The Pattern Challenge: 7 Days of Style Exploration

1. Introduction: Welcome to the pattern challenge. In this class, we will explore and grow our creative styles through a fun and beginners friendly challenge. Now let's be honest. Finding your artistic identity takes time and dedication and you won't magically walk out with the unique style after watching this class. It is, however, a great starting point and a really fun challenge that will spark your creativity and help you to reflect on your current style or the style that you want to grow. My name is Maya Faber. I'm a surface pattern designer and educator with a passion for patterns. In this patent challenge, I will guide you through seven days of exercises to explore different art styles and grow. As a pattern designer, you can watch one lesson per day for seven days or complete the class in one day, if that is what you prefer. This class is for those of you who already have a basic understanding of how to create a pattern. If you need to learn the fundamentals, check out my other classes here on skill share. For example, create an irritable pattern in procreate with calibrations, which is a great beginners friendly class. I will be using procreate to make patterns in this class, but you can use any other materials or apps that you prefer. I've included some free downloads for you. You will get a workbook that we will be using in class. If you are using procreate, be sure to check the links in the class description for some free procreate goodies on my website, including free procreate brushes and color palettes. By the end of this class, you will not only grow your panasi skills, but also have gained valuable insights about your creativity that you can use to cultivate your unique style. If you're looking to boost your style even further. After watching this class, I recommend checking out Pattern Rebels, which is my membership, where members get exclusive access to monthly pattern design classes. Free, procreate resources, feedback, and sessions with me. Fun challenges, daily drawing prompts and much more. Go to Pattern Rebels.com to learn more. If you're ready to watch this class, let's jump right in and get started. 2. Your Project: Your project in this class is to create patterns for each of the prompts that are sharing class. It will be amazing to see seven days of patterns from all of you, of course. But I totally understand if it can feel overwhelming to share so many patterns here as a project, share a few or as many as you wish. It would also be amazing to hear a line or two about your reflections. Check out the workbook and the daily reflections to learn more. 3. Downloads & Resources: I've included a free workbook in this class with some questions for you to answer and reflect over for both each of the prompts as well as a final reflection session at the end of the challenge. This workbook is made for you and your eyes only. Use it as you wish. Print it out or write directly in the PDF. The workbook is available to download at the projects and resources tab hearing class. If you use procreate, I recommend checking out the links in the description of the class to get my free procreate goodies on my website such as program brushes and cal pets. Go to Maya Favor.com slash freebies to download throughout the class. I'm using Pintrest Boards for inspiration. I made these boards specifically for you my students in this class, so that you can use them to explore different art styles. Feel free to just stick to using these pre made boards. Or if you want to take a step further, you can gather even more inspiration for the different art styles for yourself. 4. Materials: In this class, I'm using my procreate 12.9 inch ipad from 2022 with an Apple pencil and a paper like screen protector. You can use an ipad with Procreate like me or any other device or app, or any other analog material that you wish. I will not guide you through how to create patterns in procreate. In this class, we will focus on the exploration of style. If you want to use procreate, but don't know how to create a pattern inpprocrate, I recommend watching a few of my other skillet classes on pattern design before you watch this one. Such as, for example, create an editable pattern, improcreate with color variations, or three ways to create a half drop pattern in procreate. For those of you who are wondering about my standard canvas size for creating patterns, it is a 3,000 pixels square that I use here in class, you can use any procreate brushes that you prefer. In this class, I will use various procreate brushes from me and my husband's brand Faber Company. You can find some of them as free downloads on my website. Some of them will be exclusive for the members in my Pattern Rebels membership. I will name each brush when I draw with it and where to get it in each lesson. As I know that this is a common question, For inspiration, I've made a Pinterest board. For each art style that we will explore, you will find links to the boards in the description of the class. 5. Overview: How to Watch the Class: In this class, we are exploring and experimenting with inspiration from different art styles to grow our own unique styles. We are exploring seven prompts from seven different art styles. The class is built up so that you can watch one lesson per day and spend time to really hone in on that art style during that day. But you can also of course, watch all lessons at once in one day as well. Then you can dive into the exploration and creation in just one day, whichever way you prefer. Works great. After drawing each prompt, we will stop and reflect and ask ourselves three questions. Number one, what do you like most about this pattern that you have drawn? Number two, what challenges did you face while creating this pattern? Number three, how does this pattern fit into your evolving style? As a pattern designer, when we grow and instead of just continue on in a fast pace and work through the prompts, we will take some time to think about what we have learned while creating this pattern. These are the daily reflections which you can find in the workbook. You will also find the final reflections in the workbook, which we will talk more about and walk through at the end of this class. After creating each of the patterns, take a moment to fill in the reflections of that prompt and leave the last part of the workbook until we have finished creating all of the patterns. I will guide you through all of this throughout the class. For each of the prompts, we will start with having a look at the art style. We will check out the inspiration board together and shortly talk about the style and some other features of the style incorporate in art designs. Note though, that I am not an art history teacher and all styles aren't historical styles. Some styles are, for example, just using materials I have gathered, styles that I feel are a good exercise to grow your pattern design styles. And we won't dive really deep into theory. The lessons will start with me explaining the styles a bit, and then we will together dive into how to create a pattern in this style. As I mentioned before, this is not a class about how to create the actual patterns. And I won't at all go through patent techniques or methods in this class. I will rather invite you into my process to see how I would take on this art style. If you want to learn the fundamentals, check out my other classes here on skill share. One very important thing to mention is that at the core of this class is to analyze and reflect over how different art styles and artists create patterns. The patterns that you create in this class are not made to be shared anywhere else, except here on skill share and under the Project and Resources tab. You can, of course, work with your patterns, create and rework to make them uniquely. But as we are heavily going to copy other artists work here to understand different art styles and different ways of creating. It is not okay to share these patterns anywhere else online. I know that you might feel urged to share them on Instagram, but people don't always read the captions, which is where you would mention that this is an exercise and a piece that is inspired by other artists. Please stick to only sharing your patterns here in this class on skill share. With all of that said, let's get started. 6. Drawing Prompts: In this class, I talk about creating a pattern from a drawing prompt each day. And it might get confusing that I talk about drawing prompts and art styles. I just want to make it clear in this very short lesson that the prompt for each day is to create a floral pattern in that art style of that day or that lesson. If we are looking at the bold and colorful lesson, your prompt is to create a floral pattern in the bold and colorful style I have chosen. To give you prompt to create floral patterns in all art styles. That way, it will be easier for you to compare the different styles as we draw the same type of motif. 7. Day 1: Bold and Colorful - Overview of Style: Welcome to the first art style. I hope that you are as excited as me to get this challenge started. The first style that we will create in is bold and colorful. I have named this style myself, but it's all about immersing yourself in a world of vibrant colors and playful shapes. And it's about bringing emotions to simplified elements. Let's go over some features of the bold and colorful style. The bold and colorful art embraces a vibrant, lively, and intense color palette. Imagine vibrant red, electric blues, sunny yellows, and lush greens. There's a lot of primary colors here. In this style, we use organic and flowing shapes. You will find playful curves and irregular forms that can represent figures, objects, or elements from nature. While the art is bold, it also values simplicity. It takes complex objects and simplifies them into their essential shapes. The bold and colorful art is known for its dynamic compositions. Elements seem to dance or flow across the design, which create a sense of movement and energy. Find inspiration in objects from your everyday life in nature or figures, such as, for example, the human body or animals. We are transforming these ordinary elements into simplified colorful shapes. 8. Day 1: Bold and Colorful - Let's Draw: Start to sketch and draw our prompt for the bowling colorful art style. I will head over to Pinterest and check out the Pinterest mood board for the bowling colorful art style. Here I have gathered a bunch of inspiration for you. You can, of course, gather more inspiration for yourself, or if you tap one of these images, you will probably find even more inspiration below that image. I will use this board as general inspiration, but at the same time will probably be pretty close to some of the shapes and the colors that other artists have created on these images. That is why I don't want you to share these patterns that you create any other place than in Skillshare. And in this class, let's just start. I will tap the three dots at the top of my ipad and tap Split View and head into procreate here. I will swipe so that my Pinterest window is a little bit smaller, then I have my inspiration on the left and I can draw on the right for this pattern. I could sketch some shapes if I want to, just to get a feel for what type of shapes that we are using and talking about in this style. To sketch, I'm using the perfect pencil. This is a brush that is free for the members in my pattern ribbles membership and you can also find it in our Faber company. Takes the brush set on my website. Here, let's just try some shapes. We will sketch a floral pattern. We will draw a floral pattern. Here I want to check out how the bowl and colorful style makes floral shapes. As we can see, it's really simplified shapes. This is a good example where we have a bunch of different floral shapes. I would just start to sketch these. You don't need to start with a sketch if you don't want to, but I just want to do that to get a feel for the shapes of the style. Oops, on a new layer, I will try to sketch some really loose flowers and try to keep it like, rough, maybe, something like that. I think that I want to have some stems in this pattern. I'm looking at the inspiration here, but I'm not coping straight off it. But at the same time, I'm trying to see how these shapes are drawn. You can have some flowing shapes and it can be really irregular in the edges of the brush stroke and things like that. Just scroll through a little bit. I really like this one by Clare Ricci. Super nice style and super nice pattern. Let's continue. I will try to draw some other floor shapes there and maybe one of those, a little more like tulip like. I haven't really decided yet how I want this pattern to be, but now I feel that it might be nice to use the stems and the leaves as well. I will actually just select the flowers here and just drag them out to delete them and then continue on this style that I really like. It's something that is inspired by the Cla Richie piece, but at the same time with different flower shapes. Yeah, just trying to find some different inspiration here. Here's another one, really nice by Clachi. Let's just continue with this. Maybe I want the stems and the leaves on each flower here, but I can just get a feel for where I want the flowers to be. This one will continue out on the edge, over on the other side. I can do that later on when I repeat the pattern, something like that, and then that stem will go down there. Maybe I want large leaves. I probably want some flower here, maybe one like that again. Then I want to stem going down there. Something there. Let's another one over here in this pattern. I'm trying to keep it loose. Just trying to fill in the gaps with my almost like irregular shapes. I'm trying to experiment and just see how can I get the same feel in the pattern as the rough and irregularity that you have in these floral shapes. Here's another one in this style that's by Jessica Nielsen. It's super nice style that she has. Okay, now we have a bunch of inspiration. It's time to get this pattern repeated. As you can see, I'm doing this really, really quickly now. I'm going to keep my Pinters inspiration on the left. And then I'm going to repeat this pattern. I will tap on the layers panel, tap the, I will repeat this. I am using my pattern perfect templates, which are free for the members in my paternables membership. But if you've been watching any other of my more beginners friendly pattern making classes here on skillshare or in my membership, you know how to create these types of patterns with the selections. Let's move on and sketch more motives here. There we will have something that go down there. That one turned out pretty nice. Let's do another flower over there, something like that, then This one can go there may be stem going down there. I think that this is good. Now, I probably want to make sure that the edges on the left and the right and the top and the bottom have a good flow in it. I will actually repeat it again then just doing like that, and now I can flip it around once