No but I think it’s so interesting how well Cambrian creatures translate into Spore, the game that always gets made fun of for how weird the creatures look.
The second of my new patterns is Cambrian Bowling Alley Carpet, which is exactly what it sounds like - a bunch of Cambrian era creatures in a pattern inspired by 1990’s bowling alley carpets. Why? I don’t know, it’s not my style at all, but it was just one of those things where once I thought of it i needed to make it exist or else it’d lurk in the back of my mind forever. (Much like my Werther’s wrapper waistcoat) I painted the creatures in gouache and scanned them and then spent a very very long time editing.
I made a smaller coordinating print of just the little confetti creatures in between the larger ones, and I liked the way the omnidens looked so much I added some texture and made them their own print with blue and brown versions.
I wrote down all the names as I drew them so I wouldn’t forget that the big creatures are: omnidens, anomalocaris, opabinia, norwoodia, marrella, facivermis, diania, pikaia, and hallucigenia.
And the little confetti creatures are: orthoceras, burgessia, wiwaxia, isoxys, kiisortoqia, tuzoia, vetulicolia, dinomischus, urokodia, plectronoceras, nectocaris, eokinorhynchus, and various trilobites. (Every single one of those names is underlined in red! Spellcheck must really hate prehistoric invertebrates.)
(Insert joke here about being nostalgic for a simpler time before smartphones and trees and internal skeletons)
I just realized that photographing them separately might have been a bit misleading about the size, so to clarify, the large version of the omnidens pattern prints bigger than the bowling alley carpet one, at least on Spoonflower.
I did the design at 300 dpi and on Spoonflower I have the bowling alley carpet one set at 300, and the omnidens one at 215. (The minimum to print is 150, but I usually like to do it a bit higher just in case) On MyFabricDesigns the buyer can change the dpi, so bowling alley carpet pattern could go up to twice as big there.
The second of my new patterns is Cambrian Bowling Alley Carpet, which is exactly what it sounds like - a bunch of Cambrian era creatures in a pattern inspired by 1990’s bowling alley carpets. Why? I don’t know, it’s not my style at all, but it was just one of those things where once I thought of it i needed to make it exist or else it’d lurk in the back of my mind forever. (Much like my Werther’s wrapper waistcoat) I painted the creatures in gouache and scanned them and then spent a very very long time editing.
I made a smaller coordinating print of just the little confetti creatures in between the larger ones, and I liked the way the omnidens looked so much I added some texture and made them their own print with blue and brown versions.
I wrote down all the names as I drew them so I wouldn’t forget that the big creatures are: omnidens, anomalocaris, opabinia, norwoodia, marrella, facivermis, diania, pikaia, and hallucigenia.
And the little confetti creatures are: orthoceras, burgessia, wiwaxia, isoxys, kiisortoqia, tuzoia, vetulicolia, dinomischus, urokodia, plectronoceras, nectocaris, eokinorhynchus, and various trilobites. (Every single one of those names is underlined in red! Spellcheck must really hate prehistoric invertebrates.)
