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I was excited to experiment with plaid. I had this whole line-up in mind revolving around plaid: sad plad, glad plad, and, of course, rad plad. Picking color schemes was easiest, and they can always be left for last anyway, so that aspect of excitement waned quickly. Then came the weaving effect. I wanted to mimic the weave. There are a few ways to imitate the look of plaid, one can simply overlay them with lighting effects, or some other ones…

- By the way, I’m thinking in printing aspects, so transparencies suck and make unnecessary amounts of color. -

I looked at a zoomed picture of plaid and noticed the weaves have a checkered pattern. Huzzah! There’s a vertical weave and a horizontal weave. - Thanks Wikipedia! - The color blending effect from the weave is a lot like halftones, except there isn’t a size variance, just clumping.

If this checkered thing interests you, read: So yeah, basically, think of a giant grid; wait, better analogy, think of a chessboard. The vertical weave will be the black squares, and the horizontal weave will be the white ones. In the back, there’s one color that goes bothways, so it’s solid. Then other colors go vertical and/or horizontal at varying widths, not lengths, because you know, obvious. You only get those bright colors when weaves of the same color overlap. Then that one chessboard is copied and mirrored, then those two are copied and mirrored, aaand plaid. I mean it’s kinda obvious, but not. I knew there was overlapping, but I wasn’t exactly sure how. Also, “check” comes from chess, sooo, neat.

Anyway, I made a pattern. I feel learned (so, yay!), but it’s plaid. I made plaid. Sigh. I wanted to implement some illustrations within the plaid, but, now, I’m not sure how. Plaid is making me sad, not glad.