Circle Pattern Play in Procreate | 7 Days of Geometric Fun to Kickstart Your Creativity!

1. Introduction: If you've ever felt stuck in a creative wrap or you just want to grab your iPad and draw something, but you don't know where to start, then this class is for you. I'm Rebecca Flaherty, an artist and digital content creator from the United Kingdom. We all want to get ourselves into that habit of just picking up our iPad and drawing, but the obstacle of having to think of something to draw can often be enough to stop us before we even get started. The good thing is that the creative exercises in this class don't actually require you to do any drawing apart from one little circle, something entirely manageable, even at the lowest point in the ebb and flow in our creative cycles because spoiler alert creativity is meant to wax and wane. We have to take time to rest and recharge ready for the next cycle of creating. But all too often we put that rest off and think we can or should keep endlessly creating, which inevitably leads to creative burnout. Happened to me earlier this year. So instead of trying to make myself go back to illustrating more collections in my usual style, I decided to do something completely different and work on recreating some classic geometric patterns in Procreate instead. Not at all my usual aesthetic, but working my way through these patterns was just what I needed to get me thinking outside the box and wake up that creative little spark in my head and get it wanting to play again. The more new techniques I figured out, the more I was asking, What if I tried this or this or this? Because isn't that what creativity really is? Asking yourself, what if and then trying it out and coming up with something new. It doesn't matter if geometric patterns aren't your usual style. They aren't mine either. The patterns and products that they ultimately inspired me to create aren't even geometric patterns. It was the process which mattered. Think of it like a footballer spending time in the gym. Then a footballer, not a weight lifter, but lifting those weights makes them a better footballer. I'm not a geometric artist. I like drawing flowers, but learning these geometric techniques makes me a better artist and has given me new ideas for floor pattern layouts. That said, though, if you do love geometric patterns and they are your style, you can totally just use this class as a how to class and pick up a ton of new techniques for making geometric patterns in prorocreate. This class is designed to be tackled over seven days because baby steps are the best way to build a habit, right? Feel free to go at your own pace, though, as long as you work through the lessons in order as each lesson builds on skills learned in previous days. By the end of this class, you'll have a whole new skill set for making geometric repeats, a stack of really cool digital pattern papers to use in your illustrations or social media posts, and hopefully a head busting with lots of ideas for new patterns and illustrations in your own signature style. I can't wait to see what you make. 2. Class Project: Your class project is going to be to work through all the different exercises in the class and add your favorites from each day to this worksheet. You can find it in the class resources along with the color palette that I use to make all the patterns for this class. Here's how to add your patterns to the template. So import the worksheet into your gallery. And when you open it, you'll see it's made of these two layers, both of which are locked. And we're going to import everything above this layer and clip it to this layer. So let's come back out into the gallery and find the first pattern that we want to bring in. Tap on this one here, swipe down with three fingers and copy all. Then we're going to go back out into the gallery, open up the worksheet again, tap on this bottom layer with the pink circles, and then we're going to swipe down again with three fingers, and we're going to paste. Down here, make sure you've got snapping and magnetics off for this part because it's going to be easier with those off. And then we're going to resize this to about the right size to fit over this circle. And then we're going to come up to our layers, tap on this layer, and we're going to make it a clipping mask. And that's going to clip it down over that circle there. Then we're going to come back down to this pink layer, and we can go and grab the next one to paste in. So come out to the gallery, find your next pattern that you want to use, swipe down with three fingers and copy all again. Back out into the gallery, open up our worksheet, making sure we're on this bottom layer here, swipe down again with three fingers and paste. This one is going to get automatically clipped in between those. Tnw we can tap transform and resize this to fit. If you want to have the scale bigger on this pattern, which means it's then going to overlap with the circles next to it, you can tap select on this layer up here next to the transform tool, and then just draw around your circle here. Tap on the transform arrow, swipe down with three fingers and choose cut and paste. Then in your layers panel, you can just delete the one that you've cut it out from. Let's do one more of these for day one. So come back out to the gallery, choose the last pattern that we want to use. Swipe down with three fingers, copy all, back out into the gallery, open up our worksheet, and then making sure we're on this bottom layer here, swipe down again with three fingers and paste, and then we can just resize that one and place it there above this circle. Once you've got all your patterns filled out, we're ready to explore this. So come up here to your actions, and we're going to choose Share. And we're going to share it as a JPEG, and I'm just going to save the image to my camera roll. So this will be for the actual project. I'm also going to go out into the gallery and pick my favorite pattern to save to use as a project cover. So I'm going to tap select up the top here, choose this one, and come up here to the top and choose Share and share it as a JPEG, as well, and save that one to the camera roll. So now we can come out of Procreate. Open up Safari. And if you navigate to the projects and resources section on the website, this one's from a previous class, but we can still use this to demonstrate uploading. We can click Submit project over here. First of all, we need to pick our cover image, so we can upload from the photo library and choose this pattern. And that one will be the cover image for the project. Then you can give your project a title, and then tap down here on image, we can add the worksheet in there. And then if you want to add some text down there at the bottom and say what you've used your patterns for, you can do that as well. And then up at the top here, you can click Publish and you're done. Feel free to add your copies of the patterns we make, but I'd especially love to see any variations or new designs you're inspired to create along the way. 3. Troubleshooting: As I was making this class, there are a couple of problems I encountered along the way, which I thought would be good to cover in advance and have them here in one place so you can refer back to this if you need to. I thought it was better to have them at the beginning, even though it might not make sense yet because we haven't actually started any of the lessons. But when you do come across these issues, you'll already know how to fix them. So problem one is perfect circles not being perfect circles for some reason, and I was never able to figure out why. Sometimes when you draw a circle, use the quick shape and then tap transform, it just isn't a perfect circle. I found it was more likely to happen if I'd had the same canvas open for quite a while. So I don't know if it's related to, like, cache or memory issues, but force closing and starting a new canvas sometimes helped. I also found that using the circle option up here seemed to be better than using the tap method for snapping to a perfect circle. Also, it's possibly down to how much it has to manipulate your initial rough circle into a perfect one. So if that's an issue you're experiencing, you can try any of those steps, and you will eventually get that perfect circle. Number two is you transform to a certain size, tap done, and then tap back on it, and the numbers are different to what you put in they're like a pixel. Again, I'm not sure why this happens sometimes and not others, but occasionally, I'll type in something like 900 pixels for a circle, and then the next time I look at it, it's changed to 901 pixels. I found that this happened more with bicubic, so it's possibly down to extra pixels being added during the interpolation process. Again, force closing and using a fresh canvas seem to help, and you could also try using bilinear instead of bicubic if you're happy with the results. So those are just two annoying little bugs as I was filming, so I thought I'd put them here so that if they happen to you as you're working, you can come back to this lesson and see how to fix them. 4. Day 1 The Actual Basics: The In this lesson, we're going to start by making the most basic of circle patterns, the poker dot. If you've never ever made a pattern in Procreate before, then this is a great place to start because it's perfect for explaining and visualizing how a repeating patentile works. Let's start by creating a canvas to work in. Nearly all of these patterns we'll be making here will be on a 3,600 pixel square canvas at 300 DPI. So let's go ahead and create that now. So we're going to tap up here on this little plus and we're going to create a new canvas. So we want to set the width at 3,600 pixels and do the same for the height. And we want it 300 DPI. Down here, you'll see the maximum amount of layers that that will give you to work in, and that will vary depending on what kind of iPad you have, but hopefully you'll have enough there to work with. For color profile, I'm going to be working in SRGB, so we get some nice bright colors. And once we've done that, we can give it a title, and I'm going to call mine Pattern Canvas. And then to help me spot it, I'm going to put a little MOG on there as well. And you can click Create. And then every time we want to create a new 3,600 pixel Canvas, we can press Plus, and it will be down here. If you want to reorder these, you can drag them up to the top of your canvas, and you can bring them up there so that they're near the top. You see I've already got one like that, which I use. So I'm going to delete that one now, and we'll just go back into this one. So 3,600 pixels at 300 DPI is 12 ". And although talking in inches can seem like it's easier, I'm going to stick to using pixels for my unit of choice in this class, because it's actually going to make it easier when we use smaller measurements, and it's going to make the maths a lot easier, too. So all of these patterns that we make today are going to start off with a circle. And the only brush I'm going to be using is the hard airbrush in Procreate, which we can find in the airbrushing section down here and the hard airbrush. We're going to be using this one because it has nice smooth, untextured edges. But there is one thing I want to go in and change. So I'm going to tap on this corner here. If it's a procreate brush, it won't have this little squiggle. So these ones here don't have that. If it's one you've edited, it will. So tap where that would be if it was one you'd made. And what I'm going to do is go into the Apple pencil settings, and I'm going to turn down the flow to zero so that you can see there what difference it made. If I draw here slowly, if I turn the flow down, you can see we get a hard edge right from the beginning, and that's because I don't want any semi transparent bits while we're drawing. So turn the flow down to zero. If you want to put this brush back how it was later, you can just go about this brush and reset all settings, and then you'll have your semi transparency back again. So just go and turn that back down again and tap done. This is the brush that we're going to be using throughout the class. So we're going to be drawing a circle and then resizing it to specific dimensions. And one rule with pixel art is that when you resize, you should only go smaller and never bigger. So always draw your circle bigger than you need it to be. So I'll just get rid of that. So here we go. The only drawing we need to do for this whole class. So let's create our circle shape now. So I'm going to draw a rough circle going all the way to the edges of the canvas, and then hold, tap up here, and snap it to a circle. Now, this bit here is actually filmed later on in the class. I've already filmed four lessons, and I realized that as I was going along, the previous method that I was using of drawing a circle, holding, and then tapping to get a perfect circle. When I was then tapping transform on there, it wasn't always coming up as a perfect circle. Sometimes it might say 1997 by 1996. So that's my normal method that I use. But for the rest of this class, we're going to be using the method of drawing and then tapping to get a circle because this way was making perfect circles each time. The other way was making it one pixel out. So now that this little part has been inserted into the first lesson, I will leave you carry on with the rest of that lesson. So now we can fill this circle by dragging in from the color drop, and you'll be able to adjust the threshold here by sliding left and right. Sliding to the left is going to bring the threshold down. And if we zoom in, I don't know if you'll be able to see it so much with this brush because it is quite a smooth brush. But sometimes you get a little gap there, maybe if I undo that. And go do it again and then bring this down even lower. You might be able to see it. So if we have the threshold at naught, you can see there's a gap there. So what we want to do is make sure we have the threshold high enough, and I might have to do this in two goes now. Do it again, and then we can drag it up to 100, but not all the way, so it spills out over the edge. So we'll set it at 100 and then we've got no gap there. So we've got a nice solid circle shape there. Now, if you only want to have to draw one circle for the entire class, you could come out to the gallery at this point and then duplicate this one and just duplicate the canvas every time you want to start new ones, then you'll have 3,600 pixel canvas with a circle already drawing in it. Otherwise, you can stay in the canvas we've already got open, and now we're going to resize this circle. So let's tap on the transform tool up here, this little arrow. And on the bottom here, you want to make sure your interpolation method is set to bicubic for this. That won't be the case for the whole class as each of these three methods has its strengths and its weaknesses. There's a reason there's a choice of three here, and it's because there is always a best one for the job depending on what job you're doing. We're resizing a circle, and we want to keep this a nice smooth line. So bicubic is going to be the best one for that. So once you've got your interpolation method selected down here, tap on this little blue node here. You can tap on any of them, actually. I doesn't have to be this one. And that will bring up the dimensions for the circle. We want it to stay as a circle. We don't want to squish it so it becomes an oval. We want it to stay as circle. So make sure you keep this box up here blue and not unchecked. So this canvas is 3,600 pixels, and I want to make this circle, half of that width and height. So I'm going to change this to 1,800 pixels. And because I've got these two checked, it's going to change the height as well as the width for me. You can use any size circle for this poker design. It doesn't have to be a multiple of 3,600. The smaller you make the circle, the more spaced out and sparse your poker dots will be. 1,800 pixels is just a nice size to start off with because it gives you a nice balance between the motif, this dot, and then the negative space, which is the background or space in between them. So now we need to center our circle on the canvas. And this is going to be your intro into snapping and magnetics and Procreate, if you've never used them before. They're kind of a big deal if you want to make patterns in Procreate. In fact, we wouldn't be able to do this class without them or even make patterns in Procreate without them. So let's have a look at how they work. For making patterns, I always have both of these turned on, snapping and magnetics, and distance and velocity turned all the way up. Without them on, I can move this anywhere I like on the canvas, and it moves around really smoothly. But as soon as I turn them on, it's going to do things like snapping to the middle of the canvas, snapping to the edges, the corners, and also these halfway points can snap, as well. It's not just the edges of the shape. And if you've got objects on other layers, for example, if I duplicate this, we can also snap to objects on other layers. So as well as snapping to the edge of the canvas, I can snap to the edge of this circle on a different layer. So snapping is the thing that helps you do that. If I turn magnetics off, we can still do this snapping. And then what magnetics does is that helps you move things in a straight line. So this is going to help me stick to moving it up and down in a straight line. I put it snap it to the bottom here, and then we turn snapping off. We can move it along the bottom line of that canvas there. But I find for patterns, neither of these is especially useful without the other one. So I have them both on, and then it's a lot easier. Distance and velocity affect how sensitive the snapping and magnetics are. So if we turn these all the way down, we do have a little bit more control, and it's not going to snap into that corner quite so quickly. It will eventually snap in there, but it's quite tricky. So for pattern work, we want to have both of these on. And both of these turned all the way up to the top. I should say Max now. So as you may have noticed, there's two colors that your guidelines will be. There we go. Blue and orange. So an orange line will signify that you're snapping to the center of the canvas or the edge of the canvas. And then if I duplicate this one, a blue line is going to signify that you're snapping to something else on the canvas. So an object on another layer, in this case, is that circle. And it's not just the