May 20
Pattern Maniac
2008 at 05.25 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
Lately I have a fascination of geometric patterns. This creation is based on my Moleskin pattern sketch from before.
My alternate version
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I love this! Good job, totally inspiring i think i have to give the latest tut a try thanks! :D
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i love this toooooooooooooo!!!!!
veerle, i don’t know how you do this?!?!?! i’ve been trying to draw some patterns lately…inspired by your work…but i’ve been having such a hard time!!! *shoot*
does this stuff just come up to your mind while you’re drawing?
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Love it! Definitely like the first one best.
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Thanks :)
Janine a.k.a. Ms.Bananahama said:
Yes, exactly like that. Most ideas come in the middle of my process. I’m trying out things, experimenting, moving things around and then it suddenly hits me. I had a whole different idea in my head when I started this. I thought of doing a full pattern background (the smaller ones). They gradually change in color as you can see, so I thought that would be nice effect. In the center of the background I would create an irregular gap to put my text in. It was nice though but too busy for my taste so I tried something different and came up with this.
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A Q about the gradients in the patterns: it looks to me like you are confining the gradients to the ‘inside’ of the pattern, and are avoiding a gradient change right at the edge. Am I correct about this? I would imagine that it would be difficult to get a gradient to work at the edge ‘joining points’ of a repeating pattern.
Strong, elegant, and playful pattern.
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billseymour said:
I’m not sure I understand your question. If you are referring to a repeating pattern in the strict sense, take a fragment and repeat it like a pattern fill in Photoshop, then no I didn’t do anything intentionally like you mention because I wasn’t after a repeating background like that. It would look as if I was though because it is repeating in shape, only not in color. I wanted variation in colors but have it change gradually from one color to the other via a gradient effect. So because of that it isn’t possible to take a fragment and have it perfectly joining. Hope this answers your question. Thanks for the compliment ;)
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cool
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Looks sporty fresh. I love it!
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Great choice of colours and I like the fonts you used. :))
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Hello Veerle,
Beautiful pattern. I just wanted to share this article about patterns, but maybe you have seen it already. Anyway thanks a lot for inspiring us.
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i got to know abt ur work after ur “how to make ribbon” tutorials….Its then i thought of going through ur site.Its really amazing the way u try different things in so simple manner.Really will be learning a lot frm u.
Thanks a lot.