OUGD406 - Studio Brief 04 - Texture Production

It was decided that in order to make the textures more realistic and appropriate to the shopping item illustrations they were being used with, we should explore producing textures from the objects themselves. This production process involved various different materials, most used with black ink to enable clarity of the textures.

For example, one design featured a set of toilet rolls, suggesting that they should always be kept in pairs for your own well being. In recreating such a texture, pieces of toilet tissue were scanned and modified in terms of their clarity and contrast of black and white elements for use underneath this illustration so that links were made between the textures and the illustrations, as well as keeping consistency between the overall aesthetic of the guide in terms of it’s colour scheme.

Another method used to produce textures was the use of bleach sponged onto black card. This produced a rough texture as a result of the chemical reacting with the paper stock, which also made the paper change from black to white. Again such textures were scanned and modified to enhance their clarity. In keeping elements of red within the colour scheme, some of these textures were digitally modified in terms of their hue and saturation, using methods learnt through another brief in this module. These were used to recreate a similar red hue, which was used to accompany an illustration of hair dye/bleach.