These three patterns were some of the first that I made, hence the rather random style of them. At the time I was very much experimenting with some of the different things you could use, such as brushes and textures.
Black & White Ovals
I was idly doodling while on the phone when I drew a row of vertical ovals with little spots inside, a short while later I was making that same doodle in Inkscape. Making the design was easy enough but I remember doing the repeat was more fiddly, although I had been watching tutorials for Inkscape they mostly dealt with logos or motifs, not repeat patterns.
Before this the only other repeat I had made was my lolly pattern and I hadn’t even worked out how to remove the things outside the artboard on that one, this was a little simpler in that respect but I did go in one at a time and delete each partial oval and spot.
I know now there are better ways to do these things but back then I was very much a novice.
Paint Textured Geometric Pattern
This one came about during a power cut, using a book light, a small graph paper pad and some felt tip pens I did this design while trying to stem off the boredom.
When making the pattern though I decided to try adding a bit of texture by using one of the artisitic brushes on the stroke of each shape. I also overlayed a faint texture on the fill, still very much experimenting with different techniques at this time.
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Ornamental Diamond Pattern
Yet another doodle in my little graph paper book. The end result differed somewhat from the doodle mind you.
This time I was playing about with the width tool and making my own profiles, I liked how the shape came out when applied to lines in a star pattern.
I was also experimenting with making pattern brushes which is how I did the border around each star.
