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Creating My Yellow, Coral, and Gray Floral Designs
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My Yellow, Gray, & Floral designs started as an exercise in Module 2 from Make it in Design. The brief was to create elegant coordinated patterns for a stationery collection.
I decided to use this stylized flower I had sketched in my art journal as the basis for the designs.
For the color palette, I started with one of my favorite color combinations: yellow and gray, and then added the coral. I hand-drew the flowers, scanned them, and traced them in Adobe Illustrator. I use the rectangle tool to create the diamond shapes.
I added color to the floral motifs and used them and the diamonds in different combinations on each piece of the collection.
For my Redbubble shop, I changed the name of the collection to Yellow, Coral, and Gray Floral Designs. In addition, I tweaked the designs from the stationary to fit the products better.
These designs are available on wall art, phone cases, home decor, stickers, magnets, and more.
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Creating My Folk Art Pattern
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One of the creative exercises in Module 2 by Make it in Design was to look to our own culture and use its influence in a design of our own. I grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch Country and even have some Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. I have never been particularly drawn to Pa Dutch folk art but was surprised when I researched it to find many similarities with my own drawing style. I created a pattern that uses colors and motifs influenced by Pa Dutch folk art while adding my own flair.
I created a mood board with some of the Pa Dutch folk art I found in my research.
Then I drew some motifs, scanned them, and traced them in Adobe Illustrator. I chose colors from the designs on my mood board.
This is the final pattern that I created. While it has the same colors and similar motifs to the images on the mood board, it looks very different because I added my own flair and style.
Finally I uploaded the pattern to my Redbubble shop and added it all sorts of products.