again. Okay. So we have something missing over here. I will just add a leaf there. I think somehow maybe like that, maybe that looks a little bit weird. I could also make this flower a little bit larger. Okay. I think that this looks good. I have something going on there. Just fix that. Okay. Now I have the basic shapes of the pattern. And I will start to draw. I will just bring down the opacity and start to draw my pattern. As I mentioned before, this isn't the class about how to create a pattern with the techniques and the method and things like that. I won't talk you through exactly how to draw or how to create the pattern. I will talk you through my thinking process and how I explore this style. If you want to learn more about how to create the specific patterns, check up my other classes here on skillshare that are more beginners friendly on this pattern. I will actually draw with the selection tool. I will try to see what type of colors that are used in this style. And it seems to be really bright and colorful and a lot of primary colors like this, apples, super nice colors there. It's almost like the colors of the Posca pens, if you've been using those. Let's start. I want to use. An orangey color. I'm just going to try off some colors. I can always change them later on. Let's just draw this flower. I'm trying to be real quick with the selection tool so that I get these rough edges here. I'm just going to use the monoline brushes from my free Procri brushes. You can download on my website to fill in the gaps that I get. But the selection tool, then, let's see, the selection tool again, I will continue but with another color and then another one. I'm trying to find different colors for the different floral shapes here. I'm trying out the green for the stems. And then I want to move over to some more flowers. I would really like to have a color, this one should be pink. I want to have one more flower in another color, may be yellow. Okay. So something like that. And then maybe I want to fill in something on top of the flowers. Maybe I should just use white for that. Black seems to be pretty common as well. Let's try black. I will add a layer. Oops, I know that I want to save these colors. Don't forget that if you are creating a pattern so that you can easily fetch your colors later on, I'm continuing with black, making the details a little bit smoother. I know that's supposed to be rough, but it's a little bit too rough on some places like that. And then going into the stem layer, I will draw this one. I don't know exactly how I will fill in the gaps on all of these. Maybe I want that to go even further up. Let's try that out. And then seems to be something over there. Now I'm going to repeat the pattern to be able to fill in the, for me, this type of exercise, going in a quick pace. Because I'm creating a class out of this, so it will be pretty boring for you to follow me along for several hours. But also because I think that we are trying things out and experimenting. And it's okay if you create patterns really quickly and if the details aren't perfect, because we're just experimenting here. We are not creating a finished pattern. Okay, moving on. Let's see. That flower could probably be blue. Let's just fit that colors that. I'm filling that in. That one could probably be yellow, just filling in the gap there. Yellow layer like that. And then we have another one here that could probably be orange. On the green layer, I will create the stems and leaves. I really enjoy this way of drawing in this style with the selection tool, because it's not supposed to be like perfect strokes. That's a liberating way of drawing. That's good. And then going into the black one, fixing the details a little bit, then I'm going to repeat it again. Oops, If you have a color fill selected, you won't be able to select the group you see. Now that I've made the orange and the yellow on the same layers, I will just make sure to have all they all the colors on separate layers and then I can go to the green layer. Actually, I think I'm pretty done with inspiration now. So I will just swipe away Pinterest so that I have my whole window. Now I can tap the group again and create the last leaves and the stem of that flower. Okay, turning off the sketch layer, and let me see how this looks. I really like the look of this. Let's, I just want to have like a cream white background instead of the super white like that. Probably then I'm going to try this pattern out in my pattern tester on my website. I'm swiping down with three fingers, Tapio, swipe down with three fingers paste. Have the image flattened over there. I'm dragging it up, tapping the three little dots, split view. I have Safari as my browser, and you can find this patent tester on my website. I will also link to it in the description of this class. No tap and drag my image, I'm trying out my pattern. If you're using procreate or any other app on your ipad or computer, it's really nice to try your pattern out in the pattern tester. I really, really like the look of this. It's not a perfect pattern. I can see one spot that I'm not really happy with. I'm just going to head over to procreate again, and I think it's over there. I'm just going to fix that one. It's that one in the middle there, the stem, that doesn't go fully below the other flower. Let me fix that. I want this one to probably go down there and then just fill it in. Okay. I'm going to try this pattern out inpropriate as well. I will sit down with your fingers, tap, copy all. Sit down with your fingers. Tap, paste there. I will duplicate this. I will tap the selection tool, make sure that I have magneticentnapping turn on. But first I will type in 1,500 pixels when I have the chain symbol taped on so that I gather half of the size of the pattern to the top left corner. And then I will duplicate it, tap and drag, place it at the top right corner. Merge these layers together and duplicate it just to see how my pattern is repeated. This is my pattern and I'm super happy with the result. Let me just tap split view and pin dress to see the inspiration and where it ended. I really enjoy this pattern. I think it's super nice and I like the rough edges. 9. Day 1: Bold and Colorful - Reflect: Now we have drawn the whole pattern. And I'm happy with the result. If I would have created this pattern to use for something to sell or whatever, I would have spent more time with it. But now I'm experimenting with this style. And the pattern doesn't need to be perfect or sellable or anything like that. Now it's time to reflect and let's head over to the workbook which you can download in this class. I have just opened up my workbook in files in on my ipad, but you can open it up in your computer where it's writable with your keyboard. You can write directly in it on your computer. You might also be able to do that on your ipad. You can also, like me here, for example, use your Apple pencil and just write in it. You can also of course, print it out after each art style. Let's answer these questions. The first question that we will ask about the bold and colorful art style is, what do you like the most about this pattern? That is both about what I liked about how to create it, and also what I liked about the end result. What I really like about this pattern is the look and the rough edges and stroke I like to draw with the selection tool. What do I like more? I like the colors, bright colors. I also really like the simplified shapes. Maybe you can't read my handwriting, but that's perfectly fine. Because this workbook is just for your eyes. This is supposed to be only for my eyes. But I am just walking you through here. What to think about with these questions and how we can reflect about the pattern that you just draw. The next question is, what challenges did you face while creating this pattern? The challenge is to keep it irregular is a challenge for me and also to stay out of creating perfect shapes. Maybe other challenges. It might be hard to get the emotions in the shapes. The really good patterns that are made in this style is, at least my opinion, is that those have really nice emotions in them. It's hard to emotions in shapes, It's hard to get the emotions in the shapes and maybe it's hard to figure out shapes that aren't floral shapes, where to find inspiration except floral shapes. Okay, then moving on, how does this pattern fit into your evolving style? As a pattern designer, here we are supposed to think, what can I take from this exercise to my own style? Do I want to take something in my own growing style? Or do I want to do that? That could, for example, be love the colors you usually create with muted colors and these are really bright. Maybe you want to use more bright colors. Maybe you also like the irregularity with the strokes. Irregular, maybe imperfect shapes. That might be something that you want to take from this exercise and use more in your own style. Now we have reflected about this pattern that we have created, and it's time to move on to the next pattern. 10. Day 2: Geometric - Overview of Style: Let's dive into the geometric art style now. Geometric is a huge style and the inspiration can come from everything, from rock and tiles, modern urban architecture, or even plants or crystals. But we are going to break it down and explore the core elements that define geometric art. The features of the geometric art. The colors are often carefully chosen to create contrast and visual impact. Often we use a few colors, and you'll see combinations like bold black and white, vibrant primary colors, but even muted tones for a subtle, but contrasting and powerful effects. Geometric art is all about shapes. Think squares, triangles, circles, and straight lines. But even simplified floral shapes. These shapes are the building blocks of the geometric compositions. Geometric art strikes a balance between simplicity and complexity. It can start with basic shapes and evolve into intricate designs. How you arrange and repeat these shapes will affect the simplicity or complexity of the pattern. The composition of geometric art is about arranging shapes thoughtfully. The placement, scale, and orientation of each element contribute to the overall harmony. Symmetry and asymmetry are carefully considered to achieve a balanced and visually engaging result. Geometric art draws inspiration from various sources. Moroccan tiles, with their intricate and symmetrical designs is a huge inspiration for at least me. However, there are so many sources for geometric design, such as modern urban architecture. The natural symmetry that you find in plants or crystals, or even geometric everyday items in your home. 11. Day 2: Geometric - Let's Draw: Let's draw the geometric pattern in the geometric art style. I'm going to head into Pinterest again and the geometric board. Let's see what type of inspiration we will find for this pattern. We will also draw flowers. Actually, I'm thinking that we will draw flowers in all art styles because that way it's easier to compare the different styles. I want to find some geometric floral shape, like for example, this one could work. So if we want to keep it really simple, we could do this one, which I think actually is really cute. I think I'm going to do something like that. Let's head into procreate and open up our split view Pinterest. I'm finding my inspiration here. I am actually going to keep it super simple and do this one. I am just going to start to sketch, actually I'm going to use the symmetry tool that is available in Create. It's the drawing guide. As a drawing guide and symmetry and I want to quadrant there. Then I also probably want to make sure that I have the quick shape setting set on something so that I can use geometric shapes when I draw. You could just start with this without sketching, But I am going to sketch anyway, because I think it's often easier to understand my thoughts myself when I sketch, before I draw the actual pattern. Let's just start to sketch. We want some center here. Some center, then let's see what we can do. Some floral shape. Maybe three. Yeah, that looks nice. One trying out different floral shapes now, but I think I'm going to keep it like the one on the image, maybe something like that. That maybe this isn't perfectly symmetrical. Maybe. But I'm just trying out the shapes here. I think that that looks good. Then I can actually turn on the other drawing guides just to see the size here. I'm just going to type in like that and then just check out where I want this flower to go. I'm just dragging down the opacity on that layer. I'm actually going to draw on a new layer. I think that I want to go out there. We have drawing a system. That one, yeah, but we don't have the symmetries. I'm going to draw the little lines here so that I make sure that my shapes are perfectly symmetrical. Then I'm going to draw maybe the center circle. And maybe the flowers should go out to half of the size of the, like that maybe. Oops. Okay, now that, and then I may be, want to also make a little mark there that I know that the flower is going to go in there. Then I will turn on the drawing, get again with the symmetry, and now I can draw my actual shape. Now I have a sketch and I have the guides to create this symmetric shape. I have found enough inspiration of the Pinter board, because this is a S shape and a super simple pattern will swipe Pinter away so that I can draw this shape. Let's start on a new layer and I also want this layer to be assisted. Then I want to draw my shape here. Let's see what colors I want to use. Maybe I need to use Pintrest to find some color inspiration here. I could use any colors really. But let me just see what I want to. Maybe blue and white is like soft, blue and white maybe, or green. Not sure, Maybe this one is nice. You could use any types of colors for geometric patterns. But let's just find something that we like. I can't really decide. I think I'm going to get inspired by something here. Maybe this one. I like the colors of this one. Let me just sketch out some colors. First, I will use the mono line from our free procreate brushes on my website. And then I can just use like a green color, Turquoise, green, maybe like a used color, something like that, maybe. And should we have a lighter and maybe a yellow, maybe more mustard, yellow. I'm not sure if I like that one. Maybe darker. That might be nice. Let's just try that out. I will save these colors, then I will just turn off that layer and swipe away Pinterest. Again, shape the basic shape, I will use the monoline brush. That's from our five procreate brushes that you can download on my website. On that I want to draw the flow. I'm not sure which colors I want to use. I'm just going to start. I hope that it's, it's assisted. And then I'm going to go down in size to maybe around 10% there. I'm going to start to draw like that maybe. But I wanted to meet up were there and I want to hold the shape so that I get a perfect shape. Then I could, if I want to use the same shape, I could just duplicate that one and rotate it two times. Then I get a perfect