Live Encore: Create Beautiful, Botanical Patterns

Celebrate our beautiful planet with gorgeous botanical illustrations!

Bonnie Christine, an artist and surface pattern designer, has a passion for sharing what she’s learned. As a self-taught designer, she knows exactly what information to pass on to you, the student, to allow you to create the illustrations of your dreams! In this Skillshare Live session, recorded on Zoom and featuring participation from the Skillshare community, Bonnie will show you how to draw breathtaking botanical illustrations that honor one of the most important sources of inspiration out there: our planet. 

This class begins by, well, showing you where to begin! Bonnie will walk you through how to choose the images, shapes and colors that will really make your illustrations pop. From there, she’ll walk you through building your pattern, demonstrating her techniques so that you can use them, too. Lastly, she’ll show you how to wrap things up for a flawless final product, and answer a few of the Live audience’s most pressing questions. By the time things draw to a close, you’ll be able to show off your appreciation for this beautiful planet we call home through your gorgeous (not to mention environmentally-friendly) botanical illustrations!  

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• Gathering Inspiration
• Vectorizing Your Image
• Gathering Colors
• Using Your Palette
• Building a Repeating Pattern
• Prepping for Printing
• Q&A
• Final Thoughts