Author: Steven

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    20230314

    Today I stepped away from the abstract, organic, hand-drawn fill patterns I’ve recently done. I explored a more typical gift-wrapping paper pattern to familiarize myself further with Affinity Designer and because I wanted to try my hand at one. Residents of Berlin might recognize the color scheme of the municipal garbage processing services, the BSR…

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  • Board Game: Cubologic

    By chance, today, I walked past a game store that focuses on children’s toys and picture books. As it happened, they showcased a game in their window and the cover immediately drew my eye; because the art for it was done by Ben Newman. Ben Newman is a British illustrator whom I came across several…

  • 20230303 – Gartenrotschwanz

    This one never clicked. I’m not happy with the result, but it’s also not getting any better. I’ve been moving pixels around for a while now. I’ll let this one go as it is and probably redo it from the start at some point in the future.

  • 20230302

    20230302

    For whatever reason, I found myself playing around with patterns this week. I first did a bunch of geometric stuff, but I was actually more drawn toward hand-drawn organic patterns. Here are the hand-drawn ones I have done so far. You can click on the following below thumbnail to see the overview a bit larger.

  • 20230225 – Zilpzalp

    20230225 – Zilpzalp

    I really only chose to do a painting of this bird because I thought its name was funny. Also, it fits into the sequence. After doing the Starling illustration, I figured I might as well try to cover the seasons of a new year. The Great Tit for January and the Starling kicks off the…

  • 20230224

    20230224

    I felt like doing some type- and graphic design exploration. Some of these I drew, and some were done using existing typefaces.