Last month I found out about Bonnie Christine’s course on Creative Live about Designing Surface Patterns from Scratch and I participate in the live class, It came at the right time and the following days were filled with many aha moments!.
Before taking the course, I was very limited on my creative process from how to create technical repeat patterns to how to use illustrator to create artwork.
Bonnie's class was great, she is a great inspirational and technical teacher and taught us how to get inspiration, create mood boards and sketches , how to work on illustrator to create artwork and the process of creating technical repeat patterns.
So after I took the course on a beautiful Sunday morning, camera in hand I went to the French romantic park that's near my home and took pictures of the flowers, the blue sky, the park, and was lucky to find a full bloom Magnolia.
Back at home I created my mood board and the color palette from the pictures.
The I started creating the process based on Bonnie's teachings in how to create artwork from photographs in Illustrator and then creating the technical repeating patterns.
I created a collection with the main pattern using the different flowers and the I created four coordinates to go with.
I will be using this collection as a part of my portfolio and on
my society6 and my spoonflower shop in a different home products and fabrics.
After this learning experience I'm looking forward to creating more collections based of what I have learned.
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