Evgeniya & Dominic Righini-Brand

Mastering Adobe Illustrator Tools & Techniques for Creating Geometric Grid-Based Designs

I'd love to feature your work in our Student Spotlight gallery on social, if that's okay with you? If yes, please let me know you IG, Facebook and Pinterest handles so I can tag you in the posts:) —Evgeniya

I’d be absolutely delighted for you to feature my work! Thank you so much. 🌸 I don’t currently have an Instagram/Facebook/Pinterest account that I use for my design work, so there’s no need to tag me there.

Thanks for the info! Are you on any other platform, Patreon maybe?

Spoonflower is really the only platform where I currently share my design work. I’m still quite new to all of this, so I haven’t set up any dedicated social media or Patreon yet. 😊

I absolutely love these patterns, Svetlana, thank you so much for sharing! The Merry Maximalist one is amazing in its complexity and is fascinating to study all of the details! Spotting the bird (it is a bird, right?) was also a nice surprise and very satisfying! I'd be excited to learn more about how you went about creating this pattern and see how the grids came together. If you have any work-in-progress saved, please share, so I can drool over the structures and precision!:D Have you created any more patterns in this more maximalist style? I'd love to see more if you have! You're absolutely right about the versatility of using geometric grids and that they can lead to so many different outcomes! Do you prefer simpler patterns or more complex ones? Thank you so much for taking this class and your very kind review!&lt;3 Keep up the great work! —Evgeniya

Yes, that’s a bird! 😊I actually didn’t have a preconceived idea for the pattern. I just started overlapping some of the grids from the class and looking for Christmas-related shapes that I could see in them. Once I had created a collection of motifs, I made guides and started fitting them together almost like puzzle pieces, basically just trying to fill the empty spaces. 😄I didn’t really know where the pattern was going while I was making it, and I wasn’t entirely happy with the result at the end, but I decided to submit it to the challenge anyway. So placing 12th was a wonderful surprise! I found a few screenshots from my working files showing some of the grids and how the motifs came together, so I’ll add them to the project.This was actually my first and so far only attempt at a more maximalist pattern — but hopefully there will be more to come! 😊As for whether I prefer simpler or more complex patterns, I honestly don’t know yet! I’m only just starting to immerse myself in pattern design and explore what I enjoy creating.Thank you so much for your lovely comments, and for sharing your knowledge so generously! 🌸

Thank you for sharing more about your process and some screenshots, so exciting to get a better insight into your process! I think you've definitely found something unique with this complex pattern, and it would be amazing to see you try creating more along the same lines. But another thing you can explore is taking out some of the elements from this pattern and making them into more simple designs — these could easily act as blender patterns, and generally you could build a whole collection just by recycling the elements of the complex pattern and creating some iterations. I'd be super excited to see you experiment with this and build a collection around this pattern:) —Evgeniya

Thank you, Evgeniya! That’s a great suggestion. I’ll keep it in mind and give it a try. 😊 

<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/ba7131ba.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/ba7131ba.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/ba7131ba.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="From Grids to Patterns: Merry Maximalist & Geometric Hydrangeas - image 1 - student project">
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Work in Progress — Exploring Motifs and Grids Not all of the motifs shown here made it into the final pattern.
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Thank you so much, Evgeniya! 🌸

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