15 Minute Pattern Design in Procreate: Create a Spring Daisy & Strawberry Seamless Pattern for POD

1. Intro: Let's celebrate spring with this fun and fruity pattern design tutorial, where we'll create a cute strawberry and daisy pattern in Procreate. Hi, I'm Julie from Julliard and Designs. For over a decade, I've been creating designs for products like fabric, home decor, and stationery. And since getting an iPad, I've really been loving creating seamless patterns in Procreate. This is a quick and easy creative project for intermediate Procreate users that you can create in under 15 minutes. This class, we'll go over how to draw the strawberry and daisy motifs and then tie them into a seamless pattern using the snapping and magnetics tools in Procreate. I'm also including a free color palette for you to download and use in this class. So get your iPads ready, and let's get started. See you in the class. 2. Creating the Strawberry Pattern: So jumping right into this class, we're going to start by opening up the Procreate app and then hitting the plus sign and creating a new canvas that is 3,500 by 3,500 pixels. And then press Create. Now we're going to grab our Apple pencil and select our color palette, which I've provided in the projects and resources section below the class. So make sure you go ahead and download that. And I'm going to start by using this bright red color and then selecting a brush to use. And now this is totally up to you. I'm just going to use a basic monoline brush and then just increasing the size a little bit. So now I'm just going to go ahead and start drawing some shapes that look vaguely like strawberries. And then filling them in by dragging the color over from the top right and dropping it inside of this shape. And I'm going to do about four or five of these shapes. And then I'm going to go ahead and add a new layer and select my dark green color and then start adding some leafy tops to my strawberry shapes. So I'm just giving it kind of like an organic feel and doing this for all five of my strawberry shapes. And now going back into layers, I'm going to select the strawberry layer and turn on Alpha lock. And then I'm selecting my darker red color here and just making my brush a little bit smaller. And then I'm just going to draw some little dashes on those barry shapes, and these are going to represent the seeds. So I'm just going to go ahead and do this with all of them. And I'm going to go back to layers and select that greenery layer and again, turn on Alpha lock. And then with my lighter green color selected, I'm going to start adding some lighter leaves on top of the dark ones to sort of add some depth. So once I've done that for all of these, I'm going to go ahead and group these two layers together by swiping right on them and then selecting group. And now with the group selected, I'm tapping on my selection tool, and with it on free hand, I'm just selecting that strawberry and moving it around a little bit, rotating it, and then using the free form selection to just change the shape a little bit. And now I'm going to do the same thing with this strawberry and just kind of try to lay them out evenly and edit them to look more natural. So once I'm all done with that, I'm going to add a new layer above. And first, actually, I'm going to click on the background and select this light blue color just so we can see our shapes a little bit nicer. And then click Done. And then go back into our color palettes and select this white color. And now we're going to use the same brush, or you can use a different brush if you'd like. And then on our new layer, I'm going to start drawing some little daisy flowers. So just super simple shape, fill it in so that it's white, and I'm just going to draw a few of these. And now we're going to add another layer on top of that. And using this darker yellow color, I'm going to make some little yellow dots in the middle of each flower. So now we're going to go back into layers and drag the flower layer down into the same group as all the other layers. And then I'm going to swipe left on the group and duplicate the whole group. And then we're going to keep a copy of our original illustration and then tap on the group that we duplicated and select flatten. So now we have all of our motifs on one layer. So now I'm going to take my brush and using the same yellow color, also make sure to turn off Alpha lock on this layer. Now I'm going to fill in all four corners of this layer, just like so, and it doesn't have to be perfect because we'll be erasing this. And then back to our layers panel, we're going to swipe left and then duplicate this layer once. And then using the selection tool, make sure it's on uniform. And then turn on the snapping and magnetics and our other settings all the way to the Max. Now we're just going to drag our pen to the left until it snaps to the middle. Just like that. And make sure you see the orange lines, make sure they're not blue. Sometimes it actually helps to turn off all the other layers if you can't get it to snap properly. And this part is very important. Otherwise, you might get a