Surface Pattern obsession

Looks like I am a little obsessed with designing patterns here. I am designing at least one a night. Over the years, I have had made countless images as doodles or experiments. Some just stayed in my sketchbook for years until now. Finally, they get their chances to be ALIVE! Tonight I worked on a larger size format than before (18" x 20") and worked out exactly how I like my image to repeat before uploading to spoonflower. My surface pattern design sample to be sent out is filling up nicely. I am using pretty bright colours I like and not sure how marketable the colour schemes are. Of course as vector files, I can always play with different schemes. Oh the possibilities are just endless. Here is tonight special. I call it Pink Clusters

Poppies

I am getting super charged with pattern design. After a few very useful youtube tutorials, I am ready to play.

Here are some poppies.

Textile Design

I have joined Spoonflower, a fabric design site. Come see what I have so far. They will be available for sale soon.

Here is a design of a pet fish I had long time ago. I was very sad when it died so I drew it out and painted it on our coffee table. Here is my gourami alive again in this fabric design. I am still experimenting with the pattern repeat. Lots to learn and play around with.

Hello 2012

I am returning from a month of sickness, the flu hit the household hard. Now that the older son is back to school and I am feeling at 90% on the health meter, I cracked open my favourite gift from Santa, the Wacom Bamboo Create tablet. Here is my first attempt of designing patterns.

Sisters

Here are two more of my girls.

Lucy

So I have decided to name her Lucy. If my second little boy was a girl, he would have been Lucy with Lucille on the birth certificate. Here is my first Lucy fun doing a cartwheel at the park. Not a final draft, still having so much fun playing around in photoshop.

Cousins

Onces or twice a year, my son gets to see his cousins from Calgary and at parting time, my son will very dramatically burst into tears. I drew this on their last visit in the summer. They will be coming for Christmas so there will be buckets ready.