Fire vs. Water

Here are two contrasting repeat tiles I made for my Skillshare classs. I drew the images with a stylus, then touched them up in illustrator to make the repeated forms and add values.

Pollen and circles

Here's another pattern doodle I made. The knobby shapes one reminds me of pollen.

Contrasts

I'm taking another Skillshare class on pattern design. The first exercise was to work with contrasting ideas.  Here's a page from my sketchbook.

This particular class is free, and self-paced. You can join here: Introduction to Surface Design: Creating and Mixing Patterns