Spoonflower 'Hand drawn' Competition

Here is my entry for The new Spoonflower Competition. the theme is 'hand drawn'. It took several days to complete this as I really wanted to think about what I was drawing before I focused on layout and colour. I created Layers by using tracing paper on top of initial motifs to add detail. 

Here are a small selection of the Motifs I used to complete the design. 

Playing with Motifs

Here I scanned and edited some line drawings I doodled while on the Train on day. These are the results:

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Building colour

More focus on colour here.

 Here is how I Built up the colour on a design I created, begining with White:

Add an accent colour

Add a second colour

And so on...

(Background opacity was adjusted for the final stages)

Until a complete colour palette is created:

Variations of the Design:

Working with colour

This has to be the most FUN topic for me. I have never been fantastic where colour is concerned. I usually pick whatever colours I like before I design.

This week I was introduced to selecting colour from photographs, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Here is a selection of what I have created this week.

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To create these colour palettes I used Kular.

These designs were created using the colour palettes above.

BLOCK MOTIF

FAN MOTIF

Making patterns from motifs

This week we focused on motif's and creating simple patterns from them. 

To begin I drew a butterfly which I re drew from a piece of work I felt inspired by. I re drew it in my own style and digitally created the same version. This was for my benefit, to see which I preferred ( as i usually favour digital, this time I didn't. 

These are several variations on the original Butterfly:

A simple Background drawing

The original Motif

                                              

And here we have a simple repeat design in a varierty of colourways.

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 This is the mood-board, that inspired the above design.

Week 2..... so far so good

This week we focus on Sketching. I invested in some "uni pin' Pens, and what a great investment. 

Here are just a few sketches from this weeks tasks: