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StephOBrien — Symmetrical Pattern: Crystal Blossom Adrift
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Published: 2019-05-18 01:03:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 283; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 1
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Yet another snowflake and space pattern.
I especially love the color scheme on this one; I’m a sucker for blue.I'd originally planned for the lighter purplish spokes to be the main part of this snowflake, with smaller and narrower additions in between. But then I added those wider, petal-like shapes behind the secondary spokes as an experiment, and liked the effect so much that I decided to keep it.
This pattern is available on coffee mugs, blankets, iPhone cases and more in my Society6 store and my RedBubble store . You can see some examples of the available products here: www.deviantart.com/stephobrien…
If you want to learn how to use the brush I drew this with, as well as the technique I used to make it symmetrical, check out my tutorial here .
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Your welcome. :-P
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I do not know if it would be legal for a ProjectComment member to comment on a deviation by another ProjectComment member, especially a more-experienced one like you. But anyway, I feel tempted to do so today:
I see this snowflake and my attention immediately comes towards the repetitiveness of the elements that define a snowflake. The six sides (or maybe the six spokes) of this superbly-complex act of natural geometry, and the two-fold symmetry of each one of these sides (or the spokes, for that matter) brings me to think whether you, as a digital artist: ① merely do one portion of the snowflake (more specifically, one side of each spoke), then make a mirrored clone of it and merge it with the original, and then make five rotated clones of it (each one rotated by a different amount) and assemble them together; or ② manually draw each side and spoke individually, following a consistent strategy to ensure the 12-fold overall symmetry (in terms of outline and shading) is preserved. (I do not see any flaws in this deviation.)
What if you were instead a traditional artist and attempted to do this yourself by hand? Have you ever tried that? It would be a challenge certainly, but might be worth it sometime in the future. Another idea you might consider exploring in the future to further improve yourself as a digital artist: do a snowflake that incorporates fractals in its design. After all, both snowflakes and fractals are beautiful manifestations of nature itself – as if nature were a master geometrician herself. I might sound like a freemason by saying this, but I am not one!
So, if you can pull off this snowflake × fractal idea, then you might become entitled to be dearingly nicknamed a “queen of snowflakes”, unless you consider that phrase somewhat not humble enough to you. But I believe in your talent, and you have free will to set up your own new goals in the world of artistic snowflaking.
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Thanks to your advice, I tried using fractals in a snowflake. (Does this count as a fractal?) I look forward to seeing what you think of it.
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Repeating patterns. I don’t have a tool right now to measure whether the so-called “golden ratio” is followed. I might be tempted to say yes, but it may be a good idea to ask someone more experienced with fractals.
From my 510-strong stack of replies I found someone who works with real fractals: Shadoweddancer . You may ask that person for second opinions.
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate the effort you put into this.
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ProjectComment members commenting on other members' deviations is actually exactly how the group is supposed to work. We comment on other members' pictures, then we submit our own pictures for comments from our fellow members.
Thank you very much for your feedback and suggestions. I actually use Krita's multibrush tool, which enables me to draw all 6 spokes (or "dendrites", to use the scientific term which I only recently learned and hope I am using correctly) simultaneously. It's very handy, because it allows me to see what the part of the snowflake I'm drawing will look like in snowflake form while I'm drawing it.
Trying to draw this traditionally would be an interesting exercise, but an extremely time-consuming one, and not one I'm interested in doing right now. I already have WAY more ideas than I have time to create them, so spending what might be literally 100 times as much time and effort to get what would probably be a less attractive result does not appeal to me right now.
The fractals, on the other hand, are something I might try at some point. Thanks for the suggestion!
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The color scheme makes the pattern look even more majestic than it already is and the space like background complements it well. I love how it just absorbs me right through it and make me just stare at it for a while.
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Thank you so much! I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.
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Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy it.
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sorry for the abundance or Kid gifs
its just
oh the symmetry!!
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This has folk element and I like its magical twilight taste, intuitive and swooning in some aromatic smoke. But dark blue delicate patterns, as if veiled by louder violet stuff hint on some highly cultured element behind relaxed purple part. You know what makes it relaxed? Thickness and how many of its wisps turn inward softly. I can see this mature lady, matrona, maybe some childbearing behind lazily fooling around, but never forget, she has degree in courtly politics and probably put someone on the throne few years ago or something. Or I am off, this one is diffcult, very idiosyncratic. Which is good. Very good. Anyway, that lady is in years and experienced, no young rushing and/or skittish fawn.
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I love how you assign personalities to these snowflake patterns. You certainly made me look at this one in a way I hadn't before!
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