Tartan Design

[Aggie]

Reply #113, top right - I love that one.

Could I talk you into trying a different type of trefoil with it?  Possibly acanthus-inspired, but really just a little less claw-like.  I tried a version myself and it looked shoddy, so I will leave it to the master.

[Swatopluk]

Actually I am not very good with leaves. The oak leaves used in the last badge for example were nicked from a google sketch.
What I miss most with MS Paint is that it only allows right angle rotation. To get a 45° copy of anything is pure horror and I am completly helpless at 22.5° and 30°.
As a result everything tends to be cross-shaped. And if I go for point symmetry instead I have to take great care that it does not look too swastika.

[Swatopluk]

Here I tried some different leaf ornament designs. Not fully satisfactory though. The small branches look good but my attempts at acanthus totally failed.
Also, can you spot the error in the top right one?

[Swatopluk]

Here is, so to speak, a page from my scrapbook showing how I develop a design.
Small elements are drawn and then multiplied by doing 90° turns and horizontal/vertical flips

[Aggie]

I can't spot the error - I am crosseyed by the patterns. Maybe I will muck about with that design a little more - I really liked the circular elements to the larger pattern.

I love mucking around in Paint and lament the demise of MS Photo Editor.  You could do an extraordinary amount of picture manipulations with just those two little programs and very little technical ability.

[Swatopluk]

I can't spot the error - I am crosseyed by the patterns.

In one of the yellow leaf branches one leaf is red.

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[Griffin NoName]

Wallpaper - counting leaves would induce sleep - would it cure my insomnia?

[Aggie]

Since you like working with pixels, have you ever considered hacking a NES ROM, Swato?  Tedious, but fun.  You could Cthulufy an old Nintendo game...

[Swatopluk]

More from the sketchbook

Here the finished first piece with slightly changed colours

[Swatopluk]

Back to the old tartan theme.
I found a more convenient to use designer tool on the web and here are my proposals for our official tartan




Width of stripes of course open to discussion

[Swatopluk]

May I interest you in these painted glass panes for your decorative windows?

[Griffin NoName]

Totally wow'd by the kelten combo...... seriously, you could have a second career going here.

Prefer the first tartan, with yellow stripe having red stripe either side, the second one is a tad brash.

The decorative window is a little heavy on my eyes, but I do have a migraine so my opinion counts for naught.

[pieces o nine]

I am suddenly enchanted by the concept of tartan stained glass windows!

[Swatopluk]

Totally wow'd by the kelten combo...... seriously, you could have a second career going here.

I did that stuff on paper for years (rarely in colour though). But it's a good deal more difficult to get it in pixels. Also some of my favorite designs are circle based and/or require angles different from 90° and 45°.

[Swatopluk]

You can't imagine how long this one took.

This one was easier in execution but there is an imperfection in the tiles I noticed too late.