symmetric shape. Then let's continue with merging those. I want to add a new layer and the assist on that layer as well. Let's just to use another one of the colors. Will the green color here? Maybe I want to draw like the center, like that. Then on another layer, I will draw the small flowers here. Maybe a little bit smaller, maybe like that. I'm not completely sure, just filling that in so that I can fill in the shape like that. And then I can drag that one below the other one and fill in that shape. And then the next shape, fill that one in. Then I can turn off the sketch. I can see now that I'm not perfectly happy with the colors, maybe this one, let's just try another background color. Maybe like a brighter green. And then I want this one to be maybe white. Yeah, that want to be a little bit more green. This looks nice. Happens if I fill that in. No, I don't think I want that one white. Okay, let's turn off the drawing guide here and let's see. I think that this looks nice. I'm not super happy with the colors. I think that I also want to add something else. Let's just add a layer there and I will tap Drawing Assist here. I will actually just try to add something maybe in the darker green color and just draw on like a line or something here. Not sure what I want to do, but I wanted to add something else to make it a little bit more complex. Maybe that looks good. I can just move down that line over there somewhere. Maybe I will actually just duplicate this and rotate. It could merge, then I could just connect it here somehow. Now I'm just styling with geometric shapes here. I'm not sure what I'm doing. I think maybe want to connect it somehow. Maybe it's like a round like that, might be nice. Yeah, that looks good. And then maybe I want to add some center here on the assisted layer, turn on the drawing guide. Maybe something like that. Now I'm starting to like this, turn off the drawing at again, maybe what happens if we add the yellow background? That looks nice. Yeah, I like this, but I think that it's a bit too simple. I want to add something more, so I'm going to head back to Pinterest. Again, I'm going to try to find some inspiration for details to add to make it more interesting. Maybe it could be like texture or dots or something else. Let's just try to add some dots, maybe layer on the drawing gate. Again, I think that I will use the paler green color for this. I can add some dots here now. I'm just like free styling to try to make the pattern a bit more interesting then duplicating that like that. And that looks nice. And then should we add something else? Maybe we should try to change the colors of these to the lighter green color. Now I'm starting to like this and turn off the drawing guide. Yeah, I like where this is now. Now I will just try out the patterns. I will swipe down with your finger, tap, copy. All swipe down with your finger. Tap, paste. And then I will tap split View. And try it out in the pattern tester. Drag it into the patent tester. That looks pretty cool actually. It could be also nice to make a fake half pattern out of this or to add something in the middle. You could do that. Let's say that we want to add something in the middle. I will actually just duplicate all of the duplicate. Then group I will create the pattern of it. That might be nice with like an overlapping shape, but that's not the look that I'm after. I'm going to grab that one and just bring it in smaller and bring it to the center. You could also turn on the drawing guide so that you know that you're in the center. Should be the center now. I think I'm happy with that. I will swipe down with three fingers, copy all this time we can try the pattern out in procreate. I will just turn off the drawing guide swipe to the right and use half of the size of the canvas to make the pattern smaller and then just see how it repeats. I'm pretty happy with this result. This is my final pattern for the geometric art style. I think that you could definitely make these more interesting and with more texture and everything like that. But let's just have a look at the inspiration and see where we are compared to the inspiration. I think that compared to the inspiration, my pattern here looks a little bit flat. What I really like with the other ones here are the texture, like the tile texture. Maybe that is something that I would like to add later on. We can add that when we reflect about this pattern. But anyway, now we have created this pattern and it's finished. Let's just explore it like that, Save the image, and then you can share it as a project here in class. 12. Day 2: Geometric - Reflect: Now it's time to reflect about what we enjoyed creating this pattern. I will head into the workbook and let's see what we can write here. What do you like the most about this pattern? I like the simplicity, for example. It can be that you enjoy drawing geometric shapes or anything like that. I like to use few colors. I like how quick you can make these patterns. As I use procreate, it's easy. With the symmetry tool, it's fun to use the symmetry tool. That might be something that I like with this pattern. What challenges did you face? I thought it was a lit with the colors to get them right when the pattern was so simple and geometric. I also thought that it was hard to make it interesting. I would probably like to add takes during the future or something like that hopes, then move on to how does this pattern fit into your evolving styles? A pattern designer, well, I'm not super into complete geometric shapes, but I like to quickly be able to create a simple pattern. Maybe the speed can be something that I like can also use it to create blender patterns. I can really see that speed to create blender prints. Blender prints are the simplest of patterns. Maybe that is something that I like. Maybe I also like to use limited color palette. That was it for the geometric art style. Let's move on to the next one. 13. Day 3: Scandinavian - Overview of Style: Next we are creating a pattern in the Scandinavian art style, which is a design and art movement known for its simplicity, functionality, and connection to nature. The color palette of Scandinavian art and design is simple and peaceful. It usually consists of soft, muted colors like whites, grays, pastels, and light woody tones. This palette evokes a feeling of calmness and openness, which reminds us of the peaceful beauty of Nordic landscapes. Some signature elements for the Scandinavian style is simple lines and minimalistic shapes that create a clean and elegant look. Scandinavian art balances simplicity and complexity by focusing on functionality and minimalism. The design may seem simple, but they often incorporate thoughtful details and craftmanship to add depth and sophistication. Scandinavian art and design focuses on simplicity and minimalism. Also in the composition, you can often see open layouts with a lot of negative space. The artwork often features balanced compositions and highlights the important elements. The use of negative space brings out the sense of calmness and order. Scandinavian art and design draw inspiration from the beauty of nature, earthy colors, natural materials and organic forms can be used as an inspiration. As well as clean lines, simple shapes, and the use of negative space. 14. Day 3: Scandinavian - Let's Draw: Let's start to draw the Scandinavian art style pattern. I am hitting to Pinterest to the Scandinavian art style board. Here I will find some inspiration. Generally, Scandinavian art style is, as we said, like muted colors or earthy colors, a really calm and clean design as we are trying to stick to the floral theme. For all of the prompts, I am going to draw a floral pattern in Scandinavian style. I'm thinking that I'm going to do this classic Memco pattern, probably. This is also like a version of that one. But let's just go for the classic Romco style and translate that into a new pattern. I will head into procreate, tab, split view, Procreate, here I have, I'm actually just going to be inspired by this pattern for this art style, then I can check out the colors, maybe if I want to change the colors later on, but I could check out the colors from the other patterns here. But generally, there's a lot of muted colors. Maybe I want to get inspired by this Stelen Bay style with like the green and the black and white. That might be nice, but for this floral pattern, I will actually try it out. The green and white and the black, maybe. Let's see, let's head into the Mermeco pattern then I will start to draw here. I will start with the sketch again with the perfect pencil from our Faber company. Takes the brush set and it's also available for free for the members in my pattern Bose membership. But let's just try, I'm guessing that this pattern bill will be really similar to the original. But let's just try to draw something that reminds us of the Romco Floral, a very famous pattern. This might be a little bit similar to the bold and colorful pattern, but let's see if we can find some differences as well. But I am going to draw these flowers. I'm not sure how many flowers I want. Maybe this will be too many. Yeah. Because I don't want to draw this for. I'm actually going to increase the size of that a little bit, then just add a flower here. Maybe it seems like they are really dense together, but at the same time, on some areas there's some space as well. I will just strike that one out. I didn't like that one. I deleted it. It should be pretty irregular. Looks a little bit of air in between so that I can get those stems there. Maybe something like this. I don't want them in a straight row over here. And maybe something over there, maybe something over here. This turned out really damps but it might work anyway. Maybe that one should be over here instead. This one could maybe go up like that. I'm trying to keep this loose, but at the same time, it's hard to be too loose in the sketch because I still want to make the pattern work. Okay, but maybe that's good. And then I'm going to create the pattern of it to see where we can fill in the gaps. Then drawing on the sketch layer, again, trying to fill in the gaps. Maybe something like that, I'm not sure. Maybe a small flower there. Now that didn't work, I'll actually just erase this one a little bit and try to get two flowers in this space here feels a little bit dense, but It will probably be good. It will probably work. I don't want too much empty space somewhere because that way it will look really, really unbalanced. Let's try to add some stems here and there. Something super simple, I think like that. That's probably good. Now it's time to create the pattern. I might want to make this a little bit wider. We can fix that in the repeat later on. Now it's time to draw my motives. I think that I want to maybe do like a green, black, and white. Let me see. I'm really inspired by this Stein design. Maybe the background could be green and the flowers white. Let's just try that out. I am trying to get some little bit forest green. That was too much forest for my taste. That too, a little bit more blue in there. I like that. Then on the top layer, I will start to draw. I think that I will, I will try to use the mono line tapered brush that's also available for free on my website. 53 procreate brushes, the monoline tapered, and I'm going to use white. I'm just going to save that green over there. I'm going to use white, the monoline tapered. And then I'm just going to drag the sketch above and draw beneath it. Now, I don't really need pentest anymore. I'm going to swipe that away. Now I'm going to draw the flowers. I starting out with some shapes compared to the bolden colorful style. I'm using a brush here and not the selection tool, because the edges seem to be a little bit smoother than with the selection tool. But at the same time, I wanted this supersymmetrical florals. That can be a little bit tricky because often for me at least, it feels like it's easier to draw a symmetrical, smooth lines then drawing these irregular shapes. I'm just experimenting here and I'm just trying to fill in the gaps here with the flowers following the sketch. But not exactly like the sketch. I'm thinking that it might be really dynamic and organic look if I just continue quickly with these shapes and just really quickly bubbly shapes that looks like the Merrimco floral shapes, that one looks strange. I don't like that one. Let's start new there. Okay. Maybe something like that. Oops, didn't I close that over there? Okay, maybe we have one here. We can draw on this before we repeat it like that. And then I'm going to turn off the sketch. I think I will. Yeah. I'm going to try to do black as the centerpieces here. Yeah, I think that, that might work. I'm drawing in the outlines first, then I'm going to fill them all in. I'm trying to keep it loose, but I'm not sure how it's going. Let's see when we reach the results. Okay, that looks good. And I want to turn on the sketch. And I'm going to actually add the stems here as well. At the bottom of the florals like this, maybe where is this one going? Maybe here. Those are two straight, I'm not sure. We will see. When we are finished. This one could go down there as well. Probably. Okay, then we're going to repeat flipping it around so that we can fill out the empty space. Flipping it around and drawing on this layer with the white starting with the floral shapes, fill them in with the color fill later on. I know that if you're not using procreate, nothing of what I'm talking about, procreate techniques matter to you. But for those of you who are using procreate, I still want to mention some of these things. Okay, filling it in. Now we need the black layer. The black color. You can turn off the sketch and just draw in black dots there. And on the stem layer will maybe add like that. I'm not sure if I like that, Maybe like that, like that. Okay. Then I am going to repeat it again because I'm suspecting that we have a white space over here, a negative space. I'm just going to repeat it once again. I was right. So we are going to expand this flower a little bit. That will probably look better. Maybe even this one. This one, maybe this one. That is blank space over there. Okay, this looks good. Now you can go into the details and see if you want to add something, maybe to balance out the pattern like I'm doing here. Yeah, I think it's ready to be tried in the patent tester. I'm going to do that. Swipe with three fingers copy. All swipe down with three fingers paste. And I'm going to split view to my website to the patent test. And I'm dragging in the pattern, procreate away and assuming in and out on the pattern, I think that this looks good. There are probably some details that I would like to change or actually a lot of details that I would like to change if I would have made this as a that I want to use for something. One thing that I want to try out is to change the colors to more like muted colors. If I go to Pinterest and see I want to have these like maybe like these colors, big black. Let's try it out. On the background layer, I will go for some