Tutorial: Patterned Wallpaper

Today I'm gonna show you a quick random wallpaper which you can reproduce very easy.

Time: 20min  
Software: Adobe Illustrator (& Photoshop if you want)
Textures: cgtextures.com

Maybe you remember my isometric landscape tutorial. This is the same pattern and I used it because of the interesting result you get when you use it with colors!

For those who didn't open the link above: how to create the bricks?

1. Draw a square and rotate it to 45 degrees. 
2. Scale it to the half size of the original square. Don't scale it evenly - compress it like in the image below. 
3. Duplicate it to get the basement and pull it down until the lower angle meets the upper angle of those two squares (the lower one is just for orientation you can delete it later like me). 
4. From here you can draw rectangles for the side walls like in the first part of the image below.

Now it's time to choose colors. I wanted to have some bright and crazy colors:
Dark Blue: #000AD4 ; Bright Blue #00E9C4 ; Pink #FF3FC6.

Time to duplicate your brick. Make sure you selected view>snap to point or better view>snap to grid to not to get some distances between your bricks.

If not there is a trick to get your points exactly on the others:
Switch to outline view with pressing strg+y. Mark all points you wanna merge with the anchor tool (press A). Right click an choose average>both. All points are on the same now!

Duplicate groups of bricks and you will get a very nice pattern which you could use as a wallpaper or as a 'material design' like me on a snowboard.
I used this wooden texture to get a bit more structure in my wallpaper. Just play around with the photoshop blending modes of the wooden texture to let it shine through!

Brick Landscape - Guild Wars 2: Mount Maelstrom

I'm playing Guild Wars 2 since release and I made a brick landscape of one of my favourite locations: Mount Maelstrom!

I captured my work - here you can see it in a time lapse.

The brick wall is getting real!

Guys! I just found a clothes basket full of lego bricks in the garret! 

I was totally freaking out when I found it and started to build right after making sure that nobody heard my overreaction :D Have a look at the result!

African brick landscape

I had some fun while building another brick landscape!

Brick Landscape Tutorial - Minecraft style

In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a brick landscape fast and easy.

First step: Create the bricks.

1. Draw a square and rotate it to 45 degrees. 
2. Scale it to the half size of the original square. Don't scale it evenly - compress it like in the images. 
3. Duplicate it to get the basement and pull it to the lower angle of your first square.
4. Create some rectangles for the side walls.

This is your brick which will be your initial object for everything else you create. 

Second Step: Make the bricks unique.

1. Add some details like little stones or grass.
2. Create 3-4 different bricks of a kind to make your final landscape look random.
3. Add some shadows. Your final image will look more 3-dimensional.

That's it! Now you can start to build your landscape. My landscape will be a snowy mountain with a vale full of fir trees. 

It will take a time until you can copy a group of bricks to another place to go on faster. It's a bit like building with lego bricks or building in Minecraft - I like it!

Here you can see my final landscape. I did some photoshop actions later to get some more atmosphere!