CG Textures, an endless compendium of images, is just now processing a new batch of animal and bird photographs. Glorious! If you don’t already have an account, sign up — you can download up to 15 MB free daily. Or pay yearly and get up to 100 MB daily, plus the ability to download their biggest images. I pay and use the images in a hundred ways.
… Like this leopard-and-tiger skin blanket to keep your virtual toes warm all winter. I call it Purrr because the cats are still alive.
Purrr, a Blanket for Virtual Toes by Sloan Nota
About the patterns. The main part of the blanket started as a CG Textures leopard and became a pattern in SymmetryMill. Then I imported that pattern back into SymmetryMill to create an even more complex pattern.
If you have an interest in patterns, this is a nice strategy. Best to start with a large file — the leopard image is over 3500 x 2500 pixels. The pattern unit used above, about 2000 pixels square.
Photoshop lets you upload patterns and makes it easy to scale them to your need.
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Money. I’m not an advocate for online budget-breakers, but here I am talking up two services that I pay for. CG Textures and more recently SymmetryMill are a constant source of inspiration and creative flow for me. Don’t pay for anything you won’t get plenty back from.
Zeedallion by Sloan Nota
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Addendum, a few hours later. My first holiday image of the season. One zebra can go a long way.