edges of other objects that you can snap to. You can snap to any of the places where a blue node would be. So we can see on this circle these little dots around the edges. We're calling them nodes, and we've got one in the middle here, as well as one on the edge. So we can snap this node on this circle to where there would be a node on that circle, too. This is a crucial concept which we'll be really leaning into for a lot of these patterns. But don't worry if you're a bit unclear just now, as it will definitely be easier to understand when we see it in action later. So let's get rid of this layer here. And this circle here, let's center it on the canvas. There we go. You can see we've got orange lines going top to bottom and left to right, and you can just tap. On your layers when you're done. So now with this circle in the middle, this canvas would now be ready to use as a patentile if we wanted a dot grid repeat like this. So let's have a look at how we're going to be testing patterns in Procreate in this class. Swipe down with three fingers to bring up your copy and paste menu. So here I've got my copy and paste menu, and we can do all sorts of things like cut, copy, copy all, duplicate, cut and paste and paste. Copy all is going to be a really useful one. And what S's going to do is just copy everything that we can see right now on the screen as we see it. So I'm going to tap copy all. We can swipe down again with three fingers and tap paste. And that has now pasted in a flattened copy of everything we had there. If nothing happens when you swipe down with three fingers or if something else happens, what you can do is you can go into your Canvas preferences. So tap up here on this little spanner, go to your preferences, tap on gesture controls and find your copy and paste menu here. I have mine set to a three finger swipe, which I think is the default, but you can also choose any of these options here. So I want to leave mine as three finger swipe, so I can tap done, and we can carry on. So this layer here is what we're going to be using to tile our canvas. Tap to select this layer. And this blue node down here, we're going to drag up and snap that to the middle of the canvas. And it should snap into the middle. You'll have orange lines crossing top and bottom. And in this canvas, it's going to say 1,800 pixels there, which is exactly half of our width and height. Once that's in place, you can just either tap there or tap the layers to set that transformation. I'm going to pause here for a moment and talk about accuracy. Being accurate is really important for these patterns to work perfectly. There were probably loads of times as we're working through this class that you're going to look at your canvas and think, hang on, that doesn't match up or like, there's a weird line or gap there. It is very easily done, and it happens to me all the time when I'm working on new layouts, so don't worry. We'll be working in a non destructive way, which means you'll be able to undo a few steps and fix things without having to start all the way from the beginning again. So do pay attention to the accuracy of your snapping because it is what this whole process hinges around. However, it is not something worth stressing over if you're just making these patterns for fun and just for the process, especially if it's the first time you make them. Don't forget that I've practiced these more than a few times before filming them. So be kind to yourself and don't worry if it goes wrong the first few times you try. You're still learning and spending time being creative, and that is always a win. You can always come back to a pattern layer to make a more accurate version if you need it for something important. So let's go back to our layers, and now we're going to duplicate this layer. Tap transform again. And we're going to snap it over here to this corner in the canvas, and we can check that it's in the right place. We've got orange lines around the edges there to show we're snapping it to the edges of the canvas. We've got orange lines crossing in the middle to show that this is also centered in the canvas there. And now we've got this cute little face there, we're going to turn that off, and I'm going to turn the background color to a really dark color. And we can zoom into the middle here. And show and hide this one. And we shouldn't have any kind of gap there. I'm going to go back a few steps and show you what it would look like if we had gone wrong there. So let's go back to this square. So I've got my pasted in image there, and I'm going to resize this so that it is slightly off. I might need to turn snapping off for this. So let's have it at 1795 pixels, for example. Then I'll turn these off and make the background color dark. So then, if I duplicate this, and I'll put snapping back on, I'll snap it over here into the corner. You can see we've got a gap running down there because when we resize this, we weren't quite accurate with the snapping. Sometimes it might be a thinner gap than that. It might be just one or two pixels off. You can see here there's a semi transparent bit there. So sometimes it can be that what you have looks something more like that. So if you end up with that, just go back a few steps and repeat the process being really careful with your snapping. So let's get rid of these two. I've still the flattened copy in my clipboard. So I'll just making sure that I'm snapping this all into place, 1,800 pixels, duplicate, we'll put that into this corner, zoom in and check that that looks okay. Then we can pinch those two together, duplicate, tap transform again, and then we're going to snap this to the bottom. And then we can zoom in and make sure that there's no line running across there. So the second thing we look out for when testing a patentle like this is also that all your motifs along these seams match up. We don't have any motifs on the edges with this. We've just got this one circle in the middle, so we're automatically good on that score for this pattern. So once you've checked those two things, no gap in the seams and the edge motifs are lining up, you can merge these together onto one layer. So now you can see how this dot is going to be repeated in this grid pattern. If we make this smaller again, I can drag this up here and I'll just whiz through those steps again. You can see a bit more clearly how it repeats in this grid pattern. And that's the thing you can do as many times as you like to make the pattern smaller and smaller each time. Until you get it to a scale that you'd like. So that's how we'll be making each of these pattern fills for this class, making our patentile and then repeating it across the canvas like this to create these in most cases, 3,600 pixels or 12 inch patent fills. You could use them in other projects like digital pattern papers. For example, this doc grid here, you could keep making this smaller and smaller and use it as a background for some digital bullet journaling, for example. So now that we've covered the basics, in the next lesson, we'll look at how to turn this initial circle into a proper poker dot patentile like this. 5. Day 1 The Polka Dot: Uh, so let's go back to our initial circle here. To recap, this one is 1,800 pixels in width and height and is already centered on the canvas. We know that having this here in the middle is going to make it repeat in a grid pattern like this. We want to make it more like a traditional poker dot and have that diagonal repeat. You can see on this diagram that each square is our pattern tile with the.in the middle. And there's also one now on the corner of the tile, cut off, so it's just a quarter of the circle. And then when all those corners meet, the quarters fit together and make that extra circle on the diagonal. So let's have a look at how to do that on our tile here. We're going to duplicate this circle. Then we're going to tap transform and then making sure that you've got magnetics and snapping on, and we're going to stick with bicubic for now. And we're going to snap this point and this point here to the edges of the canvas at the top, so we can drag it up and across there, and it's going to snap into place in the corner of the canvas. These two nodes are going to snap to the edges, and we've got a perfect quarter circle there. Then we can duplicate this layer again, tap transform and snap it down into this corner of the canvas here. Check them we've got those orange lines there. Then do the same up into the top corner. Making sure we've got those orange lines. And again, down here checking for those orange lines. So now we can test out this patentile. So we're going to swipe down with three fingers, copy all, come up to the top layer here, swipe down again and tap paste. So we've got a flattened copy there. Let's hide all of these and make the background color something dark. Then we're going to transform this layer and snap the middle of it up there, 1,800 pixels, and we've got orange lines crossing over. Then we can duplicate this, snap it over to this edge, and then we can zoom in and first of all, make sure that we don't have any kind of gap or blue line down there. And we also want to make sure that where these motifs on the edge meet. So we've got this little corner circle down here, meeting up with this one down here. You want to make sure that those meet up properly, which they do. And then you can check the one at the top as well, and that's looking okay. So then you can pinch, merge those two together, duplicate, and then snap this. Oops, snap it down to the bottom there. Orange lines all around, so we know we're good. And then we can zoom in, check our edge motifs, and no blue line there. So that is all nicely tiling properly. So then you can pinch those together, and then you can keep making this repeat smaller again and do that as many times as you want until you have it at a scale you like. And each time I transform that I'm being really careful and checking for the snap in each time to make sure I'm being accurate. So that is our second digital pattern made. We've got the dot grid that we made earlier and now we've got this poker dot one. Let's have a quick look at how you can switch up colors on this if you wanted to. If we hide this and go back to our main tile, these four that we have here, we can pinch those together, and we could make these a different color if we wanted to. So let's try making those pink. So they are already alpha locked. So I'm going to tap fill layer. Then we can copy all. That's the top here again. Paste, and then we can put this into repeat the same as we did with the previous tile. And then you can see by changing the four quarter circles on the outside, we get the two colors alternating in there. We could even do something really crazy with a clipping mask and put this layer here to work right away as a digital pattern paper. If I hide the background, I'm going to swipe down with through fingers and copy all. Then I'm going to swipe down again and paste. I hide these. What I have now is this all on one layer, but with no background on it. So put the background color in. I'm going to turn this on, tap on the layer and make it a clipping mask. And then that has clipped the pattern to these dots. And because this tile is seamless, we know that the pattern is already going to match up on the edges of these. So let's swipe down now with three fingers, copy all. Come up to here, swipe down and paste. And then we can put this into repeat and see how cool this looks. There you go. And if we zoom into the middle there, that's all looking good where they all meet on that tile there. And now I've seen this, I'm thinking, What if we also had the Poker dot pattern in the background, but with the colors ran the other way? And this is exactly what I mean about how these really simple exercises can get the creative part of your brain firing because isn't creativity all about wondering what if? So, now I want to see what it looks like. So I'm going to go back whiz through changing some of those colors, and then we'll see how this looks with the colors flipped for the background. I think that looks so cool. It's kind of like some weird optical illusion going on. And yet, the point isn't necessarily making and using this as a pattern tile, but the point is allowing your brain to wander and think, what if and just turning on that really curious, creative part of your brain that will get you back into the creative flow and help inspire you in other areas if you work. So as you're working through these exercises each day, let the curiosity in and let yourself wonder what if? If you come up with some weird and wonderful ideas, please add them to your final worksheet and share them with us. In the next lesson, we're going to develop this pattern a little further and learn a method for adding exactly sized outlines to our circles. 6. Day 1 Exact Outlines: Now, I know what you're probably thinking. Didn't we already start by drawing an outline and then fill it? And yes, we can certainly draw a circle in one color and then fill it with a different color to get an outline circle. And we can even have the outline on a different layer. So if I hide this one, we could have an outline on this layer, add a layer underneath. We can choose a different color. Make this one a reference. And then underneath, we can use this to fill it so that we've got an outline and a circle on two different layers, which gives us more options for recoloring than if we've done it on the same layer. But for some of our patterns we're going to be making these outlines need to be really specific widths. And if we just use the brush to draw them, we don't know what the actual width of that is and we can't be intentional about how many pixels wide is. So in this lesson, we'll be looking at how we're going to add outlines to our shapes for this class. And here's a quick side note on why outlines can be great for some of these patterns and for surface pattern design and illustration in general. You know how sometimes you have two colors that look great together, but somehow they don't look as good literally right next to each other, like this color palette here. I love it, but when I take away the white borders, it just doesn't look as punchy, and the colors just feel like they're competing with each other. That white border and separation was the thing that was making them look good together. So this pattern here without outlines, looks kind of okay, but look how much more the colors pop with the white outline to give it a bit of separation. So if you're working with some colors which look great together in a palette, but you can't actually get them to work when you try and use them in a pattern, try using some white in between them. So let's get rid of these and go back to our 1,800 pixel circle here. This is the same 3,600 pixel Canvas, and this is an 1,800 pixel circle in the middle. I'm going to duplicate it. The layer is already alpha locked. I'm going to fill this top one with a different color. Then I'm going to use the transform tool and tap on the node. And let's say I want 100 pixel wide outline on my circle. I'm going to make this top circle on top, 100 pixels smaller on each side, so it sits on top of this one, and the circle on the bottom then acts as an outline. So 100 pixels smaller on each side means that I need to make these dimensions 200 pixels smaller because I'm taking 100 pixels off the top and the bottom, and then 100 pixels off the two edges. So we'll change this to 1,600 pixels. Then we can center this on the canvas there. And now we've got this circle with an outline which we know is 100 pixels. By making outlines this way and having it be a solid shape at the back. When we come to make some more complicated designs later on, you will be able to snap things to this edge, as well as the outside, which is going to open up a whole load of new possibilities compared if we had them either on the same layer or if this outline was hollow and not a filled circle. So now we can group these two days together, and we can move the whole thing around by selecting the group and moving it. And it's as if it was one solid shape. You can then duplicate this whole group and transform the whole group and snap that into the corners like we did in the previous lesson with the poker dots. But here is where you have to be a lot more careful with your snapping because you can see in the corners, it's also trying to snap to this and the edge of this circle. So I can line this up with the edge of that one, but I can also move it along a little bit, and I can the edge of this circle with the inside of that one. So on the one hand, it does make the snapping a little bit harder, but because we have all those other things to snap to, it opens up a lot more possibilities later on when we want to make some more complex patterns. So for now, we'll repeat this and snap this into the corners like this. Making sure it's these nodes that we're snapping to the edge. If you're having a hard time keeping track of what is snapping where, you can always hide everything except for the layers that you're working with, and that will reduce the amount of things that your layer will be able to snap to. In this instance here, we don't actually need to use these outlines for snapping in this pattern. So for this one, once you have your colours sorted and you're happy with them, you could I get rid of these. You could duplicate this middle one, hide and keep this one because it has the layers in there. You could then flatten this one, and then we could do this snapping a lot more easier. But that's only if you know that you're not going to need to go back and you don't need the edges for snapping, which we don't in this pattern. So we can work with the flattened copy on this one, if it's a bit easier to get used to it. There we go. So let's have a look at how this one is looking in repeat. So we're going to swipe down with three fingers, copy all, come up to the top, swipe down, and paste, bring it up to the middle, 1,800 pixels, duplicate it, and then check in for snapping each time, snap it into the corners, and I can add a layer underneath, rather than hiding all these each time. It might be easier to just add a white layer. And then we'd see that white showing through if there was any gaps in there. So now that we've got this in repeat, now I'm thinking, what if I change the colors on this so that these ones here were a different color, and we had a different color for each outline and each circle. So I can hide these, hide those. We can go back to this one. I'm going to duplicate this. And for this one, I'm going to change the color to this green color here. And then this one here we could make the cream color. I can flatten this one for this pattern, and I'm just going to ops. And then I can duplicate this and put this one into the corners, and we can see how this one's looking in repeat in a second. So this last one, I don't need to duplicate. I can just move this one down here. And then through putting this into repeat. There we go. So we've got this really simple poker dot pattern, which we've developed and taken a little bit further each time. So we've got this really cool, multi colored pattern version of it now. So now we know how to add outlines in precise sizes to our patterns. In the next lesson, we'll learn how to rotate a pattern. 