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Artwork

KKlahn Designs - Custom Surface Pattern Illustrations and Designs

I like the drama of not seeing this whole piece, but just portions and pieces of the whole. #sketchbookflorals #tuckedflowers

Work in Progress... TBD!!!

I have to redistribute my colors and not have the same colors in the corners. The outcome is giving me something too predictable.

Especially, since all the artwork is contained in the bounding box and has a thin border al

Detail boxes of my last illustration video… sometimes when I show the whole image it’s hard for the viewer to get a concept of the details within the drawing ✍️… I’ve already spotted a couple areas to cleanup a bit more. I s

I like to use the negative shapes produced in my illustrations... I took my tangled circle illustration, brought it into Adobe Illustrator, did an image trace, released the compound paths, scaled up some of the smaller bits 150/300%, did some composi

Exploring the seams of the repeating pattern ... I get a different reticulation depending on how I fill the seams and gaps / account for the overlay. Figuring out how I want it to breath. I had to go back and clean this up... it was pretty gnarly fir

Roses are Red (sometimes), Violets are Blue (irony as violet is literally a color in and of itself), putting definitive labels on things and people is tragic don't you think so too?

Diagonal Objects
Illusion of Half Drop
Checkers

Are they all one a

The half drop pattern repeat unit (I have been told) is very commonly used in surface pattern repeats. It consists of the repeat unit being stacked vertically in a column format which is then offset by half in the next vertical row.

#halfdroprepeat

The cool thing about vector art is that you can program the design into machines...

sewing machines, 3d printers, cnc machines, waterjet cutting machines, fabric cutting machines... machines I don't know about...

you can embroider
you can emboss an

Quad Matching is a combination of book matching and butt matching in which four or more veneers are laid up side by side and end to end.   As with book matching, this can create the most interesting patterns. You do have to mind the seams and the ove

I still think it's pretty cool that I can get over 500 different pattern variations based on how I order and color each section of my illustration. #bagoftricks #layerorder #hierarchy #surfacepatterndesign #digitalillustration #adobeillustrator

Original drawing done in my sketchbook with Pentel Energel liquid gel ink pens metal needle tips .5 & .7, then I brought the image into Procreate to cleanup, restoke, and redraw. I’m going to start dividing the image into sections. abra ka

Subtle and simple…
-19 degree diagonal,
overlapping and intertwined design.

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