Top 5 Free Mockups for Surface Pattern Designers (Part 2)
I wrote a previous post about my favorite free mockups for surface pattern designers, but I realized quite recently that my list was not complete. You cannot have a good list of free mockups for pattern design without including wrapping
My Top 4 Favorite Adobe Capture Features
I recently discovered the amazingness that is Adobe Capture so I wanted to share it with you. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Adobe Capture, Adobe Capture is an app on your phone that allows you to take
How to Save Your Artwork for Older Adobe Illustrator Models
A few months ago, I learned the hard way the importance of saving your artwork for older Illustrator models when I sold my first pattern and got an email asking if I could make the design file available for a
New Products in the Shop!
I am starting to get swamped by homework for grad school and haven't had time to come up with and develop a new blog post this week so I thought I would shamelessly self-promote my shop so I don't add
Free Vector Pattern: Planets
For today's Freebie Friday, I thought I would do something a little different. For a short time being, I am going to offer one pattern that is available in my creative market shop for free. It is only going to
How to Curve a Picture Around a Circle in Adobe Illustrator
Occasionally, when you are designing something you might want to curve your design on a sphere to give it more dimension. For example, if you are creating any sort of ball you can create the pattern of the ball and
Adobe Illustrator 101: Creating Faux Hand-Drawn Strokes in Adobe Illustrator
Longtime readers might know that I love to do tutorials on how to add small hand-drawn elements to your designs. This tutorial is something simple you can do to add those hand-drawn elements to your designs and is the perfect
How to Make Quick Variations of Similar Design Elements in Adobe Illustrator
When you make patterns, you often may want to fill the pattern with small filler elements that repeat all over the pattern. Instead of drawing out different variations of that filler pattern, it's a lot easier to make one version
