I’ve been doing lots of doodling on my iPad and experimenting with transferring those doodles into Illustrator. Once in Illustrator I use the Image Trace and Expand to turn it into a vector. This seems to work well and I’m sure over time I will work out how to reduce the number of anchor points as I have to work at a large zoom level to adjust my shapes, which is often. If you do this often and have any tips to share I would love your help.
I do love drawing on the iPad with a stylus and as much as love my Wacom tablet, I find it is quite an unnatural way to work because you can’t follow your hand as you draw. Does that even make sense?
So I took my little rain cloud and started thinking about how I could turn it into a pattern. I haven’t got it repeating yet but this is what I’ve done so far. What do you think?
It was raining yesterday (it’s been a while) and you already know my weather obsession so I thought rain clouds might be fun. When I’ve got a final pattern I’ll definitely share it with you.
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