Lilla Rogers Bootcamp: Assignment 1


Hey! The last couple of weeks have been busy, especially since I've been back at school at the Lilla Rogers Bootcamp. The first assignment was to create a Cuckoo Clock-themed iphone cover. So the first week we did a mini assignment, researching, collecting and drawing motifs you might find on a Cuckoo Clock and then we had two weeks for the main assignment. Took me a little while to get going, I loved the theme but I'm not very used to taking direction, especially on colour palette (purple!), so it was a challenge to stay within the theme and not stray off.
My first design was a kind of Bavarian Folk design which I liked, but once that was done, I loosened up a bit and tried using all the icons I'd created to make a pattern.
I like this one a lot better so I've uploaded it to my Society 6 shop where you can buy it not only as an iphone cover, but among other things, a print, cushion, mug, card, tote bag and indeed, a clock :-)

What's great about this course is that I hadn't made a pattern for a while, I'd been busy with other things and not inspired to make any. But when you're given a brief, you spring into action! I love researching, and I love a project, so it's been great so far. Now I have a new pattern in the shop and in my portfolio :-)

I'm also discovering lovely new artists, two notables are Tara Lilly (how gorgeous is this tote bag she made for the Global Talent Search and how did it not win?!) and Monika Forsberg whose loose, painterly style I am envious of. So much confidence there.

This course makes you strive to be better. Which can only be a good thing.
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