On my desktop...

Birthday Card Commission!

I had a sale!!!!

 

Something wonderful happened today... our shop had it's first sale!!

Artland Downloaded has been open for about 2 weeks and I have been manically checking the stats, when finally it happened...

Hello beautiful turquoise and red lace pack, you!

I will always remember this is the first item we sold. 

Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!

Hello Bluebird Patterns!

Hand drawn elements add such a cool look to adobe illustrator created graphics.

When I'm at the day job we often don't have time to sit down and draw out graphics by hand, so these sweet elements are a special treat for me to make after hours.

 

Besides, who can resist pink and red??

 I am considering remaking this set in multiple color ways too, I can't wait to use them myself! 

 

Available here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/178549236/hello-bluebird-digital-paper-pattern?ref=listing-shop-header-0

Daily doodle

Hello Bluebird!

I had some fun doodling today during my lunch break and the result is this sweet folks-y clip art pack! I can't WAIT to go back and make patterns out of these babies.

 

 

 

Check it out here!

Here is the original doodle in brown fine sharpie:

 

 

Daily Doodle

More and more and more patterns

I spend all my hours daydreaming abut patterns....I think I'm developing a problem.

 

 

Before I knew it, I had enough for a new Set in the shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/178195317/hand-drawn-florals-digital-paper-pattern?

Oh and hey, it happens to match this clip art set! https://www.etsy.com/listing/177159572/hand-drawn-floral-pack-digital-clip-art?ref=shop_home_active_9

Vine Pattern

I am LOVING Adobe Illustrator CS6's new pattern tools. Building patterns was once a clumsy and frustrating experience in earlier AI versions but is now intuitive, easy and, actually, delightful and addicting as well.

Here is a pattern I doodled yesterday:

After pulling it into illustrator and live tracing it I get this:

Using the pattern tool, I tiled that little blurb together into a huge repeating pattern:

And went crazy with the colors

Check it out in the store now!