7. Day 1 Rotating a Pattern Tile: H for this pattern, we're going to start with the same tile and same canvas that we used for the last design. I've just grouped everything apart from these two layers here in the bottom so that they're out of the way. We're going to also repeat this circle here, too. So I'll change the background to orange. I'm going to make this cream color, and I'm going to make this in the middle pink. So again, working off this 1,800 pixel circle in the middle, and this one is 1,600 pixels. We're going to duplicate this, and we're going to snap it up into the corners just like we did for the last pattern. I And then for this pattern, we're also going to repeat it in the middle of the edges. So we've repeated this poker dot diagonally. We're also going to repeat it vertically and horizontally. So let's duplicate this bottom group again, tap transform, and we're going to snap it to the edge here and be careful that you snap the node to the edge of the canvas, not have these overlapping there like that. So we're going to snap it so we've got an orange line in the middle and you'll have a blue line. This part should be orange, though, and then you know that that's exactly in place. So then we're going to do that to the right hand edge of the canvas as well. And then these two edges of the circles will meet and form the repeat as we work along that way. And then we can do the same top and bottom. So we've really filled in all the negative space in there. Now we've got this really full pattern tile, and it's creating these really nice starburst shapes there in the negative space, and we'll definitely be looking at that shape some more later in the class. So let's put this tile into repeat now. So now we've got this pattern paper where all the circles are repeating in a nice grid pattern. They're all just touching each other at the edges there, and it's repeating in a nice grid. Now I'm going to show you how to repeat it so that they repeat in this kind of formation. So let's hide this. I'll group all of these together just so that things don't get too out of hand. I can hide all those, and I should be able to paste back in my pattern tile again. So select this whole layer with your transform tool, and you want bicubic as your interpolation method, and we're going to rotate it 45 degrees and tap fit to canvas. So now we've got this rotated tile in the middle. If you've watched any of my classes on making patterns with a diamond repeat, you might realize what we're going to do now. So I'm going to duplicate this layer, tap transform, and I'm going to snap it down here into the corner like this, making sure I've got those orange lines there. And then we can do that again with this bottom tile, just repeating it to fill each of these corners like this. Being really careful each time that you've got those orange lines there. Unlike magic, the pattern now repeats at this 45 degree angle, except it's not magic. It's mass, but it does feel like some kind of wizardry the first time you do it. So now we can merge these four layers together. Now, there is one issue with rotating patterns like this, and it's that you get a gap down here where the edge of the diamond tile goes. And that's down to the image being interpolated as it's rotated, and the pixels on the very edge get feathered and become semi transparent. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do to stop that happening, but don't panic. We don't have to live with this gap. It's very easy to fix. All you have to do, keep an eye on this gap as I do this is duplicate this layer. You can pinch those three together and duplicate. Again, all those semi transparent pixels stack up on top of each other and bring the overall opacity back up to 100%, and the gap, as it were, is now filled when we've pinched all those together. So now we have this very cool rotated patentile. We can put this into repeat in just the same way. We drag it up into the middle there. Duplicate zoom in and make sure that these are lining up properly, which they are. Duplicate. And again, just check these ones as well. To me. And that is how this one Oops, can't pinch those together. This one somehow looks so different like that compared to this one like that, but it is in fact the same pattern tile. And this way of rotating a pattern will work for any pattern like this in Procreate, as long as it's one that makes sense to rotate, of course. In fact, it's the easiest way to make a diagonal stripe pattern in procreate. Just make a striped tile going across horizontally and then rotate it at 45 degrees. So now you have this method of rotating a pattern. I hope that it gives you lots of what if questions. You can use it to give a plain pattern like stripes a really different look and use it to give a whole new twist to some of your simple blender patterns. The last of our Poker dot patterns for day one will consolidate some of the basic skills we've learned so far and learn one last transforming hack for making this pattern here. 8. Day 1 Moving by Exact Amounts: So in this next lesson for today, I want to show you how you can move an object by an exact number of pixels in Procreate. This is obviously very easy in other software like Photoshop or Affinity, where you can just type the distance you want it to move in your transform box. We don't have that in Procreate, so we need to hack the snapping instead. So we already know that we can snap to the edge of other objects, and we also know that we can resize an object to a specific size like we did when we resized our circle. So if we want to move something by a specific number of pixels, say, this circle here, we want to move it 250 pixels in that direction. What we need is an object we have resized to 250 pixels. And then we line that up with the edge of our shape. Then we can duplicate this one, and we can move a copy of it exactly 250 pixels to the right, using this to snap it to. So let's put that into practice and learn how to do it now. So I'm going to delete these, and I am working off these circles that we made for the last pattern, and I've got these all in separate layers there at the bottom. What I want to do is to add a smaller circle into each of these gaps here. I'm not sure exactly what size that needs to be, so I'm just going to draw a rough circle. The resize that manually just to get an idea of what sort of size it needs to be. So I've got sapping off for this, and I'm just putting it roughly into position there, and then I can tap on there and see it needs to be a little bit less than 900 pixels. We'll use 900 because it's a nice easy number, and that will fit nicely in there. So let's get rid of that one and draw a proper one now. I'm going to add a layer. Use this light color here. Then I'm going to draw a fresh circle on this one. Make that circle. Then I'm going to fill. Tap transform, and we'll make this 1900 pixels. Then we can turn snapping on and center this on the canvas. I can get a bit fiddly. There we go. I want this one to be outlined as well, so we'll duplicate it. Alpha lock, change the color on this one, and we'll make this 200 pixel smaller, so it's 700 pixel circle then we can snap this one to the middle of the canvas there. Then we can group those together. And that is the other reason you want to do outlines this way. You can use the exact same outlines throughout your pattern. If we just resize this circle with the outline, the outline would also shrink with the circle. So by doing it this way, you get to keep the same thickness of outlines throughout the whole pattern. So I'm going to duplicate this. And I'm going to repeat this on the inside of all of those circles there. That's going to be very easy to do because we're still snapping it to the edges and the middles of these circles. And although I'm going quite fast here, I am being super careful and checking that I've got those orange lines for snapping every time I move this around. There we go. So that's how we get those in place in these. But if I duplicate this, you'll see there's not really an obvious place to snap it in between there. So let's have a look at how to get a guide in there so that we can use that for snapping. Up at the top here, I'm going to add a new layer and I'm going to fill it with this contrasting color. Then I'm going to tap transform and snap it halfway across the canvas. So this was 3,600 pixels. Now I've snapped it to this edge. It's half of the canvas width, 1,800 pixels, and I'm going to transform it again and cut it off at the bottom. And now this square is exactly a quarter of the width of the canvas. So then we can center this on the canvas. So we have the orange lines there. And now, because we've got a node in this exact center spot here, we can center this circle on where that node is. So if I go back down to this one, I'll bring this up to the top here above that so we can see. I can snap this to the parts of this box and snap it onto that exact corner there. Then we can duplicate it and do that on all four of these corners. And this concept of putting a shape in place to be able to snap to where you don't already have a guide on the canvas is going to be key later on in the class. Once you're done with that, you can hide that. And now we've got these squares perfectly nestled in those in between spots there. So now we can copy all and we'll put this canvas into repeat, and I'll just whiz through doing that on the time laps. So that's how this looks in repeat. It looks really cool. And I love this kind of these retro coolors and the retro feel that this has. And if we want to put that into a diagonal repeat, we could go over that one more time to help the process stick. So we'll hide this, and I can go back and paste in what I copied originally. So if you remember, we rotate it 45 degrees, and then we tap fit to canvas. Then we can duplicate this and snap it into each of the corners here. Then we can merge all of those together. And remember, we end up with this faint semi transparent line there, but we can easily sort that by duplicating this several times. Binch those, duplicate one more time. We've actually got kind of six levels, and that's brought the opacity on that backup. So then we can just put that into repeat as we just did a moment ago. There we go. And then, again, we've got the same pattern repeated, two different ways, and you get a really different look there. Now that you have all the techniques for creating shapes and exact dimensions, adding exact outlines, moving by exact amounts, and cutting shapes in half, you have all the basic skills that you need to work through the rest of this class. The rest of the lessons will be a lot shorter as I won't go over these basics in quite so much detail each time. Do refer back to these initial lessons if you need to revise anything. One thing I will say, though, is that as you get quicker at making these geometric patterns, don't skip over the accuracy checks. As a technique starts to become muscle memory, it's really easy to let your accuracy slip if you don't stop to check for those snapping lines and also zooming in and checking that your seams match up every time you put a tile and repeat. That said, though, if you're just working through these exercises purely for fun and as a warm up for something else, you could argue that you don't need to get too hung up on the accuracy, but if you do want to use them in other patterns, then you do need to be accurate. So that is day one complete, or we could call it Section one if you're going at a different pace. Either way, now's a good time to go take a break, have something to drink, and maybe get some fresh air. Don't forget to pick some of your favourite patterns from today and add them to your worksheet before you put the kettle on there. 9. Day 2 Semicircles Hourglasses: Welcome back. I hope you're feeling refreshed and excited to create some more pattern magic. Today, we're going to be making all of our patterns from semicircles. In order to make a perfect semicircle and procreate, we start right back at the beginning with our perfect circle. Let's draw one now. I'm in a 3,600 pixel canvas at 300 DPI like we made yesterday. And I'm going to grab the hard airbrush that we were using yesterday. So I'm going to start by drawing a nice big circle here with a big overlap, tap on this and then make it a circle. Then we're going to fill it. Make sure the threshold is nearly at 198% will do. Then tap here and we're going to change this to 1,800 pixels. And I've got my interpolation method as by cubic here. The reason that I'm choosing 1,800 pixels is that, again, this is a 3,600 pixel canvas, and so by making it 1,800 pixels, I can fit two of these semicircles across the canvas width. So we'll keep a copy of this one to use for all our starting points for these other ones, so we'll duplicate this and just hide that one there. So once you have your 1,800 pixel circle, we're going to tap to transform. We're going to put snapping and magnetics back on and distance and velocity all the way to the top, and we are going to snap this to the top of the canvas there until we have that orange liner grow across the middle. Then we can tap off that. And now we should have this semicircle exactly 1,800 pixels by 900 pixels. So for this pattern, we're going to have these semicircles arranged like hour glasses. So let's snap this one up here into this corner, checking out for the snapping there. Then we're going to duplicate it, tap transform, flip it vertically, and snap it here. So this corner of it is this corner of it here is snapped into the middle of the canvas there. Then I'm going to alfa lock this 1.5 lock that one as well. This bottom one, I'm going to change the color on this one. And I'm going to use this palette here for this one, so I'll make the top one this different shade of green. Now we can group these, swipe right on both of them, and group. So then we're going to duplicate this group, tap transform. We're going to rotate it 45 degrees ties, so rotating at 90 degrees. And I hope you're noticing how cool that curve looks there, and they're thinking how you might be able to use that in other designs as well. So let's just snap this one over here for now, and we'll snap this one into the middle, check it out for all these orange lines going up and around it there. Then we want to repeat this down here. So let's duplicate this one. Snap that one down into this corner here, making sure you have orange lines going all around that. And then this one we'll repeat down here. So it's this one here. There we go. So that's our initial tile built out, and now you can have a play with the colors before we put it into repeat. Sometimes I can end up spending so long to get the right balance and mix of colors here, but that's a fun exercise all in itself. You'll probably find that you'll want to come back and redo the colors anyway after you've seen it in repeat. When I was making test patterns for this class, it took me a while, and it only looks like I'm getting it right first time here because I already spent ages last week picking all the color combinations for these patterns. It was a fun day. So once you think you have a good layout, you can test it using the copy all and paste method we've been using. One thing you might want to do when we get to this point though, is that you can rotate this tile if you want to. You don't have to have each one of these four B in the same place. You can rotate these by 90 degrees, or you can flip them vertically and horizontally, just to switch up the placement of the pattern in these. Where a pattern tile has no overlapping elements on the edges like this one, you can have it round a different way if you want. Just be sure you don't end up getting a mirror repeat going on anywhere because that can make an otherwise good repeat look bad. So let's put this like that, I think. O there we go. That's our first semicircle digital pattern paper. You can take a look at the colors here and then go back and swap some of them around in these individual layers here if you want. If you think you've got parts where it doesn't look quite random enough, or you might find yourself thinking, What if I arrange the colors so they aren't random at all? You might think these ones here, where we've got two of those same colors. What if you arranged the colors so you had these working in windmills? So if we go back to our original patent tile here, you might want to put these four in the middle, make them all the same color and then have these alternate ones on the outside a separate color and see how that looks with having these little windmill motifs working around. So let your imagination travel around the pattern and see where the creative spark takes you. In the next lesson, we'll learn how to incorporate a blend mode to make this pattern here. 10. Day 2 Semicircles Crinkle Cuts: Okay, so I'm calling this pattern crinkle cut because it kind of reminds me of the waves on the surface of a crinkle cut oven chip, so that's why where this one got its name from. So we're going to start in our 3,600 pixel canvas again, and we're gonna draw a rough circle as always to start off with. And then we're gonna fill it. And this one we're going to transform to 900 pixels with bicubic interpllation. So 900 means we can have four repeats of these across the canvas and four repeats top to bottom. One of the reasons I like to use a 3,600 pixel canvas is that it divides evenly between a lot of whole numbers. Okay, math's trigger warning, and you can ignore this next part. If you just want to have fun following along with the exact measurements and have no interest in adapting these patterns to other canvas sizes, that is totally fine. So once you have the hang of all the different patterns in this class, you'll be able to use other sizes of canvas and choose different