Check out this course preview of my latest Skillshare course: Learn to Design Damask and Toile Du Jouy Patterns in Affinity Designer 2. Watch the class here: https://skl.sh/3ypHuLA In this excerpt we explore the history behind the toile du jouy patterns and what elements make up the toile pattern. Hope you enjoy! WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to try a Teach Challenge or Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! https://bit.ly/4e02FnD ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Check out this course preview of my latest Skillshare course: Learn to Design Damask and Toile Du Jouy Patterns in Affinity Designer 2. Watch the class here: https://skl.sh/3ypHuLA In this excerpt we explore the history behind the damask patterns and what elements make up the Damask pattern. Hope you enjoy! WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to try a Teach Challenge or Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? Find them for sale at the links below! http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! https://bit.ly/4e02FnD ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Join the class here: https://skl.sh/3ypHuLA Learning to create a variety of patterns is paramount to developing a strong surface pattern design portfolio. Pattern design is an essential element in the retail and creative fields, as it adds depth, character, and visual interest to products and offers potential clients a variety of options that they could possible license or purchase from you. In past , I have walked students through basic and intermediate surface pattern techniques, but this month I am coming back with a more complex class that will walk you through how to design 2 new repeat design styles - Toile and Damask patterns using Affinity Designer 2 desktop version. The course will go live Sept. 2nd so stay tuned!! This month I am excited to share a new surface pattern design course focused on designing toile and damask patterns. These are great styles to learn to add some complexity and diversity to your portfolio. And we will create it all in Affinity Designer 2. Let’s get started and create something great together! Take this class here: https://skl.sh/3ypHuLA WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to try a Teach Challenge or Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! https://bit.ly/4e02FnD ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

Join the class here: https://skl.sh/3ypHuLA Learning to create a variety of patterns is paramount to developing a strong surface pattern design portfolio. Pattern design is an essential element in the retail and creative fields, as it adds depth, character, and visual interest to products and offers potential clients a variety of options that they could possible license or purchase from you. In past , I have walked students through basic and intermediate surface pattern techniques, but this month I am coming back with a more complex class that will walk you through how to design 2 new repeat design styles - Toile and Damask patterns using Affinity Designer 2 desktop version. The course will go live Sept. 2nd so stay tuned!! This month I am excited to share a new surface pattern design course focused on designing toile and damask patterns. These are great styles to learn to add some complexity and diversity to your portfolio. And we will create it all in Affinity Designer 2. Let’s get started and create something great together! Take this class on Skillshare: https://skl.sh/3ypHuLA Take this class on Gumroad: https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com/l/acrzss WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to try a Teach Challenge or Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative 💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! https://bit.ly/4e02FnD ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! https://bit.ly/4e02FnD Take the new course here: https://skl.sh/4cvGFQK Procreate Dreams continues to delight creatives both hobbyists and professionals alike since its release in late 2023. The app allows artists of all abilities to animate and create motion graphics on the go on their iPad!  The software is very user-friendly but it offers a powerhouse of options that allow users to seamlessly combine illustration and animation tools. As a graphic designer and illustrator, I have found that it is a great option to add a bit of magic and movement to projects. Throughout this class will be working in procreate dreams to animate text. As a graphic designer - creating projects that are text based is quite common. Whether you are designing a logo, a lock up for social media or even title graphics for a YouTube channel, adding a bit of movement can truly up your game and make simple text a bit more eye catching. The beauty of the Procreate Dreams App is that you don’t need to be a professional animator or motion graphics designer to create high quality and fun looking moving graphics. I am hoping, this class can inspire you to create something that you can use for your own YouTube channel or to use for graphics for a type project or even just to share on social media. I’m looking forward to creating with you today! Find this class when it is live on Skillshare: https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on ANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to