Trees Pattern Design

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Finding The Trees

To create Trees pattern design I used old tree illustrations as a starting point for these designs. I wanted to be able to colour each of the trees differently, meaning a different layer for each tree. I traced the tree illustrations as paths, so that they are now scalable vectors. Meaning I could produce designs with giant trees, which would be great used in a commercial location.

Arranging The Trees

Initial designs had the trees in a row – as shown top. Which perhaps would have worked as a border, but didn’t look remotely like a real woodland with jumbled trees. I simplified the design by reducing the number of trees, then mixed them up to look more like a woodland – as shown middle.

Updated Designs Adding A Glade

Re-visiting the design I felt the tree trunks were too prominent, I needed a simple device to ground them. I created the path of a glade to roughly contain the seven trees. The glade had to be continuous so I altered the shape of each end to make it flow across the design.

Colouring The Pattern Design

There are a lot of different elements to this design; the seven trees, the glade beneath the trees, and the background to the whole pattern. The early designs use fairly natural colour palettes for the trees. It was when I coloured one of the trees lilac, that later designs really began to look interesting. So using compound and clipping paths I could re-colour each of the elements in turn using any of the 60+ colours in my swatch library.

Creating This Page

With so many colour combinations it would be impractical to show all of them. Here I have chosen a selection of my favourite colour combinations that I feel are interesting. Smaller screen sizes are designed to display less colour examples.

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