sizes for the shapes that you use. You just need to make sure that the sizes you choose for the shapes divide evenly by the size of the canvas. So for example, on a 2000 pixel square canvas, if you wanted something to repeat eight times across and four times top to bottom, you'd divide 2000 by eight to get the width of your shape, 250 pixels, and then 2000 by four to get the height of the shape, 500 pixels. So although this pattern looks like it's made with semicircles, we can actually make most of it with a solid circle. So start by snapping this down to the bottom of the canvas here into the corner. And then we're going to duplicate this in a row going across, and we should get four repeats of this going across. I'm going to alpha lock these and change the color of these to this peach color. And I'm going to change my background color to that green that we just had. So then we're going to duplicate another one of these. This one, I'm going to make orange. And I'm going to snap this one so that this middle point on the node is going to snap to where the corners of this one would be. So we can snap it like halfway between there and you should have something that looks like that. It will be orange where it's snapping to the middle of the canvas here, and then these two nodes are going to be snapping to the middle points of those two, and the middle of this one is snapping to the corner points of these two. So then you can duplicate this one across like we just did, checking your snapping each time as you go. And then when we get to the edges, we're going to cut it in half, so over here, check that that's snapping down the middle there, and then on this edge, checking for the same. So then we can group all of this together. Duplicate it and you can flatten this copy here if you've got all of this lined up properly. Then we can transform this and snap this up to the top there, making sure we've got orange lines going along the top and down the middle there. So that's all our circles laid out, but they still look like circles. They don't look like semicircles yet. To get the shadow effect, we're going to use a blend mode over this tile. So we're going to add a new layer. Tap on your colors here and you want the color disc on view. Double tap here to get a 50% gray. Then we're going to fill this whole layer with it, tap transform and change your interpolation method to nearest neighbor. The reason we want to use nearest neighbor for this is because it is a square or rectangular shape with right angles. We don't want smooth edges here. Nearest neighbor looks at the smallest sample size and gives crisp, clean edges. So use bicubic for curves and nearest neighbor for straight lines. We want to resize this, so it stays the same height as the canvas, so we want to keep the height at 3,600 pixels. But I want to change the width, so it's half of the width of one of those circles. So they were 900 pixels wide, so we're going to change the width to 450 and then make sure that is then snapped to the edge of the canvas there. Now we can tap on this N here and we're going to change the blend mode to color buurn. And then you can see here you get this really cool twotne effect and it kind of cuts these off down the middle like that. So you can play with the opacity on this to get an intensity, like if you make it lower opacity, you're going to get a less intense effect, and higher, you're going to get a really crazy effect. I normally like to go with about 40% when I'm using this 50% gray as a color burn blend mode. You could also experiment with color dodge to lighten. So color burn will darken and color dodge will lighten. You can also experiment with any of these other ones. I like color burn and color dodge because they don't kind of blend gray onto it too much. So let's take this back to color burn and 40%. So now we can duplicate this, tap transform. And although this group up here is flattened, this layer up here, we've still got these individual circles in here that we can snap this to. So we tap transform. We can move this along two spots, and we can snap it to these circles on the bottom layer. Oops. There we go, and then duplicate again and snap it over to this one. So you should be checking out that these nodes are snapping to the middle with that orange line there. You'll have blue lines where it's snapping to the circles, and there'll also be an orange line at the top and bottom. And then I'm going to group all of those together there. And then we can see how this is looking in repeat. So that's how we use those filled shapes in gray and a blend mode to get that repeating shadow effect. At this point, some good what if questions to ask yourself are, what happens if I use a different color to the gray for this color burn or what happens if I rotate the stripes and have them going horizontally instead, or even duplicate that layer and have them going horizontally and vertically. I won't spoil it for you by showing you how that looks. I'll leave that magic for you to discover for yourself, but maybe I'll show it in the last lesson at the end. If you do have a go at these, share the results of your experiments in your worksheet. Next, we'll be making this pattern and then looking at a few different ways to take it in completely different directions. 11. Day 2 Semicircles Stacked Semicircles: So for this pattern, we're going to be aligning the vertical lines of the semicircles to create a vertical stripe. And whilst that might not seem like a particularly interesting pattern, another type of pattern might begin to jump out at you as we make this like it did for me when I was playing around with this one. So if you still have your 450 by 900 pixel semicircle from the previous pattern, the ones on the edges, you could duplicate that canvas rather than starting from scratch. Otherwise, this is a 3,600 pixel canvas, and I'm going to draw my starting circle here. And then I'm going to transform this to 900 pixels. And then fill the shape and cut it off at the edge, so it's then a 450 by 900 pixels semicircle. Let's just bring this into the middle for now. So for this, we're going to align this node here on the binding box to the center of the canvas. So let's bring it down there. So we've got this blue node is aligned with the middle of the canvas. Then we can duplicate this, tap transform. I'm going to flip it horizontally and snap this one over there so that this node lines up with the bottom of that one. Now, Alpha lock that, change the color on this. Then we can duplicate again, snap this one up to the middle of the canvas there, and we'll make this one orange. And then we can duplicate again, snap this one up to the top, check in for your lines there, flip it horizontally, and we can snap it over there. And I'm going to make this one pink. There we go. Then we can group all of these together, and I'm going to duplicate that one. We can hide this one in case you want to come back and change the colors later, and I will flatten this one. And we can check here that this says 900 by 3,600 pixels. So I'm going to tap transform on this, and I'm going to line this up the edge of this with the middle of the canvas like that. So instead of having the whole thing centered, I'm going to snap it to the middle of the canvas like this. Then I'm going to duplicate this, tap transform, bring another one around this way. I'm going to flip this one horizontally. So that these two touch each other there. And you could either keep the colors going the same across the canvas. So we have a row of these orange semicircles here. Or what we could do is snap this down to the middle like that so that we kind of offset those a little bit, and then duplicate this one again, bring it over there, and then snap that part up there and flip that horizontally. So we've got this kind of change in the colors there. So then you can pinch those together, and then this one will duplicate and bring over there. And then this one we duplicate and bring over to there. So that's one look if you wanted this kind of mixed match through the canvas, if I hide those, and we go back to this one here, you could have it like this, so you duplicate it. I mean, you could also repeat it this way, so we've got stripes going that way. And you could have that like that with these shapes joining and mixing up with each other. I go to go back to this one, and we'll see how this one's looking to repeat. I'm going to change my background color to blue, and we'll put this into repeat now. And then I'm going to go back and put the other version in repeat to compare them. There we go. We've got two different looks there just by flipping and moving the colors around. Now, as you look at this pattern here, do you see another classic type of pattern that actually emerges here? This shape that the semicircles are making here is called an Oji, and trust me, I have Googled the pronunciation of this word. There are some places that say it should be pronounced Ogi and some that say it should be OG there was slightly more saying it should be pronounced OG. So that's the one I'm going with. Plus, it just sounds fun like you're saying, OG. Anyway, I'm going with OG, but like I said, there are also people that pronounce it Ogi and I don't know which is which that don't shout at me, and I won't shout at you. Okay? So yeah, this is a really popular type of pattern in surface pattern design, and this was a really fun surprise when it jumped out at me when I was playing around with this pattern, and I had to recolor it to make this proper OG pattern. So in the next lesson, we'll do that and make this pattern here. 12. Day 2 Semicircles Ode to the Ogee: So we're going to start this OG pattern by working off the last one we made and using these same four initial semicircles here, which just to remind you, this is a 3,600 pixel canvas. And these semicircles were made from a 900 pixel circle, which we cut in half, so they are 450 pixels by 900. And we're going to start by making these two facing this way, one color, and these two facing this way a different color. I'm going to go with orange and peach because I think that will have good contrast on camera. It looks cool with pink and orange, but they don't look so good a contrast on the camera. So I'm going to fill this one and the green one with peach. And then the two curving this way will make orange. That one's already orange. So this one here. So this is going to be what makes the curve of our OG shape. So each one of these little semicircles needs a box in the contrasting color to go behind it. So we're going to make a contrasting fill by filling this layer with the orange, tapping transform. And those semicircles were 450 pixels by 900. You want nearest neighbor on here because we're working with straight lines, uncheck that, and we'll make it 450 by 900. So that's going to make a rectangle exactly the right size to go behind that. So let's bring that to the bottom there. So that's all lined up with it. We're going to duplicate that and snap it behind this one, as well. And then we want to change the color to peach to go behind these two semicircles. So we'll duplicate that. Alpha lock it and grab the peach color. And then put that behind this one, making sure that it's all snapping into place there. Duplicate and then bring that up there. And then this here is going to be the middle of this orange OG shape. We've got half of it coming around here. So this box here needs to be orange. So where you've got a semicircle flat edge, that needs to have box the same color next to it. So let's duplicate one of the orange boxes and use it to fill that space and this one down here. And then these two here are going to be peach. And then we can group all of these layers together. And then I'm going to duplicate this group and flatten this top one and hide the one at the bottom to go back to. This one, I'm going to snap over to the edge here. I'm going to duplicate it, transform, and I'm going to move it across to the edge of this one. Again, this kind of looks like a cool pattern in itself. That would make a really cool geometric design, but we're going to flip it horizontally to get that classic OG shape in there. Then we can duplicate this one again. Bring it over there to match up. And then this one. Here we can duplicate and snap that over there, and then we'll take a look and see how this is looking in repeat. And then we go made that classic OG pattern just from semicircles. So having made this pattern, what are your what ifs? My first thought was to see what it looked like rotated at 45 degrees, so I'll show you what that looks like now. So it looks pretty cool rotated at 45 degrees. And then I was thinking, Okay, what if I duplicate this and flip it the other way? So it rotates 45 degrees in the other direction. But then what if I change the blend mode on this and what happens with how that works? So if you go through all these different blend modes here, you can see you get these really cool effects where different parts of the shapes are combined or cut off to make different shapes and different colors as well. This is a really good way to play around and find color palettes to use. And you can also, with this top layer, tap on it and invert the colors, and then you come up with some really, really weird color combinations. And they kind of they're like vase shapes. Like, these are really cool. I love these colors. So if you come up with something like this that you think looks good as a color palette, save it as a color palette to use in your regular art practice. So add a new palette, long press on these, and just add them as a color palette to use again another day. And then keep scrolling through all of these. Like, that one's a really cool one, which I added earlier in there as I was playing around with this. So that's day two complete. And I think today is an especially good example of how you can start with a really simple shape like that semicircle, and then end up with something weird and wonderful like this if you allow yourself time to play and explore with what you can do just by changing one little thing at a time. Time to get another drink and some fresh air again now. And then in the next set of patterns tomorrow, we'll be cutting this little shape in half again and working with quarter circles. Oh 13. Day 3 Quarter Circles Bauhaus Style: If I say Bah, you probably picture a geometric pattern made of various square and circle shapes all fitting together in a random jumble, and that's what we're going to go at making today. So we'll start with an 1,800 pixel circle on our 3,600 pixel Canvas. So we got bicubic as our interpolation method, and we'll cut it off halfway there. Snapping it to the bottom of the canvas, then we can snap it over here. So we end up with a quarter circle 900 by 900 pixels. You can bring that up into the middle of the canvas there and snap it so that this point here lines up with the middle of the canvas. So that's our initial quarter circle that we're going to be starting with. And then you basically get to have fun flipping and rotating this little guy all the way around the canvas. The way I do it is to get four up here, group them, and then repeat those four into the corners and just change the colors around a little bit. So let's duplicate this. We'll alpha lock it. I'll fill this one with purple. We can bring this one up here. Then we can duplicate this one again, snap it over to this side, and let's rotate this one. Make sure it's snapped into the corner, can fill this one with this color. Then duplicate again. Then let's make this one pink. So once you've got those four in place in that quadrant, group those together, and this group should be 1,800 pixels square. We're looking good. So then you can duplicate this whole group, snap it over here, and then just have a play around with the colors and position over on this side now. I like where these two are meeting here, but I think I want that different color to the pink one there. So let's make this one orange. And then this one by Alpha locket, we can make this one purple. And I quite like that little shape that we've made there, so I'm actually going to leave both of those purple, and then I'll make this one a different color. Let's make this one pink. Maybe have it going. It's hard to decide that way. I think I might change the color of this one now, so it's not a repeat of that one. So let's have this purple one be a different color. Let's swap these around so that this one's purple and this one's blue. Then we can duplicate either of these and bring them around here. You can even just rotate the whole group like that. That's a nice way of getting some of these variations in shapes. Just make these different colors. I can play around with creating lots of different shapes. And where I'm getting this shape coming in here, it's kind of U shaped with these there. I'm thinking, Okay, I could try another pattern where I make all of these the same color and have four quadrants with this shape in them, and what would that look like? So as you're rotating and changing the colors on these, lots of other different shapes and possibilities should hopefully be jumping out at you. Let me duplicate this one again. So where I've got this here, I need to keep in mind that I also have a pink one there. So once this repeats, I would have, like, three quarters of a pink circle there, so I definitely want to change the color on this one unless that's something that you intentionally want to do. So let's stick with that and put this into repeat and see how this is looking at the moment. This is another design where when you're making your digital papers, you can add some extra variation. You don't have to have a grid of the same thing. You can move these around and add some extra rotation in these. You can also flip them around. One thing I would say, as with the other one is just try not to have it so that you end up with mirrored patterns unless, again, that is something you want to have, whatever you do, do it intentionally is what I'm saying. So you can see how cool this looks on a big scale and also just the different shapes that you can spot repeating in here. You could even, you know, make a whole pattern out of that there, like what if that was your pattern tile or what if you had a whole pattern where you had this kind of curved shape and just made a whole pattern of those. There's lots of different patterns that will jump out at you, and it's really good inspiration for finding new patterns. And don't forget another cool way you can play with this and get inspired is to duplicate one of your pattern papers. Transform, try rotating at 45 degrees, and then change the blend mode on this one and see what effects you get coming up on this. You get some really cool color waves coming up. Net forget you can reduce the intensity if you want it to not be so intense. This one here has got some really interesting color palettes. And also, don't forget we can invert the colors on this as another quick way of getting some different color looks. These, especially, I really love. So if you find something that you like, again, create a new palette. And just put the colors that you find into your new color palette. So this Bo house pattern is a really cool way of coming up with lots of new color palette ideas. And also, you get these really cool teardrop shapes, which will be looking at a lot more detail later in the class. And don't forget that these are totally seamless. So if you came up with one of these combinations that you actually wanted to use as a pattern tile, you can copy all M to the top here, paste this in, and this could be used as a pattern tile on its own. So don't forget to make a note of any new color palettes that you spot along the way, and don't forget to add the results of your favorite experiments to the worksheet. Next, we'll look at how you can arrange these quarter circles in a more uniform way to get a scale pattern. 