Personal Brand Creation Based on Your Patterns
A course by Ana BloomsDesigner and Illustrator
A course by Ana Blooms, Designer and Illustrator
Learn how to design patterns and reflect them in your first product collection
Ever imagined designing prints for your own product line? Graphic designer Ana Blooms specializes in illustrative surface design and, as her name suggests, she loves to create floral prints and patterns. She has her own brand of printed products and runs workshops on the subject.
In this online course, Ana teaches you the basics of building your own brand and using it to tell your story through print design. Get to grips with the essentials of illustration and the processes involved in print design. Apply three different prints to three products, creating your first capsule collection, which you can market through social media.
What will you learn in this online course?
15 lessons & 20 downloads
What will we do in the course
1 minute, 28 seconds
Introduction to the world of branding
10 minutes, 16 seconds
Conceptualize a collection
10 minutes, 50 seconds
Color palette
5 minutes, 36 seconds
Types of prints
7 minutes, 4 seconds
Manual illustration techniques
4 minutes, 47 seconds
What's included in this course?
Start the course by meeting Ana, who tells you about her personal and professional career, her creative approach, and her work process. She tells you about her influences and artists she admires.
Get acquainted with the world of branding, looking at the importance of having a comprehensive communication plan. Learn to identify a differentiating factor and the essence of the brand, then follow practical steps to build the foundations for your final project.
Discover how Ana approaches the creation process of a collection of printed products: from the inspiration phase, a visual mood board, choice of themes, and devising a concept. Ana gives you tips to get started in this early stage of your project. Once you have your concept, start thinking about the products you want to apply your prints to.
Learn more about color, exploring the theoretical foundations and Ana's vision. Next, build your color palette. Now start creating your prints and learn how to combine them in a collection.
Ana teaches you how to use her favorite illustration techniques, showing you the advantages and possibilities when, for example, mixing them to get unique results. She then explains the basics of illustrating flowers and leaves using watercolors, acrylics, and nibs or fine-liners.
Learn what a rapport or printing module is and how it is used in textiles. Illustrate individual elements with pen and watercolors to create small personal image banks. See the step-by-step process for illustrating with acrylics.
Ana teaches you how to scan the elements, digitally adjust the color, clean them, edit them, and prepare them to put together your composition. Compose several patterns, making use of your color palette, your illustrations, concept, and everything you have learned so far. See how to apply it to your three products, opening up the spectrum of materials on which you can print.
Learn to apply your prints on digital products in a mock-up—a great solution to avoid spending money and be able to share your work on social media. Finally, get some advice on networks, strategy, communication, and interaction that you can apply to your projects.
Recommended software & tools for this course
What is this course's project?
Create three prints to apply to a capsule collection of products for a traveler: a backpack, a raincoat, and a cosmetics bag/pencil case.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Illustrators, designers, creatives, and anyone who wants to create their brand, designing their own prints and applying them to unique products.
Requirements and materials
You need basic knowledge of drawing and illustration, as well as a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.
As for materials, you need drawing tools: sticky notes, pencils, paints, brushes, watercolors, markers, watercolor paper, and opaline paper. You also need a computer with internet access, Adobe Photoshop, and a high-resolution scanner.
Reviews
- 3 days ago
Me gusta mucho la explicación!
- 7 months ago
muy buen curso, recomendable
- 7 months ago
Es un curso muy completo, me sirvio bastante. Lo recomiendo porque su forma de explicar es muy clara
- 10 months ago
Me ha gustado, pude hacer mi primer patrón. Recomendado
- 1 year ago
This course was very informative, well‑structured, and covered the topics in great depth. I truly recommend it.
Adding a touch of color and joy to commonplace objects with illustration is what motivated her to create her own brand, Ana Blooms Design House, where she decorates everything from jackets to aprons with her pattern designs.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- Ana blooms
- Influences
- What will we do in the course
- U2
Tell your story
- Introduction to the world of branding
- Conceptualize a collection
- Color palette
- Types of prints
- Manual illustration techniques
- U3
Design your print
- What is a module or rapport and how is it done?
- Illustration of loose elements part I
- Illustration of loose elements part II
- Digitize and build your rapport
- Choose the product and its materials
- U4
Application to products in a collection
- Mockup mount
- Share your work!
- FP
Final project
- Personal Brand Creation Based on Your Patterns
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FAQs
You’ll learn how to create original textile prints using botanical illustration techniques with watercolor and acrylic, plus how to apply your designs to products, build your personal brand, and plan creative workshops.
This is an intermediate-level course, perfect for those with basic illustration skills who want to deepen their knowledge of textile printing techniques and creative branding.
You’ll need watercolors, acrylic paints, technical pens, suitable paper, access to programs like Photoshop or Illustrator, and basic drawing supplies. Having a computer and internet connection is recommended.
Yes, the course guides you step-by-step to conceptualize your brand, design your visual identity, develop unique products, and position them in the creative market.
The course promotes emotional well-being through art by using nature observation and flower symbolism as sources of inspiration to foster an authentic creative process.
You’ll learn both traditional and digital techniques: hand illustration with watercolor and acrylic, digitizing, vectorizing, creating repeat patterns, and assembling mockups for professional presentations.
You’ll be able to create your own collection of original prints, apply illustrations to objects and textiles, build a personal brand, and professionally showcase your products on social media and portfolios.