So it's midnight and I have spent a good part of the day creating one other plate design. I wanted to see if I could create a plate design based on intricate and old pattern work from the Fatimid period of Islam. I wanted to create an opulent plate for a company like Hermes; an older high end company that was international and would appreciate an old world geometric plate design. The Fatimid period of Islam took place between 900 and 1100 AD, and was renowned for both its floral and geometric pattern work, intricacies, and revival of luster use in ceramics. As such the plate I have designed is a more modern version of art of this period, and uses the same floral and geometric pattern work, along with modern technologies of high end plate creation in the blending of this opulent past with a revival of the present.
The plate design took a while to create, especially with the boarder work around the plate. The creation of the design required the use of clipping masks, brush creations, pattern creations, filters, the wand, pen tool and paths, etc. I was pretty happy with the out come, finally :)
