Pattern Bootcamp 2018

Have you ever been stuck for an idea or had no idea what to draw.  Well let me help you.  For 6 weeks we’re going to build our portfolios together using a method I use to generate ideas.

If you're an aspiring Illustrator or Surface Pattern Designer or an established artist, this course will help give you the tools to further developer your sources of inspiration to create unique and interesting work that sell.

See this as a fun creative challenge to build your own disciplined practice of building a body of work that is uniquely yours. 

Competition:

You can do this bootcamp at any time.  But, I'll be giving away 1 year free premium membership to 1 person who has completed 6 weeks of mini collections and uploaded them to the Projects Gallery by the due date (see below).

Dates:

24th April 2018 - Enrolment Opens

1st May 2018 - Pattern Bootcamp begins

12 June 2018 - Pattern Bootcamp ends

19th June 2018 - Last day to upload to the project gallery

26th June 2018 - Winner announced

Resources:

• Collection Presentation Template (in the "Your Project" attached files section)
• Shannon McNab’s class "How to create strong Coordinate Patterns"
• Occassions Prompts (in the "Your Project" attached files section)
• Categories Prompts (in the "Your Project" attached files section)

Pattern Courses

If you've not created patterns before, I recommend doing my one of my other pattern design courses before completing this bootcamp:

• Surface Design Fundamentals
• Create a Half Drop Repeat Pattern in Photoshop using Smart Objects
• Create a Repeating Pattern in Illustrator using Texture

Credits:

Music: Ben Sound

• 1 - introduction
• 2 - Idea generation
• 3 - Prompt Cards
• 4 - Research
• 5 - Weekly Project
• 6 - Coordinates
• 7 - Final