I made a honeybee/honeycomb pattern, because I really like bees and I guess this could be used to bring attention to the epidemic currently involving bess. I mostly used the pen tool and shape tool. Occasionally I used the smoothing tool for those honey drips. To get the fur texture I used the roughen effect. The biggest issue I had with making this pattern was only using a maximum of eight colors.
I really enjoy your patterns a lot! The many colors and the details of the bees make all of the icons come together as a whole and creating the pattern that you were trying to achieve. Your use of the fur texture on the bee is amazing! I also like the little bees in the honeycombs too!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy the solid honeycomb patter, probably even more than your main pattern. The colors you pick work very nicely for your subject matter. I can see looking at all your icons why sticking to a few colors would be difficult, but I think you did a pretty good job of it. I would maybe suggest doing something about the white daisies in the main pattern, I feel like they kind of blend into the background a bit.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of the rendering the bee - realistic, but just enough touches to make it feel like an nicely illustrated figure. No noticeable stripes in the pattern either. I think the honeycomb repetition idea is ingenious as well. The only thing I could suggest to possibly change is to adjust the texture on the corolla of the flower so that it gives the illusion of being wrapped around it.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, it actually makes me mad how good you are at using Illustrator, what the hell. (its awesome though)
ReplyDeleteThe textures on the bees are probably my favorite part of your patterns, or the honeycomb one just because its such a simple idea. Mixing the patterns on the bee sitting on the flower was also a good call, its a good example of when clashing patterns work together.
I might have added a background color to the last pattern just to calm down the bright yellows. A creme color might look nice with that.
You totally killed it. This is awesome. Thank you so much for the super professional presentation, the attention to detail and the way you composed everything. The patterns themselves are really great compliments - they are wonderfully different, and have their own personalities, but they have a really nice connected theme and color palette - which makes it even more fun to pair them together. I think the way you chose to make these complement with scale is great, too. Your portfolio sheet looks very professional - really nicely done. I think the last thing you could do if you wanted to make it even better, is think about how you could take the placed graphic and add something to it to make it even more a stand-alone icon? I know we just did these in class, and that you didn't have a lot of time to think about it, but I think that would really be a great addition!! Really awesome job on this one. I love the rendering and use of tools here - it looks very expertly done.
ReplyDeletethis pattern turned out so well, both of them did actually. I think both of them were equally successful and I think it's really important to note that both of these patterns have minimal icons, but is still super interesting and not repetitive as you look at it.
ReplyDeleteI love bees!!! This came out terrific- the honeycomb pattern is especially beautiful and you really nailed it using the grubs to break up the piece. The bees are cute as well, and naturally work well as a co-pattern. I love it.
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