As a couple weeks have passed I decided to change up the schedule a little bit. It’s been more productive for me to focus on pattern creation, so I now have 7 digital patterns. I plan on creating a few more with traditional methods. I’ve started on thumbnails for potential illustrations now that I have a better idea of what I’m working with & may find myself creating patterns to use in specific illustrations.

These are the six additional patterns I’ve made in the last couple of weeks. I’ve been playing around with patterns that are non-periodic (don’t actually repeat / top left) or repeat more seamlessly (top middle) as well at patterns that have a very obvious system of organization. I’ve also been really interested in patterns that use a scallop form and have been exploring organizing them manually (bottom left & middle) versus using the pattern tool on Illustrator (top right). I kind of like the imperfect lineup of the bottom left and how some white or overlap is visible.
As of right now some of the color and the backgrounds are not final. The background colors especially will be affected by the illustration these are used in- most are transparent right now (I don’t know why the preview for the bees put it on that grey color).