I've been thinking to dive into surface pattern design for a while now. I love to draw botanical elements and I think I could do something with them. So here I am, in my first class about pattern design.

My main inspiration source is nature, so my pattern is based in botanical elements and colours.

My First Pattern Design with Adobe Illustrator - image 1 - student project

I sketched a few botanical elements using a tombow fudenosuke on Bristol paper.

My First Pattern Design with Adobe Illustrator - image 2 - student project

I also decided that the name of the pattern or the inspiration of it will be a flower meadow, so I sketched those words a few times and stick with this final one:

My First Pattern Design with Adobe Illustrator - image 3 - student project

Sticking with this theme, I chose my colour palette from a photo of a meadow of poppies and cornflowers. Here it is!

My First Pattern Design with Adobe Illustrator - image 4 - student project

Then I edited all the sketches in Illustrator and trya bit the live trace option with some daisy photos.

To learn how to make a pattern I used two of the most basics motifs. Here it's my officially first repeating pattern!!!!

My First Pattern Design with Adobe Illustrator - image 5 - student project

Then I played a bit with the recolour tool and came up with this two versions:

My First Pattern Design with Adobe Illustrator - image 6 - student project

Next, I tried to make a more complex pattern using all the elements of my sketch.

My First Pattern Design with Adobe Illustrator - image 7 - student project

Finally, I made a bouquet out of all the elements and made a bouquet pattern out of it. I have the original one (with the same colours) and the second one that actually I liked better.

My First Pattern Design with Adobe Illustrator - image 9 - student project

Mara Hernandez

Botanical Art Lover

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