An intimate mentorship

The time you put in per day really depends on you and your life. We understand our students have other jobs or families to work around, so we’ve tried to make it as easy as possible. You have around 10 days to watch the lesson and do the work. As the course goes on we give you time limits on the designing side of things as it's very important that you start to train yourself to make fast ‘design decisions’.
The lessons are around 30 mins long, some have assessments/quizzes and then you do the work.

Yes, you are free to work with watercolors but may need to be flexible with some of the briefs. The illustrated floral brief for instance. But this is good, it's very important that you push yourself out of your comfort zone and try new things. As commercial designers, we need to turn our ‘hand’ to many different looks and that is how we have designed this course. We want you to have 10 very different, very commercial yet beautiful designs at the end of the six months. This will show your versatility and make you more employable as a surface pattern designer. But do not worry, we talk you through the tricks of making each design, the dos and dont’s, and how to make it the best design possible. And then you get feedback so you can improve on it. Everything’s positive!

The course starts on June 12, 2023.

As you will have 6 whole months of access to Bec, Sara and the entire LPD team, with personalised feedback and our exclusive Facebook group, the course is US$399 a month for 6 months or a one-off payment of US$2400

Good question! We will add a ‘personal break’ section into the course so that if you miss a deadline, you can redo it toward the end of the course. But we’ll only be able to allow for one brief, otherwise, we'll be running into the new year and new intake. If it's a serious illness, then of course, we’ll do all we can to be flexible or we can pause your course and you can resume in the following intake.

 You can of course use Procreate to create your motifs but then you will need to take them into Photoshop to create the proper files that clients would expect.  But, use Procreate with caution, if you use it for every design, then everything starts to look ‘same-same’.  Variety is key to a successful surface pattern designer, so get the paints and pencils out and get those hands dirty!

We use Photoshop in the course. This is because it’s what our customers want from us and we share all of the needs and demands customers expect within the course.  (It also allows us to create designs with more textures and finer details than Illustrator)