Lots of fun and fails this week while experimenting with texture overlays and colourways. I discovered big textures didn't work with this pattern because there's already a lot going on in it, so I made a completely new autumn palette based on a favourite Crazy Daisies colourway with a more even, close speckle which looked fine. In the process I involved the original outline drawing, with the result I now have two versions: one using outline, and the other without, each with 5 colour separations.
The screenshots above show the progress of final checks on the outline version after I played around with the colours. When I make these checks I save a jpeg to iPad's camera roll, and open it in Procreate next to the original psd artwork. Using the drawing guide grid (seen above in white) I check one square at a time, blown up to fill the iPad screen, looking for any imperfections or mistakes which I then correct in the pattern artwork layers. I put a large pink dot in each square of the jpeg image once it has been checked, so I know where I am. I'm sure most of the corrections I make wouldn't even show in print, but the weird thing about printing is that it can either hide or emphasise even the teeny-weeniest halo or shadow - so it's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to paying for proofs. During the process I noticed a couple of the speckle texture colour layers didn't tile as well as I thought, so amending those is next on the list. Comments are closed.
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Welcome to my illustration and patterns blog.
I illustrate under the pen-name of Binky McKee, McKee being my mother's maiden name. Binky was the name of every single cat my great-grandmother kept - allegedly about 40 of them during her 94 years of life. I changed the website address a few months ago, so some older links on previous posts are broken. If you click one of those and it takes you to a strange page, simply replace the .co.uk after the binkymckee. with weebly.com and it will work again. I hope you enjoy your visit! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I keep lots of scrapbooks and sketchbooks where I develop ideas and design little creatures. Here's a peek inside one ...
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As you may know, I am also known as Heather Eliza Walker.
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April 2024
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This time, take a peek into my ceramic design sketchbook. I actually made some of the mugs, but I kind of prefer the drawings! The plate designs are painted on paper plates, a most liberating process.
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These watercolours are from my pattern sketchbook. I used coloured wax crayons to resist the washes of watercolour, also home-made rubber stamps dipped in bleach then printed on crêpe paper - the bleach takes out the paper dyes.
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A sketchbook I used for mark-making with unusual objects - corks, seed-heads, feathers, home-made rubber stamps, my fingers and lots of flicky things ...
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