14. Day 3 Quarter Circles Goldfish Scales: So we're going to start by grabbing one of the quarter circles from our last pattern, and you can either duplicate the canvas and start again in that one or just paste it into a new 3,600 pixel canvas. Then we're going to snap it up into the corner here, and this one is a super quick and easy pattern. We're just going to duplicate it and repeat it horizontally and vertically across the whole canvas. Okay then I'm going to change the background color to this, and I don't know how well that shows up on the camera, but it's kind of like goldfish scales. So I'm going to swipe and copy all going to swipe down again and paste. Then we're going to tap transform, and we're going to rotate this one at 45 degrees. You could repeat it in a grid like this, but I really like how this one looks rotated at 45 degrees. So we've got bicubic gone, and I'm going to rotate it all the way around until these darker ones are pointing up that way, then I'm going to tap fit to canvas. And then we're going to put it into a 45 degree repeat like we've practiced in the other lessons. Don't forget to duplicate those layers to knock out that transparency. And then we end up with this really cool goldfish scale like pattern. This would make a really cool digital pattern paper to use in a pattern where you've drawn maybe some goldfish shapes, and then you could apply this over the top with a clipping mask or maybe use blend modes to use this as a pattern texture within a pattern. And talking of blend modes, don't forget to experiment with this, having a go with duplicating it, flipping it vertically, and scrolling through some of the different effects you get with different blend modes on there. I'll leave those for you to have a play around with. In the next exercise, we're going to add some separation between our quarter circles with some outlines. 15. Day 3 Quarter Circles Gridded Quarters: For this pattern, we're actually going to break tradition and we're going to start with a square for this one. So I'm going to turn off the background color. I want a white background. So if I fill with white and move white around, you're not actually going to be able to see it. So we'll turn off the background color, and I'm going to tap and fill this layer with white. Then I want to transform this to a 900 pixels square box. So tap transform. You want nearest neighbor on for this, and we're going to tap up here and we'll make this 900 pixels. And we're going to center this on the canvas. So this box is going to be what creates the grid behind the quarter circles, and this is 900 pixels wide. I want my grid lines to be 200 pixels wide, and that 200 pixels is going to be made up of 2100 pixel outlines butted up against each other. So it would take 100 pixels from the edge of this box and 100 pixels of the box we make next to it. I need my quarter circle, which is going to be centered inside this box to be 800 pixels by 800 pixels, which means my initial circle needs to be 1,600 pixels. So again, if you would rather ignore the mass, you just need a 900 pixel box and a 1,600 pixel circle, which I will go ahead and draw now in a contrasting color. And then we can cut this off at the corner to make an 800 pixel quarter circle. Which we can then center on the canvas and in this box there. So this quarter circle is centered on the canvas and also on that box because the box is centered on the canvas. So let's group these together now. That's the hard part done. Now we can snap this up into the corner. So I'll zoom in for this bit, and we can put a grid on to help us make sure we're snapping it to the right place. So let's go up to our Canvas actions, turn on the drawing guide, and let's edit the drawing guide, and let's change the grid size to 900 pixels. Here we go. And then we can make sure we're definitely snapping these into the right places. Because when we duplicate this one, it could snap to the edge of the circle, and you'd notice there that it's not going to that line. So this will help us make sure that we're snapping white box to white box, not white box to blue circle. There we go. And then we're going to duplicate that one again, snap it down there, duplicate again and snap it there. And then we're going to rotate these round, so we've got a quarter circle going that way, that way, and then that way. And I've just spotted as I was doing these that I still have nearest neighbor on. So you'll get to see what a circle looks like now if you transform it with nearest neighbor. This one, you can see, it's got a little bit more of a jagged edge. It's not quite as smooth as ones we've transformed using by Kubic. It doesn't matter for this pattern. If I wanted this to look super best and fancy, I would go back and redraw that circle. But still going to work. It's not going to mess with the geometry. This is still going to snap perfectly into place, so I'm not worried about it from that point of view. And yet, this is meant to be a creative exercise. If we were doing this with paints like watercolors and having like a creativity session with watercolor, I wouldn't be telling you to use a ruler with it. This kind of exercise is just about kind of experimenting. So if you want something that is going to be best work, then by all means, you should go back and change that interpolation method. But if you are doing this just for the creativity and the fun, don't worry too much about little mistakes you make along the way. I'm going to stick with this, but I just wanted to point out that mistakes happen and you can choose how you deal with them. But also, I wanted to point out that I did it wrong. And if you're copying what I'm doing on screen, then you should use bicubic for circle, not nearest neighbor. Anyway, back to the pattern. We can now group all four of these together. And I'm going to go through and change the colors for each one. So Alpha lock these blue circles, and I want each one to be a different color. But you could also keep them the same color if you wanted to, and I'll show you later how that can look really nicely on to make a sort of a tone on tone effect. But I'm going to change the color on these for now. And then we can duplicate this group, and I'm going to flatten this one just to keep the layers from getting two out of hand. And then we've got this one which we can go back to. So I'll duplicate this, put one over here. You can keep these exactly as they are, or you can flip and rotate them to get different kind of layouts for the colors. I'm going to put this one like have that one like that, then duplicate again. Bring this one down here. There we go. And I'm going to turn the drawing guide off now because we don't need that. And you can see we've got this white that makes the background now. So then we can put this into repeat. Says, one option for repeating this. We could also repeat this at 45 degrees. So there's option number two for rotating this at 45 degrees. And also, don't forget you can do things like if I grab this one, we can duplicate this. Let's rotate at 45 degrees and see what effects we get with the blend mode there. And if you want to take things even crazier, another thing you could do is turn this rotated one on and play with a blend mode on this and even see what things you come up with. I mean, like how cool does that look where we've got this one, 45 degree one blending down on the one underneath. I think that makes a really cool tile all on itself. So if you spot something like this and you want to keep that as a patentile swipe down with three fingers, copy all, come up to the top here, and then tap paste. And then that is your repeating patenti which you can then for him to repeat like this. I think this type of digital paper could look really cool as if we go back to this one, hide this craziness for a second. This could look really cool as like wall tiles. If you were illustrating a cute kitchen scene and you wanted to put some kind of texture for the tiles. You could use something like this. Another little what if I want to quickly show you before we're done for today is, if we go back to this one here and I'm going to change the color of all of these to gray. So I'm going to double tap here and I'm going to fill all of these with gray. Then I'm going to duplicate that group, flatten, and then I'm going to repeat this around the canvas like we did with the other one, and then I'll pinch and merge all of those together. Let's hide everything apart from this tile, and let's set the background color to this green color. And then on this one, I'm going to change the blender mode to color burn. And then this is really good for getting a two toone effect. If you have a layer with white on it and you use color buurn, white has no effect on anything underneath. So it's just the gray that's applied to this. And then where we've got the white, the pure background color will show through. So you can choose all kinds of different background colors for this here. You can have a play around with all sorts of different background colors, and you can also change the opacity. So if you find it's too dark, you can bring that down, and you can also experiment with different blend modes and even try inverting the colors, which will make the white bits black, and then you could try color dodge to get lighter colors on there. So there's all kinds of, like, cool effect you could get on. So once you find something you like, don't forget you can copy all to capture that as a tile. Come up to the top here, paste, and then you can put that into repeat either at 45 degrees or in a regular grid repeat. So as we look through these, we've got all of these different patterns just from that initial quarter circle there. And it's so cool just all the different things you can do to get all these different patterns working together. So that is our last quarter circle pattern today, although I hope you have lots of ideas for some of your own to try out. Add your favorites from today to the worksheet, and I will see you tomorrow. 16. Day 4 Overlapping & Intersecting Starbursts: I hope you're feeling good and warmed up now because today we're going to be doing quite a bit of experimenting, and we have quite a few patterns to make, so let's get started. So we're going a 3,600 pixel canvas, and we're going to start with a circle as always. Gonna make it 1,800 pixels, and we're going to center it on the canvas. We're going to duplicate it and snap it onto all the edges and into the corners of the canvas, too. This should all be fairly familiar to you by now. So we'll go through these parts quite quickly if it's something I've covered a few times before in previous lessons. But if you need a quick refresher, you can always go back to the previous data for that. Then this one that's on its own, we're going to duplicate that, and I'm going to pinch all of the rest together. I'm going to alpha lock those. And then this one I'm going to bring it up to the top. I'm going to alpha lock it and fill it with 50% gray, which if you remember, we double tap in this area to get So this one, I'm going to snap into the corner, but I'm going to snap the whole of the circle into the corner, not just this corner of the circle into the corner as it were. So we'll move it up and over there, snapping it into the corner. Then we're going to duplicate it again and snap this one over here and then do that twice more into these two corners as well. Then just so we have one spare to go back to, I'm going to duplicate that one. We'll hide that and we can put that at the bottom. Then these four, I'm going to pinch together, and then I'm going to change the blend mode on this to something else, and then you'll see the magic capping. So once we start to change the blend mode on this, you'll see we get all of these different kind of effects. And we get this nice shape here where the two circles overlap. I think the screen blend mode on this one is probably my favorite. We can alpha lock this, and then you can experiment with different colors on this as well, either by using color drop and filling the layer there, or you can go onto Hu saturation and you can play around with the colors this way. And because we've got that gray blending down onto it, this color is always automatically going to match the color of the circles. Another thing you could do if you want even more color combinations is you could set a blend mode on this. At the moment, I've got a neutral background, so whatever's on here is likely going to go with these two colors. But if we change the blend mode on this one to color burn, maybe and then change this one to color burn also. And then we can change the background color to various different things. With darker colors, you'll find it's like too dark, but with these lighter colors, you get this more subtle effect. And you could also experiment by color dodge instead of color burn and maybe change the opacity to 50% ish. And then you'll be able to use darker colors on this. If you want to use these darker colors for the background, you'd need to use color dodge for the blunder modes here. I really like these colors. And again, if you find a color palette that you like, come up to your palettes here. Add a new palette, scroll the way to the top for it, and then you can stick these in a color palette to use later. So we'll go with this as our first paten tile and put this into repeat and see how it's looking. And then we can also put this into repeat on a diagonal, as well. So that's how this looks repeating on diagonal, and then that's straight on. You can even do crazy things like, obviously, test the blend modes on this and see these cool shapes you get. I mean, that is pretty cool all in itself. Like, I really like that as a pattern paper. And again, there's even more of a variation in colors there, so you could add some more colours to this color palette up here. Some of these extra colors that we've got going in there. The pattern papers really remind me of, like, vintage Christmas designs, and I think these would look really good used as like overlays for gift wrapping in festive illustrations or patterns if you were making, like, a pattern that had gift wrapped presents. You could clip this over the presents and have some interesting patterns within your patterns. Yeah, I really like this. It's like mid century Christmas vibes to me. So in the next pattern, we'll learn how to flip these base layers around and create a two tone version of this pattern with a variation in scale. 17. Day 4 Overlapping & Intersecting Scale Variations: So picking up from where we left off in the last lesson, let's flip these two layers so that they're the other way around and change the blend mode for this to normal for a second. And we'll clip this one down over there. And then this layer on top will fill with gray. And if you want to have a dark background, choose color dodge. If you want to have a light background to choose color band. So I'll go for color dodge, and I'm going to make the background color this blue color. Choose blue again and fill this one, and then you get a two tone effect. So the color dodge is applied to these parts, and then the circles and the background match. So this really kind of accentuates the circle shape and these little trellisy like X shapes. So this one is a good layer structure to use if you want a two tone pattern and you want to get these cool shapes on their own. Let's try it with a light background to show you how that works. So we change that one and then change the color of this one. And then you need to change the blend mode on this to something like color burn instead. Or you could use color dodge and just reduce the opacity. But blending that at 100% down onto an already light color is just going to lighten it to white. So different things to play with and try there. Just undo that I quite like that blue color. So I'll put this into repeat and see how this looks, but I'm going to switch up the scale on this one, so I'm going to copy all and then paste. I'm only going to repeat it into this corner and this one here. Then I'm going to take this as my patentile, so copy all, paste again. And then we can put this into repeat. And we get this nice variation in scale. So you could have it repeat these on the diagonal like that or let's try it again, paste. You could rotate these round. So on this one, although I said try and avoid symmetrical repeats, if you really lean into it and just make the whole thing symmetrical, that works, or you could go for something like this where you would then end up with, like, two of these, two down there, two up there. Let's put this into repeat again and see how that looks. These can look really cool, like, a ted pattern. So yeah, loads are different options for changing up the scale. If you've got something that fits exactly into its little square, you can put different scales of each thing into the repeat for your pattern paper and get loads of different effects from just the same pattern. So now you have another technique you can use to add interest when you're putting these pattern papers together, and repeating motifs at different scales is a good way to add interest to your patterns in general. 