Introduction
I have produced a different range of surface textures and colour examples for my enchanted Forest environment. In this Task I will be displaying and briefly explaining why and how I created each individual surface texture.Testing Different textures
Here are a few examples of the textures i have created using different methods.
Acrylic Paint and sponge
Random Acrylic Painting marks
Masking tape and acrylic
News Paper and acrylic
Acrylic paint using sponge and bubble wrap
Tissue and coffee paper
Tissue and water color
Tissue Paper and Bleach
Tissue Paper and water color
Tissue paper, coffee and water color
Watercolor and Masking tape
Mushroom Textures
In this selection you will see the different textures which I have created to help create huge mushrooms with a weird, magical appearance to them.
Mushroom Head
First I created a texture which I could Use as the head of the mushroom. I decided to go to the typical red mush room with white dots on. I used acrylic red paint and a sponge to create the base colour of the mushrooms head although I also added a bit of orange and brown just to give the mushroom a more interesting colour, for instance instead of the mushroom's head just being a solid red it has light and dark shades as well. I used white acrylic paint and a size 6 paintbrush which is a medium to small paint brush with a long tip to help create the different size dots. I didn't want the dots to be the same so I purposely made sure the dots were a different size and slightly a different shape to help add a weird but interesting appearance.
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| Mushroom Head Texture |
Mushroom Stem
This texture is going to be used as the mushroom's stem. Below you can see a image which has two picture's which were my main inspiration for the texture for the stem.
To create my texture I began by scrunching up tissue paper to create the wrinkly, old effect which I then glued down using a glue stick. I then slightly dipped a sponge in yellow acrylic paint and began stippling it onto the tissue paper to create a dirty, mouldy stem. After I added red and brown acrylic paint to the outer age of the texture to create depth, as well as a bit in the centre just to make the mould look like its spreading, making it a bit more realistic and more interesting than just a white basic stem.
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| Mushroom Stem No:1 |
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| Mushroom Stem No:2 |
'Floor' Textures
In this section I am going to be explaining the different textures which I will be using on the mainly as the 'floor' of the environment.
Grass Texture
First, I created a grass texture for the forest environment. To create this texture I simply used a sponge and using a stippling motion I painted the 'grass' onto the paper. I first used a green acrylic paint and slowly started adding brown, yellow and orange paint to the texture to give the grass a dying look. When you look outside at a field the grass Is never perfectly green, you can usually see several different colours in just one simple field. This is why I added so many different shades of greens and several colours, it helps give it a more lifelike and genuine appearance than just a solid green.
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| Grass Texture |
Water Texture
To give the water a rippling effect I used a scrunched up tissue paper. I personally think this works well because it helps give the water texture a more authentic appearance. I used brown, blue and green acrylic paint to try and create a water texture a similar colour to the example images below. For example, on the left you can see a lake which has a rippling effect and on the right you can see a lake which has the same rippling effect but with a more darker, dirtier colour.
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| Water texture |