"Warm Flowers" - Color Throwdown 362 - Digital Repeating Floral Pattern

Today's pattern was made for Color Throwdown's colour palette challenge, but once again I was a day late to submit it to the link list on their website. Either way, I think it's worth posting here anyway. 

I took the inspiration quite literally, as I'd been wanting to draw some more floral patterns lately. This one has orange roses and red pansies, as well as random sprigs of mystery leaves and white dots. 

"Warm Flowers", October 2015

"Warm Flowers Tiling", October 2015

I don't mind how this came out, even though I'm not a fan of brown. This brown is pretty chocolatey, so it's not so bad. It's a pretty warm colour palette overall. This week's colour palette is a lot more pastel and beige, so I'm not sure if I'm going to try something with it. I'll see if I can make it work.

Watercolour Butterflies

These butterfly designs were the first series of images I made for my Etsy shop. They were coloured with watercolour pencils and altered digitally. There are 14 pages in total and the previews below show the assortment of colours.

If you're interested in purchasing these printable papers, you can find them at my Etsy shop, TheSixthFloorStudio, which will go live shortly.

I'm rather pleased with how this pattern turned out. Hopefully there will be more traditional media papers in the future.

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The Lotus

Here's another preview of a printable paper I've created. This one features a lotus flower and some happy little squiggles.

This is a snippet of the full A4 sized sheet. I'll be adding a link to the Etsy shop when I've set it up.

Also, apparently I didn't have the option to schedule posts set correctly, which explains why I'm uploading two posts today. For some reason I really want to have four posts per month at least.

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Autumn Forest

After some amount of fiddling, I finally have an art space set up. Most importantly, I have the scanner in my room where I can use it at any time without bothering anyone else in the house. It's nice to be able to upload a design and play with it digitally as soon as I'm inspired. 

Today, I've been playing with some tree doodles to make this tiling pattern. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to arrange my scrapbook paper packs in my Etsy shop, but this will definitely be one of them. This image is reduced quality to stop people from saving and printing this version without paying for it. I might offer some free printable images after I have the shop set up.

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A New Year for Blogging

Well, it's already January and I've been trying to get this whole blogging thing underway for a while. I'd really like to showcase some of my art and maybe provide inspiration and entertainment to others, like the many talented bloggers who have inspired and entertained me. I just haven't quite been able to get over the scary hurdle of actually starting. I can't decide what I want my blog to be like. Should it be highly professional and only geared towards salable products in my Etsy shop? Should it be devoted to finished pieces of original art? Or should it include experiments, failures, mistakes, tutorials, tidbits about life?

To be honest, I don't really know how this blog will turn out. Maybe it will stick this time, and I'll actually get into the habit of posting regularly. I've been drawing at least a page per day in my sketchbook since September 2013, which is itself an achievement for me. I think the goal now is to stop worrying about what this creature will be. It is what it is. If I don't stop worrying about achieving perfection, I'll never get it off the ground at all. I want to share with others. I want to show people things that they find beautiful or amusing or interesting. That is my plan for this, ultimately.

2014 is the year to make that happen. I hope you will be entertained. Happy New Year, everybody.

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