Notice that pattern has been the oldest form of decorati.
I find myself looking for patterns in the work I am doing and try to make the overall work a pattern. The great thing about pattern is that we are all 'pattern hard-wired'. It is a survival trait to look for things that are out of the pattern or ordinary.Important if you are prey rather than predator. The cool trick is to use pattern which is almost pattern: patterns with deviations within. This is always an eye-catcher. Case in point how many times have you looked to the right to the patterns while you were reading this?
They are soothing to the eye and it doesn't take an active brain to enjoy the movement.
Charlie

The coming of age of digital work as an art medium has changed immensely in the past 20 years much faster than did photography which has taken over 100 years to find acceptance, also the giclee which is the output of most digital work. From conversations with printers a giclee is guaranteed for 25 years in sunlight. That's better than most watercolor mediums. Protected with UV glass or kept out of direct lighting digital art could match that of oils. The digital divide that separates art from illustrations depends upon the ingredient 'soul' which defines lasting work form decorative work. For those daring artists who are working in this media...hats off. I can picture Caravaggio with a 6 megapixel camera and a G4 Mac tweaking colors in Adobe Illustrator or PhotoShop.
Charlie

BoundlessGallery.com
FineArtAmerica.com

Some sites to investigate for sales.
Charlie

I love this guy...think about the outlandish art director who picked this subject for the2nd flagship image of Geico. What's this have to do with art? Everything. Think about the ability of such an image to ring a bell in the human psyche... In an exhibition of ones work this is the kind of "grab" that any artist needs to stand out from all of the rest. It's the 'human recognition factor' that comes into play?In your work what is your human recognition factor : primordial,subconscious?
So easy an artist can do it.
Charlie /:.)