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

  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

  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

  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

  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

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