Every piece begins as ink and watercolour, never a digital brush. I design intricate, richly coloured motifs that translate onto fabric, walls, tableware and everyday objects, so the brands that print them get a pattern with soul already built in.
Designs are deliberately sketched to be highly versatile and cross-functional — built for the commercial market from the first line. Here's how this studio's work is built to move across the categories that need it most.
High-impact central placement prints and repeat patterns built for garment production — motifs that hold their detail whether elevating ethnic wear or tiled across a modern, trend-setting T-shirt run.
Seamless all-over patterns and delicate border designs made for premium bedspreads, linen and handkerchiefs — patterns scaled to feel considered whether they cover a full spread or trim a single edge.
Elegant, tactile surface artwork tailored to objects people touch daily — designed to sit comfortably on a curved ceramic jar or a flat serving tray without losing the hand-drawn character that makes it worth noticing.
A quick primer for anyone sourcing surface designs for the first time, so you know exactly what you're evaluating and why hand-drawn work is priced and produced differently from a digital template.
A motif is the smallest self-contained design unit — a single mandala, a flower head, a geometric block — that gets repeated, mirrored or arranged to build a full surface pattern. One well-designed motif can generate dozens of finished patterns depending on how it's scaled, spaced and combined across a product.
Digital vector patterns are built from perfect, infinitely repeatable shapes — fast, but visually flat at scale. A hand-drawn motif carries natural variation in line weight, curve and fill, the same way handwriting differs from typed text. That variation is what gives a printed fabric or product its depth and sense of craftsmanship, even once it's mass-reproduced.
Custom work isn't a single sketch — it's a short creative process, each stage building on the last, before anything is production-ready.
Process: The Art of Memory
Welcome to OmShanthiOm — a space of mindful design, rooted in Process: The Art of Memory. Every surface motif born here is a reflection of a life observed, translating quiet moments of stillness, traveled landscapes, and everyday beauty into wearable studio art. We embrace the continuous journey of the learner and the power of daily practice — celebrating the authentic rhythm of hand-sketched lines, accessible wisdom, and an organic textile aesthetic designed to bring peace to your everyday lifestyle.
Surface Motif & Textile Artwork Designer — Intuitive Hand-Drawn Line Art, Cultural Storytelling & Luxury Concept Layouts
Process: The Art of Memory
I do not claim to be a prodigy born with effortless mastery. To me, creating something meaningful does not require innate genius — it requires something far more accessible, authentic, and deeply inspirational: the willingness to pause and the discipline to keep practicing.
My work is an archive of quiet moments of stillness. It comes from standing completely still to absorb the beauty around me — the unexpected geometry of a quiet street, the rhythms of nature, or the warm palette of a new city traveled. What my eyes observe, my memory holds, shifting and blending over time until it reemerges through daily practice.
This collection is the result of that ongoing dialogue between observation and handwork. Each line, phrase, and motif is a piece of remembered life — proof that when you take the time to truly see the world, memory itself becomes the most soulful canvas.
Memory & Heritage Motifs: every design here is a personal expression, drawn from lived experience, culture and visual memory rather than a reference photo or a trend board. My creative journey includes formal training in mixed media art, which continues to shape how I layer texture, colour and line into each piece.
I specialise in intricate, handmade motifs that are highly adaptable to the commercial market. My creative signature centers on a deeply grounded palette of warm, earthy colour and coordinated, complementary tones, built into rich visual texture through high-impact florals, geometric structure, and high-contrast black-and-white abstraction.
I work remotely, which shapes how I collaborate with manufacturers and textile brands worldwide: every motif starts as a raw, hand-drawn sketch on paper, then reaches you as an uncompressed, high-resolution scan at 600 DPI, alongside a concept and placement guide and, where selected, individual motifs separated out as high-resolution, transparent-background files, ready to rearrange into borders or new compositions. Your in-house design and production team then adapts and digitises the layout to your exact factory requirements. No software brush ever touches the original line.
The result is a library of motifs that carry the texture of the hand that made them, and the beautiful, shaky imperfections of a practiced human hand — a distinct human soul that digital vectors can never replicate.
Every recurring visual element in surface design falls into one of five broad families. Here is one raw, hand-drawn original from the sketchbook for each — celebrating the raw beauty of hand-sketched lines, imperfect art with shaky, organic linework that stands apart from mass-produced digital vector prints.
Bright, vibrant colour and full floral drawings — her hand keeps the imperfection, not a photo-real copy.