18. Day 4 Overlapping & Intersecting Rolling Circles: I couldn't think of the right word to describe this pattern other than rolling circles, but this is one of my favorite patterns from this class. It has a really fun retro feel to it, but I'm sure if you use more neutral colors and added more graduations in the number of circles, it could also look quite calming for a wallpaper. So this one starts off as always, 3,600 pixel canvas, and we'll start with an 1,800 pixel circle. And we'll just center this one for the moment. Then we're going to duplicate it three times, so one, two, three, and we'll alpha lock all of these. Do the bottom one anyway even though we're going to change it, and then we're going to fill each of these with a different color. So use pink for this one. Use this garish clashing red, and then light pink for this one. And then I'm going to resize these. So this first one, a tap transform, although we can't see it because it's underneath. Actually maybe I'll do them from the top. We'll work from the top down, so we'll start with this one. So I'm going to make this 1600 pixels. Then this one, we'll make 1,000. And then this one will make 1,400. So each one of these is 400 pixels bigger than the one next to it. And then I'm going to center these on this circle. I want to center it, so it's on the middle and so this node is snapping to the edge of that circle there. If it's easier, you could turn the others off while you do that. How cool does that look? You can zoom in there just to make sure that that's all lined up nicely. And then this is going to be the motif that we flip around the canvas. So we can group all these together. And you can keep them all in groups, or you could just duplicate this and flatten one and use that, which was what we'll do. So we'll hide this one, and we'll use this one. So I'm going to snap this one up into the corner there. Then I'm going to duplicate it, bring it over here and rotate it 45 degrees twice. So 90 in total. Then duplicate, tap transform, and we'll rotate it 90 degrees again, and then duplicate, snap it over here. I want to have that one, so it's going that way. Then I'm going to change the background color to this dark blue color. I absolutely love this color palette. It's so cool. And then when you put this pattern into repeat, you can experiment with repeating it at 45 degrees or varying the scale like we did in the last pattern. I was having trouble snapping that, so I hid all the other layers, and now this is snapping a lot more easily. 19. Day 4 Overlapping & Intersecting The Vesica Piscis: Don't let the title of this lesson put you off. The Vicapiscs is the technical term for the shape created when two identical circles intersect in such a way that the middle of each one is aligned with the outside of the one next to it like this. This shape here is called the Vica piscis, but we can just call it a sharp ended oval, if you want. What I will tell you before we move on, though, because it's too weird not to is that Vicapiscs literally means bladder of a fish in Latin. How weird is that? And apparently, it looks like the conjoined dual air bladders that you find in most fish. Who knew? Just when you thought we were done with the random facts about the shape you probably never even heard about until today, the name of the shape in Italian is Mandla, meaning almond, and it was a key shape in early medieval art often used surrounding figures of Christ. So I think we should probably crack on and make some patterns with it. To make this pattern, as always, we're going to start in a 3,600 pixel Canvas, and with your interpolation method set to bilinear for this one, make an 1,800 pixel circle, and center it. Then you want to duplicate it and align it so that it snaps like this. So you've got the edge of this circle snapped to the middle of the canvas and the middle of this circle, and the middle of this circle will also be lined up with that one. We could swipe both these two and just enter those for now. So then tap on the top layer, tap select, invert your selection. And then I'm going to hide this top one now so that you can see what happens. Tap on this one underneath, tap transform, and just take this off the edge of the canvas. And we're left with this shape here, which is this almond or pointy oval shape. If I tap on this, you'll see the dimensions of this. The width is 900, but the height isn't going to be some kind of useful specific number here. Now, my daughter and her boyfriend are both really lovably nerdy final year A level math students, and I could probably have asked them the exact size to make my starting circle so that I'm left with this shape in the exact size I want it to be, which is 900 by 1,200 pixels. However, I did not do that, so we will have to resize that instead. And that double resizing from the circle. And then, again, here is the reason I've used bilinear, the interpolation method for this pattern. Bicubic was just creating a little bit too much fuzz on the edges after two transformations, and nearest neighbor was too jagged, so bilinear seems like a good compromise. So I'm going to make this by unchecking the ratio 900 by 1200 pixels. And I just want to mention again here that, yes, there is a vector software out there that is the correct place to make geometric patterns. But this class is an exercise in fun, exploration, new techniques, and kickstart and new creativity using the app we all love to draw in. The goal isn't necessarily a finished pattern. The goal is to reignite your creative spark and get you wanting to pick up your iPad and create and have fun. And if you do want to use these as digital pattern papers in your illustrations, by the time we've reduced the scale on these patterns to be small enough to use in our other artwork, going to end up a little bit rough around the edges anyway, so don't worry about it too much and just enjoy the process. So we've changed the size of this to 900 by 1,200. Like I said, just about an hour ago before I went off on a tangent. We've centered this on the canvas, or at least we can now. So then I'm going to duplicate this two more times. And I'm going to tap transform on this one, and check this. I'm going to make the width of this 1300. And then I do the same on this one, and make the width of this 600. So we've got three, six and 900. So then when we center these on each other, I'll change the colors first, though. We get this really cool shape here. Then I'm going to group these. I'll just bring this one to the bottom. I'm going to duplicate and flatten this one and hide the rest, and then we'll just work off this one. So I'm going to just start by putting this in a basic grid repeat across the canvas. So that's Pattern one there, and we can see how that looks in repeat. This one is a really fun one to rotate 45 degrees and then flip and play with the bmboes. I'm going to go back to this layer here. These shapes kind of look like an eye if you turn them around this way. So how about in the next lesson, we go back to this layered one at the bottom and make it really look like an eye and see what kind of creepy eye pattern we can make with 20. Day 4 Overlapping & Intersecting Creepy Eyes: So let's go back to this group we made in the last lesson. I think if we rotate it 90 degrees and maybe if we take out the top one here, let's bring this circle back in, and I'm going to resize it. We know that the width on this little shape here was 600 pixels. So if I tap transform on this, I make this 600 pixels as well, let's bring it to the top. And then we center this you get this lovely creepy eye shape, and we could duplicate this one more time and make a little pupil in the middle. So let's try making it 400 and see what sauce size that is. Maybe you go a bit smaller. Let's try 300. There we go. I'll make this the same colour as this photo one there. There we go. So that's our creepy eye. I'm going to change the background color to this garish orange color because I'm loving these bright colors here. And then we will duplicate this, flatten our copy, can hide that one, and let's put this into repeat. Got a few different options for how we could do this. We could just repeat it in a grid. So there's our basic grid repeat. I'm going to show you how to shift these along slightly so we can have it repeat in a little bit more of a brick style. So just hide those or put this on, duplicate it and flatten it again. This is why we keep these to go back to. So let's put this one. There. That one there. Leave those up there. Then we'll put this one down here and repeat it across there. Then we can bring this whole thing, group and bring it to the top, duplicate and bring that down to the bottom there. And like this, you get these lines. They're really accentuated. And I love all the sort of individual shapes that are made with the negative space on this. So let's just flatten those two together. And we'll see what this looks like in repeat. So there we go. One motif repeated two different ways. And it gives such a different look. You could take things even further by like alternating the color, so you could have this one like blue, pink, blue, whereas this one next to it, you could have pink, blue, pink and see what other combinations you can come up with. And now that I've put this one in this brick repeat, it's made me wonder if I go back to this one, what this one could look like if we put this in, like, a vertical brick repeat, so we had one going in there. But I'll go back to that and do that in my own time and leave you to experiment with that as well. Forget to add your favorite of these patterns to the worksheet, and keep this group again, ready for the next lesson where we'll see what happens if we overlap these shapes to try and get that starburst design we made earlier with the circles. 21. Day 4 Overlapping & Intersecting Almond Starbursts: So let's go back to this special little shape here. I'm going to get rid of these two for this one. We'll alpha lock this one. It doesn't need to be in a group, so we'll drag it out there and delete that for now. I'm going to snap this one up into the top of the canvas here. I'm just going to make a row of these along the top and alternate the colors on them. Then I'm going to group these together, duplicate and snap this one down here, and I'm going to mix up the colors on this a bit. Make sure you're being careful with the snapping when you do this. Then duplicate this again, bring this one down here, and again, just mix up the colors a little bit. Then I'm not going to flatten these yet because I might want to come back to these later, so I'm just going to group all of those, and I'm going to turn the background off and copy all and then just paste this in up there. Put the background back on again now. And then I'm going to duplicate this. Alpha lock it and make it gray. And then I'm going to clip this down over the top to get that kind of almond overlap shape. So we need to offset it and we can use these individual shapes at the bottom to help us do that. So we'll duplicate this. I'm going to snap half of it there, and that's snapping to these layers underneath. And then this one, we can line up there, pinch those two together. Then duplicate this again. I'm going to snap this down to halfway, like that. And then this one can snap up there. So I'll just show you that one more time because that was quite quick. So duplicate this one. Alpha lock, fill layer. So then we duplicate it. And again, you need to make sure that you've got all of these individual layers turned on for this. Tap transform and snap it so that it goes in between those. And then the other one you just bring to meet up with it there. Pinch those together. Then you can duplicate it again and just bring that down, so it's snapping to halfway down this gray one. And then the other one, you just bring up to meet it there like that. Pinch those together. Go with this top one, and then you can change the blend mode on this to anything you like. If I remember rightly, I think screen was pretty cool. And I'm going to make the background color this dark color. And then clip this one down, and then it won't apply to the background color. There we go. And then you get these cool overlapping star bus shapes with these pointy oval ones as well. When you're playing around with different colors and blemo to it, if you spot a color palette you like, don't forget to make an oven and add it to a new palette. Then you can copy all, paste, and put this into repeat and add it to your worksheet. Don't forget to spend some time looking at these finish pans and letting your mind wander around what other directions you could take the finish pan in what if you wanted to add something to the pattern? For example, if you wanted to put a little circle or a star or a heart motif into the middle of any of these. You've got your group layers in here, so you could always center something on one of these if you wanted to add some little dots to the white space or the negative space or these in there. You could add a little row of dots or diamonds or any other shape you like. Let your imagination run wild and see what you can come up with. That's it for today, but it has been quite a busy one. So I think the key takeaway from today is how you can use two overlapping shapes to cut sections out from shape to make a new geometric shape that you wouldn't be able to make perfectly and procreate just by drawing it. It's a technique we'll be looking into a little further tomorrow when we explore even more overlapping circles and trellis patterns. 22. Day 5 Trellised Circles Geoflorals: Welcome to Day five. By now, you should be feeling quite familiar with the techniques and skills we've been using. I've been saving the more complicated techniques for the last few days, and today is where it starts to get a bit more tricky. So to warm ourselves up, we'll start with a nice easy floral pattern. The basic floral shape is really easy to make, and then you have lots of directions you can take it in by mixing up the scale, changing whether you repeat it in a grid or a brick repeat and changing the angle. The basic shape is made in a 3,600 pixel canvas, and we're using 900 pixel circles for these today. So I'm going to center this on the canvas. Duplicate this four times. I'm going to alpha lock each one of these and make these a different color. Then I'm going to snap these to this circle like this so that the top and side nodes of this bonding box snap to the center guides on the canvas. And then I'm going to do that with these as well. So these will snap to each other, and these will snap to the center guides as well. And then you can see this cute flower shape start to emerge there. Then you can group those together. And that's our basic flower motif that we can repeat in lots of different ways around the canvas. This group just check, this should be 1,800 pixels. So we can repeat this in a basic grid around the canvas like this. So that's one option, and that will look like this in repeat. Let's get rid of those. We could also repeat this in a brick type repeat. So if we center this one here on the canvas like that, and then snap this one like that and then put this one over here. That one is going to look like this in repeat. And if I undo all this, go back to this, copy all. We can see how it looks at 45 degrees. So then that one will look like this in repeat. You can also pull on other techniques that we've used on previous days. Remember, in one of the patterns, we had a smaller repeat of the square here. So you could put this in repeat by having alternating small and large flowers like this. That looks really cute like that. You could then change the colors of the ones behind. So if we find these, we could change the color on these. Basically, there are just loads of different options for this, and you can even try if I turn this one on here, if I put these up there and get this back again. You could try and see what this looks like blended down over the other one as well and see what shapes you get in there. So these are just some of the ideas that I had while I was playing around with these flowers, and I know you'll come up with some really cool ones of your own, which I'm excited to see. Share your favorite geo floral pattern with us on the worksheet. Keep one of these groups ready for the next lesson, we'll use this to give ourselves a refresher on making outlines before we get to the more complicated trellis designs. 23. Day 5 Trellised Circles Outlined Flowers: So let's start again from our basic flower here that we made in the last lesson. I'm going to duplicate this whole group because we'll need a second version of all those circles. These bottom ones, I'm going to make all of these white, remember, we use a solid shape behind to make outlines. Then all of these, we're going to make 200 pixels smaller because I want a 100 pixel gap. So let's tap transform on this one, and we'll make this 1700 pixels. I've got bicubic for my interpolation method. So we'll put that there, and then we just need to bring this one up to go underneath it. And then all of these, we make 700 pixels as well. And although this isn't what I plan to do, I actually meant to just have the solid outline there. It's just struck me my what if question, I guess, for this moment right now, is what if I kept it like this? So we've got this different shaped outline. So what I'm going to do, I'll carry on making this one, and then we'll come back to that and have a go with this one as well. So we'll snap these into the middle and then we'll come back and explore that what if in a minute. That one's not quite centered. There we go. So once you've got all of these, the circles centered on the ones underneath, you can group that together, duplicate, and flatten or hide that one because we'll come back to that one in a minute. And then you can put these in repeat. I'm just going to do this as a basic grid. But that's your quick refresher on how to do the outlines, and then we'll have a look. See what other things we can do with these shapes. So comparing this one to the previous pattern we made, first of all, these flower shapes, have a look at these and kind of explore which one you like the look of best. Do you prefer shapes with outlines or without outlines? And how does it make the colors interact differently? Like the difference between these two is really accentuated, whereas with these ones, they kind of they almost like vibe off each other because they don't have that separation in there. So have a think about that. Which one do you prefer? And is it a technique you could introduce into your current art style? Let's go back to this one, first of all. So we could center all of these on the middle of the canvas there. And see how this looks. And as I'm doing this, I'm also thinking with those rolling circles we made, you can make even more of these circles. So we could take this and duplicate it and make it smaller again by 200 pixels. So we could make this 500. The sizing has gone a bit off there with resizing it so many times, but never mind. And if we fill this with that, you can see you get a different look again. We can duplicate this. Up there, we'll have to bring all these to the top low. I'm not sure I've snapped that one quite correctly though. There we go. An unplanned extra idea for you to try out there. I really hope as you're watching this, you're coming up with lots of ideas of your own to try out as well. In the next lesson, we'll start the first of our more complicated trellis designs. 