As i had stated in a previous blog that i will be doing a stone structured chess set and would try to incorporate a similar contrast of colours to the traditional black and white board but would use a dark fossil red and a creamy white and in this blog are some of the similar type of textures that i am looking for:
Here is a page of the type of textures i am looking at, from what can be seen the palette of colours show that i want a dark creamy texture to represent the white side of the board and pieces.
Finding this site allows me to go through the various choices and pick any that are best suited but the one that i am looking more towards is the colours of these textures from this site but a texture that is visible as a stone material with cracks, chips and many other variables of stone material.
Now this is the type of texture i am looking at when i mean visible stone material yet i chose this image as an example of the marings i want to see on my material and found this image as a really good example and then after looking at it i see the colour of the image come through and i began to wonder could this be a suitable contrast of colour to represent the black side the board.
This texture is best suited for what i have been searching for as it is the creamy contrast of colour which varies throughout the image as its lighter and darker from opposite parts of the image and allows the markings on the stone to be shown very well.
Looking for fossil red textures i came across this image and found it stick in my head with the markings being shown as chipped into the stone and although it suits the criteria of texture that i'm looking for it doesn't have a connection of the colour of black from the black side of the chess board, had the colour been much darker to have hints of the fossil red it would best suit my project.
Now this image is much more of the previous image but everything it was missing as this image shows a much darker presence along with the carvings of the stone and you see hints of the fossil red that i had been wanting.
This image was chosen basically because of the markings, carvings and just the picture you would get of stone being dark but at a closer look i started to see these streaks of red and thought that this is really good and would fit my chess board.
Another texture that i thought stood out with its stone like grains as you can see the bits and pieces of this stone fading off and although the colour isn't what i was looking for it still has this dark red and grey effect making the bits and piees of the stone have more of a visbility in the image.
The cracks in this image is what i take away as it shows that fragile part of stone and how its affected and shows the age of the stone, but i really liked how the image has these various bits of grey around the cracks giving the stone more of the effect of its time from being solid to slowly fading away.
This texture is really brilliant image because it has that stone affect when the stone is fading away of breaking apart as you can see the darker pieces of the stone show that its the outer layer of the stone whilst as this layer fades away you get this creamy grey and i see the cracks showing more of teh stone breaking apart to show the process of stone from its outer layer, breaking or fading apart in the cracks upto the inner layerof the stone which is much more lighter in colour to the outer layer.
Creamy piece of stone that i had been looking for but seemed much too bright to be used in my project as it show the markings but had these marking been more visible or larger then it would seem more of ancient stone for a chess board and set.
Fossil red was what i had been looking for and found this type of stone which at first look doesn't look like stone and yet in some views looks like a close up of marble but i choe this because of its colour it stands out with the fossil red but because of the random bits of blue orange and othe colours it makes this image look like something other than stone.
In it's chips and markings on this stone allows it to be one of my favourites to be the creamy white part of the chess board and thats show through the colours being creamy and blending with the whites, and grey and these three bits of colours allows the markings to be shown up in the image and makes it stand out as a piece of stone.
Again the marking on this stone makes it seem more of a stone but put it with the dark fossil red allows the image to be more of an old piece of stone and having a second glance o fthe image i saw a different look, a look which seemed that this image could be of a grey stone which wis covered in blood and i thought that this could be even better as it would then be a good show of how this demon had come along and slaughtered this boys family if half the chess board was covered in blood.
Here i was just searching for an image of fossil red as if it were much more darker than previous images i had seen and found this which goes along with the carving as if someone was scratching or hitting the piece of stone.
Again i was looking for a creamy based texture and found this although it isn't much visble as a piece of stone the image has the colour that makes it stand out.
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