• Sketchbook or drawing paper

• Drawing utensils or you can draw directly into Photoshop.

• Desktop or laptop computer (Mac or PC, I teach both!) with Adobe Photoshop CC. Older versions and the mobile version of Photoshop are not sufficient for this class.

• I recommend using a drawing tablet to make it easier to draw/edit your art when you are working in Photoshop. I use a Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet. Some people use an iPad and Apple Pencil with the program Astropad installed.

• Camera/Smartphone for inspiration photos and/or for taking your illustrations into the computer.

• Scanner (optional) you can use a smartphone if you don't have a scanner.

Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are both made by the same company and their interfaces are similar in certain ways.

The *biggest* difference between the two programs is how they handle image information. Illustrator is vector-based, with endless scalability. Photoshop is pixel-based, which makes scaling down easy, but I always recommend scaling in and working at a higher resolution than you think you might need because you cannot easily scale up.

What Photoshop brings to the table instead is depth. And what I mean by depth is Photoshop can preserve art’s textures more readily and accurately than Illustrator can. If you’re working with watercolor, paint, charcoal, photography, stamping, ink, or really ANYTHING, Photoshop can preserve those paint strokes, and create projects with translucent color and texture.

Yes! In From Paint to Pattern we learn Photoshop from the ground up. We'll start the course going over everything from the very beginning, from navigating around Photoshop to setting up our workspaces for success.

Even students that already know some Photoshop will learn a new thing or two. And after we have a solid foundation we'll go step by step through curating and creating a surface design portfolio, gift illustration and more!

Everyone is coming from a different place in their creative journey. With this in mind, I tackle creating art in Photoshop like it's a collage program. I have had students create beautiful works of art with just a few paint strokes or doodles, but also with stamp-prints, photography, cut paper, and more.

Illustration, water color, inking, are all amazing skills to have, but they aren’t required to make beautiful work. With my 10-week program you might find yourself growing in not just your Photoshop knowledge, but in different art making mediums too as you practice.

I’m a licensed artist! And as such, I want to bust some myths really quickly about how “easy it is” to “build passive income” from art licensing. This career is a lot of work. My advice to those that want to pursue art as a career is to build your portfolio and your skillset.

This course is primarily focused on creating a really well-rounded surface pattern design collection in Adobe Photoshop. My focus is to get you proficient in Photoshop and be able to create collections using my process over and over once the course is done.

From Paint to Pattern Self-Paced has a 7-Day 100% money back guarantee provided the student has not watched more than 15% of the course. On the backend we check the course time, then send refund if your completion time falls below 15%.

Please direct all refund emails to school@craftedmoon.com