beige color. Maybe a little bit more brown, maybe even a little bit darker. That looks nice. And then I'm going to go on that layer and just trying out a darker color. Or maybe if we go for a darker brown and the background, you could go for a lighter brown on flowers. I am not sure how I want this palant to be. Let's go into Pinterest. Again, it seems like there's a lot of white backgrounds here. We have a base background and blue flowers. Maybe I should try that one out. Base background, the flowers could be some blue. Not that blue. Like a darker blue. Then how was it that pattern there was a white. I forgot that. That is what I'm feeling. I forgot the little.in the center, I'm actually going to draw that in Strange. But let's draw that in with white because that will give me more contrast. Maybe like that. Yeah. Now, it looks much better. So strange I had it in the sketch, but I lost it when, when I was drawing the final motives. Adding the white on all of the flowers here. And then I need to repeat the pattern to be able to feel this in. Add those in. The other parts, I'll just delete that one and then I'm going to repeat it. Then we'll actually learn something. Or I learned something, maybe you didn't forget that part. But I learned something about the style, that if we just add one more contrasting color there, it will be much more like pop. It will be a much more interesting pattern. We're using few colors, muted colors. But we work with contrast to make it more interesting. That is definitely something that's good to learn. I'm just going to fetch that last flower there and that one, we are probably finished now. I will do once again, copy all paste and try it out in my parent. Yeah, I really like this. I think it looks nice. I'm going to keep it like this now. I am going to try it out in procreate, duplicating the image and making it half of the size. Then I'm going to tap and drag to repeat it like that. Now we have our finished Scandinavian floral pattern. Let's check out our Pinter s board to see the similarity. This is really similar. This would definitely go as a copy, I would say, especially with the colors and everything, but also with the stems and the floral shapes. And yeah, we should definitely not use this any other, place them on skill share. We are just doing this for learning purpose. Okay, I think that we reach pretty far in the Scandinavian art style. Again, this is a quick pattern. You could create a panel like this for hours to really hone in on the style. This is our finished pattern. Now it's time to reflect. But first we will export the file so that we can share it in class. I'm saving the image. 15. Day 3: Scandinavian - Reflect: Now it's time to reflect a little bit about this pattern. I'm heading into my workbook, I'm writing in the file. What do you like most about this pattern? I like that it's simple, seem to like the simplicity and everything that I do that's also very aligned to my style. That's not a surprise. I also like the contrasting colors. How much you can do with just a little change, what we call this. I'm just going to write that how much you can do with a simple color change. I like that clean and simple shapes, just like the style and simple. Okay. What challenges did you face while creating this pattern? I think it's hard to make really irregular shapes. It can be hard to find the colors and contrast, maybe whatever else you, challenges that you faced when you created this pattern, how does this pattern fit into your evolving style? As a pattern designer, I feel that this is a little bit similar to the bold and colorful. This pattern fits into my style as it's bold and minimalistic and also few colors. Okay, that's enough for me, but you can give it a little bit more thought. And write a little bit about how you enjoy creating this pattern, what challenges you faced, and also what you can take from creating this pattern into your growing style. Now it's time for the next pattern. 16. Day 4: Retro - Overview of Style: It's time to draw a pattern in the retro art style. This is a style that is inspired by the design aesthetics of the past decades, which brings a nostalgic feel. It celebrates the iconic looks of the past with colors, distinctive shapes, and a hint of vintage charm. Retro art is known for its bold and playful colors, often very colorful. And depending on the style within Retro there can be brighter hues or softer and moody hues. Retro art is known for its unique use of geometric shapes, starbursts and bold typography, flower power, rainbows, mushrooms, and all things. Hippy style. Retro art achieves a balance between simplicity and complexity. It does this by using clean lines and uncomplicated shapes along with intricate patterns and textures. The composition of retro art is usually balanced with symmetry and repetition. These elements create harmony and visual appeal, which directs the eyes to important design elements. The inspiration of retro art is from the design aesthetics of around 1940s to the 1970s. Think flower power, rainbows, mushrooms, and starburst. Fine inspiration in for example, home decor from these eras, such as wallpaper and textiles. 17. Day 4: Retro - Let's Draw: Let's have a look at the retro art style Pinterest board. This style is all about getting that nostalgic feel to the patterns. You can go in different directions. You can go in like flower power era or a more like muted style like this one. But I am going to go for this style. I think like outlined floral shapes. I think that this might be a fun pattern to create. I can see that there's different flowers, but there is a lot of outlined flowers in this style. This one is super nice as well. I really like this one. Okay, let's go for this one. I think it will be fan, then I will split view and tap split view and tap procreate. Here I have my canvas in procreate and I'm going to start to sketch this pattern with the perfect pencil. In this pattern, new layer in this pattern, I will just sketch a few motives and then I will re use those motives and repeat them over the pattern that is like one floral shape. There's this different almost like layers of outline shapes and some more pedal shapes that might be fun. Then another one, maybe a larger one with more heroes like that, a little circle in the center. The rain is completely pouring down here outside of my window. And I can hear it on like the window shield or whatever it's called, I'm so if you hear the rain in the background, I can't do anything about this weather. It's pouring, it's fall in Sweden. This is what we get sometimes. I'm terribly sorry if you can hear the raindrops. I hope that you can hear me loud and clear. Anyway, okay, maybe one more line over there and then I can do like these larger ones maybe. And then maybe split those in two. Now, I'm heavily inspired by this pattern. I'm getting a little bit lazy here because I know that this pattern will take quite some time to create. It will be easier if I'm just finding inspiration in this pattern. But you could definitely go back and find other patterns as well and see if you can find some other inspirations. Now I'm getting this star, floral shape from that pattern. Maybe that might be fun, I can see. Maybe I want to create a smaller one like that. Okay, I'm going back and let's just take inspiration from one more pattern. So that is not only from one of those. I like these bold flowers here, maybe like that might be fun. Then leaves as well. I could do these leaves or the like the lines in them, I'm not sure. Let's just try one leaf to start with. Like that. I could do a few each. I think I really like that lines in there. Maybe I don't want to do that because that will take a lot of time. Yeah, for the purpose of this class, I'm keeping the leaves clean so that it won't take too long to create this pattern. There's one leaf, and maybe we could have a more shaped leaf like that. I'm just going to pull this up a little bit so that I can fit something else here. Maybe we could do like a larger, like a stem with leaves or a branch like this that might be nice to fit in somewhere. And I'm going to do those. Half divide it in half leaves with just a little detail there. Okay, I'm finished with these motives now and I'm going to fill them in. I will just drag down the opacity of that layer. And then I'm going to start to draw my flowers. Lets you see what colors we want to use. It feels like retro, like muted colors. I definitely like the yellow and green and pink that we can find in these two, maybe yellow and green and pink. Let's just try it out. Pink. I have one pink here. Let's start with that one. But actually let's start with outline. We are going to create like a brown outline that is not completely black and super sharp, but more softer. I'm going to say that brown color there. And then I'm going to go to the monoline brush, which is free to download on my website, B.com Freebies. These are five free procreate brushes that you can download. Then I will try out different sizes on that brush. Maybe 3% Yeah, I think 3% is good. I'm going to start from the inside just to do this rather quickly. I will use the quick shape, but you can draw with free hand as well. We use the quick shape. I'm going to fill in all of the lines with the monoline brush so that all of the motifs are outlined. I'm just going to continue with the small petals here. You know, I'm actually going to speed up this process for you quite a bit because it will take me quite some time to outline all of these motives. So let's just speed it up. Okay, now I have drawn all of the outlines of the motives and I will color them in. Let's just see, we have those there. And that one on that one I will actually, I think that I will copy all of the motives in one layers. I will just with free hand select the motives and swipe down with three fingers. Copy and paste that. I get them separately on different layers so that I can use them to create the pattern. Okay. And then I'm going to name them too, whatever, just to be able to know which one it is. Medium, medium, two, maybe. I don't know what to name them, but star, flower, flower one lower. Small flower two, leaf one, brand, leaf two. Now we have all of those there. Now I will actually add a layer below here and add a background there. And then I will group all of these. Group. Then I will start to color them. I'm just going to move the star flower a little bit because it's too far out on the edge there. Coloring them in, let's see, drop leaves. I want to be in a green color. Let's just head back to Pinterest to have a look at our inspiration. I think that I want all of the leaves to be one color. On this one you have all of the leaves like bluish, turquoise, and on this one they have our green. I think that I want the green color. Let's try out one of our green colors here. This one looks probably good on the leaf. I will just select, continue filling, and fill it in like that. Then I can do the same on all of the leaves. Let's just track all of the leaves, layers next to each other. Leave one is one. Continue to fill on the branch. Just filling in all of these with green because I know that I want them to be green. This one, oops. Also green. Okay. Now, next is to color the other flowers. I know that I want yellow, red, and pink. Okay, let t, to find some colors then I have the pink. Strike that one out there. That green one. Lest the pink one to color. Maybe the medium flower, this one. Continue feeling that smaller one could also be P. Then I could go for maybe red on the large flower. I could do orange as well, but I think that I want to go a little bit more red. Let's try that one out that looks cool. Then something else could be red on this flower. Maybe I don't know what else. Let's just continue with that medium flower that could be yellow, then let's try that yellow out. That looks nice. And I definitely want yellow on the larger flower, and maybe something else in the middle, And the petals could be red. Now it is turning into something. I will try to make these smaller petals red here. Maybe I can bring in the green and the flowers as well. I will try that out. Yeah, that might look cool. Let's try that out. Maybe it could be like pink in the center again, or white. I'm not sure how does it look in the inspirational images? Let's see this one then. Yellow, maybe it could be yellow there. I could also bring in a blue yellow there. I'm not sure about the green one. Maybe we should try a blue instead. That's not the right blue. Maybe another type of blue. I'm actually just trying things out here and seeing what could fit. I want some like a vintage style blue, a little bit lighter. Maybe that might look good. Let's use that for now, at least. Maybe we'll change it later on. Moving on to the medium flower, they could have blue there. I don't like that blue, maybe. Yeah, that looks better. Changing the blue to a little bit more ocean blue, I would say. Okay. And then in the center of that may be P. Let's try that out. Yeah. Okay. Moving on to the star flower. The star flower could be blue. Then in the center may be yellow, this little fellow over there. Or the small flower could have a red center. And then moving on to the large flower, petals could be pink. Here you can see there's missing a little outline there. Fix that right away. Fix an outline over here. Normally I would draw everything probably on separate layers. But now, as I'm just experimenting, I don't mind that much if my file aren't perfect because I won't use it in any other way than just experimenting in this lesson. Continue. Maybe blue there, I don't like that. May be yellow, yellow. And then let's try blue in the center. That might work. And then the other, the smallest flower that maybe it could be red or yellow, let's try yellow, yellow and red maybe. And pink, pink and red. Okay, now I've colored all of my motifs and it's time to make a repeat of them. I will duplicate them, because I want to duplicate them. And use them more in this pattern than just once. Moving on, let's just change the position of these a little bit that I like where they are in the pattern. We have one there, then we want the leaves to be going out from the floor of flowers in different directions. Maybe maybe there create leaf. The leave could be like that. That might look nice. Then this k leaf could be beneath this larger flower. I'm just trying things out and I'm trying to build this pattern. Now, I'm not sure how I want it to look quite yet, I'm just placing the motifs around a little bit. I'm not super happy with that. This flower is blue. I don't know why I think it's because it's the only one that's blue. I'm going to change it to red and that's better for me. Then I'm placing that there. And the smaller the yellow flower and the branch we could change position of. I'm trying to make it dense because if we look at the pattern, I can see now that I'm heavily inspired by this pattern and it's pretty dense. I'm going to try to make it more dense. Maybe overlap, being this might take some time to build this type of pattern. Now we can just repeat