What Adobe Software is Best for Pattern Designers?
I have gotten a few messages from readers who want to know what software they should get if they are just starting out in surface pattern design and I wanted to post about it to help other new pattern designers
How I made my next $77.80 on creative market
In my last post about my creative market shop earnings I half jokingly talked about how I made my first $15.40 on Creative Market. Although sadly it's true that my shop didn't pop off after that it is important to
Design Talk: Single Patterns vs Pattern Collections
Disclaimer: This design talk series on my blog is ment to be a discussion. All things in this blog post are my opinions, however, I would love to hear what you think in the comments. Almost every surface pattern designer has
How to Get Stamp-Like Edges on Your Stamp Designs
The blog is offically back and I thought for my first post I would go back to the basics and do a tutorial for you. If you follow me on Instagram you may have noticed one of my recent patterns
My Worst Pattern Designs
I was going through my old designs and I found some designs that I don't think I have ever shown online before because they are some of my least favorite designs. One of these designs is my very first design
How to Make a Simple Snowflake Pattern in Adobe Illustrator
Winter is almost approaching so I thought I would show you how to make a simple festive snowflake pattern. This pattern utilizes Illustrators pattern tool so you don't have to know a lot of the technical stuff to make this
How I made my first $15.40 on Creative Market
When I decided to sell my designs on Creative Market, I would often read about success stories online and while those success stories are really encouraging, they don't always represent reality. I have been on Creative Market for a while
Design Talk: Responding to Criticism
As a designer, criticism is an inevitable nuisance. I remember on my first blog I received a comment about one of my tutorials. At the time I didn't get a lot of comments on my blog so any comment was
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
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