24. Day 5 Trellised Circles An Outlined Trellis: For this pattern, we're starting in a 3,600 pixel canvas, but advance warning that we will be making it a little smaller later on. So I'm going to change the background color to something not white. I'm going to change my color to white, and I'm going to draw an 1,800 well, I'm going to draw a big circle and then change it to 1,800 pixels. And we'll center that. Duplicate it. I'm just going to invert the color on this one, tap transform, and we'll make this 1,600 pixels and then center that. So there we've got our 1,800 pixel circle with a 100 pixel border. Previously, when we've been working with outlines, we've just left the whole flat white shape behind on the base. But with this design, we want the trellis to be see through, so you can just change the background color, and we're going to have this white line work on top. So we're going to use this shape to cut out of that one, but we're just not going to delete the bit behind it yet. So we're going to select this layer, the black one. It's going to look like it disappears there for a second. Don't worry. It's just because it inverts the colors. So select that one. Tap on this layer, swipe down with three fingers and tap, cut and paste. So now we can hide these two, and we've got this circle down there with the cut out middle on it. But the overall size of this is still 1,800 pixels. So then we can group all of this together, and I'm going to duplicate, and I'm going to snap it over here, and I don't want to snap it so that they're touching each other like that. I want to snap it so that it snaps to the middle and this snaps to the edge of the black circle. And then I'm going to do the same on this side. So these overlap there. And then I'm going to do the same on the top. And then, again, down there at the bottom. And maybe now you can see why we'll have to crop this canvas down a little because we've moved this motif 100 pixels inwards from where it was snapped to the edge there so that it overlapped there. The repeat of the pattern is now 200 pixels shorter because we've moved it in 100 pixels on each side. So we need the pattern to repeat from effectively, if I draw a line on top. So we need the pattern to kind of repeat from somewhere like there to there. These really wonky lines, but the nodes middle nodes of these circles would have been there. So we need the pattern to actually repeat from there to there. And the same is going to be true with these top and bottom ones. Let's put this into repeat quickly now, and then you'll see exactly what I mean before we crop it down. So let's copy it all, clamps the top here, paste, and let's just put this into repeat. So you can see here as I do this, these now aren't repeating properly because we've moved the repeat inwards. So that's why we need to change the size of the canvas now. So I'm going to tap up here on my canvas actions, tap on canvas and go on crop and resize. I'm going to tap on settings, turn snapping on. And we want this to be 200 pixel smaller on each side, so we'll make it three, 400 by 3400. Keep the DPI at 300. Don't need to resample the canvas, tap done, down here, and then you can center the canvas like this until you have those whoops, orange lines there. And you can tap done there. And that's going to crop it. And now, if we put this into repeat, there we go. You can see that that is now repeating properly. So let's get rid of those and go back to this full one, and we need to put this into the corners. And this time, we can snap it properly into the corner because we've cropped the canvas down. So let's duplicate this bottom one and snap this into the corner of the canvas there, and you'll see those already going nicely there. And the white edges are overlapping. Hopefully, you have enough layers to be able to do this. If you don't, you can always use a smaller canvas to play around with these patterns. You don't have to use 3600 pixels. So now we can go in and hide all of these black ones. There we go. And now, if we turn the background color off and we spike down with three fingers, we can copy everything. I'm going to put all of these in a group so that I can just collapse all the whole thing down at once. That's probably the easiest way to get these out of the way. There we go. Turn that back on, hide that, and let's paste. And then I'm going to paste another one in. And then what we want to do is kind of shift this down so these overlap. So we're going to need to make a marker to do that. So I'm just going to fill this layer, tap transform, make a box, quarter of the size of the canvas, center this on the canvas, and then we can use this for snapping this too. So we'll bring that up there. Duplicate this one, and I'm going to snap this node here to the corner of that box. And then you can see we get those core intersecting shapes there. Duplicate this one again and then use that to snap this corner to that box. Then we're going to snap this corner to that box there, and then do the same with this one, just making that last one in the corner there. Then you can pinch those top ones together, delete that copy, and delete that. You can pinch those two together. And now you've got that transparent framework of trellis, which you can have any background color behind, or you could make it black with white behind, black and white, all sorts of ideas. When you put this one into repeat, rather than copying the whole canvas, it's better if you just duplicate this and put this layer only into repeat because this has the transparency in it. If you copy all, you're going to lose the transparent background and then the ability to easily change the color. So duplicate this one, keep that one as a copy, and then we can repeat this around like this, and then you can easily switch out the background color. And talking of playing with colors because we've kept this background transparent, if you want to change the individual colors of these things in here, you can make this a reference layer, add a layer underneath, and then you can just use color drop to fill in other colors into this pattern like this. Just make sure that when you color at the edges, they match up as well. Dragging and dropping colors like this is a whole fun activity in itself. Just playing and making patterns just in the same way that sitting and coloring in a coloring book is fun. So yeah, get as lost as you'd like to in recoloring these patterns. And now you know how to make these designs with overlapping outlines. I'm sure you'll think of lots of ways to use that to create some really interesting geometric linework patterns. You don't have to stick to circles. You could use squares, diamonds, all sorts of things. Add your favorite designs from today to the worksheet, and then in the next lesson, we're going to make a trellis pattern similar to this out of cutout shapes. 25. Day 5 Trellised Circles A Cut Out Trellis: We're going to start this pattern off in a 3,600 canvas with bilinear interpolation and 21800 pick or circles. We're going to duplicate this, and I'll invert the color on this one, and I'm going to snap it down here so that this node here snaps to the middle of the canvas. Then I'm going to tap this top layer, tap Select. I'm going to invert tap on the layer below. We can hide this one and drag this off there like that. Now we have this little diagonal almond shape, which we can use to build a trellis pattern. It should be 900 pixels by 900 pixels if we've done everything accurately so far, and then you can duplicate and rotate it to make a trellis pattern where you've got complete control of all the colors. So let's duplicate this one. Snap this one over here, flip it horizontally. Put that one over there. Designs can look calming as a monochrome design or really fun and playful if you use lots of different colors. You can experiment with being random with the colors, or you can use colors in specific places to highlight different shapes in the design. You could create different colored squares to place in different parts of the canvas, fill a new layer with color, change the size to 1,800 pixel square, and snap it into the corners. You can also mix up the scale as you're repeating the tile. You could add some smaller circles like we did yesterday. You could even add that geo floral motif from yesterday. I I copy this one here, and then we come out here, you could even paste other motifs into the middle of these, now we've put squares in. You could do things like adding these in the middle like that and have a look and see what that looks like in repeat. So many different options and places you could take this. And I'm super excited to see all the variations on this one. Add your favorite designs from today to the worksheet, and then tomorrow, we'll be making patterns with concentric circles. 26. Day 6 Concentric Circles Target Practice: Today, we're looking at concentric circles, and we're going to take it easy today because yesterday was quite full on because today is really just to warm up for some more complicated patterns tomorrow. We're back in our 3,600 pixel Canvas, and I'm going to start with an 1,800 pixel circle. And I've got bilinear as my interpllation method. I'm going to make this 1,800 pixels. So duplicate three times. Oops Alpha Lock. What's going on? Duplicate this three times. There we go. And I'm going to make these a different color. So make this one orange, green light green anyway, and then a darker green. And then working from this one up, I'm going to make these smaller by 400 pixels. So let's tap on this one, and this one is going to be 1,400 pixels. And center that one roughly on there for now. I'll center these on the canvas in a minute. Actually, let's center this pink one and then center the orange one on it. There we go. Then we can turn this one on, tap transform, and we can make this 11000 pixels. Then center this. Turn this one on, and this one will be 600 pixels. And then we're going to group those together. And that's our concentric circle like our target, and we'll repeat this around the canvas. I think I'm going to do this one in a brick pattern. So the way we do that, duplicate, I'll flatten this one, and we'll put one over here. Duplicate again and put one there. Go to hide those. Then I'm going to move those up to the top here, snapping that into place. Duplicate this one and snap it down into the corner of the canvas there. Change the background color. I'm going to put this into repeat now. Once you have the idea for concentric circles, you could ask yourself, What if I use this circle instead to make any of the patterns we've made so far? So you could make concentric circle flower patterns, which we kind of dived into a little bit with this one here, like these quarter circles. What if we went into here, hide this one? And we cut this off there. What if you use that to make your Bohai style patterns, what different looks could you get with that? And you can also change some of these to the background color. So if I change this orange one to the background color, And then this one to the background color, you can get even more different effects by having some of the colors the same as the background color. So they look like stripes rather than a solid circle. Loads of different ways you can take this concentric circles idea. As I said, swap these out for any of the designs we've made and see what kind of effects you come up with. I just wanted to show you one more messy jumble of a way you can use these concentric circles to make a really fun textured pattern in the last lesson for today. 27. Day 6 Concentric Circles A Tangle of Circles: So for this pattern, we're sticking with the same beginning group that we made in the previous lesson. And I was thinking this would look really cool in just two colors, like I showed you, as well. So I'm going to change the outside circle to the cream color. And then these other two, I will change to the same color as the background. There we go, so that's going to be our basic circle. I'm going to duplicate this and flatten it, and we can hide that one. Black and white would also look really striking for this pattern here, but I'm going to stick to the colors from my palette. And then I'm basically going to repeat this everywhere on the canvas and see what we come up with. So I'm going to repeat it, snapping it to the sides, top and bottom and the corners, and then also this spot in the middle. So let's start by doing it in a basic grid first. And as I make these, I'm going to change up the layer order so that we get kind of like a messy tangle and try and work it so that there's no one piece in particular left on top so that everything is tucked underneath something else somewhere along the line. So as we move this into corners there, this is kind of like our first layer done. Whoops. So don't merge anything because you want to be able to tuck layers in and out and underneath each other. So let's go and take this one up to the top. Duplicate and we'll move this one in there, but put it somewhere. Actually, let's not take this up to the top. Let's move this down to there, so it's tucked underneath those two. We can duplicate this one Put that one up there, and maybe let's put that right down underneath the bottom one. Duplicate this again. Put this one into the corner, and that one can stay where that is. And then one down into this corner, and maybe we'll bring that up, see where that looks like there. Let's maybe even bring that up a bit higher. And then you can just experiment with the layer order on these, kind of changing where you put each one. Let's maybe move this corner one. Down a bit. And then the trick to not having any one piece on top is that where you've got these edge pieces here, at the moment, these are both on top. They're gonna match up and you'll have one single solid piece on top, so we need to take one of these down, which would be either of these two here. So let's tuck one of those in between, which means that one's now above something, so we need to tuck that below something else. You down there. This is trickier than it looks. Oh And then we just need these two to sort out now. So you can spend a while having some fun with the layer all around this until you've got it in a way that you think is going to work. And then the only way to find out is to put it in repeat. So let's tidy these up first by grouping them. I'm going to duplicate and flatten, but you could do copy all as well for this. And let's see how this is looking and repeat. There we go. I think we just about managed to not have any one piece on top and everything is tucked under something else there. So, this one ends up like a really messy jumble, but this actually could make a really interesting background texture, either in really subtle colors or a much smaller scale if you used it at the back of another pattern. For example, you could use it at the back of a floral design like this. And a question to ask yourself now, if you haven't already is, what if I use the liquefied tool on this? If you're using these digital pattern papers as non repeating tiles, once you have them at a scale you'd like them to be, you can take things even further and mess around with the liquefied tool. If you've never used the liquefied tool before, tap up here on your adjustments and tap on the liquefy. You need to make sure you don't have your alpha locked first, though. And you can use any of these things here to just really play around with the layer like that to get even more of a messed effect on there. So if you don't need it to be a repeating tile, this is fine. But if you want this to repeat, then I wouldn't use the liquefied tool because it can mess up the edge pixels unless you're careful. Yeah, you can play around with any of these things. And if you want to put it back how it was, you can just go to reset and magic that will go back to normal. So that's just another little direction you could take this off in if you wanted to do even more playing around with this. So now we have the hang of concentric circles and repeating them in different ways. One really cool way to repeat these concentric circles is to make a scallop repeat. It's a trend that you'll see everywhere because I don't ever think it goes away. So tomorrow is a day you definitely don't want to skip. 28. Day 7 Concentric Circles Basic Scallops: But Scallop patterns are so much fun to make. And once you get the hang of the way they work, you can make lots of variations to come up with some really interesting designs. We'll start with a simple one, which builds on the concentric circles we learned to make yesterday. This is a 3,600 pixel Canvas, and I'm going to make my first circle 900 pixels with bicubic as my interpllation method. And let's center that on the canvas, and then I'm going to alpha lock this and duplicate it three times. These alternating ones, I'm going to make a different color. And let's hide them and start with this one here. I'm going to make each one smaller by 200 pixels. So let's make this 1700. And then center that one. Make this 1500. And then this one, 300. Then we can group these together, and that's our initial circle that we're going to be working with. So let's duplicate that and flatten it and then hide this one. The first row is easy. We just duplicate this across the canvas. Always being careful that you're snapping. I haven't mentioned it for a while, but do check your snapping every time. Then we can group these together. And I'm not going to flatten that group yet because we're going to need this edge there to snap to. So if I duplicate this group, select it. I'm going to turn snapping off for now. When we move this down, we want it to repeat like that. And