Laser Cut Patterns

I designed alternative backgrounds for my shadow puppet in Illustrator and cut them on the laser cutter. As I can no longer use the light studio I decided to look at alternative uses for the grids.

Wave Grid for laser cutting
Straight Grid for laser cutting
Creating Repeat Patterns with grids
Creating Repeat Patterns with grids
Creating Repeat Patterns
Creating Repeat Patterns
Creating repeat patterns
Creating Repeat Patterns

           
   
I was so happy with these I decided to attempt to create more on Illustrator.

Illustrator Patterns
Illustrator coloured patterns
Illustrator coloured patterns

Illustrator coloured patterns
Illustrator coloured patterns
Illustrator coloured patterns
I really enjoyed this process. It was inspired by the fact I am now unable to use the lighting studio and also the fashion workshop with Susie, when we were using random objects to create shapes and then create patterns from them.  I will use both these processes again.

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