me also experiment with colour and shading in an interesting way.

The next pattern I used was a lot more different than the rest as I used a completely different medium, focusing on drawing in chalk rather than in pen. This let me get a set of completely different colours and gave the design an overall softer theme. The change in colour let me consider my work from a different point of view, and the different mediums that I could use to design it.

The fourth pattern that I worked on was more of a landscape design. This let me see how it compared to an actual landscape and the ways that the colours worked together comparatively. The primary example of the way that it worked differently was due to the increased visibility of the contrast of colours. In a normal landscape, all the colours will tend to blend together naturally, creating a perfect composition of colour and depth. Since my work was completely different looking from an actual image, that showed me that the overall colour theory for my palette wasn’t as up-to-snuff.

The fifth pattern I worked on was an attempt of working with patterns, and the way I could use colours to make certain patterns stand out from the rest. Primarily I decided to use a lot of lines in my pattern design, creating interesting crosses and swirls. I think the desired effect was achieved with this, each colour stood out in it’s own way and no pattern was too plan to not be clearly seen on the canvas.

My final pattern was an interesting one I did where I decided to work on a design based on the continents. This is placed in the Atlantic ocean, so pattern itself involves mostly Europe and Africa, but with a small section of Eastern South Africa on the bottom left. I decided to make each continent stand out by drawing them in different colours to the ones that are normally in my palette – using warmer colours such as red, brown and orange as a stark contrast to the colder blues and greens I typically use. This was done as a reference to the moon aspect of the Midnight theme being about controlling the waves, representing this idea by drawing the ocean and the waves in the same blue colours.