patterndesign

If you are a surface pattern designer who is wanting to get to the next level and move away from being a hobbyist to a successful designer who is selling their designs consistently with a regular income then you need to allocate time for business tasks.

In this podcast episode, we talk about the importance of treating your design business as a business and I also share a few tips to help make that process easier.

A really important step in the design process is the design development phase.

This is the phase where you're going to explore and develop lots of different potential ideas that you can use within your pattern designs. 

In this episode, I give you some tips and talk about why it's so important.

Mood boards are such a great way to visually communicate your ideas and allow you to collate all of your inspiration in one place before you begin designing.

In this episode, I talk about what you should include on your mood board and why you should create one.

If you're looking for copyright free images, these are the sites mentioned:

https://unsplash.com/

https://www.pexels.com/

https://pixabay.com/

Have you ever sat down to start being creative and you've drawn a complete blank and you don't know where to start?

Finding inspiration is an important step in the design process as it will help you formulate your ideas and give yourself a direction to start developing your ideas from. 

Are you unsure whether you should use Photoshop or Illustrator for your pattern designs?

In today's episode, we're going to take talk about the pros and cons of each program. 

If you're wanting to start creating pattern designs but are stuck thinking you can't get started because your drawing skills aren't good enough then this podcast is for you.

We talk about other options for creating patterns as well as some exercises that will see you improve your drawing skills in no time.