Category: Surface Design
Topic: Basics
Start Date: 5/5/12
Deadline: 5/9/12
I tend to create lots of pretty detailed patterns, but this time I want to create more basic pieces.
Hello! I'm Melanie, a freelance illustrator living in Denver with my dog, Violet, who often has things named after her without realizing it.
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landscape - wallpaper pattern
also: I’ll be back soon with some more Arrested illos! I am currently feeling a bit boxed in by the format and timeline I set for myself, so I’m hoping to work on some more general illos related to Seasons 2 and 3 in the next several days. Stay tuned!
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completed pattern - ariadne, theseus, and the minotaur
I’ve always wanted to do a design in this style (does this style have a name?). Plus, getting to write a design description in spoonflower meant getting to shine the light on the rudeness of Theseus, ditching Ariadne for her sister after successfully using Ariadne to get in and out of the labyrinth.
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in progress - the minotaur
In progress - a surface design for this week’s Spoonflower contest. The theme is Greek Myths, and I actually stuck to a single one - the minotaur. Featuring: The minotaur (looking both handsome and adorable), Theseus, Theseus’s boat, Ariadne, the ball of yarn she gives Theseus to get out, Dionysus about to eat some grapes, and a random assortment of a column, an arrow (for the maze) and a sword. I am liking where this is heading but I need to figure out how to fill in the background.
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deadline #36 - editorial - maurice sendak - finished!
(I finished this yesterday. I’ve had lots of drawing to do for a real-life assignment, that’s taken priority and kind of pushed my blog to the back-burner. But I won’t give this up! It’s been too good for me!!!)
This is sort of a combo deadline finisher - it works for my pikaland assignment #2 (combining what I know with what I love) and my maurice sendak illustration. I wanted to depict someone reading Where the Wild Things Are, and being cozy and happy and content. (Well, really my first idea was a girl crying and reading and eating the book, but I thought that is only borderline appropriate.) I also wanted lots of detail, as that’s been my goal for a while, and added patterns as much as I could. I’m fairly happy with the outcome - good not great. Some texture would be nice. As would a few shadows. Ooh, and a pattern on the chair. Whoo!
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deadline #35 - surface design - basics - sort of finished-ish
I didn’t finish this deadline as much as I finished two other patterns this week that I wanted to share…
This is my finished illustration for my first assignment for my class on Pikaland. I’m so happy with it…when I drew the leaves and colored them in, the pattern looked so dull, but once I added the shadows to make the pattern more three-dimensional, it was an instant change. Plus that pink/purple color….love!
And this is my finished pyrex design for the upcoming Spoonflower contest (‘retro kitchen’ themed, with a restricted color palette). I feel like my ‘basic’ surface design pattern is the background of this guy - the little dashed stripes. So that kind of works, right?
Anyways, I have a great excuse for not having a really appropriate finished product this week! Besides the fact that I’ve been working on projects for my pikaland class, I’m also working on my very first professional illustration job! It’s extremely exciting. I had 11 or so drawings to do, mostly just linework, with just a tiny bit of color, and not a ton of time to get them done. I finished them up last night (unless there are other edits that have to happen in the next few days, which is very possible) and am hoping to have another related assignment to start for the same client in the next few days. Yay!!!
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deadline #35 - surface design - basics
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deadline #31 - surface design - more watercolors
Category: Surface Design
Topic: Watercolors (again)
Start Date: 4/21/12
Deadline: 4/24/12
This is my second attempt to do a watercolor/ink themed surface design for the Project8 contest. You can see some of my previous designs here and here. The deadline for the contest is the 24th so it is officially GO TIME.
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deadline #27 - surface design - sewing - finished!
I finished this last night! Not super exciting, but every fabric designer needs some plainer designs, right? Right?? Also I can’t decide if it is cool that one ruler is more three-dimensional, while the others are yardsticks, or what. Thoughts?
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