Digital Mosaic: Rose
A digital mosaic takes a regular photograph and slices it into equal portions, in order to digitally redesign it in a way that looks patchwork. Utilizing the picture of the flower to the left, taken by the teacher, Mrs. T, we were each designated one of twenty two-by-two inch squares that were to be recreated using Adobe Illustrator.
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To make my portion of the photograph, I first created a square the same size as the document, 2 inches by 2 inches, making and filling it with the light pink gradient which would be the petals. Using the pen tool, and paying attention to proportion, I drew out the other sections of the picture which would need to be a different color, such as the orange center, the green backing, and the purple/gray petal. In the center section, I created a mesh, and used varying shades of yellow and orange. On top of this I used the pencil tool, and a smooth marker brush, in order to structure the darker orange strand running up the center of the flower. I also used a mesh in order the replicate the purple/gray petal. In the green section, I enacted a blend, by placed a smaller version of my shape, in a lighter color, on the inside of the larger, darker shape. The use of such gradients, blends, and meshes helped to make realistic colors. To finish, I utilized two filters, film grain and posterize, on the pink gradient layer, and used a low opacity, white calligraphy pencil to edge the pink petals.
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Placing everyone's squares together, we were left with the digital mosaic rendition of the photograph.