....that's the question!

When I was building the block of flats for the modern image "plank" I decided to produce the buildings using paper with bricks printed onto it, stuck to a plastic shell. The benefits of this were I could take a photo of a real building and then print it out to scale and use it create the prototype brick pattern rather than a generic one. I was quite pleased with the results but to save people digging back through the blog here is the block of flats in question:

My only concern with this method is that by its very nature it can appear to be a little flat, but I'm going to give it a try on Ropley again, mainly because there isn't a huge amount of brickwork, and it will also allow me to accurately portray the colours and patterns of the brick work, rather than an interpretation by using embossed sheets and paint.

So, the first building to be tackled is going to be the oil store:

To produce the brick pattern for this, I purposely took a photo of the only side that’s actually exposed. The others being covered by other structures or trees:

Using this I’ve now produced the artwork for the sides and back of the building by copying and pasting the image above several times, then individual bricks to reduce the repetitiveness:

This will form the sides and rear of the building, the other brick wall being separate as this is part brick, part breeze block.

Now, at this point I was going to show you it printed out, but alas it seems I was lower on ink than I thought, so the next update will have to wait until a new cartridge has arrived!

Cheers all,

Tom.