Monster High Pumpkin designs!

I'm going to try my hand at carving some artificial pumpkins soon. First I had to draw up my templates. I decided this year to do Monster High Pumpkins. Here is Frankie Stein, and the lovely Draculaura. I'm debating trying a Ghoulia one as well - if I do I'll post it. :)

Day of the Dead tiling background

I've been having fun working with how to make repeating patterns as a way to train my brain better into what works for a tiling texture. Here's a Day of the Dead tiling pattern I've made:

It's a little too square for my tastes, so I will make a different one soonish. I'm saving these as .pat files in photoshop, so after I make some more of them, I'll put them all up here for other people to play with. :D

Bat Damask

I did a photoshop tutorial here, and made myself a lovely damask pattern with crows, roses, hearts and batwings!

I will probably use it for a background for a webpage or a blog or something. I played around with colors and texture as well:

It was a lot of fun to do - I would definitely like to try making more patterns like this :D