some of these flowers. You could flip them as well and repeat them. I'm not sure where. Maybe over here. If we move everything else up there, I might be able to fit this one over here. Like that. And then I want some more leaves, maybe, But I'm going to continue to repeat the words a little bit more. This one could go somewhere here, could flip it to make it a little bit more interesting, the pattern. And then moving on to duplicating the different motives. Basically, I'm just trying to place the motives in different positions to balance out the pattern. I will also add leaves. Now I will just duplicate a drop leaf. Maybe that one can go from this flower. That might look nice. And I'm going to duplicate these leaves, one like that one, maybe on this one. Then that branch duplicating that one. Basically just trying to fill space in the pattern. In a balanced composition. This is not the easiest task to do. There will probably be quite some time before. I'm happy with the result of this. I'm actually going to speed up the process here a little bit while I duplicate and place these motives in the position that I want them in. Okay, so now I have filled in the cavas here with my motives and I will repeat the pattern and continue to fill in the motives. I will just repeat the pattern first and then we will see what we need to do with filling it in. Let see, now we actually have all of the motives saved here, but we also probably have most of the motives except the red flower, which I actually want. We don't have that one. I want that one also here. I think that, that will make a balanced pattern to place that one there. Maybe I want to flip it, then maybe I want to change that pink flower and just move it up a little bit. I could maybe twist it a little bit. Moving it up, maybe like that. I want the media flower, the smaller yellow flower, to be over here, flipping it, maybe like that. And then I want more green. I'm duplicating the branch that could go out from one of these flowers, maybe. And then I want to change the leave. This is a little bit of work to get it balanced. Super fun. I hope that I will like the result. I need something over there, I'm not sure what it is. Maybe it's a branch. If I flip it and twist it and place it over there somewhere, maybe maybe like that. And then I need to move those leaves, leaf over there might look good. Let's see, is a little bit too far up. Accidentally cut that one off. Okay. I'm not really happy with that. I'm maybe doing it just a little bit smaller, flipping it. Okay. So I think that this is starting to look good now. I might want another pink flower. Let's see if we can add one more of the maybe here. I think that, that might work over there. Maybe, let's see a leaf, maybe one more leaf over here. I'm just trying to fill out the gaps without losing the balance. Maybe this is good, I'm not sure. Let's try out the repeats. Swipe three fingers, copy and swipe down with three fingers and paste. Then I'm going into Safari A, Dragging this in test. And look at that. I really like how that looks. It's a super fun, like retro floral repeat. It is very similar to our inspiration. I would not at all call this pattern my own. It's the same colors, it's the same shapes and everything. But it was a really good practice for me to create this repeat with outlines, as that is not my typical style. Let's just repeat it in procreate. I'm making the pattern half of its size and then just repeating it like that. And look at that, I'm super, super happy with how it looks. It's similar to the inspiration image, but I had a really good practice when I created this pattern. Let's export the Jpeg and save it. 18. Day 4: Retro - Reflect: Then we can head into the workbook to reflect a little bit about this pattern. I'm scrolling down to retro and I'm using the pen in preview to think about what I like the most about this pattern. What I liked is the layers, like layers of motives in my style. I typically don't create that much layers, but I really like to practice with that. Outlines was interesting but quite time consuming, but it was interesting with the outlines, the contrast that you get with outlines, the fun details in the flowers, what challenges did you face while creating these patterns out? Is time consuming, also getting a good balance. I think I am just giving you examples, what you could write in these boxes. But of course, you should write what you feel when you have created this pattern. How does this pattern fit in to your evolving style? As a pattern designer, I really like the floral motifs. Floral, and actually the details. I could definitely use that in my style. I also like the vintage colors. Okay, this pattern is finished and we're moving on to the next one. 19. Day 5: Folk Art - Overview of Style: Next up is folk art, which is a lovely and timeless style that celebrates cultural traditions and the creativity of everyday people. It focuses on bright colors, simple but meaningful symbols, and a sense of community. Folk art is known for its colorful and vibrant color palettes. It often uses bold primary colors like red, blue and yellow, which create a really striking and happy effect. Folk art is known for using simple symbols and images that represent everyday life animals, plants, and religious cultural themes. These elements are portrayed in a simple, often flat style, making them easy to recognize. I would say that folk art combines simplicity and complexity. The individual elements are usually simple and easy to understand. But overall composition and the details with the textures tell meaningful stories and are a bit more complex. Folk art compositions are usually simple and balanced. They often have a main focus with symmetrical or repetitive elements, which creates a feeling of harmony. Inspiration from folk art is often from cultural heritage and traditions and everyday life. Common elements to draw are animals, plants, and cultural symbols. 20. Day 5: Folk Art - Let's Draw: Let's head into Pinterest and check out the Folk Art Pinterest mood board. We are going to create a floral pattern in this art style as well. I just want to have a look at what the distinct features are of this style. It seems when I'm looking at this inspiration board, that there is a lot of reflected elements. Mirrored elements. We could definitely use the symmetry tool. There is a I really like these colors. There is a of animals. But we are not going to get into drawing animals in this class because it's a little bit more complicated. I also want you to be able to compare the different art styles with the same type of motif, with floral motifs. We are going to stick to florals. What we can have a look at is, for example, this type of floral. I think that that would make a really nice pattern. Maybe like a diamond shaped floral motif that's just repeated with some air in between with some blank space in between. Let's head to procreate and we will start with a sketch. Again, I am using the perfect pencil from the pattern elements brush set. That is free for the members in my pattern repose membership. It's also available to purchase in the texture brush set on my website. Let's get started. I will actually start with turning on the drawing guide and the symmetry tool. I love procreate to sketch and drawing procreate because it's so easy. It's so easy to try things out. It's so easy to change your mind. Yeah, it's just so much fun to draw procreate. Let's start with a new layer and the one. I think that I want to draw some type of floral at the top here. Let's just draw a line. Do we have drawing a cyst on that layer? No, tap drawing a cyst. Then I just want to draw a line there. I want some flower to go up like this. Zooming in a little bit maybe seems like the floral shapes and folk art are pretty simple. Some fun details, let's just try that out. This is like a simple floral shape. And then we could go for, I'll just bring that one down a little bit to the center. Then we could do maybe something that goes out like this. I'm not sure in which angle. Maybe like that flowing. And it could be probably more simplified flower shape. I'm not sure if I want it to be perfectly symmetrical or free hand, but I'm just going to go for the freehand style. Now, I definitely would want to add some details. I don't like where the stem goes in there. I will just fix that. Maybe something like that. The details maybe I can create, let's see, maybe I could do some dots because it seems like there's a lot of folk art motifs. You have some details in the motives, texture details. These are super cute. But heading back to that one, I think it had a lot of floral shapes that we can get. In spite of something like that, this one could also have details, maybe just like a field in petal shape. Oops, this is a little bit confusing. So there may be okay, I know what I mean with this sketch. It's a little bit messy, but we will fix it later on. Then down here, we want something that goes out like this, like a flowing, maybe like a leaf. Maybe it can end in some flower here as well. I'm not sure which type of flower, maybe just like this. I'm just trying to keep it simple now so that I will move through the process. It seems like the shapes should be simple and then we will just add. Some details. I will add some dots there. Dots seems like a really common detail in this type of, in this art style. I guess there we have some things like that that looks nice. And then maybe we want to have like leaves going out here, maybe flowing leaves. Maybe we want to bring this one down a little bit like that, maybe. But then the other one didn't follow. Okay. So I need to, or actually I will fix that just by fixing the position of this leaf here, I think. Okay. Maybe something like that. And then we could maybe something going down like that. Would that be nice? No, I don't like that something going up here. And that could be just a little flower like this. Maybe maybe I can bring some details to that one as well. Then let's see what we want to do in this space over here. We could use a flower there as well. We should bring out something here. Maybe the place, let's connect with that flow up there. Again, we'll do that shape and then fill that in. It's like a mini of those flowers in the folk art patterns. It's common with like a story and cultural meaning. But we won't do that in this lesson because it's a little bit more complex. We are just trying to mimic the style, the drawing style. Okay, continuing. Maybe we can bring leaf up there. Would that be nice? Yeah, that looks nice. And maybe one more over there. I think that that looks really nice. And then I want something more here. Maybe the types of leaves again. Yeah, I think that this is looking good. I might want to pull this one in a little bit. I'm not super happy with how this one looks. I will just erase it. And erase a little bit of that line there to try to make it a little bit more narrow. Maybe going up like that, instead I can use that type of flower. Maybe I don't want that dot or maybe I do. I'm not sure, I'm really indecisive. I can feel instantly when I draw this that this is how I commonly think. While I draw this is not really close to my own style. That is why it's harder for me to come up with what to draw, compared to, I would say the art style that is closest to my style is the bold and colorful in that style is really easy for me to come up with things to draw and just get a good flow in it. But here, it's not as easy at all. Maybe this is good. If we just pull out something here, it will be more balanced. Okay, I'm feeling that this is a nice motif. I'm not super sure, because this flower is a little bit too far out, too high up. Maybe I need to change this one as well. I'll just erase that one now. It's just about the balance in the motif. But I'm just trying things out and I'm also trying to see the flow of the inspiration here that is really flowing. And also often like Ms. Flowers in these types of patterns, this is like a nice inspiration as well. Okay, but moving on, maybe we can bring that one out. And if we do, what should we have there? Should we have that type of flower or should we have something else? Maybe we should have this type of flower, like a leafy type of flower, maybe that feels more flowing in the pattern. Yeah, I like that much more. That looks better, I think, because now we get a good line here, let me just use another color. I will show you what I mean. Now we have a good flow that goes up through this whole motif. Okay, I think that I'm happy with this. May I want to add a leaf here? As I said, I'm not super comfortable with this style. That is why I am so indecisive. Okay, now that looks good. I think that we need some details here. I will look into that. This one that I have with the details, there seems to be a lot of like petal shapes and also dots. I will add dots here, maybe something like that. We will see how it works with all these details later on. Now we have details on that one. This one probably also should have details. Maybe it can have the same as the one at the top connect, connect with that motif like that. Then I also think that this one maybe should have the same, we're bringing in the same bold detail in this one as well. Then do we need something else? Maybe this one. I don't know about that, but maybe some detail, shouldn't it? I'm not sure. Maybe, or maybe not. We will see when we draw the actual motif. Okay, moving on to color inspiration. I really like these colors. I will do that with a darker background. For this, the idea is to just create this shape in the middle and then repeat it with a lot of air in between. That could make, for example, a great wallpaper design. Now I will just bring down the opacity on that layer, and I have an extra layer here. Do I have something on it? On a new layer, I will actually add a background layer. First I will use like a dark bluish color. Then I will actually create the sketch with alpha lock and fill the layer with white so that I can see the sketch on the darker background and bring down the opacity once again. Then I will draw with a green color. For this I will use, even though that I haven't seen that much texture in these motives, I have a bit of urge to draw with a texture brush as it's folk art and it's a free art style. I will try it out. I will use the square and texture, which is free to download on my website in the mini pattern tool kit. And then you'll get the sweet sunflower brush set with the square and texture brush you want to use the same as me. Then I will just start to draw. Let's see where we will start. Let's start with the center. I definitely want the drawing assist so that I have the symmetry tool on the. Or maybe I don't want it to be on for the center, because I just want the line in the center, like a straight line going down like that. Then I will turn on the drawing assist. Now I want to pull these branches out. Is it too big? I'm not sure. Maybe I want to be, that might be nice. Let's try that. On the smaller ones, maybe thinner on all, I am not sure how I want this patent to look. No, I