Surface Pattern Design: Five Amateur Mistakes (and how to fix them) | Elizabeth Silver

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In this video, you’ll learn five amateur surface pattern design mistakes and suggestions on how to fix them!
Here are the reasons that I cover in the video:
▪️ Poorly executed motifs
▪️ No variation in motifs
▪️ Sad lettering or Microsoft fonts
▪️ Textured art on flat grounds
▪️ Heavy use of the shape tool
If you're new to the world of surface pattern design, you may be making some really common design choices that ultimately make your surface design look amateur. We've all been there, I promise. Check out this video to ensure that you’re not making these design mistakes (and see some of my cringey mistakes from the archives) and if you are, how to fix them!
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10 июл 2024

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@janetmannsdesign 3 года назад

I'm a developing surface pattern designer, and want to say thank you for sharing your insight.

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Glad you found it helpful!

@britneym5790 4 года назад

I love how brutally honest you are. The truth hurts sometimes, but I feel like you have taught me so much. Thank you. Also, great tip on tracing over an image to make it not look so stiff. I’m definitely downloading that guide you have linked 👍

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

So glad it helped...hahah I have def been described as brutally honest before and I'll go ahead and take it as a compliment 😂

@goudvisbloem 3 года назад

Made me realise I'm ready, thanks for giving me that push! ❤️

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Yay! You got this!

@aimeec6049 3 года назад

I love this!☺️ Thank you for giving advice *and* including examples to really back up your arguments!

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Digging deep in the archives- visuals are so important!

@sorethumbstudio 2 года назад

OMG Curlz what a throw back haha! thanks so much for the tips! :) Definitely downloading your guide!!

@camilajuncos_arte 2 года назад

Excellent video!!!! You clarified one of my biggest doubts with the flat backgrounds and my watercolor motifs, I'm happy !! Thank you very much Elizabeth!

@ElizabethSilver 2 года назад

ooh so glad it was helpful!!

@mondojoey 2 года назад

I love your frogs lol.

@LarnieRadek 3 года назад

These were some really great tips, thank you for your insight! 💕

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

You are so welcome!

@meowyimeow 3 года назад

The side by side comparisons were really helpful, thanks!

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Glad to hear! Always better to see it right?

@Pyxelles 3 года назад

Wow very helpful video, thanks so much. I actually prefer honest videos like this, that's how we learn. Looking forward to more videos. I've subbed!

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Yay, glad you found it helpful!

@juaningsih6761 3 года назад

Thank you so much, Elizabeth!

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

You are so welcome!🙌

@tlboyce90 2 года назад

Such a great video thank you! I am having a lot of these issues, and knew there were issues, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it so I didn't know how to fix them. This has been incredibly helpful thank you!!

@ElizabethSilver 2 года назад

ooh sop glad I helped you figure it out! I need to make a part two to this video!!

@cassandraadebolu2657 3 года назад

Thank you so much Elizabeth xx

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

you're very welcome!

@aliwilkinsondesigns 4 года назад

Really glad I watched this.THanks

@ElizabethSilver 4 года назад

Me too, hope it helped!

@sahilkundu1986 2 года назад

Thanks this helped a lot ❤️

@deedunn9811 Год назад

Thank you for such an informative video! I am new to the topic of surface design - about 30 minutes ago, actually - and I found this very interesting both in terms of mistakes and possibilities! Thanks again.

@ElizabethSilver Год назад

Welcome to the wonderful world of SPD!

@RZanja 3 года назад

This is what I NEED. Thankyou!!!!!!!!

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Yay! You are welcome!

@lw8356 3 года назад

Thank you! These are great tips! :)

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

🙌🙌 Any time!

@audreybocchini900 3 года назад

This was great! Thanks so much!!

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

You're very welcome!

@sherylpiche9878 2 года назад

Thank you so much. I am just getting started and this is very helpful.

