(All pictures used for inspiration and reference in the subsequent blogposts are numbered and referenced in blog post #20)
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For this project when making my sketches I used reference pictures for some of the assets. I wanted to use reference pictures for some of them so my project would be more accurate but I didn’t feel like all of them needed reference pictures. Above is the 2 pictures that I found online for inspiration for the sofa that I made. There weren’t many period pieces photographed online so a lot of my inspiration came from recreations and replicas from furniture sites. I really liked the cylindrical throw pillows I saw in a lot of the sofas so ended up incorporating these into my sketches and subsequent final designs. I also really liked the curved arms on the sofas, I also used these in my final design however I went for something with mostly fabric and less wood as I didn’t wanna have too much wood on my sofa as the room I was creating was already going to have a lot of wood on it. I also liked the use of the blue fabric in the first picture so decided to make my sofa a shade of blue as well. Using reference pictures was very useful as it helped me make something that looked like it would fit in and meant I didn’t have to make up the design based on what I thought it should look like.
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These two pictures are the ones I used for the arm chair, I actually ended up combining the two and creating something that I thought was nice and period accurate. There were a lot of designs I saw on the internet for victorian arm chairs but the two styles above were the ones I saw the most, I also noticed a lot of them were in deep red tones so I decided to use this in my design as I thought it would stand out and look nice. I like the chair that I ended up making and think it looked really good in the final room scene I put together. When sketching I put together a few possible designs from the inspiration/ reference photos I had and I think any of them could have worked. I however really liked the one I came up with as I felt that it looks nice and really has that victorian influence to it. Again using reference pictures for this piece I felt was necessary as there was specific styles then and I wanted it to look accurate to my theme.