High-density cluster motifs and structured shapes — mathematically ordered, but drawn freehand rather than machine-traced.
Bold black-and-white doodles and high-contrast line art — straight from the working sketchbook, before colour.
Traditional, detailed patterns with an organic, free-form abstract edge — movement and rhythm over strict representation.
Doodles, motifs and patterns fused with decorative hand lettering — a fusion of the other four collections, carried by script.
Full-resolution originals, licensing terms and category-specific lookbooks are shared directly on request.
The portfolio above is a curated sample. New motifs, in-progress sketches and the full body of work post regularly on Instagram — if you want the complete picture of what this studio can do, that's where to look.
See the Full Work on InstagramI try to see fabric as paper.
The visuals below are AI-assisted mockups developed from the studio's own original artwork, creative direction and surface-design concepts — visual explorations of how one licensed motif may translate across textile, fashion and decorative art, resized, recoloured or reframed to fit exactly what you're building.
The same circular motifs shown across the portfolio, placed as a central panel print on a kurta with a coordinating dupatta border — exactly the kind of central-placement application the studio designs for.
Licensing a single motif doesn't limit you to one product. The same colour story and linework can be rolled out across drinkware, stationery, cushions, apparel and bags as one coordinated collection, so everything on the shelf feels like it belongs together.
From sarees and juttis to coasters, wall hangings and keepsake boxes — the same motif family is designed to extend cleanly into a curated, retail-ready gifting range, without losing its hand-drawn character at any scale.
The same circular motifs, tiled and scaled across a full quilted bedspread with coordinating pillow shams — a preview of how the pattern holds up across large-format home textiles, not just small accessories.
Placed across a full saree length with a traditional golden zari border — showing how the same hand-drawn circles adapt to one of the most demanding ethnic-wear formats, drape and all.
Every image above is an AI-assisted visualisation built from the studio's own original artwork and creative direction — a visual exploration of how the motif may translate, not a photograph of an existing product or a current retail catalogue. Final products, colourways and formats are scoped per licensing agreement.
Every single piece in the collection is a raw, hand-drawn sketch on paper. I embrace the beautiful, organic imperfections of handmade art — they give your fabrics a tactile depth that software cannot replicate.
Motifs are designed using curated colour stories that effortlessly complement one another, so the final printed product looks sophisticated, premium and visually balanced on the rack.
Completed artwork arrives as uncompressed, high-resolution scans at 600 DPI, a concept and placement guide with sample product visuals, and selected individual motifs separated out as high-resolution, transparent-background files — ready for your team to rearrange, repeat, or build into borders and new compositions.
Straightforward answers to what most manufacturers and brands ask before starting a first project.
Licensing runs through a royalty-based model across five sample collections, each built from a curated set of original surface motifs. Every license specifies the permitted product categories, territory, duration, exclusivity (where applicable) and the number of products or units covered — confirmed in writing before anything is finalised, so you always know exactly what you're buying and where you stand.
Original copyright stays with the artist unless a full buyout is explicitly agreed in writing. Most collaborations are structured as a licence for a specific product category and duration, which keeps costs reasonable for you while protecting the design's long-term value for future collections — a straightforward arrangement that's fair to both sides.
Yes. Since every motif starts as a hand-drawn original, colour stories, scale and placement can be adapted to your exact product spec before final digitisation. Any customisation is scoped and confirmed with you before work begins, so there are no surprises on either side.
You receive uncompressed, high-resolution 600 DPI raw scans of the hand-drawn artwork, a concept and placement guide with sample product visuals, and selected individual motifs supplied as high-resolution, transparent-background files — letting your design team rearrange, repeat, or incorporate them into borders and new compositions. These stay raster images (PNG/TIFF) rather than vector files, so vectorising for a specific production method, where needed, is a separate step your team would handle.
Licensing is structured around a set of curated collections, with the specific scope, design count and pricing worked out directly for each engagement. An upfront licensing fee covers the selected designs, plus a small ongoing royalty on each product sold using them — get in touch by email and the details can be discussed from there.
Turnaround depends on the scope of the brief and is confirmed at the time of quoting, so you can plan your own production timeline around a realistic date rather than a guess.
Send an email to contact.omshanthiom@gmail.com with your product category and rough scope — you'll hear back with next steps, indicative terms and a realistic timeline before anything is finalised.
Whether it's a single print or a full seasonal collection, I'd love to hear what you're building — reach out directly and let's talk about how this work fits.