Category: Sunday sketch
Sunday sketch #94
In preparation for publishing my own patterns in the next few months, I’ve been working with a graphic designer on a new logo. I don’t have access to Adobe Illustrator anymore (I couldn’t justify the cost), so I played around with some ideas for the designer in PowerPoint (yes, PowerPoint!).
Sometimes the best part of playing is the messing around you can do afterwards….
It’s hard to tell what this started out as (you might see the similarity when I unveil my swanky new logo soon!), but I like where it ended up. With a bit of tweaking, it could probably be made into a quilt pattern using half-rectangle triangles, half-square triangles and some strips.
Sunday sketch #93
I mentioned awhile ago that I was going to try and create more block-based designs. EQ8 has proven a handy tool for that, as I can tile, flip and rotate blocks very quickly and easily (although I’m starting to think that it’s hampering my design process in some ways, but that’s a story for another day).
This week, a design that flows seamlessly between blocks:
The tonal gradation works well here, and also means that I didn’t have to think of a colour palette 🙂
Sunday sketch #92
My hand-drawn sketches are usually limited to one or two colours, and my EQ8 sketches aren’t so different… I can manage maybe three or four colours at most (as long as one of those is white*). I think this is due to a combination of things: I’m not confident enough yet to play with different colours; I find that too many colours distracts me from the design itself; and multiple colours just overload my senses.
But it’s surprising what you can achieve with only a few colours. This week’s sketch uses a whopping four (or three*) and takes advantage of a single element on repeat:
This is the sort of quilt design that’s MUCH easier to do in EQ8 than by hand. I had to recolour it a few times to ensure that none of the adjacent background squares were coloured the same way and that there was a fairly even distribution of each colour.
I love the idea of a quilt design based on a single motif, with the variation coming from colour rather than design. I’m going to try and design more of these.
In the meantime, this design could be made into a quilt using rectangles, half-square triangles and squares. Because it’s block-based, it’d be fairly easy to put together.
* yes, I know white isn’t a colour 🙂
