Upcoming Event: Exploring Photoshop with Sherry London
Sherry will follow up her September smart objects/pattern preview theme with using Pattern Preview for half drop repeats on Monday October 17th at 11am EST, these talks have been so informative for using Photoshop to create repeats from hand drawn motifs. Sherry’s September topic was information on smart objects and an intro to the pattern preview mode. You can watch the recording here. In Sherry’s August covered “From scanned image to Pattern Motifs”—How to prep non-destructively so you can repurpose motifs easily. This tutorial is a great refresher for using layer masks and smart objects on artwork you are editing. Find the recording with this link. If you have questions you can ask them in the tech talk forum and tag @prancingpixel
Have a topic that you would like discussed in an upcoming presentation? Please tag @prancingpixel on the Tech Talk forum to let her know.
Current Course: Selling Your Work
This October we have been focusing on improving our sales and business. We are sending out 5 lessons with insight into selling your art in different markets. We have had three guest experts speak about freelance, Paula Pappenheim was September 13th Sandra Mejia was October 5th and Misha Zadeh was October 12th. (You can find the links to watch the recordings below) Also with the course we will share many archived tutorials with even more info about successfully selling your art and growing your business!
Recording Posted: Guest Expert Presentation with Misha Zadeh
Misha Zadeh presented October 12th as our Guest Expert on selling art for products independently of agents or studios. Misha has wonderful experience selling her own products through her website and licensing art through companies, especially in the stationary, paper, and home decor markets. Her talk covers her personal path through the design world and how she has pivoted several times to meet the changing needs, as well as tips for designers that want to begin selling and licensing art right now. Here is the recording.
Opportunity: Designer Feature on the Pattern Observer blog!
We love to feature our TDL members on the Pattern Observer blog and our social media accounts. If you are interested in a feature, please fill out every answer on this form. If your submission is accepted we will reach out to you with a publishing date. We are also interested in sharing videos on social media, since they are all the rage these days…so if you want to create a short video for social media of your artwork/portfolio, an animation of your art, or working in your studio, that would be great as well, but not necessary for a feature. A good length is around 6-60 seconds. You can easily make something on your phone these days or in Adobe Express.
Upcoming Event: Illustrator Live with Laura Coyle
For this month’s Illustrator Live Laura showed us tips on work flows between Adobe Fresco and Illustrator on the iPad. Some technical problems with her iPad did occur during the presentation that prevented her from finishing, so we will discuss this topic again on October 25th at 11am EST. In the meantime, play around with using Adobe Fresco for brushes and motifs and move them over to the Illustrator App and any questions you have you can ask them next month or tag Laura in the forum (@laurac) You can watch the recording here for an introduction into using Fresco for brushes. On August 23rd Laura showed us how to properly insert documents from Illustrator to Photoshop and she went over a quick demo on preventing file and setting loss when Illustrator crashes. You can watch the demo here and download her PDF for Illustrator file recovery here. If you have suggestions/questions for future sessions, please add them to this thread. You can ask her questions by tagging @laurac
Recording Posted: Guest Expert Presentation with Sandra Mejia
Sandra Mejia chatted with us this past Wednesday as our Guest Expert on selling art for products independent of agents or studios. Sandra was born in Colombia but now lives in Canada where she illustrates adorable characters, makes 3D toys, and sells patterns and art for greeting cards, fabric, home decor products, gift wrap, puzzles, and more. She is also a top Skillshare teacher, some of her most popular classes are about using Procreate and watercolors to make sellable art. You can watch the recording here.
New Chelsea’s Challenge: Home Sweet Home
For this month’s Chelsea’s Challenge we are focusing on a rising trend of incorporating cozy home-inspired motifs into a print and pattern collection for apparel.
Check out the full post here which includes three inspiring trend boards, trend information from WGSN and downloadable color palettes.
Recording Posted: Chelsea’s LIVE One Hour Challenge
On September 28th Chelsea hosted her Live One Hour Challenge. If you want to follow along with this creative prompt materials needed are just paper and drawing implements of your choosing. You can find the link here.
You can participate in the August One Hour Challenge here; for supplies you need acrylic paint, paper, (preferably thicker stock like watercolor paper) paintbrushes, water, rubbing alcohol, and something flat to drag paint around like a small piece of cardboard or plastic, string, and a paperclip!
Recording Posted: Guest Expert Paula Pappenheim
On September 13th Spanish artist Paula Pappenheim of Pappenpop was our Guest Expert on freelance designing and business development. You can watch our conversation right here. Paula runs her own design studio without any assistants or agents out of Madrid, Spain. She creates art for fashion, rugs, wallpaper, installations, home goods, packaging, and even a Harley Davidson motorcycle! Paula also works with many mediums, like paint, digital, and collage. Be sure to tune in to hear about how she manages all this on her own. Here is her website.
Here are some of the events happening this month. All times are Eastern and all live events will be recorded.
10/17/22- Exploring Photoshop with Sherry London 11am EST
10/20/22- Weekly Art Critique with Mary Jane Mitchell 1pm EST
10/25/22- Illustrator Live with Laura Coyle at 11am EST
10/28/22- TDL Coloring Hour at 1pm EST
Weekly Art Critiques. Please join the TDL community on THURSDAY at 1 PM Eastern for a live art critique. Our art critiques are fun events where Lab members come together to review artwork and ask questions about pattern design, marketing, and sales. A registration link will be emailed the morning of the critique and will also be posted in our Weekly Art Critique forum. Textile Design Lab members can watch past critiques here.
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