Son of Seamless Pattern Design
I haven’t been posting them, but I’ve been playing with seamless repeating patterns since the beginning of the year. While it’s mostly been flowers and other sort of geometric shapes, there was this one file I started with the intention to fill with as many unique, organic shapes as I could, and this pattern of sea critters started to take shape. It took me a three or four sesssions to finish it (over the course of several months!), but it’s finally done!
I learned a little trick while I was working on this one. I kept testing it out and in spite of all of the unique shapes, I was still really aware of exactly where the tiles were seaming. I had overlapping shapes, but it wasn’t until I started using certain motifs over again within the tile that the rhythm finally broke up enough for me and the pattern started to feel more natural to my eyes. The tiling isn’t 100% invisible, especially at this small size, but it’s a lot better than where it started (I don’t see any strong path of white running through it anymore, for instance), and I’m really proud of this one
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mmm, squid and octopus =)~~~~…hey, can you make me like a cute sushi repeating pattern? that’d be kewl…not sure what I’d do with it, but it’d be kewl…
this is so cute! i want this on a fabric. heh.
There’s a part of me that wants to submit all of these patterns to Spoonflower. There’s another part of me that wants to put a line together and send it out to the textile manufacturers (y’know, the old fashioned way). Which I do depends on whether I can get up the courage to do it the old fashioned way.
I say go for it. This pattern screams “pajama bottoms”