I went to a casino in Westchester this weekend. I'm aware of how tacky that sounds, but it was pretty exciting. The atmosphere was very...alive. Though all aspects were completely overdone and contrived, the entire ambiance was visually and aurally intriguing. When I got passed the oddly themed slot machines and their equally odd illustrations, I was able to see some interesting colors and textures that make me think of techniques I learned last year in 2D, and things I'm learning now in VC1. After seeing some particulars that stood out to me, I decided to apply to them the things I've been learning.
This is the tablecloth at the in-casino restaurant, Nonna's Trattoria. The ambiance was very cheesy, hence the all-too-classic, red-and-off-white check/gingham thing they've got going on.
I liked how the pattern looked because of the angle of the picture I took. I did a little experimenting in Photoshop, playing with spacing and widths to try to get a similar effect.
They had these strange, rainbowish panels on these pillars; depending on the angle from which you looked at them, they looked different colors. I guess it was because of the flash of my camera, but all the pictures came out the same color. I though that was pretty cool. I also dug the panel's texture; it was a kind of foily something.
I took this as kind of a joke because my friend was making fun of me for taking pictures of random inanimate objects. But later, when I looked back at it, I really enjoyed the cork. I never really looked at it so closely before this picture.
The two preceding photos' textures both affected me; I wanted to see how they would look together. A classmate of mine did the last project out of cork, so for the past few weeks, the material has been in the back of my mind as an interesting textile. The stripes really made me appreciate the value gradient in the foily panel.
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