cute and tasty

here are my entries for tigerprint's design competition, the assignment was to create a male pattern. i didn't make it onto the winner's shortlist, but this is something i want to keep up ... the pig is a cutout i made approximately 20 years ago for a birthday card and unearthed last weekend at my parents'! i scanned it and then tried my hand at the pattern repeat thingy, which takes some practising. to make it more fun i added the "bacon stripes" (gotta have some pink in there, especially for the males!). next up on tigerprint is the female pattern, by the way ...