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I chose to develop a tessellating abstract fox pattern and needed to sort out a base.

This shows each stage of my design.
All images were hand drawn by me.

I have included a summary of how I thought this through...
(just incase anyone is interested)

1 - my first interpretation of an abstract fox design.
2 - a sketch of a fox using primarily simple shapes.
3 - a very abstracted stylistic design of a fox.

At this stage I identified the elements I liked and those I hated...
I liked: the head shape, eyes, curvy ears, beard and tail.

4 - my attempt to round the head off (but keeping the triangular shape),
keeping the tail above the head to optimize space in the tessellation.

5 - a tweak to the shape, and shrinking the size of beard, narrowing the eyes.
6 - extending the beard just with head outline (adding a twist in the tail, rotating the eye angle.
7 - curving the sides of the head into the ears, double twist in tail and changing the eyes, trying more of a swish for the eyes.
8 - adding the formal constraint of rhombus tessellation shape, re-stressing the bear as an outline near the ears, removing second double twist, more vertical eye rotation, adding in a tuft of fur outline to the lower ear.

At this stage I chose to create 4 variations (9, 10, 11, 12) experimenting with eye shapes, ear shape, fur tuft shape inside the ear, size and swirl of tail, curl points of the final beard point near the ears and the central style off head between the ears.

I really liked the tail of no.9, the eyes and curl points of no.11, the central head part of no.12, the ears of no.10 and the beard points of no.11 (left- side only).

These elements have been merged to create my final design: nlsdesignsolutions.deviantart.…

Thank you for reading.... if you like this then please take a look at my final tessellation: nlsdesignsolutions.deviantart.…

(c) NLSDesign

Description
I chose to develop a tessellating abstract fox pattern and needed to sort out a base.

This shows each stage of my design.
All images were hand drawn by me.

I have included a summary of how I thought this through...
(just incase anyone is interested)

1 - my first interpretation of an abstract fox design.
2 - a sketch of a fox using primarily simple shapes.
3 - a very abstracted stylistic design of a fox.

At this stage I identified the elements I liked and those I hated...
I liked: the head shape, eyes, curvy ears, beard and tail.

4 - my attempt to round the head off (but keeping the triangular shape),
keeping the tail above the head to optimize space in the tessellation.

5 - a tweak to the shape, and shrinking the size of beard, narrowing the eyes.
6 - extending the beard just with head outline (adding a twist in the tail, rotating the eye angle.
7 - curving the sides of the head into the ears, double twist in tail and changing the eyes, trying more of a swish for the eyes.
8 - adding the formal constraint of rhombus tessellation shape, re-stressing the bear as an outline near the ears, removing second double twist, more vertical eye rotation, adding in a tuft of fur outline to the lower ear.

At this stage I chose to create 4 variations (9, 10, 11, 12) experimenting with eye shapes, ear shape, fur tuft shape inside the ear, size and swirl of tail, curl points of the final beard point near the ears and the central style off head between the ears.

I really liked the tail of no.9, the eyes and curl points of no.11, the central head part of no.12, the ears of no.10 and the beard points of no.11 (left- side only).

These elements have been merged to create my final design: nlsdesignsolutions.deviantart.…

Thank you for reading.... if you like this then please take a look at my final tessellation: nlsdesignsolutions.deviantart.…

(c) NLSDesign