Class Description
Hello everyone welcome to my latest class. If this your first class with me, welcome! I am Jen Veguilla-Lezan and I’ll be  the one guiding you through this creative course. I’m a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and educator based out of the midwest and I run <a href="http://www.bellasophiacreative.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Bella + Sophia Creative studio</a>. If you want to learn more about me, check out my youtube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCreativeStudio1" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">The Creative Studio</a>. You will get a behind the scenes view of the work I do as a creative freelancer and the work that goes into making classes like this one. I am a huge advocate for sharing knowledge in accessible ways and places like Skillshare and Youtube allow for that and help me to connect to a diverse group of people looking to learn and grow. 
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This month, I wanted to build off of last month’s class and keep exploring our creative skills in Surface Pattern Design. Last month we worked on learning how to build 4 different repeat styles in Affinity Designer for the desktop. This month, we are going to learn some similar concepts, but how to do them in the Affinity Designer app on the iPad. I wanted to share this process on the iPad as the interface is quite a bit different than the desktop interface. I know how important it is for those of you who work on the go to be able to utilize the iPad in your work process and it always helps to keep things streamlined if you can work in the same software, but in different environments like desktop vs. iPad. 
If this is your first foray into my classes relating to surface pattern design or your first time building patterns on the iPad, I highly suggest you check out my previous surface pattern design intensive course. In that course I show you the basics of surface pattern design and building repeats on the iPad. In today’s class, though — we will take that process a little further and explore how to create 2 of the most common surface pattern repeats - the Full Drop repeat but with a twist as we will be creating it in a rectangle format rather than square, and a Half Drop repeat. 
Expanding on the types of patterns you can create helps to add visual interest to your patterns.  Choosing the right pattern repeat for your design will depend on what sort of look and feel you are after. But, the wonderful thing is you can keep experimenting with your repeat layouts until you get the result that you are after. 
 
What the class is about
In this class, I will walk you through my process on how to make 2 of the most common surface pattern designs in Affinity Designer on your iPad. This course will help you understand the process using the interface on the iPad app. The 2 repeats we will review are: the full drop in rectangle format and the half drop repeat. We will work on designing these patterns and creating a seamless repeat using illustrated motifs. We will also touch on some helpful tips to help establish creating strong repeats.
This course is designed to give you all the technical skills you need to start designing the full drop in rectangle format and the half drop repeat using the Affinity designer iPad app. Keep in mind though, it doesn’t go into as much detail as the surface pattern design intensive course I mentioned earlier. This class will get you comfortable building a repeat pattern template, as well as help you learn more about the tools and studios in the iPad app as well as familiarize you with some of the layer effects, geometry functions and transform options that will aid in building a repeating pattern in Affinity Designer right on your iPad
We won’t be going through the entire process of surface pattern design from concept drawing to final pattern, though. Instead we will be focusing on understanding the mechanics behind and constructing each of these pattern repeats. If you want to learn the very basics of surface pattern design using your iPad, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, feel free to check out my Surface Pattern Design intensive course for beginners: Learn How to Create Surface Pattern Designs on the iPad with Affinity Photo + Affinity Designer
Make sure to check out the class resources for your project template, a helpful resource guide on surface pattern design. Here is a link to a Pinterest board with surface pattern design inspiration: <a href="https://pin.it/7E5088x" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://pin.it/7E5088x</a>
If you want to check out some of my surface pattern and other design and illustration work - make sure you check out my shop on Etsy: Bella + Sophia Creative. You can also check out my website at: <a href="http://www.bellasophiacreative.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">www.bellasophiacreative.com</a> or find me over on Spoonflower
Tools needed 
All you need to take this class is an iPad, an apple pencil or stylus the Affinity Designer iPad app installed.
Take my Past Classes 
Surface Pattern Design
<a href="https://skl.sh/3cd1dQo" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Learn to Design Half Drop, Full Drop, Tossed and Brick Seamless Patterns in Affinity Designer</a>
<a href="https://skl.sh/3kY86Ze" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Surface Pattern Intensive: Learn how to create surface pattern designs on the iPad with affinity photo and affinity designer </a>
<a href="https://skl.sh/2KlWrF9" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Fashion trend forecasting 3: Translating trends to product - Surface Pattern Design in Affinity Photo Desktop</a>
<a href="https://skl.sh/351WRad" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Spark AR for Surface Pattern Designers - Create Filters for Instastories using Affinity Designer</a>
Trend Forecasting
<a href="https://skl.sh/2Gvup5B" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Trend Forecasting 1: From Fads to Fashion in the Digital Age</a>
<a href="https://skl.sh/3esUh16" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Trend Forecasting 2: Building the Trend Presentation in Canva</a>

Course Intro

Tools + Class Project

Tips for Designing Strong Repeats

Setting up Your File in Affinity Designer

Setting up the Live Preview

Importing Your Motif Elements

Creating the Full Drop

Testing the Tile

Half Drop File Set Up + Live Preview

Creating the Half Drop

Testing + Exporting Your File

Using the Project Template

Course Outro

RESOURCE-GUIDE.zip

CLASS-PROJECT.zip

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