think it's too thin. Okay, let's go for 2% then. I will just pull down that one. This one, I'm trying to follow the sketch here. Oops. Okay, that's good enough. And then this one. What I like with this brush is that it's really like irregular textured from the start. And you get a little bit of unpredictability in the stroke which will make it like a hand drawn feel. I really love that effect. I love it. When you get the texture you draw, you don't need to add it later on. That's the lazy part of me, that okay, moving on, we will add the leaves. Let's just add the green parts first. Should we start down here maybe with the leaves now? I want a smaller one because I want to have control over where the leaves go. I think that the sketch is a little bit too loud in the background. I'm bringing down the opacity there so that I can also go like free hand while I draw and not completely after the sketch. Okay. And then I am definitely not sure what I will think about this pattern when it's finished. I'm not super comfortable drawing this. I don't know why, I don't know. We will see. Okay, moving on. Now we have and I will just fill it in with the brush so that I get that nice texture filling it in. And speeding this process up for you a little bit because this will take a little bit of time. Okay, moving on to the next ones. Let's do the leaves over here and filling them in, and the next one over here, and filling that one in, okay? And then these ones over there, 1234 and 5.1 on this side and filling it in. Okay. I think we have all the green parts now. It's time to move on to the next. I will use the blue and red from this Pinterest image. There were the similar. I have a red here that I will use. I think that I want to use a blue. I will say that blue on the flower here. I will try that out. Oops, I know I need a cyst on that layer. I'm there. Then I want to connect that color over here as well. I'm using it on this flower. It seems to me that in these folk art patterns, it's not always common that you use a few colors and repeat them. If, for example, if we use blue and red and green repeat, connect the pattern and then I am not sure. Let's try the red one and see where we want to place it. So I am going to definitely want to try to do this one in red like that. Then I want to connect that color over here as well. First I'm drawing the main colors and we will draw the actual details. Okay, over there, right over there. And then I guess we need to have blue over there. Oops, I can see now that I draw all of this on the same layers, I will actually just select the red from that layer because I want it separately, easily can recolor. I will just wipe down three fingers cut and paste. And now I have the red and the blue there on the blue layer. I will also draw these small flowers like that. Then we could add probably like the red on the, on the ones like that. Oops, drawing assist needs to be on and adding the red there. Why did not that happen? Okay, again, drawing assist needs to be on that layer, then we are the red. Okay, finally, now let's add some details. I will pull up the sketch so that I can see what details I had planned. And then I will use let me just see where I want to add the details. Could I go even further? Maybe 1% Yeah, it is. Okay. Moving on. The details that I have drawn in the sketch, I will draw with white on a layer that is the symmetry tool turned on the drawing assist. Continue that one. I think this will look really nice when we sum out this one. That looks good. The other details, I need to have one white layer below so that I could add these things that are sticking out from beneath the florals like that. And then like this. What else? We need to have the details on the red part that should be dot on all of those. Maybe like a small something on each of the petals. That looks good. Actually, then let's see, do we need to add some more details here? I will turn off the sketch and see I like this look, but I also like that it has the inspiration image with the colors. It has some details on the leaves. Let me add a layer on top of the leaves. We can try with a darker green color here. See how that will look and lines. I'm not sure that maybe I want to use like the sketching brush again because I want smaller lines and they can go this maybe should they go all the way? They could go all the way. Okay, we can make a clipping mask there as well. Then I could add the lines like this. That's a simple way of drawing the lines here. Doing this rather quickly. Okay, so that was a nice subtle effect there. I think I'm pretty happy with how this looks now. Maybe I want to turn on the sketch again. Maybe oh, I forgot something. On the flowers. Yes, I can see that now on the flowers on top, I need a white, and I will actually the same brush and add. Maybe I can add the details with the sketching brush now. Maybe that's better because it's a bulky a little bit like square in the edges. Maybe I want to change that on other layers as well. Yeah, I really like that look. I think I will do that on the ones at the top as well. I will just add Ts here. Okay, moving on to this one, maybe we can add dots on that one like that. I'm not super happy with how this looks. I will actually use the pencil on that one as well. Maybe on this one as well, just so we get the same texture there. I changed my mind. But that is what happens when we are experimenting and that's part of the deal. Maybe like a drip shape there, now that we have a little bit more pointed brush can do this details feeling in the drip shape. There's a lot of details in this pattern. Maybe that is what I'm, doesn't really fit into my style. I'm a teacher. I draw all kinds of things. I also learn all kinds of things to be able to teach it for my personal taste. This is a little bit too detailed. I am a fast creator, I like to get the ideas out of my head fast. That is also part of why my style is minimalistic and simplified because I get super bored if I spend too long time on one detail, that's just me, that's just who I am. That definitely doesn't need to be how you are, probably isn't, but we all are different. And I think that the style that we have also comes from our personality. That is a good thing to think about. How do you like to create? How can you translate that into a style? If you are someone who are who really care about details and find some joy in creating small details, then maybe your style is more like intricate. If you're someone like me who my head is always flowing of ideas, I feel like I can't get them out of my head fast enough. Most of the time it doesn't really suit me to create super detailed, super intricate patterns and super slow because then what will happen with all of the rest of the ideas in my head? That's how my brain works. Okay. Something like that. And okay, now we have all of those details. I'm going to turn off the sketch layer. I'm actually super happy with this result. I'm going to turn off the drawing guide and swipe to the right to turn away Pinterest. This looks super cute. What I will do then is just to first select all of the floral layers. I can group them. Then I will make sure that it's centered. It seems like it's centered. Then I want to group all of these. I want to swipe the right to duplicate it and just delete the background in the first group. And turn off the disability. Then I will turn my pattern around, twist it inside out so that I can get my motif, and I think that I want them in the same direction. And then I will turn on the group. There we have, it looks super cute. I'm super heavy with this. Okay. Swipe down with three fingers, copy all. Swipe down with three fingers, paste split view. And I'm trying it out in the pattern test. Oh my gosh, I love it. It's cute. And it has like a look, the circle, not the diamond shape. Oh my gosh, I love this pattern. Even though that I had like inspiration from, I'm going to try this pattern out in procreate first. So I will just swipe right and duplicate it. And then just make it half of the size. Swipe to the right, duplicate it, bring it to the right. Then merge these two together. Swap the right. Duplicate it and bring it down. Okay, And then merge on that. I had a lot of inspiration from the floral image. I think that I actually came up with new florals That is not like copy, but the colors are definitely copy from that pattern that we looked at in Pinterest. Let's have a look in Pinterest. Where is Pinterest there? This pattern, it has the same colors. I would definitely change the colors if I would want to do something with this pattern. Now let's just share and save as a Jpeg so you can save it in class, then this is our pattern. 21. Day 5: Folk Art - Reflect: Now it's time to reflect. Let's head over to the workbook. I will draw in the workbook, what do you like the most about this pattern like that? It's super cute. When you reflect, you don't, you're not going to show this to anyone else. You can write anything you want. Anything that comes up in your mind, it's super cute. I really like the one motive repeated. I like the flow of the flowers, flowers and leaves. Okay. What challenges did you face? Well, I faced, that's kind of the details, the details a little bit time consuming. That is just my personal taste and also the challenge I faced maybe to get a good good vibe. Folk art can be so many things, I think it can be hard to get like the folk art vibe because folk art is so many things. How does this pattern fit into revolving styles? A pattern designer, well, I like the repeat with one motif, floral. It could definitely be like wallpaper. I like the way that I repeated that pattern. I also like the look of the details. But how to simplify? Because that is my style. I want to simplify. Even though you might feel that the details are simplified, I felt like I was putting so much effort into creating these details. Maybe if I want to create these types of patterns in my style, I might want to simplify the details. Even maybe by stamp brushes or anything like that. Okay, that was the pattern. Let's move on to next art style. 22. Day 6: Watercolor - Overview of Style: Let's dive into watercolor art, which is maybe more of a medium than a specific art style. Watercolor is a lovely and versatile medium that uses transparent water based paints. It's known for its smoothness and creative expressions. That comes from the unpredictability of watercolor. Watercolor art is known for its use of transparent, watery colors. Artists can create a wide range of colors by mixing and layering paints. This medium often includes soft pastels, but also viant splashes and delicate washes, creating a feeling of transparency and light. Within watercolor art, you can draw anything as it is more of a medium than an art style. Some popular motives in modern watercolor surface panel design includes flowers and natures, food and abstracts. Watercolor art has many possibilities. It can be simple or complex. You can keep it simple by focusing on the very basics. Or you can make it more complex by adding layers of colors and textures for depth and richness. The composition within the watercolor art style is often carefully planned to create a sense of balance and harmony. Artists consider the placement of elements, use of negative space, and the flow of colors to guide the viewers across the artwork. The inspiration can come from many different sources. The natural world with its various landscapes, plants, and animals, is a common inspiration. Everyday scenes, personal experience, foods, fruits, and also abstract ideas can give a rich source of inspiration. 23. Day 6: Watercolor - Let's Draw: Okay, let's draw watercolor, which is actually, I would say, more of a medium than a style. You can look at it as a style, but the art style may be more like painterly. But I wanted to do watercolor because it's so specific medium. As I said, I am not an art history teacher and these art styles are actually just based on what I think is good to practice on. Some of the things that I think is good to practice on when you are looking into growing your style. As you can see watercolor, there's a lot of loose strokes and we are drawing floral. Again, I think that good inspiration for this, there are a lot of inspiration, but I think that good is this one. Let's just use this one as a start and see where we will end up. Tab, split view and procreate. I will zoom out for watch color. I won't sketch because we want the simple and direct look at what we create. When we draw with watercolor, even digital, you can use the sheet from our favorite company, five free procreate brushes. I might even use some other color brushes as well. To just as it up, because often when I draw with digital watch color, I tend to want to add paper texture and also add some texture with other color brushes. But let's just start with washi and then we can see where we end up. Okay, I will add a new layer and I want to use like peach color. I want to keep the colors soft like it is in this one. Let's just try out the brush. We will try to draw very loose. That could be a flower, definitely. I'm just trying to keep it really loose. I'm actually not copying a specific flower on this piece, but can you just think of a simple floral shape and then just drawing quickly with the brush so that I end up with a We color look. Okay, so that are some of the flowers. We could add some red centers to those. Let's say that size 80% Then we might want to add, I'm not sure. Maybe like that, like a brighter red center to these on a new layer. Okay, those could definitely be really loose flowers. And then moving on, let's try out like a yellow and see where that takes us. Maybe should we do this type of flower? I'm not sure. I actually have new favorite watercolor brushes that I created after I created this one. I haven't drawn with this brush in a while. Maybe these dots, you can make like the dots in the inspirational image. Like dots over there. Maybe over here. Just trying to spread out some motives here. Then maybe we want to add something purple as well. Let's just see purple a little bit more bluish purple. Maybe Ops, saving that one and adding maybe another type of flower don't like the look of that. It can be a little bit hard with like water color brushes before you get to hang of it to get a good maybe we can keep it to that type of flower because more simple to draw, maybe. I'm not sure. Let's try it out. Yeah, I think I like this. I think I like this. I'm not sure yet. Okay, I'm going to turn off the visibility of the yellow layer just so that I can draw my purple flowers here and there. Maybe this is the look that I want to have, like a simple flowers. What color pattern I'm just improvising here. Let's see where this will out with the yellow on a new layer. Maybe I can add the same type of flower. Now I am just simplifying for myself. I want to make this pattern a little quicker than it would need to be for the purpose of this lesson. Instead of creating this like intricate water color designs. Okay, maybe like that. Then there could be a yellow one. I'm not sure