I was extremely worried about making a 'seamless' pattern because I have never made one before and I struggled to understand the concept, initially. I also don't have Illustrator but the video accompanied with the brief pack suggested either Illustrator or Photoshop to make your patterns.
I didn't fully grasp the concept from those videos, so I had to have a look around myself! After seeing various ways on how you make a seamless pattern, I found one that really worked for me. I created a square for my wallpaper 'tile', and then started placing the illustrations that I created in and around the tile. I wanted to play with depth, colour and perspective for my pop modern theme, and I really think I embodied this, especially from my research and Feathr's inspiration boards. Once I had the shapes places, those that went over the edge, I cut those bits off, but placed them at the exact opposite side of the tile so that once the design is multiplied, on a wall for example, then it will be 'seamless'. I was dubious about this concept, but once I tried it and tested it out, it worked!
These are the tiles that I am going to submit. I really love them because they are very graphic-esuqe and so bright and upbeat which is what I aimed for. I also feel like I could make books and wrapping paper out of these designs as well!
I then made some mockups of my wallpaper, some on real life walls, and others on rolls of wallpaper. I am pleased with how these came out, they were a really quick turn around and something I did for fun and to push myself to see if I could create a seamless pattern. I heard about this brief quite late in the module, which is why I didn't take too long on the designs, but I found the brief appealing, so I couldn't not give it a go!
Wow, beautiful!
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