white line in your pattern, and we don't want that. So make sure you're getting the orange lines. And now we're going to do the same with the other layer, but drag it to the right. So turning off the other layer, I'm going to go ahead and drag it right until it snaps and we see those orange lines just like that. So now we can turn on the other layer and pinch them together so that we have them all on one layer and then go in and erase those yellow triangle shapes. So now we're going to go ahead and fill in this middle section. So I'm actually just going to use the selection tool and select one of these strawberries I've already drawn, and then swipe down with three fingers and select copy and then swipe down with three fingers again and select paste. So now I've got a copy of my strawberry, and I can turn off the snapping and then flip this and just rotate it and play around with it a little bit to make it look more unique. And once I'm happy with that, I'm going to just move things around a little bit to make it look more balanced. And now I'm going to select one of these flowers and again, swipe down with three fingers and select copy and swipe down again with three fingers and select paste to duplicate the flour. And then we're going to move it to this empty space here. And again, I'm going to edit it a little bit, like I did with the strawberry, flip it rotating, scaling, all that sort of stuff. And then I'm going back into the layers panel and I'm pinching all the layers together. And now I'm just going to do that same process one more time with this other flour. So now we're going to pinch all the layers together again, and then we're going to swipe left and duplicate the layer, and then turn off that first layer and save it as a copy. And now I'm going to use the brush tool again, to add those four corners back in again with the yellow. So marking those corners and be careful not to touch your motifs at all. And now we can go back into layers and duplicate this layer and then turn off our first layer. And we're going to turn on snapping again. And then just like we did before, but we're gonna drag the layer down this time until we see those orange lines and then do the same thing with the other layer, but drag up instead of down. And finally, pinching those layers together and erasing the yellow markings. So now we're going to fill in this empty area similarly to how we did before by copying our existing motifs and editing them and just moving things around until they look balanced. So I'll just start by moving around my existing motifs a little bit and turning off the snapping again. And then I'm going to basically do the same thing again of coping and pasting this strawberry and a few flowers to fill in the empty space and just balance everything out nicely. And pinching everything onto one layer. And now you can see we still have a little bit of empty space on the sides here. And now, since we have our motifs covering all four corners, we can go ahead and duplicate this layer, turn off the bottom layer, turning on our snapping and magnetics. We can just drag it to the right. And drag the other layer to the left. And one last time, pinch them together, and then we can fill in this empty space in the middle. So again, I will copy and paste my strawberry motif and move it into the center here, turning off the snapping and then transforming it to fit into this empty space nicely. And then just shift around some of these other elements until it looks nicely balanced. So now we basically have our finished repeat pattern tile, and the final step is going to be to test it out and make sure that everything is lining up properly. And so to do that, I'm going to go back out to my gallery and then click on select select our pattern, and then hit Duplicate. And then click the X to exit out. And now we're going to go into our duplicate file, and we're just going to make it all one layer. And now I'm just going to hold down with one finger to select the background color. And then I'm adding a new layer and dragging it below, and then filling it with that blue color and then merging both layers together. And now I'm going to duplicate this layer three times, so we have a total of four copies. And then with our selection tool and the snapping and magnetics on and uniform selected, as well, I'm going to drag down from the corner this time and snap it so that it's in one quarter of the canvas. So again, make sure you see those orange lines, not the blue and do the same thing with all four layers. So now you can zoom in and just check that your pattern has tiled correctly, and there are no gaps or white lines showing up. And this looks pretty good. So if you do have any white line showing, you may have to go back and just do some of these steps over again. So please make sure that you upload the pattern that you created today to the project section of this class. And if you have any questions, you can ask them in the discussion section below, and I'll be happy to help you. Also make sure you follow me here on Skillshare so you don't miss my next class, and we'll see you there. Cheers.