I need a colourful paisley pattern for a t-shirt. And I'm happy with the shapes I've drawn. But I'm not a colour expert. So I'm looking for tips to improve it.
I've mixed different constrasts and sets of colours. I do want to keep a large variety of colours. And not a limited colour set, like some, very beautiful, patterns out there.
I also wanted an "overlapping" paisley with a small amount of background colour. Some paisleys have no background. And some have no overlapping. With gaps between the shapes and a continuous background.
You did a great job on making such a complex and beautiful design! It is already great as it is.
Maybe you could try to take this 2x2 tile as 1 original tile and then swap some of the colours. Then the motive would feel even more colourful/ diverse. Especially the red pops out, so changing the location of one or two red paisleys will have a big impact. I hope this idea is something that helps you.
@Kirstie thanks. I like your 2x2 idea. I'll give it a try. It was starting to feel restrictive. The red was worrying me. So I'm looking to tone it down.
I made an inventory of all the colours I used. Thinking to limit the total palette, hoping to remove some of the "chaos".
@TylerDurden It's part of a T-Shirt design for an event that has been altered due to Corona. So beer and viruses are part of the requirement. I wanted to include toilet rolls in it, due to the shortage, but I couldn't get them to look right in a paisley design. Studying paisley for this has been an interesting education. I get the feeling the original historical designers wanted as much complexity as possible.
Please remember: your design is already good. If you can improve it, you have two designs! Good luck with the colourscheme. Making a good pattern is very difficult indeed.
I think I've mixed details of different sizes. Meaning when you view from one distance, details too small to separate appear as a mixed, muddy colour. I was scaling things up and down to suit the layout but not thinking of consistent details.
So far my list of Paisley learning is as follows:
Type: Separate shapes with overlap, with no overlap, Connected/integrated shapes
Colour palette: Many colours, Few colours, High Contrast, Low contrast.
Detail Size: Consistent, Varied. Balanced
Maybe the trick is to increase the contrast on the fine detail areas. And reduce it on the areas of larger, more obvious features? I get nerdy about these things. It's part of the fun for me.
As an ardent wearer of paisley scarves during cold weather I feel suitably qualified to say that these both look great!
I'm not sure what approach you took to colouring the individual parts, but it might be worth looking at the "Swatch" section in the Fill & Stroke dialog. This lets you set up named colours that are re-used throughout the design. You can then change the colour of the swatch and all objects that use it will be updated to the new colour at once.
There are sites where users share colour palettes (e.g. https://www.colourlovers.com/ but there are others), which might provide some inspiration. By using swatches you can try out the same design with different colour palettes fairly easily.
Here is the final shirt for the Hash event. I spent nearly all the time on the Paisley and too little planning the how to fit the Paisley in. But paisley is very addictive work. I still didn't learn the best plan for choosing colors. But I did learn about clone tiled patterns.
They printed the shirts which came out well I'm relieved to say. Very clear and a great colour result. Thanks also to the printers for aligning all the pieces carefully. I've been getting compliments from the runners for this. They even ordered an extra batch after they saw the first lot. But I can't look at the shirt without seeing my small mistakes here and there. And next time I would enlarge the pattern by 10% for more clarity.
I don't know how they do it. But you can see the print goes right into the seams. So it must be stitched after printing the individual pieces.
I was allowed an unlimited spectrum of colours and shades. Which cost 19€ per shirt, including graphics support. I sent them RGB SVGs as there were no particular colours that needed to be accurate. Just bright. The club got them printed here. https://www.peppex-sports.de/freestyle/
Hey ian, I was looking for some pattern inspirations for my new sportswear design. That's really amazing though I don't have to give a message through my design but all in all I need new inspiration. which I got here. Thanks a lot for sharing
Beyond the Basics Paisley colour choices
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I need a colourful paisley pattern for a t-shirt. And I'm happy with the shapes I've drawn. But I'm not a colour expert. So I'm looking for tips to improve it.
Wonderful. I especially love these 5 .... Cheers!
Hi Ian,
You did a great job on making such a complex and beautiful design! It is already great as it is.
Maybe you could try to take this 2x2 tile as 1 original tile and then swap some of the colours. Then the motive would feel even more colourful/ diverse. Especially the red pops out, so changing the location of one or two red paisleys will have a big impact. I hope this idea is something that helps you.
@Kirstie thanks. I like your 2x2 idea. I'll give it a try. It was starting to feel restrictive. The red was worrying me. So I'm looking to tone it down.
I made an inventory of all the colours I used. Thinking to limit the total palette, hoping to remove some of the "chaos".
Wow this is trickier than I'd expected.
I'll post again when I have something.
The little coronaviruses are an interesting touch. 😆
@TylerDurden It's part of a T-Shirt design for an event that has been altered due to Corona. So beer and viruses are part of the requirement. I wanted to include toilet rolls in it, due to the shortage, but I couldn't get them to look right in a paisley design.
Studying paisley for this has been an interesting education. I get the feeling the original historical designers wanted as much complexity as possible.
Hi Ian,
Please remember: your design is already good. If you can improve it, you have two designs! Good luck with the colourscheme. Making a good pattern is very difficult indeed.
Lots of tweaks here. I'm happier with the colours now. But maybe I've made it worse.
Hi Ian,
Yes it feels more free now you can see more of the background.
I think I've mixed details of different sizes. Meaning when you view from one distance, details too small to separate appear as a mixed, muddy colour. I was scaling things up and down to suit the layout but not thinking of consistent details.
So far my list of Paisley learning is as follows:
Maybe the trick is to increase the contrast on the fine detail areas. And reduce it on the areas of larger, more obvious features?
I get nerdy about these things. It's part of the fun for me.
Ian,
As an ardent wearer of paisley scarves during cold weather I feel suitably qualified to say that these both look great!
I'm not sure what approach you took to colouring the individual parts, but it might be worth looking at the "Swatch" section in the Fill & Stroke dialog. This lets you set up named colours that are re-used throughout the design. You can then change the colour of the swatch and all objects that use it will be updated to the new colour at once.
There are sites where users share colour palettes (e.g. https://www.colourlovers.com/ but there are others), which might provide some inspiration. By using swatches you can try out the same design with different colour palettes fairly easily.
thanks Xav. Yes. Useful. But my big problem is I don't know enough about colour choices.
Good work, man.
Here is the final shirt for the Hash event. I spent nearly all the time on the Paisley and too little planning the how to fit the Paisley in. But paisley is very addictive work. I still didn't learn the best plan for choosing colors. But I did learn about clone tiled patterns.
It is beautiful ian!
They printed the shirts which came out well I'm relieved to say. Very clear and a great colour result. Thanks also to the printers for aligning all the pieces carefully. I've been getting compliments from the runners for this. They even ordered an extra batch after they saw the first lot. But I can't look at the shirt without seeing my small mistakes here and there. And next time I would enlarge the pattern by 10% for more clarity.
👍Great job on all parts. What kind of printing is this? Thermo-sublimation?
I don't know how they do it. But you can see the print goes right into the seams. So it must be stitched after printing the individual pieces.
I was allowed an unlimited spectrum of colours and shades. Which cost 19€ per shirt, including graphics support. I sent them RGB SVGs as there were no particular colours that needed to be accurate. Just bright.
The club got them printed here. https://www.peppex-sports.de/freestyle/
Hey ian,
I was looking for some pattern inspirations for my new sportswear design. That's really amazing though I don't have to give a message through my design but all in all I need new inspiration. which I got here. Thanks a lot for sharing