For the past several years I have been creating snowflakes. I believe I began doing it in 2005. I designed my first snowflakes for my Christmas cards — because I wanted to use something of my own — not glyphs from a wing-dings font.
Inevitably, I designed a template on which I could create my snowflakes. The template isn’t particularly eye catching, and I suppose it probably looks strange to anyone who happens to catch me drawing on it. It’s 4 rows of 60˚ angles, 3 per column; which yields 12 snowflakes per page.
I sketch the snowflake arms, and then fill them with black ink. I then scan the page into photoshop, where I do all the necessary editing (making sure that all I have is the black portions). And from there each arm is transferred to another file which is inevitably a template of new snowflakes. That new file is genially referred to as the snowflakenator, because that’s where the real snowflake magic happens.
Each snowflake has 6 arms. Some of the arms have bilateral symmetry, some don’t; it depends on what I was designing at the time…
Anyway, these are some of this year’s new snowflakes:
Look for them on prints at sarahkdesigns, and on my snowflake Christmas cards at sarahknight.etsy.com!
4 comments:
Cool, and very clever! I would never have been able to come up with a method like that. They're really beautiful and intricate.
OMG...these are gorgeous...i must get myself a pack of these for my winter notes...
So pretty! I saw on the news the other day that there was a city in Labrador that just had snowfall in August!
These are so pretty and different! Kudos!
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