Three different floral patterns made using three different methods.
Abstract Peach Florals
These flowers were made from some doodles by using live trace and then tweaking them by hand.
I’ve found that inked doodles work better than pencil ones when it comes to tracing. I used a Derwent Graphik fine liner for this.
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Hellebores and Primroses
This pattern was inspired by some flowers in my mother’s garden, this time I traced them from photographs by hand with my Wacom tablet.
While I liked how they turned out at the time I wasn’t too sure about the pattern itself, I’m really not overly into this style of florals so I was having a hard time looking at it objectively, I often find while in the process of making something I get to a point where I’m sick of looking at it, only later can I look at it and see that it’s actually not that bad.
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Spring Meadow
As mentioned in my Scandi Collection post I made this pattern after taking a Skillshare class by Elizabeth Olwen, it is called Spring Meadow because that was the name I chose to inpsire me, the plan was for this to be my class project but it never got there, I made this pattern but never made any of the others because I felt stuck on what to create.
Yet when I made the first Scandinavian style pattern the additional designs seemed to come naturally.
All these flowers were made inside Illustrator using shapes or the pen tool, while I like it and feel it’s a pretty pattern it has a slight stiffness due to the precise nature of the elements, but it was my first time doing such a busy tossed pattern and that was a fun learning experience.
