There were lots of lovely, bright entries to last week’s Fishing Lure themed contest on Spoonflower. I noticed that 2 of the designs I voted for made the top 10 this week! This is one of them; 'Alluring Lure' by Olivia Henry. I love the colours and watercolour style of the flies…
You can see all the designs in the top 10 here: http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/254 My entry came 71st (with 89 votes) out of 159 entries. Thank you to everyone who voted! :)
This week’s contest has a Rhinoceroses theme. I’ve drawn rhinos before at Colchester zoo and have several photos to use as reference, so was looking forward to creating a pattern design for this contest. Last week I took a long time drawing the fishing flies and wasn't entirely satisfied with the end design, but work on the rhinos seemed to flow much better (and quicker) and I am happier with the finished repeat pattern!
I started by sketching rhinos and a few ideas of geometric, tribal inspired patterns. Most of my designs have quite light backgrounds so I wanted to try a dark background for this one and decided on using a dark grey. Often I just colour on the computer but the coloured pencils were useful in choosing a colour palette - it’s a really quick and easy way to try different colour combinations, just by holding different pencils. I love how these colours look together too!
I started by sketching rhinos and a few ideas of geometric, tribal inspired patterns. Most of my designs have quite light backgrounds so I wanted to try a dark background for this one and decided on using a dark grey. Often I just colour on the computer but the coloured pencils were useful in choosing a colour palette - it’s a really quick and easy way to try different colour combinations, just by holding different pencils. I love how these colours look together too!
Here’s the finished repeat pattern…
You can see all the other rhinoceros designs here, and vote for your favourites too! http://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=257
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