about the flow of the pattern though. Let's see if we should add like red dots at the center of each flower. We can try it out, that might look good. I think that, that looks good. Now as I'm continuing this pattern, I can see that I'm influenced by the colors of this pattern on Pinterest, but not so much about the motives. I'm just trying to work with the watch color brush and see what type of loose motives I can come up with. Okay, that looks pretty nice, I think. Let's move back and see if we can find some other motives to be inspired by maybe like leafy shapes. How about these long stems? I'm not sure. Let's add a layer with green. Use the green that I have there and just see where, where we can take this pattern. Add a layer that might look good. But also how about if we add some smaller like stems like that, maybe where we can fit them in, Would that look good? I'm really just improvising now. I have no idea where this will end up, but that is what happens when you are experimenting. That is the fun with experimenting. I'm just trying to make the pattern work somehow. Also going to make it a little bit more simple than a watch color pattern with 20 different motives. Because in this class, you don't want to watch me create the pattern for hours. This looks good. There are places where we have blank space. I probably need to fix that. But I'm going to continue to add these first then I'm not sure how I will fix it. Maybe I can add more petals to the flowers. On this one, for example, I could definitely add a longer stem. Let's see, we have a problem over there. You can see it over here. Over here, we also have a problem. Now I understand where I want this pattern to go. I will actually delete some of the flowers and redraw them to make the pattern more balanced. Let me just see in the pink layer, I want to delete these ones, just moving them out. I think on the yellow layer, I probably can just add a petal over there and then it will work. Yeah, that will probably work, but on the yellow layer there, I definitely want to remove that one then. Let's see, this one, oops, selecting that one as we're doing this for practice. This is just a quick fix. I'm moving out those. I could also remove that one, probably this one as well. And this one, I liked some parts of the pattern but some parts weren't like, dense enough. Then I will remove those and loops don't want that layer, this layer. And Start over with those motives. Okay? So now we can do the yellow. We could do like a yellow flower here, maybe like that. That was a little bit big. Then we could do yellow flower here as well. Maybe over here and over here, okay? And then there could be a purple. I'm basically just trying to fill the pattern with motives here. We could do a purple over here, then we could do a pink over here. Let's do a one loops over the edge. Okay, that looks good. And then I will add the red dots in the center. I think that this is the challenge with what color patterns that you want them to look like. Hand drawn, you need to be really loose on your hands when you draw with what color? Digital brushes. Maybe you're watching this class and are drawing with real what color. Then you don't have this problem that I have. Okay, moving on there, there could go down. Okay, it's time to repeat the pattern. I will swipe away interest because I have my idea of the pattern here already. I will add a layer at the bottom and tap and drag to fill that layer with a background color. And then I will choose the group and flip the pattern around. Then I will add some more. Let's do over here, oops, maybe a pink over there or yellow over here. A pink over there. Pink on the pink layer. We could do a purple over there and a pink over here. Maybe. I think that I will make this pattern works. This was way too big, I think. Okay, And a purple over there. Okay. And then on the red layer, I will add a. You can see that I'm doing this really quickly now because I just want to get a feel for this pattern. I don't want to spend my whole day creating it. Well, there's something missing. No. Okay. Here you can see that something is missing here. What we will do with that, I don't know. We will probably delete the pink flower. We need to fix this space. I will also delete this one and the red dot. And then we need to fix that space. I could use purple flower beneath here. I think there needs to go up a little bit like that. And then a pink, this could probably be a problem area in the pattern. Let's see a pink flower over there, That's good. And then a purple flower ops on the wrong layer. Pink flower over there, and then a purple flower over here. Then I want to fix the pink. Okay, going back and forth to try to get a good balance in this pattern. I say that this will probably be one of the things that I will mention in reflection that when I don't personally sketch my patterns, they end up not as good as when I sketch them. Okay, I think that, that looks good. We might have a problem around here, but let's just try this out. I will swipe down with the finger, tap, copy all the swipe down the finger, tap, paste, then tap, split and drag in my image to the pattern tester swipe away. Okay, I can see that I have a small problem in the pattern. I won't mind that now because this is just to experiment and just for fun, we can see that I have a white space in the pattern that makes it not balanced. That's fine for this experimentation pattern. What I want to do though, is to just add a little bit of texture. I think I will do this. I have this really nice new brush in the Padres membership watch color mix Blob. The members get it for free and we will use it to add some texture to our motives. I really like how this can you see the texture there goes into the motives. It's super nice to use, just to add a little bit more like analog watch color field to the motives and watch color brushes. I'm just going over these will probably be fine when we repeat because the texture is so irregular, we don't probably need to make the repeat all over again. There is a little bit of texture and I will also try to add a bit of paper texture because I really, there you can see that pattern really pops. It looks super nice. I would need to maybe just bring down the opacity on that texture, and then I would need to try out the repeat again. I tap copy All. Tap Paste. And I will try out this repeating procreates. I will swipe the right to duplicate it. Tap in the top left node, make it half of the size. And then swipe the right to duplicate it. Tap and drag to make a copy. Merged and duplicate, and then drag down to the bottom. And here we have our pattern. I'm super happy with the result. I wouldn't use it to sell it or anything. As I see, it is not a copy of any other pattern. I took some inspiration of the colors, so maybe I could just switch the colors up. But the motives are completely mine. I will just share this pattern as a J peg. Save it to my camera so that I can share it in class. 24. Day 6: Watercolor - Reflect: Now let's reflect I'm heading into my workbook. What do you like most about this pattern? I like the hand draw look. I like the unexpected motives. I don't really know how the flowers will end up when I draw with the watch color brushes. Yeah, I like the soft color palette. For example, soft palette handwriting is not the best. I hope you get what I mean. Okay. What challenges did you face while creating this pattern? Not sketching pattern. Hard for me to get a good balance. It's also hard to draw water color flowers at start because they need to be like more spontaneous, if that makes sense. How does this pattern fit into your evolving style as a pattern designer? Well, the watercolor texture, the soft look, I hope you know what I mean. You could easily create the really nice pattern for kids and baby products is really the opposite of bold. I don't know what that I like that look, that it's unexpected. I could definitely use that. I could try to use it with other mediums, but I really like that in this pattern. Now it's time for the next pattern. 25. Day 7: Arts and Crafts - Overview of Style: And the last art style is arts and crafts. The arts and crafts movement is all about craftmanship, simplicity, and the beauty of handmade things. The color palette in arts and crafts are often warm and earthy, with rich tones are wood, deep greens, rustic browns, and muted rents. These colors create the feeling of warmth and connection to nature. The arts and crafts style is known for its focus on craftsmanship and attention to detail in patterns. Common elements comes from nature and plants. Animals, birds and fruits are also common in these patterns. This style tends to be on the complex side when it comes to surface pattern design with intricate details and flowers that intertwined. These patterns are often more complex than simple. The composition is often balanced and harmonious with a focus on being useful and practical. Objects are designed to be functional in everyday life while still looking good. The arrangement of elements shows a sense of order and purpose. The inspiration for the arts and crafts art is often drawn from the beauty of nature with its intricate shapes and patterns. The arts and crafts movement was also motivated by the concept of returning to traditional craftsmanship and valuing handmade items in a world that was increasingly industrialized. 26. Day 7: Arts and Crafts - Let's Draw: Let's head over to the Pinra's board and check out the arts and crafts art style. I saved this art style for last because it's pretty intricate patterns and complex patterns. If you really want to hone in on this style, you should definitely spend some time at it. Because in this lesson we will try to really simplify it, because otherwise you won't. I wouldn't be able to film a lesson like this without it taking hours and hours. I will really try to simplify it. But I want still to show you my thoughts on how I would draw this type of pattern. But have that in mind that if you want to hone in on this style, you definitely need more than this little time that we will spend in this lesson. The arts and crafts style are a lot of floors, we will create the floral motif in this art style as well. There's this florals that intertwined and move into each other. I'm thinking a lot of wallpapers. When I see these types of patterns, you have the really intricate patterns. They're so beautiful and so, so nice. And they would be very interesting to draw, but they are too complex for me right Now, In this lesson, I will create like this type of flower that goes. This is a good example I think because you can see that there's one flower that repeats up and down and it has some branches. I will actually download this image, tap the three little dots and download the image. Then I will head into procreate again. I will actually add that image fit to canvas here. I can see that this is probably something that I can work with. Let's try that out. At least I am using a square canvas. You could definitely use rectangular canvas for this type of pattern. But I'm using a square canvas. I will just try to first the sketch, brush the perfect pencil to try to see where the motives flows and where I would draw the motives. Here we have a flower with petals going out like this, like that. And then you have some center. I will probably simplify that, some center there. Then I would definitely want to turn on my drawing guide for this. And maybe like that, then I'm turning on my drawing so I can see that my Ms will meet up. I have a class about this in my Pattern Bos membership where I will show you in detail how to create these types of patterns. That is not what we're doing in this class, but you can check out padlbos if you're interested in that. But I want to definitely, let's mark out this one and this one. Something can meet up there and something can meet here, then we can see how we could do that. If I would go down with that one over there. You want something? This one comes down here, then I know that you have something there. Then I want some leaf flowing. I want the leaf that flows from this one. I'm actually really copying to see how the flow goes in this pattern. That's perfectly fine when we are practicing an art style. Maybe something like that goes down to that branch. Really rough sketch as you can see I'm still simplifying to make it a little bit quicker. I'm just drawing this out there so that I later on can see where to meet that one up. This one goes there and this one goes there. That one should probably go out again. The branch like that maybe could be a nice flow somewhere around there. And then I need to have that over there. It let's say that we have another flower. Over here. As you can see, it's a little bit complicated, especially to create these types of patterns quickly. But maybe this one can go down there, we have the flower there, we want it to come a larger flower maybe there, then that one can go to that one. We can have some leaves going out there, maybe. I'm not sure where else. Let's turn off the visibility of the inspiration and we can just see how this looks. And now we'll also turn off the visibility of the drawing guide. Now we have a leaf going there and a leaf going there. This branch is going there with that flower is the better flow. Then we can go out maybe with the leaf coming there, oops, like that, and something like that. And that one can go below this one. We probably should have something over here as well. Now, I'm just free styling to get the flow of the pattern with the branches and everything. I am not super sure how I will make this work. Let's turn on the inspiration again. You have the smaller branches, we can fill that in. That one really what I'm trying to do now is just to make these ends meet up and just to fill out the space a little bit, let's just see what we can do when we repeat this. I will add a background layer and then I will repeat it. Let's just flip it first, the top and the bottom. And just rotate it there I can continue my sketch. So maybe it goes like that, but as you can see, it is more complex to make these types of patterns. I totally understand that this pattern will not look like the handmade and intricate arts and crafts pieces. But I am just doing this for practice. It's perfectly fine. If you don't end up with a beautiful piece, I probably won't. That's fine. Something like that. I'm not super happy with this one. I just erase that. Maybe just bring down like an ordinary leaf there. Okay, that looks pretty good. This one can be over there. And then I will try to repeat it on the other direction loops. I don't want to delete that one. Okay, so flowing this one in there. And then this one is to be repeated there. Okay. I think that this probably looks good and also okay. I think that this probably looks okay now. And we could also add more details later on and something in the background if we want to. Let's just start to draw this pattern First, I will just drag down the opacity on that one, and I will start to draw on top, I'm not sure what we are using the colors. Let me