More Patterns Emerging

Ruth Weal — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:15:36 +0000

My Adobe (ACE) Course books arrived late last week and I’ve been getting stuck into the basic Illustrator course book. I’m now halfway through and starting to see real improvements in my abilities to play with and manipulate the software. In addition to using Illustrator to adapt my doodles into patterns, I’ve now started creating shapes out of joined paths and using them to create vector image patterns. Here are the first few that I’ve created.

For there is always method in madness and a pattern amidst the seemingly random!

Wealie x

Summer Wallpaper Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Heart Fan Flower Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Sun Star Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Heart fan pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Popping my Illustrator Cherry!

Ruth Weal — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:58:01 +0000

Sorry for the long absence, but with the less than ideal internet connection in the hotel on the Isle of Man and being really tired when I got back, I’ve just not had the will to turn on the laptop until today. Anyway, I’m back to normal now, so thought I’d better update the blog!

Last week I finally stumped up the cash and indulged myself by buying the Adobe CS5 Master Suite. I spent most of today installing the software and getting rid of old versions of Photoshop and Dreamweaver and a selection of other software that does the same thing as the Master Suite. Then there was the fun of ensuring that all my Photoshop presets were copied over and setting up my preferred workspace view. Well once I’d gotten that out of the way it was about 10 pm and I started at 2 pm!

After all that I felt like I needed to have a little play around, so opened up Adobe Illustrator, which I’ve never used before. It took a little getting used to, but with the help of the lovely Ben who’s a bit of an expert in Illustrator I came up with this:

I’ve called her Irene the Illustration and she was created without a graphics tablet I might add. It was good fun and she does look similar to the face doodles that I occasionally draw in notebooks and on scraps of paper. I can thoroughly recommend having a play with Illustrator if you haven’t done so already.

Happy electronic doodling!

Wealie x

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More Patterns Emerging

Popping my Illustrator Cherry!