@ElizabethSilver 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@shellyjoanne1835 3 года назад

Love your honesty! I've looked at so many surface pattern workshops nothing as straight forward as your demonstration. Thank you so much...plus you have so much information

@shellyjoanne1835 3 года назад

Definatly the best I've heard

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Aww thanks so much, I'd love if you shared my videos with a Surface Pattern friend!

@shellyjoanne1835 3 года назад

@@ElizabethSilver of course

@mitamarcus1916 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! Very helpful indeed :)

@danielalorkovic8938 2 месяца назад

Yikes! I cringed whilest watching this as I have been doing some of these things. Thank you Elizabeth! Your insights are always so helpful 🙂

@ElizabethSilver 2 месяца назад

We were all beginners once, don't worry about it! Hopefully this helps you improve a bit for your next design :)

@ddpvk6746 Год назад

omg thank you! please make more videos like this, there were some little things i didn't even think about before, like the texture thing for example, now i totally see it, make more of these videos im dying to learn here, i am fairly new to surface pattern design (normally i do illustration and also web design) and these are really helpful tips

@ElizabethSilver Год назад

be sure to check out the second video...because you're not the only one who wanted more: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AyWutrktur0.html cheers!

@ddpvk6746 Год назад

@@ElizabethSilver i did! Thank you!

@needleandhomestead Год назад

I feel like some of this is in personal taste. I actually loved the “loose” floral sample you showed that was one of your earlier pieces. It felt organic and is colors I love.

@ElizabethSilver Год назад

You're right, at the end of the day all art is subjective so while these tips are based on some common feedback I hear and the differences I can see between the work of new designers and what's in stores, it definitely is a matter of taste.

@alyciajanelle Год назад

This is great! I’m working on my first collection and have no clue what I’m doing. 😆 But I definitely need to add background textures behind my hand painted motifs. Hope I can make a good texture that repeats well.

@ElizabethSilver Год назад

So glad this helped you out!

@carmenulbrich7843 2 года назад

thank you for this video :)

@ElizabethSilver 2 года назад

You're so welcome!

@ArtsyLadyCrafter 2 месяца назад

I like your suggestion to scan in stiff/static work, print out at 50% opacity and draw over it to give it life.

@Castleloverjapan 2 года назад

Thanks for the information! I found you after listening to the good designer podcast.

@ElizabethSilver 2 года назад

Yay, thanks for checking me out, glad you found this helpful!

@megane5728 2 года назад

Im interested in surface pattern designs. I found this video helpful and interesting

@ElizabethSilver 2 года назад

yay, so glad!

@aneskamachado 3 года назад

Hi! I loved this content! Very educational and straight forward. If I could make one suggestion maybe it would be to perhaps include a few clips of the drawing process, so the video gets a bit more dynamic and less like a presentation. But then again, is just a suggestion. I really appreciate the time you put on doing this, cause it was very informative and it helps me building a more critic vision of my own art

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Great suggestion, I make a lot of my videos (especially the older ones) at night because COVID had my kids running around my house all day, so after bedtime the lighting for filming was not on my side :)

@aimiefortier6478 4 года назад

Literally the best video on explaining surface design pattern!! For texture patterns, do you recommend making FX with illustrator or you make it with paint?

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

Thank you so much! So glad you found this helpful! I do both honestly...depends on the type of look I'm going for. I have a lot of textured brushes and vector distress patterns I've puchased or created over the years for illustrator or I make bitmap patterns in PS and bring them into AI, or these days I sometimes use exported raster texture files as well.

@mahmoudzaefi2958 Год назад

Thanks alot :)

@ElizabethSilver Год назад

You're welcome! 🙌

@span24 4 года назад

Number 4!! This has been a big hurdle for me as an artist that works with watercolour and gouache. I've had to develop methods for making the background work. I sometimes us a watercolour swatch that I've made seamless, and change it's colour. Or multiply the background with a scanned texture. Fun times!! Great vid.

