Kilim contest

This week's contest was to do something in the style of kilim. I was originally going to do a very stylized map of my neighborhood, but once I got it about 95% done, it suddenly occurred to me that it was, in fact, quite ugly, and I couldn't imagine anyone ever actually printing the design and using it for anything.

So! I used just the background texture I had drawn, and recolored it. I figured most people would be entering high-contrast, brightly-colored designs so I went for something more muted.



The colors here are actually all from my sons' eye colors. Sampled directly from photos of them. It got 44 votes and ended up in the top half of entries. My favorite was this one.