Surface pattern design

Colour story and colour way

I have been working through a Skillshare surface pattern design course which teaches about designing contrasting pattern tiles, developing a colour story, creating neutrals that blend with your dominant colours, and making fabrics in colour ways. The course explains about Itten's and Alber's theory of colours being perceived differently depending on their surroundings. I think the most successful are the first two colour ways, but I know the actual designs need a lot of work, but I wanted to learn the theory behind it more than produce excellent designs. I will be learning more about pattern design over the summer.