Just a silly little pattern in the style of the doodles I tend to draw.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Kids Patterns
For myself, I tend to gravitate to muted colors and neutrals, but I still appreciate color. Making designs and prints frees me up to play with color without having to plaster it on my walls. I was just at a baby shower this past weekend, and was reminded once again of the fun of color in looking at all the wrapping paper and gift choices available. It inspired me to play around with some cute, colorful ideas in Illustrator.
Surface design or pattern design is something I would love to be doing, so I made up a pattern rather than a single, non-repeating design:
I like the simplicity of just the one little birdie, but I had to try for a version with a worm, too:
With that started, and with inspiration from the delightfully cute gift bag I bought that was designed by Helen Dardik, I'm tempted to try for a few more kid-oriented animals. (Please do check out her blog -- and take a peek at how she perks up photos she posts to her blog with doodles and designs; such a good idea!)
More complicated patterns are sure to come, but I'm a sucker for simplicity and white backgrounds.
Surface design or pattern design is something I would love to be doing, so I made up a pattern rather than a single, non-repeating design:
I like the simplicity of just the one little birdie, but I had to try for a version with a worm, too:
With that started, and with inspiration from the delightfully cute gift bag I bought that was designed by Helen Dardik, I'm tempted to try for a few more kid-oriented animals. (Please do check out her blog -- and take a peek at how she perks up photos she posts to her blog with doodles and designs; such a good idea!)
More complicated patterns are sure to come, but I'm a sucker for simplicity and white backgrounds.
Long Time No...
Since my last post, I've opened up shop! You can find me at ododo.etsy.com. It's been fun so far, especially wrapping up the prints for a customer and imagining them opening up the package -- and hopefully being excited by their print and the little extras.
Getting people to actually see the shop and the items I've listed is something I'm going to have to work on. On a good day, I get about 20 views right now -- also known as 'eyeballs'. I need more eyeballs. At the same time, I'd like to just focus on getting some more items up. (More on that, later.)
For now, I feel encouraged by the number of sales for the number of people who have seen the shop, and I still get very excited when someone hearts me or any of my prints. And two lovely people have chosen me as one of their treasury picks; they didn't make it to the home page (the lists expire fast) but it was still thrilling to me to be in someone's handpicked list. Thanks again, localcolorist and elineof!
Getting people to actually see the shop and the items I've listed is something I'm going to have to work on. On a good day, I get about 20 views right now -- also known as 'eyeballs'. I need more eyeballs. At the same time, I'd like to just focus on getting some more items up. (More on that, later.)
For now, I feel encouraged by the number of sales for the number of people who have seen the shop, and I still get very excited when someone hearts me or any of my prints. And two lovely people have chosen me as one of their treasury picks; they didn't make it to the home page (the lists expire fast) but it was still thrilling to me to be in someone's handpicked list. Thanks again, localcolorist and elineof!
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