Wallpaper development

Here I am going to just write about my development for my wall paper design.

I have created this in a similar way to the posters part from this is a little more complex with placement and repeat patterns. 

When I have printed this off I want it to be a life like size and so the document that I have created is 250cm (height) and 60cm (width). After having contact with a printing shop I was told these dimensions would be okay to print with. 

I developed the drawings from before in photoshop - using the mascara and the lipstick from my poster (this I feel will link the wallpaper in) with developing these I changed the colours so that when put on to the page.. There is a good variety of colour and brightness to the wallpaper. 

What I did first was place a few drawings on to the top of the first wallpaper roll. I moved them about til I felt there was enough white space between them all and space for the quotes that I have collected from friends and family. I then added the quotes where needed and felt where they fitted in well. 

After I thought this section was right I then copied and pasted it 3 times down the page.. Creating the repeated pattern. 

Not wanting all the colours to be the same, I RELINKED the images with new ones that I had made. This is something I found really useful when doing a piece like this. It means that the image I am dealing with will stay the same size and also in the same place, the colour will just change. On some I have had to move around slightly - so I am able to get the pattern correct. 

For the next sheet I copied and pasted again but instead of just putting the colours in the same order, I moved it down so the colours next to each other on the wall paper when put up for the show will not be next to each other.

The fonts that I downloaded from dafont.com  for this wallpaper are:

Ammy's Handwriting
Enchanted Castle
Honey I stole your jumper
I still believe.

These were used for the quotes. They were free downloads. 

I am so pleased with this outcome of the wallpaper. The only thing I have to worry about is my printing costs. I have a quote for £85 for the two sheets. Worryingly. But I am going to shop around a little. But I also don't want it to be a bad quality paper so I need to think about whether it is best to go for the quality for this kind of project. 

This last picture is half of my wallpaper design that is going up for the show.