June's Finished Patterns
June was a whirlwind for me!
As I mentioned in my last article, I participated in two design challenges in June! I was able to create 9 out of the 10 pattern prompts from The Pattern Challenge By Mel on Instagram (hosted by Melanie Johnsson - please go check out her colorful patterns) and I really appreciated that there were only 10 prompts this time (sometimes the challenge asks for a prompt for each day of the month).
I shared the first four of my patterns in my last newsletter so of course I need to share the rest! Here are my patterns for Cake Party, Flower Power, Play Time, Rockpools and Stargazer.
I’m pretty happy with these patterns! The only thing I would do differently is really stick to a very specific color palette for all of them. I *kind of* did but as you can see with a few of the designs, they did not all match each other and even though it doesn’t really matter in the long run, I don’t love my Instagram feed aesthetics now. 😅
I’m looking forward to fleshing some of these patterns more to create entire collections.
Animations
I also participated the Summer in Motion 2024 animation challenge on Instagram in June. This challenge involved learning how to make animations with Adobe Express. I have been wanting to learn how to do animations for some time so this was perfect for me!
I was able to take my own illustrations and animate them to make some fun graphics. I think I will just share them one at a time for a few newsletters, so that things don’t get too chaotic here.
Here is my animation for “Summer Splash.” I took some pool floats I had illustrated last summer and made a floating pool animation. I could watch those floats bob around all day!
Thank you to all of you who followed along and supported me while I shared my patterns and animations in June! It truly makes it so much more fun when I feel you guys are excited for the next prompt.
Please do share if you would like to see any of these patterns made into a collection!
If you are an art director and if you think one of these designs might work for one of your projects, please message me!
You can also see many of my designs at www.cloudeightdesign.com or contact me for my full Surface Pattern Design Portfolio.
They are so sweet, well done.