Intro To Surface Pattern Design - Digitise your Patterns

Hello and welcome! My name is Nancy I'm a stylist and creative soul living in north east England. I champion real living and I'm also passionate about authenticity and beauty in the everyday.I love teaching and I regularly organise creative workshops and talks based around styling and interiors. I also run a very special event called the “Grounded Creatives Meet Up” where I create a space for creatives in all fields to network and learn from each other. I hope to see you at an event soon!

Nancy Straughan

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This workshop is designed to give you all the technical and creative skills you need to start designing patterns on your computer, plus it will inspire and motivate you to design more often and maybe even start a career in pattern design. 
Bottomless teas and coffees will be provided to keep you energised!
 
What You Will Learn
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Learn how to gather inspiration and create mood boards
Create custom colour palettes
Learn best practices for sketching and scanning Learn how to make artwork from your sketches, your photographs and edit these within Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator
How to create your own repeat pattern in Adobe Photoshop
Learn where and how to transform your patterns into fabric, wallpaper, homeware, stationery and many more products
 
What to Bring
Nancy will provide you with a printed booklet containing all the information covered in the class. If you'd like to it's a good idea to bring your laptop so you can follow along with each step.  
If you have one please bring a laptop with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator installed, you can download free trials of these online. If you don't have these simply bring a notebook and jot down the information from the class to use later. 
Please note to take part in this class it is preferable (but not essential) to have already scanned in some of your drawings onto your laptop. If you can't do this you can just watch each step and make notes instead!
 
Testimonials
“Thank you soooo much for the workshop on Saturday Nancy ! The girls LOVE it and we had a great time! I will definitely be contacting you again if the situation arises!” - Emily. R ”Fab workshop with Nancy- beautiful materials and helpful ideas- to help us with a creative masterpiece!! We can’t wait to show you the finished product THANK YOU!!” - Rachel. M ”Nancy was brilliant, and her class totally surpassed all expectations. We want to do it all again! It was definitely the best activity I’ve ever done, can’t recommend highly enough! - Sara. H”
 
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