Week 8 - Set Design 2

Experimenting with Foam Boards:

During the session this week, I was experimenting with different textures that could be applied to a set. I was given the task of producing 4 different types of Textures. 2 x Brick Walls, 1 x Cracked wall and 1 x Stone Walls.

I first began to colour swatch the walls I wanted from the reference material I had researched into. I applied a thin layer of a brown/grey base colour to sink into the cracks I had formed into the Foam. This allows you to paint over the top of the walls without having to go into finer detail repeatedly.

Once I'd managed to understand the colours I needed to present a realistic wall effect, I began to mould into the foam to create the appearance of a brick wall. I used a hair grip to get into the fine cracks of the wall and the remainder was done using the end of a pen. This process allows you to have the indentation of a brick wall and once the paint is applied makes the process easier because you don't have to paint on the shadows because they are already there.

I'd made the indents into the foam and then had to paint them with a base colour enabling it to sink into the cracks I had formed with the modelling tools. This then allows you to paint over the base colour with the colour you had planned for.

The base colour for the concrete crack was a shallow greyish. This was so I could paint over the top with a blue-ish grey to add to the realistic feel of concrete itself. This worked very well with the foam and the dry brushing the paint onto board allowed the texture itself to show up.