just check out the colors on pins. Muted colors. And like softer colors we could use. This might be nice. Let's try to use these colors and see where we end up with that. I would want some red, darker red maybe over there. We can add that as the background. Maybe a little bit more red in there. No. Okay. That probably is good. I will say that over there. Then I want to have greenish color. That is a little bit blue and gray. Maybe this one. Let's see if that will work for this pattern. I think that I will use this pattern is outlines. I will use the monoline brush for that. But first I will just try out the colors here that might, especially if I've outlined it, maybe I want it to be a little bit lighter. That might be good. I'm saving that then like a base color, let's see what we can get. That will probably be good. Okay, saving that one as well. Then I will use a brownish color to outline. I will start with outlining the motives on a new layer. And the monoline brush, maybe 3% works good. Let me just see. Yeah, that would probably be good. I think that I want a more like warmer brown. Okay. I haven't really drawn that flower there. I'm not sure which type of flower I will draw. Let's draw. I will actually add that again. I will actually just drag up that flower to there and trace it, because I want that type of flower. I will remove the sketch and trace that type of flower. It still won't be exactly like that one, but this is just like, to get a feel of how the flowers are drawn, Something goes up here and something goes down there. Oh my gosh. It's a lot of details in this pattern. It will take quite some time. Even when I trace it, I have no idea how that looks. But let's just out if we draw one flower, we probably can re, use it. Okay? And then should we, let's just add something more simple in the centers, I will add like a little dot there just to simplify. Then moving on, we should definitely add some lines there as well. Lines seems to be that is common in these types of patterns. I don't know about that line. Okay. It's okay. And some lines on this one maybe. Where did that line go? In the center. Well, let's try it again. Okay. As you can see, I am not super detailed. As this panel will take so long time if I would be. I am just trying to make it work and become something, at least drawing some lines here. We had else going on there, some lines on that one. We had something going on here as well. Okay, maybe that's enough then we want to do, this is not what we're doing on the sketch. Now we have the flower there. I will actually save that flower and just rename it to flower so that we can reuse it later on. Then on the flower layer I will actually, I can see now that, that where stem was supposed to go, I will just delete hoops, release the part of that there, and just continue to draw that one like that maybe. Okay, and then looks a little bit strange with the lines now maybe just pull those down. Okay, then we have the thing that goes there. I will actually just use the transform tool and rotate a little bit so that I get it in the right position. Then I will draw the next part, which is this one that will go to actually all the way down there, like that, like that. Then we have something that goes up here. We have this one goes there and this one goes to another flower over there. Then we have this goes over there. Okay. I will speed this up for you a little bit now because it will be very time consuming to draw the outlines here. I'm speeding it up and I'll see you on the other side when I've created all the outlines. Okay, now I think that I'm ready with outlines. Let's see. I try to do this rather quickly so that we will move on with the class. I think that it matches up, but I might need to fix some things. First of all, I will just merge all of the sketch layers and rename them to sketch. No, this is not sketch, this is outlined. Then I will go in and see if I need to fix some details. For example, here, there are many details in my pattern now that aren't perfect, but that's okay. Then I will duplicate this, because I want copy of it. Then I can tap a new layer on top and I can tap reference on the outline. And now we can start to color in first. Before we do that, let's just see if the pattern matches up perfectly because I'm not sure. I might have missed something. Tap to flip your pattern around and see that everything is perfectly matched up with outlines, I think that it is. I might have missed something. Okay. Yeah, this looks good. I actually liked it the other way round. I will do it once again so that I can see the flowers better. Okay. Like that. And then I want to, on my layer with the colors, I will start with, let's start with the greenish gray color. Just fill in some gaps here you can see if you haven't closed shapes, you will end up like this. Then you probably will need to go back to the outline. This is a little bit of work, but you need to make sure that you close all the shapes and then head back to that layer. As we are using a reference layer, you can just fill in a layer beneath that looks good and then we can fill in that one. Let's hope that we have closed all the shapes you never know. You can also tap, continue filling, of course, just do it like that. The other ones we can fix when we have flipped the pattern around. Now we have that first and then we want a new layer and we want to fill in the flowers with the beige color. Let's hope that we have close to shapes. So far, so good. It looks good filling them in. I like the look of, this is a very quick copy of that pattern. But that was also the point to practice on how it is to create these more complicated types of patterns that looks fine. What should we do in the center? Maybe we should have a color that is a little bit base. Let's try that color out. I like the look of that then. Do we need something else? Maybe we need something in the bottom of this. I'm not sure. Maybe we need like a floral pattern, but we haven't created that. I'm not sure what we will do. Let's flip the pattern around first. And I will continue to fill in the gaps there. Just twist it around and then continue to fill on the green layer. Fill that one in. Continue filling this one. This one, this one. Then on the base layer, now I put both of those base colors on one layer, but I won't mind changing that. Now as this is just for practice like that, let's just check this pattern out. I will swipe interest first and then I will tap copy and swipe down and tap Paste. Then tap the three little dots. Split view In the pattern tester, I will drag in my pattern. Let's see how it repeats. Oh, I really like the look of this. It looks like intricate pattern but simplified. You get the feeling of the arts and craft style, but in a more simplified version. Remember though that if you created the same pattern as me here, it's a complete copy of that pattern in Pinterest. I would never use this, but this is a great way to practice the shapes and the flows and things of these intricate patterns. We'll also try out the pattern in procreates. I duplicate the flattened image, and then I make it half of the size of the canvas, and then I drag it to the right. Merge it down and duplicate it, and drag it down, zooming in, I am super happy with the result. If you look at the pattern, you can see that we have definitely copied this pattern. We won't use it in any other way than just showing our fellow students here on skill share. I will share it as a Jpeg. Save it. 27. Day 7: Arts and Crafts - Reflect: And then it's time to reflect, head over to the workbook, our last pattern, to reflect the first question, what do you like the most about this pattern? I like the flow flowers, intertwined twine. I don't know how to write that, but you know what I mean, that the flowers go like this. That was what I liked. What challenges did you face while creating this pattern? It's, I will write that time consuming much details of a complex pattern to create. That was a lot of the challenges. How does this pattern fit into your evolving style as a pattern decile? Well, it's too complex for me, I might create one or two patterns like this. But generally, I like the more simple patterns. It's too complex. What I could do is the inter, intertwining is a word intertwine, You know what I mean? That the flowers go like this. I like that part. So intertwined florals is something that I like. I might just take that but create a more simple style of these type of intricate flowers. That was the last pattern and the last art style. So now it's time to do the final reflection session. 28. Final Reflection: Congrats for creating all of the patterns in the challenge. In this lesson, it's time to pause a bit from creating and spending a few moments on reflecting. In the included workbook, I've given you some questions to answer which hopefully will help you to summarize what you have learned during the challenge. Without reflection, it's easy to just keep creating and don't fully understand your progress. Let's take some time to go through these questions together. Let's go through the final reflection session and the questions and answer them together. Again, I will answer this quickly and just some thoughts about what I thought about when I created the patterns. But you can really dive into this and give it a good think through. Again, I'm using the Files folder on my ipad and writing in this document. What surprised you the most during this challenge is the first question, reflect on any unexpected discoveries or breakthroughs you had while exploring different styles. Something that surprised me is that I actually thought it was quite fun with outline motives because I don't usually create with outline motives it was although, but time consuming. That wasn't a surprise. That is time consuming but I thought it was fun and that is something that surprised me. You can also have other things that you think about that surprised you. What could it be that you really enjoy drawing like intricate arts and crafts patterns? Or that you really enjoy bright colors in the bowling colorful style. But you usually create with muted colors something like that. Which style resonated with you the most? Why? Well, this is easy for me because it's definitely bold and colorful and Scandinavian. For me, that's easy because I have my style, I find my style, I have found my style, and I am constantly growing it, of course. But I have this minimalistic, bold, colorful, and also the Scandinavian with clean lines and shapes and things like that. What did you learn about your own artistic preferences and strengths? Think about the aspects of pan and design that you enjoyed the most and where you felt most confidence. Well, it's definitely simple shapes, the minimalistic styles. I also like bold colors actually. Okay. How did experimenting with various styles influence your creative process? Explore how trying different styles affected your approach to design, color choices, and composition. How did experimenting with various styles influence your creative process? Well, it influenced because I understood that I really like to create creation. I like that I explore that. I don't like when it's too complex. I like when it's simplified. Yeah, that could be color choices could also be something, as I mentioned before, maybe you discovered that you really like new colors, but you usually create with bold colors or something like that. Moving on, did any of the styles challenge you to step out of your comfort zone, reflect on whether any of the styles pushed you to try new techniques or ideas that you hadn't considered before? Yes, arts and crafts. And I can actually see that both of these are because it's too much detail detail for my preference. What elements or techniques from the various styles would you like to incorporate into your unique style moving forward? Identify specific elements from the styles you explored that you would like to integrate in your future patterns. Well, I definitely want simple shapes from the bowling colorful style. Oops. But I want to add more emotions to the motives I enjoyed creating in that style. But I would love to make it even more like emotions into that bolden colorful style viewed on your style. Change your view on your style changed after participating in this challenge. Well, a little bit. Maybe for me, I would love to bring more emotions into my patterns, to patterns. Also, maybe that I like bolder colors than I thought. But it can be anything that you feel that your style have changed after participating in this challenge. How would you summarize what you enjoy creating after participating in this challenge? How would you summarize what you enjoyed creating the most? I would say bold, colorful, playful, cute, simple shapes. What else I could say like florals. Okay, you can summarize after answering the other questions. Hopefully you could summarize a little bit and you can just single words here. You can then later on to grow your style, but also to describe your style. That is a really good way of growing our style is to try to describe it for ourselves. An easy way to do that, or maybe it's not easy, but the best way to do that is to just use single words. That is me answering all of these questions. I hope that you enjoyed answering your questions as well and that it helped you in growing your style. 29. Now What?: Before we leave this class, I wanted to take a moment to give you realistic expectations about finding your style. Remember that finding and growing your style is a journey. And at least for me, it's a journey without an end. Unfortunately, through our creative lives, we will never stop to grow our styles. If you're interested to continue refining your skills, exploring new techniques, and sharing your progress with a supportive community, I invite you to join Pattern Rebels. It's where we dive even deeper into the world of pattern design. And together we learn, grow, and share, and have a ton of fun along the way. Pattern Rebels is my membership, where members get exclusive access to monthly pattern design classes. Free, procreate resources, feedback and QN A sessions with me. Fun challenges, Daily drawing prompts and more join Pattern reveals today to learn more, connect with fellow rebels and take your pattern design skills to the next level. Go to Pattern Reveals.com to learn more. That is all for this class. Thank you so much for watching. I hope that you enjoy this class if you did hit the fellow button by my name to make sure that you don't miss my future classes. You can also visit my profile page here on Skillshare to access all of my classes available to watch. If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to post them in the discussion section here in this class. And feel free to leave review to let me know if you enjoy this class. I would love to hear your thoughts and your feedback is always appreciated. Thanks again for watching, and I look forward to seeing your styles, To seeing your projects and connecting with you here in the future. Either on skill share or within the panel Revels community.