Texture is Trending

Texture is one of the most powerful elements of design, and with the current trends leaning toward hand-drawn and imperfect motifs, adding texture to your patterns is a great way to add a hand-crafted flair to your designs.

Instead of a flat cloud, let's add some texture for visual interest!

Here are a few quick ideas for adding texture to your print motifs:

1. Scan in a photo of a texture, increase the contrast, and make a bitmapped texture to place over your vector art.

   
   
   
   

   

   
   
   
   

2. Draw digital marks in Illustrator or Photoshop to create a texture pattern.

   
   
   
   

   

   
   
   
   

3. Create the motif with watercolor, charcoal, acrylic paint, or any other art medium and scan in the artwork. Combine with vector elements to create depth.

   
   

   

   
   

Adding texture is a great way to add visual interest to your next surface pattern design project and elevate it to the next level!