This is a course about creating Arts and Crafts patterns -Â like the patterns by William Morris and his fellow designers of the Arts and Crafts Movement during the last decades of the 19th century.
As the Arts and Crafts style include many different pattern types I have created a series of courses about this topic. In each part of the series you will learn how to create Arts and Crafts styled patterns in a specific category:
Trailing, Serpentine, Scrolled and Paired - and at the same time learn more about advanced pattern design principles and techniques.
This is the second course of the series and about the Serpentine Arts and Crafts category - which is characterized by a meandering structure and highly stylized motifs.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN CLASS:
- The influences behind the Serpentine pattern category
- The characteristics of Serpentine patterns; structure and direction, layers, pattern composition, repetition, repeat layout, typical motifs and color schemes
- My step-by-step process for creating a Serpentine Arts and Crafts pattern - from planning to creating the pattern swatch and recoloring
- Techniques and tools for creating and coloring your motifsÂ
- How to create two types of Serpentine patterns - with a diagonal and a vertical flow
- How to create a foreground and background layer of motifs
- How to draw different typical Serpentine branches, flowers, leaves and background motifs
- How to effectively create a classic "picotage" (dotted) background/pattern
As always we will do some drawing exercises to practice and explore your pattern motifs.
You will also get a bit of history of course, but in the first part of the series about the Trailing category you can learn more about the history of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the style and William Morris. Watch the Trailing Arts and Crafts patterns course here >>
At the end of this course you will have the skills, techniques and inspiration you need to create a complex and layered Arts and Crafts inspired pattern with a meandering structure and stylized motifs.
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU WHO:
- Love historic styles and especially the layers complex patterns of the Arts and Crafts style
- Want to level up your pattern design technique, improve your drawing skills and develop your personal design style.
REQUIRED SKILLS
This is an intermediate to advanced course, so in order to follow along you need to have basic knowledge of how to manually create patterns in Adobe Illustrator as this is the program we will use in class.
You can absolutely follow along with the steps if you prefer to use Adobe Photoshop or drawing apps for your tablet, but in class I only teach and show how to create your pattern using Illustrator.
CLASS RESOURCES AND EXTENDED COACHING
With this class you also get a workbook as an extra resource and help to guide you when you plan out and create your Serpentine pattern. You'll find the workbook under the Projects & Resources tab, or you can get it here >>
If you want some more guidance and support on how to create your own Serpentine Arts and Crafts pattern design I have created this workshop as an extra resource alongside this course to help you throughout the process.
During 3 weeks you will receive 10 emails, each one with encouraging and actionable steps and extra resources that will help you move forward in the design process.
After 3 weeks and completing the workshop steps you will have your first compelling and layered pattern in the Serpentine Arts and Crafts style!
- To include in your portfolio, or print on fabric, wallpaper, gift wrap or any other product you want to make.
Sign up below to join the workshop and receive your welcome and preparation email + your extended workshop workbook today!
Join my Serpentine Arts and Crafts email workshop here >>
With the workshop you also get an extended workbook!
See you in class!
/Bärbel
