Three seamless patterns I made this morning

Surely there are more productive things I could be doing with my time. Especially because I can see the potential to sit around for hours moving individual elements in these patterns this way and that to keep any given pattern from looking too…tiley.

Fortunately I’m ultimately just not that obsessive, and thus I managed to make these fun little patterns in between waiting for video to render, or uploading some commercial to the server, or, y’know, whatever it was that I was supposed to have been doing this morning .

I have tiles suitable for desktops and backgrounds for websites. Shoot me a comment and I’ll make them available.

(previously, Seamless Repeating Patterns)

Tags: doodles, illustrator, monsters, patterns, seamless, vector

Chester looks a bit like an overgrown squirrel with a big thick tail that drags on the ground. He’s not too bright, but he has a knack for opening stubborn jars, and that makes him a valuable friend to have in the Snooglezoo.

So, as it stands right now, we’ve got Monster Monday, Cowsday (tuesday, with Cows), Weird Wildlife Wednesday, Panda Thursday, and Friday Fish. Here’s your Monster Monday- it’s kind of cheating because I drew this a long time ago, but I wanted to post the results with a picture, and I’m still recovering from Vegas.

Meanwhile, work on SnoogleZoo returns to it’s regular pace. I’m feeling very enthusiastic about that project right now- momentum is growing, and it’s a lot of fun besides!

I have a deadline on a paying project coming up, so my usual time for Panda Thursday was taken up by that, and I ate through my buffer. But my real problem appears to be that, once I’ve filled up the whole front page of my blog with pandas by posting every Thursday and no other time, I just get sick and tired of drawing pandas.

So what do I do?

Panda Thursday was meant to be an exercise in making sure I’m drawing and posting to my blog at least once a week. I think I can still do that, but be more flexible about it by adding more creatures to more days, and mandating an update of at least one. That’ll keep me from feeling so stagnant after a million pandas.

So, I need some help coming up with creatures. I want to do Monster Monday, Panda Thursday (natch), Fish Friday ( because we used to be Catholic). But what about Tuesday and Wednesday? If you have a suggestion, leave me a comment. The creature doesn’t have to be an alliteration of the day of the week, unless it’s too awesome to pass up.

Tags: being blocked