@ElizabethSilver 4 года назад

It is tricky to make it work, I know! But that beautiful handpainted work is worth the extra effort :)

@LarnieRadek 3 года назад

Hi there, this is my problem at the moment too! What program do you use to make your repeat watercolour texture backgrounds?

@shannaandersonzongo8128 10 месяцев назад

This is good advice and I love that you provided examples. I had to laugh a little at the dandelion example though because I actually quite like the first one. That’s not to say the second pattern wasn’t stronger in many ways, just thought I’d let you know I think the first one is cute too.

@ElizabethSilver 10 месяцев назад

I hear ya, at the end of the day art is totally subjective so there's always going to be a few people who prefer my "Don't's" over my "Do's" and that's okay! Thanks for your input!

@Annushka_at48 2 года назад

Very helpful tips, thank you! Can you recommend any online community where I can get a critique on my surface patterns?

@giannabella9183 2 года назад

I'm so happy to hear you be honest about whether someone should be able to draw. Because those who are selling courses Big Time keep telling potential students that they don't need to be able to draw!! And they're just trying to sell their classes and it really annoys. As someone who's been an artist all her life I kind of resent all those people going into design who are not artists. And the big sellers of classes in surface pattern design are making buco bucks off every man and his sister. 🤣😃🙂 (But not from me!)

@ElizabethSilver 2 года назад

😆 I feel your pain...I do know a few abstract artists who are doing well, but 98% of the time, we need to draw!

@sewlouisa 7 месяцев назад

It’s odd to me why someone would want design surface patterns if they can’t draw or not willing to learn.

@ArtsyLadyCrafter Год назад

Thank you for your help! I thought your froggies pattern was very cute for a toddler's room. 😌 I would have made the lily pads more round though. Thanks for the examples too.

@ElizabethSilver Год назад

You are so welcome!

@ArtsyLadyCrafter 2 месяца назад

@@ElizabethSilver Do you have a frog pattern that is more professional to you that I could view so I can compare? I see now that your lily pads are heart-shaped. You probably planned that. 😊

@rhondablackburn6841 День назад

So are these designs drawn by hand or do you do digital? Or what? Great info, btw! 😊

@user-su8tp6by7k 3 года назад

I'm interested in creating pattern with abstract design/art work... rather than concrete motifs. You say it's difficult to make a career out of that. I wonder why...Is it because they don't sell?

@ElizabethSilver 3 года назад

I really should say I just don't have as much experience with that. Abstracts can be good for home decor and for apparel but aren't used as much in other product categories.

@mondojoey 2 года назад

What about an intentionally crude drawing for like kids? Like, how would you make your frog different? Personally, i thought he was cute and interesting, but amateur. But i think that added to the interesting effect. If be curious how you would update him without losing the childlike nature. Does that make sense? Maybe I'm the only one who liked him, but i really liked him lol

@ElizabethSilver 2 года назад

Aww thanks, yea obviously art will always be a matter of opinion so it makes it difficult to give definitive examples, and I do know that occasionally children's drawings have been made into surface patterns- I can think of two commercial examples of this concept.

@wendymcabee1322 2 года назад

I agree with you JoAnna, I really liked the playful child like drawing of the frogs, also. I also preferred the first Dandelion picture as it was very whimsical looking. And I preferred the first sunglasses picture, it had more yellow which brightened it up a bit, whereas the second one had too much black in it. Like Elizabeth said art is a matter of opinion. But, if I am in the minority of liking the pictures that are "not good" then I might not quite be ready to do surface pattern design!

@jodib4445 7 месяцев назад

With the growth of AI I worry that artists will not be valued. Yes so far the AI designs suck, but they'll get it right and it kind of takes all the joy out of creating...just the tip of the iceberg....yes, it may even lead to the end of the world. Self driving cars that don't really care about safety because they are not living sentient beings with souls.. scary... I pray for humanity and all creatures!

@ElizabethSilver 3 месяца назад

AI is definitely a major concern for artists, thanks for weighing in!