How to Design a Fabric Collection: A Surface Pattern Design Case Study | Elizabeth Silver

[@janicemiller2867]

Loved watching your process. Please do continue with a video on working through with a client. There's definitely an art to hearing and interpreting a client's needs.

[@ElizabethSilver]

I did just release a blog post about client briefs that may be helpful (www.elizabethsilver.com/blog), but I'll try to brainstorm around a video as well

[@MsDjbryant]

Very helpful and very interesting. Of all of the youtubes on surface patterns I have to say yours has been the most extensive and thorough. I'll keep watching and thank you.

[@ElizabethSilver]

Thank you so much Diana, glad these videos are helping!

[@MsDjbryant]

@@ElizabethSilver You are welcome. Keep them coming. I am learning by repetition so I will watch over more than once! I'm retired and starting the game late. I'm a painter by trade and have been doing pours that I think would make great fabric design, which also led me to look closely at surface pattern design.

[@CP-gq5fw]

Thanks Elizabeth for showing us your beautiful design process. It’s inspiring and insightful!❤

[@ElizabethSilver]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JadeMicheleGriffin]

There are so many decisions to make and changes to do over. So much to learn.

[@ElizabethSilver]

It's true, but it gets to be second nature, and get's to be quicker every time, and that's a wonderful thing!

[@wingyanman6808]

I bumped into your page and I love it! Very inspiring but at the same time you are super commercial! And great that you are so confident despite the demanding needs of a customer or an art director! Looking forward to see your next one!

[@ElizabethSilver]

Thanks for joining!

[@annstudioart]

Your discussion about working with an art director is so valuable! Thank you

[@ElizabethSilver]

So glad this helped you out!

[@marjoriehill4562]

Thanks for the peek behind the scenes, Elizabeth!

[@KathBorup]

Beautiful work. So cool seeing your process!

[@christina413]

Hi! This is The first video I seen of your channel. 😁I am so glad to have found your vids and that you are sharing your work with us. I find your style of art beautiful and your appreciate how detailed you explained the editing process. I just subscribed and can’t wait to see your playlist and learn more of your artwork. 🥰

[@ElizabethSilver]

Welcome, so glad you're here! Thanks for the kind words on my work!

[@paulettereid9894]

Thanks for this great video Elizabeth, I'm now a subscriber and can't wait to watch ALL your videos. You are awesome!

[@ElizabethSilver]

Thanks for subbing! So happy to have you here!

[@acheteur67]

I love your videos, they're so helpful! Would love to see the brief video. Also, would love to see how you create the motifs in your style, like a process video. Cannot find those for surfaces design at all, and I love your style!

[@ElizabethSilver]

Noted! That could be fun!

[@awaywithnina]

Great channel! I’ve been bingeing your videos since I found this channel. Your tips are awesome! Thank you for creating them. So helpful.

[@ElizabethSilver]

I love being binge-able! So glad you're finding these videos useful!

[@sheverleyclacken3676]

Very helpful. Thank you

[@veritystothard1664]

So happy to have found your channel, you give such helpful advice, thanks for taking the time to create these videos! :)

[@ElizabethSilver]

Glad to have you here! You're very welcome!

[@soidee]

Just found you randomly on youtube, have seen couple of videos and I'm already suscribed, like your style and YES loved to see how you disect a client brief. :-)

[@ElizabethSilver]

Thanks for watching! I'll get to work on the client brief video :)

[@NorthernBirdDesigns]

Loved seeing your process Elizabeth, thanks for sharing!

[@Adriana_mg]

Thanks for showing your process. So helpful! 😊

[@ElizabethSilver]

You are so welcome!

[@nicholecooperonline]

Always wanted to do these things

[@Ivylemonstudio]

Thank you for taking the time to create this awesome tutorial ✊🏻

[@ElizabethSilver]

so glad you found it helpful!

[@Helenjojoful]

Love this video. Do you have a skillshare class on how to make pattern collections?

[@ElizabethSilver]

Not on skillshare but I do have a course on collections: www.elizabethsilver.com/collections

[@kritibagai340]

I really loved this video. Very informative. Please share some more case studies and techniques of prepping up the files for printing.

[@ElizabethSilver]

More to come! Thanks for the suggestions!

[@kristybreeni]

Thank you for sharing your process. Lovely designs.

[@ElizabethSilver]

Thanks so much, Kristy!

[@duygusonmezler]

This was really helpful thank you so much! Loved your patterns too 💕

[@ElizabethSilver]

Thanks so much!

[@maryjoseph6076]

Love this video. Thank you❤️

[@ElizabethSilver]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JadeMicheleGriffin]

Very helpful.

[@ElizabethSilver]

Glad to hear!

[@diaryofdaksha]

Super helpful

[@ElizabethSilver]

Glad to hear!

[@nf3126]

Hi Elizabeth! Not sure if you've already done one since this video was posted, but I am definitely interested in seeing a video of you dissecting a client brief, etc. That would be helpful! (haven't yet googled if you have done this) thanks for all of your great tips and information!

[@ElizabethSilver]

I ended up doing a blog post on this: www.elizabethsilver.com/patternblog/client-brief-surface-pattern-design

[@LillyHope11]

Thank you for sharing:)

[@ElizabethSilver]

Thanks for watching!

[@icugab]

Love your video and the pattern Elizabeth! In this video are you on your iPad? I thought you mentioned that.

[@ElizabethSilver]

I did some of my sketches on the ipad, but most of the design work I did on Adobe Illustrator on my desktop.

[@CeceliaIvyPriceArtisticChaos]

Hello Elizabeth I am wondering if you can let me know about what resolution or file size you recommend for such projects?

[@ElizabethSilver]

I work in AI so resizing is easy without loss of quality, I usually start with a 6 or 8" square artboard. If you work in Photoshop you may want to work larger or with a higher DPI (over 300) in case you sell your work and it needs to be enlarged.

[@sandrapichon1601]

Hi there, very interesting video, thanks ! It's valuable to see all the thoughts process! I really reaaaally hope these typo in champagne got spotted before printing though ;)

[@ElizabethSilver]

LOL, now you've got me frantically searching. I see it in the text only design, and in the end they didn't use that design (see the part 2 to this video where I give an update) Hopefully that's the only spot you saw a mistake. But yes, typos and design mistakes have definitely gone to print in the past, we do what we can do and most people don't notice. I won't tell you the story about the recipe placemat I made in my early design days that somewhere in the many revisions, I dropped a major ingredient from the design and didn't notice, and then it got approved and went to stores.