try a Teach Challenge or Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! https://bit.ly/4e02FnD Hello everyone! I have a new class this month -- Digital planning continues to grow in popularity. Apps like Goodnotes, Zoomnotes and Artful Agenda continue to gain in popularity. People often love the ease of use once you get through the initial learning curve of using a digital planner. People also absolutely love the idea of having an endless supply of digital stickers you can reuse over and over again. Personally, I love having an endless supply of ideas to create digital stickers that I can use whenever I feel inspired. And that is what this month’s class will be all about - designing digital stickers on your iPad in affinity designer version 2. Whether you want to create digital stickers for personal use or eventually to sell in a digital shop, making digital stickers. Designing digital stickers doesn’t have to be complicated and it is absolutely fun. I hope you find the course helpful! Watch the class on Skillshare here: https://skl.sh/49fEoqp Get the class on Gumroad: Thanks for your support! Jen WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to try a Teach Challenge or Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! https://bit.ly/4e02FnD Hello everyone! I’ve been working on a new class for the better part of the last 2 months and we are finally live. It’s an in-depth exploration of complex patterns in Affinity Designer 2 on your ipad and it has a wealth of information coming in at just over 3 hours long of content! You can find the class here to (includes a free 30 day trial if you're not subscribed to Skillshare): https://skl.sh/3FS2tH7 -- I'm also running a giveaway, if you take my class and share a class project, you will be entered to win one of 2 FREE One Year Skillshare Premium Subscriptions! **What the Class is About** In this class, I will walk you through my surface pattern design process. We will explore some of my favorite tips and tricks that help to streamline my design process. We will also go into detail on how to make some more complex pattern repeats in Affinity Designer on your iPad. This course will help you understand the process using the interface on the iPad app. The more complex repeats we will review are: the rectangle half drop repeat, diamond repeat and stripes. We will work on designing these patterns and creating a seamless repeat using illustrated motifs and creating templates to streamline the process using the symbols options in Affinity Designer 2. I hope you can join me! Take the class: https://skl.sh/3FS2tH7 - WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to try a Teach Challenge or Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!

💌 Sign Up For My Newsletter & Get Some Freebies! https://bit.ly/4e02FnD Watch the class on Skillshare here: https://skl.sh/3FS2tH7 One of my favorite programs to work on the go with is Affinity Designer on my iPad. The program is a powerhouse of an app that works wonders for those of us who create surface pattern designs.. Affinity Designer is a dream to work in and if you haven’t heard, there was an update and Serif officially released version 2 of all three apps on the desktop and iPad. This month, in this class we will be exploring the updated Affinity Designer version 2 on the iPad, it’s interface and I will be sharing some of my tips and tricks that I find make the design process more streamlined. We will also explore ways to create different templates that will work for different pattern types to help elevate your skills on more complex pattern types such as: rectangle half drop, diamond and stripes. For those of you who haven't joined Skillshare yet but are interested OR Want to enter to win a FREE YEAR of Skillshare Premium? Enter my contest by taking my class and sharing a project before December 21, 2023 - you can take the class with a free ONE MONTH trial with this link: https://skl.sh/3FS2tH7 Interested in this class off Skillshare? GUMROAD: https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com/l/eksai WANT TO CONNECT OR HIRE ME? VISIT ME ONLINE: http://www.bellasophiacreative.com Take my classes and try skillshare for 1 month free! https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/jennylezan?gr_tch_ref=on Want to teach on Skillshare? Apply here to Teach Lab https://skl.sh/3PJI3WE WANT TO TAKE BUY MY CLASSES INDIVIDUALLY? http://www.learn-create-design.com GUMROAD https://bellasophiacreative.gumroad.com UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/user/jenniferlezan/ Shop My Products: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaSophiaCreative Creative Market: https://creativemarket.com/JenniferLezan TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bellasophiacreative ☕ Donate a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thefreelancelife Want to be Pen Pals? P.O. Box 9658 Naperville, IL 60567-9658 ABOUT ME Welcome to the Creative Studio! I'm Jen - A Latina mom of 3, based out of the Midwest. Despite hardships growing up, I attended art school as a first generation student. With a career journey in fashion, design, illustration & digital media, I've come to merge my creative passions into the work I do as a freelancer and teacher. I look to inspire others as much as I look to be inspired! Let's create something great together!