Venice Brick & Tile Materials

For this assignment I used brick walls found in Venice, Italy as inspiration.

My primary focus was the damaging the brick texture. However, there are several places where the material can be improved, including the grout texture. From the photos, it was difficult to determine the exact texture of the grout so what I've created is only an approximation.

For extra credit I decided to focus on creating my own pattern for input into the tile sampler.

This project allowed me to focus on using the Shape and Transform 2D tools to manipulate shapes into an attractive tile design, adapted from an image I found on Pinterest. The design was then made into a tiled pattern and some damage was added. There are a lot of areas where improvement is needed. Specifically, when it comes to use the Slope Blur tool and how that almost translates into chipped tiles, but not quite.