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silentgirl

Bracelet King

3 weeks, 2 days ago by silentgirl

Just curious where everyone else gets inspiration and reference pictures when making patterns.

I mainly use Pinterest to find store all of my potential alpha patterns. I also love using the Spriter's Resource to get video game sprites to make my video game patterns.

Any other good places to find good references and pattern inspiration?

halokiwi

Moderator

3 weeks, 2 days ago by halokiwi

I'd say going through the world with open eyes. I get so often inspired by random things I see somewhere like a pattern on the strap of a bag, a pattern on a piece of toilet paper or a mosaic. Inspiration can come from anywhere.

I also get inspired by the patterns and variations I see on here. I'm always thinking "what would it look like, if I changed this thing?". Checking out the requests in the forum also sometimes helps to get inspired.

I only use google to search for reference images, if I already know what I want to make. But I only search for reference images, if the pattern is something like an animal, a plant, a character... where is important that it looks accurate.

kb_designs

Skiller

1 week, 5 days ago by kb_designs

when I get an idea lets say my biggest design I'm making that will be out on my account soon FYI: it's a pattern with all the faces of the OG gen 1 pokemon I looked up on (Pinterest)
" gen 1 pokemon chart with sprites pdf" nothing had enough detail for me to do everything correctly so then instead on google I just looked up "gen 1 pokemon" then came up this site pokemon database so I went to it and the treally helped

but lets say my album cover patterns well easy I just looked up Lainey Wilson whirlwind album cover images

so yes it's that easy use google or Pinterest or any internet to find what you're looking for

hope this helps 😄

silentgirl

Bracelet King

1 week, 4 days ago by silentgirl

@kb_designs I'd definitely recommend looking on the spriter's resource for pokemon sprites!

silentgirl Bracelet King	3 weeks, 2 days ago by silentgirl Just curious where everyone else gets inspiration and reference pictures when making patterns. I mainly use Pinterest to find store all of my potential alpha patterns. I also love using the Spriter's Resource to get video game sprites to make my video game patterns. Any other good places to find good references and pattern inspiration?
halokiwi Moderator	3 weeks, 2 days ago by halokiwi I'd say going through the world with open eyes. I get so often inspired by random things I see somewhere like a pattern on the strap of a bag, a pattern on a piece of toilet paper or a mosaic. Inspiration can come from anywhere. I also get inspired by the patterns and variations I see on here. I'm always thinking "what would it look like, if I changed this thing?". Checking out the requests in the forum also sometimes helps to get inspired. I only use google to search for reference images, if I already know what I want to make. But I only search for reference images, if the pattern is something like an animal, a plant, a character... where is important that it looks accurate.
kb_designs Skiller	1 week, 5 days ago by kb_designs when I get an idea lets say my biggest design I'm making that will be out on my account soon FYI: it's a pattern with all the faces of the OG gen 1 pokemon I looked up on (Pinterest) " gen 1 pokemon chart with sprites pdf" nothing had enough detail for me to do everything correctly so then instead on google I just looked up "gen 1 pokemon" then came up this site pokemon database so I went to it and the treally helped but lets say my album cover patterns well easy I just looked up Lainey Wilson whirlwind album cover images so yes it's that easy use google or Pinterest or any internet to find what you're looking for hope this helps 😄
silentgirl Bracelet King	1 week, 4 days ago by silentgirl @kb_designs I'd definitely recommend looking on the spriter's resource for pokemon sprites!

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