Outside of work, I like to continue praticing my hands-on studio skills with illustrating and crafting. For the past few years, I have been working on learning surface design and pattern-making for fabric. I'll first work on the individual illustrations. These are created either through pen and paper sketches or through a digital watercolor technique on the iPad. Then I create a seamless 10" x 10" pattern by combining the different illustrations together into one composition. I'm always excited to see how the pattern translates from the digital space onto the physical fabrics.
I have included a few of my favorite patterns below.
I'm always interested in playing with different techniques in my art. Every now and then, I try to step out of my comfort zone with a new style or artistic challenge. The following is a collection of characters I recreated (left) next to their inspiration (right). I had a lot of fun playing around with this style! For the most part, my focus was on trying out blending techniques in the digital space. I'm used to working with blending paints and I think it's interesting to see what kind of tricks can span physical and digital, and where the two mediums differ. I was also testing out creating custom paint brushes in Procreate to fit the style I was going for.
Bonus: To the left is a self-portait with my cat, Ophelia.
