Here are the sketches I’ve done for #illo_advent so far. Hopefully I’ll have time to do a few more before the 25th!
illo_advent 2016
Category: pattern
Pops!
Hopefully these are enough ice pops or ice lollies to tide you over till the end of summer. By next summer they should be available on clothing 😉
Decisions, decisions…
These are very small details from the latest surface design pattern I’m working on. It’s the first in a series about microscopic images that I’m hoping to develop further. More on this later, when I’ve decided which colorways to use (probably all of them!)
My Pattern Process
Surface pattern design is one of my favorite branches of illustration. Above is a simplified example of how I create a repeating pattern. I always start out by sketching- these skulls were a warmup study. I did not intend to create a pattern from them at first, but they looked like they might work well that way.
A couple of examples of my pattern in action:
