What a busy week it's been. I've been working on some more new techniques this week in an attempt to get my work to look more hand drawn. Don't get me wrong, I love very clean, smooth vectors and make plenty of patterns in that style but I also love to paint and scribble and I wish I could get that look in my Ai repeats. So here what I've been doing...
I did some geometric collage and paint pieces and started exploring different ways to bring them into Ai. I played with layers to try and emulate a watercolour style.
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| Playing with the blob brush in Ai. |
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| Manual tracing, drawing and layering it up... |
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| More experiments... |
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| I really like these soft edges... |
I completed the patterns I started on Pattern Camp. I also did some more research and sketching for some further patterns for the collection.
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| Love this but have since tweaked the flower slightly... |
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| Did this... |
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| Then changed it to this! Decided it looks more interesting like this! |
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| This was the first thing I developed on Pattern Camp. I've edited it a few times but think it's done now. |
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| Started doodling some more motifs for this collection. |
I did some scanning and tracing experiments with Ps and Ai and really loved the results.
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| My January Bootcamp stuff much improved! |
I also drew some Christmas baubles, danced to a lot of cheesy pop music and took this little cutie out running and walking a lot.
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| My lovely little Border Collie Jip |
Frankie x
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