this point here needs to be snapping to something a quarter of the way down this back row of circles. But we don't have anything that is a quarter of the way down to be able to snap to. So we're going to make ourselves some guides that we can use to make this a bit easier. Just drag that one off there. Get rid of that, hide that, and we're going to make some guides. So this circle is 900 pixels. A quarter of that is 225. It would be quite fiddly to repeat loads of 225 squares down here. But because we can snap to halfway points, I can make it 450 pixels, which is half of the circle. We don't have to have quite so many lines going down. So let's add a layer, fill it with a dark color and tap transform nearest neighbor for this, tap on the node here check the ratio, and you want to make this 450 pixels high. Then I'm going to duplicate that, invert the colors so we can see which is which put snapping back on and snap to the bottom of that one. I'll just make sure that this one is snapped to the top of the canvas. Yep. There we go. Then we can group these, then duplicate the group, and then just line these up down the canvas. We'll be deleting these later. We're not going to be stuck with these. Let's collapse all of those. Group them together to make them easier to turn on and off later. Let's bring this one to the top, and let's move it to the top. The thing I'm also going to do now is to turn my Canvas guidelines on. So turn on your drawing guide, edit drawing guide. Can make the grid size 450 pixels. And I'm going to turn this up nice and thick so you can see it. And this is going to help us make sure we've got these in line when we move them down the canvas. So let's open up our group again, duplicate one of these full circles, and we can now snap to the halfway point on this blue box, see? And then we can bring it and also snap it to the halfway point between these two circles. So then we can repeat this one across the canvas. Let's bring these to the bottom, so they are actually at the bottom. And then one over here. So now we should be able to duplicate this group, flatten it, and then repeat this down the canvas. So I'm going to duplicate this and snap it to that line there. It's not actually the grid lines I'm snapping it to. It's the squares behind it. Sorry, the rectangles behind it. But these just give you a visual so that we can make sure that these are all lining up. It would be nice if we could make grid lines and then snap to them and procreate, but we can't. There we go. So just duplicate these down. It looks a mess at the moment with all the grid lines on there, but once we turn these off, it will look lovely. So make sure you are relying on the boxes and not kind of trying to use the grid lines to snap to because it won't snap to those. You need to make sure you are snapping to the box and not doing it, so it just sort of looks like it's in the right place based off the grid lines. So then when you have your last own place in the bottom, we need to make sure it matches up with what at the top. So if you are still using the group for that one, like me, I forgot to duplicate and flatten that one. Duplicate your group and flatten that one. Turn the group off. Duplicate that one, tap on the bottom one, and then you want to bring that up like that. So the bottom of the group is snaps to the middle of this row there. Then, hopefully, when we turn the guide off, it will look right. Looking good so far. The test is to put this into repeat and make sure that it's all working properly. So let's group all these. Swipe down with three fingers, copy all, swipe down again and paste. Turn everything else off and see if this works in repeat. One thing I have just realized is that I have nearest neighbor on, and I did use that when I was doing the circles, so I'm expecting this to be a little rope when I zoom in because I use nearest neighbor, but never mind. If you use BKubic, it will look a lot better. But the point is, there's no gap there, and they are lining up as well as any of the other ones are lining up. So let's bench those together. So yeah, as always, if you're doing this for best and for perfect, use B Kubic. But if you are just playing around and messing around, just like you would with paint, you wouldn't care about painting inside the lines or not spilling any paint anywhere. The point is to have fun and just do it for the process. So, yeah, don't worry if you use the wrong interpolation method somewhere along the line. It happens to all of us. I've just done it, but it's okay 'cause we're playing. You can come back another time and do a proper version of it with the proper interpolation method. So let's just check that these ones match up because this is the tricky bit, the top and bottom same on this. So just can I make sure that's okay? It's looking right. So that is this cute little scallop pattern in repeat. And like I said, with these things, once you've zoomed out and you've got in repeat, you aren't going to notice that the circle curve isn't perfect there anyway if you did want to use this as it was as a smaller scale design in a bigger pattern. So that's the basic scallops done. Don't forget to do some experimenting with this, try rotating it at 45 degrees, or even flipping it the other way and having some roof tiles. Next, we'll look at some ways of changing up the way that you repeat the individual scallops. 29. Day 7 Concentric Circles Not So Basic Scallops: These scallops are going to be slightly different in that we're going to overlap the outlines like we did with the trellis. So instead of there being a gap at the bottom here, we have these outlines meeting in the middle. So we're starting in a 3,600 pixel canvas here, and I'm using the same starting circles as for the last pattern. So that's a 900 pixel circle here at the bottom, and then a 700 pixel one at the top. So we've got 100 pixel outline here. I've grouped these together, so now I'm going to duplicate the group, tap transform, and I've got bilinear as my interpolation method here. I've got snapping and magnetics on as always, and we're going to snap this over here so that these two outlines overlap. Then duplicate again and snap it over here so that they're overlapping. Then we do that one more time over to each side, and you'll notice the halfway points of these circles don't match up with the edge, so we're going to crop this canvas down in a moment. So we've got one, two, three, four overlaps of 100 pixels. So we've lost 400 pixels off the width. So we can go to Canvas, crop and resize settings, turn snapping on and take 400 pixels off this, which is going to make it 3,200 pixels tap done, and then we can center the canvas again. So now this repeats perfectly side to side. So let's collapse all these groups. And as long as you keep a copy of one, just in case you need to go back to that or hide that one, you can pinch all of those together. So now we've got this one row there that's flattened. I'm going to duplicate this for a moment. Tap transform, and we want it to repeat so that it comes halfway down this set of circles. So this bit can snap to the middle of the canvas. That's okay. But we need this node here, or any of the nodes, really, like this one to snap to a halfway point between these two lines. Like here. So we know that this is 100 pixel gap either side of this circle, and we want it to snap halfway. So we've got 50 pixels in from the edge of the circle. So 700 plus 50 plus 50 makes 800. So let's just get rid of that. Let's un alpha lock there and fill the layer and make a guideline that is 800 pixels wide and 900 pixels high. Then let's center this on the canvas there. So this is if I just invert it so we can see it. So this is the same height as our row, and it comes to halfway between those. So we can use this for all of the snapping and getting this in position now. So let's duplicate this, tap transform, and let's snap this one halfway down, and snap the middle of this to the edge of that box there. And then we've got that nice outline of the scallops there meeting together on the top of this curve. And we can duplicate that again, join this part up. And then we can pinch and merge those together. Then you can duplicate that again, bring this down there and snap it to the bottom of the canvas there, and that's going to line up properly. Duplicate again and this bottom one, drag that up and snap that to the middle of the canvas. I'm going to bring this to the top because we're going to use this to snap the other pieces in place now. So let's line this one up with the top of the canvas there. Duplicate this bottom one, and the very bottom one, we're going to drag and snap it to the bottom of this box there. And then if we zoom in, you should see we've just got the tops of those outlines coming down there. Let's nicen up this to the bottom. And this top one here will duplicate and just snap that to the middle of this box there. Then we can hide the box and check if this is tiling properly. Hopefully, we have no gaps. Let's change the back covering color to something dark. Let's copy all, then swipe down again and paste. And because we change the size on this, is not going to be 1,800 for the width, it's going to be 1,600 for the width and 1,800 for the height. And then we can just repeat this around the canvas as we're used to doing. Let's hide all of these. Zoom in, and we've got no suspicious gaps, and that's all looking like it's lined up nicely. This is one of my favorite types of scallop repeats. It's so pretty, and this pattern paper would definitely be useful for clipping over fish or even mermaid shapes as part of a bigger pattern. Next, we're going to build on this, and I'm going to show you how to make those really cool, tall scallops, which I bet you didn't think were even possible and procreate. 30. Day 7 Concentric Circles Tall Scallops: So for this final scallop pan, we are starting in a 3,600 pixel canvas. We've got a 900 pixel circle, then a seven, then a five, and then a three. So these are all 200 pixels smaller each time. They're grouped and they're centered on the middle of the canvas. I'm going to duplicate this group, hide this one as a backup copy, and then this one, I'm going to crop at the bottom of the canvas into a semicircle like that. Then I'm going to bring it up and snap the bottom of it to the middle of the canvas. So what we want is these droopy little rainbow legs to carry on a perfect straight line down there. So if we make a rectangle, 900 pixels wide and maybe 900 pixels tall. So a square, actually, not a rectangle to go under there, we're going to get those extending down there perfectly. So let's add a layer and fill it with this green color. Tap transform, we'll make this 900 pixels square. So then if we center that underneath, we're going to get those legs just carrying on down perfectly there. Then I'm going to add a layer and fill it with the light color, tap transform, and check the ratio. I'm going to make this 1700 pixels wide. I'm going to leave the height as it is just because it saves having to line up the top and bottom, and then we can clip it, and it's one less thing to have to worry about lining up, making sure you've got those exactly in the right place. So then we can add another layer, make this one green, tap transform, and this one will be 500 pixels wide. But Center that. Clip that one, and then finally a light colored one. And this one's going to be 300 pixels wide. And there we go. That is our basic motif that we're going to be using for this pattern. So let's group all of this together now. So I've got all of this in one group, and I'm going to duplicate that and repeat it across the canvas, and we're going to have the legs overlapping here like we did in the last scallop pattern. There we go. If you keep a copy of the middle one, you can hide this one and flatten those now. Now, because we've got these overlapped, we need to crop the canvas. We've got one, two, three, four overlaps of 100 pixels, so we need to take 400 off the width. So let's crop this down to 3,200. And re center that. And then we can use this to repeat up and down the canvas. Now remember, in the last pattern, we had to make a 800 pixel wide strip here to get this to center to the middle of those. We're going to have to do that again with this one as well. So let's fill a layer, invert the color so we can see what we're doing, and let's make this 800 pixels wide. I'm going to bring down the opacity on that so we can see how it's being used. So let's duplicate this one and bring it to the bottom of the canvas and then snap it to the edge of this one here. And then do that with this one and snap to the edge of that one. Zoom in and make sure that's all looking okay there. Then those can be pinched together, and duplicate those, grab the bottom one. And snap the bottom of that to the middle of the canvas. And then we need to put an extra o in here. So if we make a marker, I think it should be 450 pixels. It kind of needs to be half of this distance here. So let's try and see if I've guessed this right. So let's fill this layer and make it 450 pixels tall. Let's reduce the opacity on that. Then if we duplicate this, tap transform and snap that down there, I think that should be the right place. Let's find out when we put this into repeat. Swipe down with three fingers, copy all, glance the top here and paste. And then let's repeat this around the canvas. We know it's repeating side to side properly. And it looks like it's repeating top to bottom perfectly, as well. Like all these look the right height. So that is your tall repeating scallop pattern. These kind of designs are really popular at the moment, especially on Spoonflower. They look great as retro wallpaper, so you could use that if you're doing a room illustration, you could use part of this to be wallpaper in the background. You could even have a go at changing the size of these so that you have maybe like seven circles stacked on top of each other with a transparent bit in the middle and have a go at making a rainbow pattern that would look really cute. I would love to see some rainbow versions of this in the project gallery. An experiment with different heights for the legs of the scallops, as well. And that is almost it for this class now. I've got one more bonus video for you, which I'm just going to do it as a time lapse rather than re explain everything again, where we're going to take the principle of adding legs to the end of a curve and extending it to make a retro stripe pattern. 31. Bonus Retro Waves: [No Speech] 32. Final Thoughts + Next Steps: Welcome to the final lesson, as much as I hope you're now feeling energized and ready to create. I want to circle back to something I said right at the beginning in the introduction. So if you only remember one single thing from this whole class, it should be that our creative flow comes in cycles, and that's important to rest and recharge before the Bernie ever comes. We shouldn't constantly be churning out work 365 days a year. We should set aside time just to rest and expect to not create anything for a short while. In my experience, these dormant phases will happen whether I plan them or not. They will either sneak up on me as creative block, which then comes with all that anxiety of, like, why can't I draw? Why can't I think of anything? Am I ever going to be able to draw again? Or I can anticipate them, and I can call it rest. Being kind to ourselves and calling it rest can sometimes circumvent that fear and anxiety that comes with creative block and make it a little easier to get back into the flow when we're ready. The second biggest takeaway is that switching things up with something new can help you get excited about your art practice again if you're finding it hard to get back into a routine after some time off. In this case, we've used geometric patterns as the twist, but it can be anything new like art supplies, new procreate brushes, new Apple pencil grip or iPad cover, or just some new color palettes. Sprinkling bit of novelty into your workflow is a great way to keep it fresh and exciting. And then last of all, we come to the actual patterns and techniques we've learned. I hope you filled have lots of ideas for using them in your regular art practice. You could try combining these patterns with some hand drawn textures to make some interesting wallpaper designs. You could incorporate them into the backgrounds of floral patterns, or you could add illustrations to the shapes to create some classic floral pattern layouts. The pattern papers themselves can be used in lots of ways, some of which I've mentioned throughout the class, such as using them as texture overlays in other patterns. You could use them as graphics for your website or social media post or as clipping masks in other illustrations. You could even use them to make some pattern brushes and procreate. Don't forget to share your patterns in the project gallery, as well as any other ideas you have for ways to use these digital pattern papers. If you have any questions, start up a conversation in the discussions tab. I do my best to check in there every other week or so, and I will always get back to you. If you've enjoyed this class and you have a few spare moments, I would love it if you could leave me a quick review. I find the feedback really helpful in motivating me to get on and get the next class planned and filmed. If you want to see more from me online, I have a YouTube channel where I share Pan tutorials every week. There's a mix of geometric patterns like this and floor pants, so there's something there for everyone. I share free assets to accompany tutorials over on my website in the Pattern Makers Toolkit. It's a bit like a patron group, except it's all free. I send out one and only one email per month with a freebie in there to help you on your pattern making journey, as well as early access links to some of my YouTube tutorials and full access to all the assets in the resource library. Starting in 2025, the monthly email will also have a set of prompts each month for helping you plan and illustrate in advance for the key shopping dates in your print on demand stores like Spoon flower. You can find all the links on the resource sheet or on my website, rebecaflahad.com. Don't forget to follow me here on Skillshare to make sure that you're the first to know whenever I publish a new class, and thank you to those of you who do that already. Have fun, stay creative, and I will see you next time. 33. Blooper: This shape here is actually called and I need to look up how to say it. Ob. OG. How was he? Who's she.