Surface Design Study: Design

 

The Lernaen Hydra

The main character of my surface design is the nine headed Hydra. I choose this mythical beast of nine heads killed by Hercules in the second of his twelve tasks, because  the floor linoleum  sample I found has serpentine twisting figures emanating out from its centre, that remind me of the Hydra. My hydra is based on the centre three heads of the above image.

Linoleum

Preliminary sketch

This was the starting sketch for this project. The background is a watch or clock face, and the square is a reimagined piece of floor linoleum. The textures I applied in my example come from my own personal watches and an image of another watch. The Sketch is incomplete because at this point I moved into rhino to sketch the project and adjust as I went.

Line Work

I also took colour inspiration from two wall murals I found here in Calgary, the Hydra image above, a yellow and white pickup truck, and watch face images.

Colorful Wall Mural

Flames Wall Mural

Watch Face

White and Yellow Pickup Truck

Hydra Heads

Hydra Tile

Completed Design

Rotated Design to make design more symmetrical 

I found this project time consuming but fun to compile the designs, line work and colour shading. The main commands I used in the editing were join, array polar, line, circle, polygon, trim, extend, mirror,  copy, group, ungroup, and hatch. As well as manipulating layers and color shades using RGB values.

Thank you. 

Murray