Who am I to preach about making everything for yourself when here I am, broadcasting over a pre-made blog template. Now, I'm no computer whiz, but the least I could do is give this place a little something of my own, right? I thought so, too.
It started with a sketch:
When dealing with a background, fabric design, or any sort of image meant to be repeated over a continuous surface, getting your image to tile seamlessly is the most important and most difficult task. I went for a fail-safe gridded design to save myself the agony this time around.
I overlaid my sketch with (conveniently translucent) marker paper and began to fill it in with my very favorite artist/designer markers, Letraset Promarkers (the recent reincarnation of my old standby, the Letraset Pantone Tria) and Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph pens (Pigma Microns are good too, if you're not in it for the investment).
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| Finished Drawing |
Scan it in, straighten it up, crop it just so (if you don't have an editing program, Picnik has a decent, free, online image editing program), upload it, and voilà! Homemade web page background.
Cheers!
Melody
SO CUTE! i love it. i think my favorite is the lattice. or maybe the oven.
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