Upcoming Event: Illustrator A Fresh Look with Laura Coyle 
Illustrator: A Fresh Look is a 5-week course that starts March 28th. The course is for new or occasional Adobe Illustrator users, Photoshop users, and anyone who wants a refreshed perspective to better understand how Illustrator works from the ground up, and how it functions alongside the other apps in the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem. We’ll combine self-paced learning with a weekly live workshop. When you sign up for the course you will get a 40-page Illustrated PDF Course Guide, short video tutorials will be available every Monday to give you a head start for the week, and every Wednesday I present a 2-hour zoom workshop with exercises, concepts, and Q&A – recordings are posted afterwards, so you can always watch and review. You can read about Laura’s five new favorite Illustrator features for 2022 on the Pattern Observer blog right here and you can sign up for the course right here!
Upcoming Event: Chelsea’s LIVE One Hour Challenge
Chelsea’s next LIVE one hour challenge will be April 5th at 1pm EST.
If you want to participate in the February One Hour Challenge the supplies you will need are paper and any drawing medium, although she suggested paint would be particularly fun for this challenge! Watch the recording here.
Recording Posted: Exploring Photoshop with Sherry London 
In March 21st’s Exploring Photoshop class Sherry discussed creating a website on the Adobe Creative Cloud Portfolio platform, which tied in nicely with our month of considering applying to studios and agencies. You can watch the recording here.
In February Sherry went over the best practices to fix missing pixels from capture and scans. She also included some helpful files you can download for Photoshop to quickly fix your scans. Watch it here. If you have questions you can ask them in the tech talk forum and tag @prancingpixel
Recording Posted: Illustrator Live with Laura Coyle
Laura’s March Illustrator Live Event was the 22nd. She gave us tips for using Illustrator and InDesign to organize and prepare your files for an exportable, linkable PDF portfolio so you can easily apply to studios and job offerings. Find the recording here.
Laura’s February Illustrator Live event was the 22nd here is the recording. She discussed creating with Live Paint in Illustrator. There are several useful links below the chat for extended help with this complex Illustrator tool.
If you have suggestions/questions for future sessions, please add them to this thread. You can ask her questions by tagging @laurac
New Repeat Feat Released
Every month a Lab member’s pattern will be chosen to demonstrate different repeat techniques. Our March Repeat Feat features artwork by Andrea Kauffmann.
March will be Applying to Print Studios and Agencies Month
On March 15th we heard from our final print studio of the month Kukukachu, with founder Alana Gunn. Alana has some ebooks for aspiring surface designers available on her website. She is graciously offering us a 50% discount on them! You can use offer code PATTERNOBSERVER
These are links to the recordings of the past presentations from Din + Bloom and Periscope Art Agency We hope you listen to each one, as they all give excellent advice for aspiring pattern designers, even if you are not interested in freelancing for a studio or being hired by an agent.
Chelsea’s Challenge: Bed & Bath
For this month’s Chelsea’s Challenge we are going to be designing a pattern collection for bed and bath products for the A/W 23/24 season. Laura Olivia has a great video training on designing for bedding that you can check out here. There are 3 trend directions to choose from, all with very different vibes and curated from the WGSN trend reports.
Recording Posted : Community Conversations with Esther Jongste
New Tutorial: Designing Patterns with 3D Materials
This tutorial explains how to make a pattern in Photoshop using 3D materials, for this example Chelsea used Lego Dots but for more ideas check out the link to Chelsea’s pinterest board on 3D patterns. She also included lots of helpful links for additional learning. FUN!!!!
If you ever have an idea for a tutorial that you want covered feel free to email Chelsea at [email protected]!
Here are some of the events happening this month. All times are Eastern and all live events will be recorded.
3/28/22- Illustrator A Fresh Look Course material released
3/30/22- Illustrator A Fresh Look Live presentation with with Laura Coyle at 1-3 pm EST
3/31/22- Art Critique with Melissa Schulz at 1pm
4/1/22- Coloring Hour 1pm
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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