Because it takes so much longer than just drawing a picture, this week I am still playing with repeating patterns. This time, it is a pattern of bursting seedpods. I like what I tried with it, but it isn’t quite as seamless a repeat as I want. Here is a close-up of the base pattern:
And here is a snippet of another pattern, just trees, which worked much as I wanted it to. If the Little Red Riding Hood fabric swatch I ordered arrives and works, I might try this one, too.
September 19, 2012 at 10:48 pm
I can envision a really cool line of products with this look, be it the fabrics, cards, paper, etc. I’d love to see an Etsy site with this stuff on it.
September 24, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Thanks :) I’ve toyed with the thought. If I get any busier it will probably look like a good idea.
September 20, 2012 at 12:37 am
I really love the top one. Seems like kind of a departure for you in terms of time period – this is clean and 1950s-ish (maybe even 1930s or 1940s-ish with an anachronistic dress?) instead of Edwardian and jammed with detail (which I love, of course; that’s observational and not pejorative). What made you decide to do this kind of silhouette with this pattern?
September 24, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Thanks! Just a little departure :). I do love drawing Edwardian, intricate, ornamented pieces, and I adore that school of illustration, but my personal taste (as a consumer rather than artist) for some reason skews more Art Deco–>midcentury (with a lot of orange) than Art Nouveau. So I thought I’d play with that era of fashion illustration to present the pattern.
September 20, 2012 at 9:49 am
Oh, oh!
…and what time did you go to bed?!!!
September 24, 2012 at 9:35 pm
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September 21, 2012 at 6:22 pm
if i should ever write a book, i want you to illustrate it! unfortunately phd thesis don’t usually have illustrations and that is all i have time for at the moment.
but i am german and writing fairy tales seems to come naturally, so maybe some day there will be more than just a few bits and pieces …
September 24, 2012 at 9:35 pm
German fairytales!!!