Create a Christmas Mini Pattern Collection in Procreate + Sell on Print on Demand

1. Introduction: Hey, I'm Maja Faber. I'm a surface pattern designer and online teacher. In this class, I'm going to teach you how to create a mini-pattern collection with a Christmas theme in Procreate. We will practice on finding inspiration for a specific theme, and how to work with colors in your mini collection to make it look cohesive. Where we have created our collections, I will show you how to export your files so that you can upload your patterns to print-on-demand shops such as Society6 and Spoonflower. I will share my uploading process and how to work with things like scale and keywords when you add your artwork to your print-on-demand shop. As a bonus in this class, I've included one free premium Procreate brush from me and my husband's brand name company and one Procreate color palette so that you can use the same colors as me if you wish. This is a fun and creative class for you who want to work with a Christmas design project or for you who want to learn how to create a mini-pattern collection for print-on-demand sites. You need some basic understanding of how to use Procreate to take this class, and you probably have created one or two patterns in this app before you watch this class. If you've never created a pattern in Procreate, I recommend that you watch one of my other classes, for example, how to create an editable pattern in Procreate with color variations, or three ways to create half-drop patterns in Procreate before you watch this class. Are you ready to create some Christmas patterns? Let's get started. 2. Your Project: Your project in this class is to create a mini pattern collection with a Christmas theme in Procreate. That is the full project. If you want to, you can also use my examples on how to prepare your files for print-on-demand and upload them, and upload your files to your own print-on-demand shops, such as Spoonflower and Society6. But the project that you can present here in class is a mini pattern collection with a Christmas theme. Be sure to share your project on the project's page here in class. I can't wait to see what you create. 3. Downloads: I've included some fun freebies in this class, you will get two free Procreate brushes from me and my husband's brand Faber Company, is the crunchy crayon, which I think has a really nice texture to it, and then it's the snowflake stamp, which is a fun stamp that you can use in your patterns or artwork. Both of these brushes are free to use for both personal and commercial use and so is this color palette that I've included for free in this class as well. To download these freebies, you can tap the link on the PDF, which is the one that you see on my screen here, or you can go to the URL that you see on screen now. When we tap this link, you will come to a page on my website where you will write in your name and email address, which will also add you to my email list so that you will get all of the latest news from me. Then I will tap "Unlock". That will take you to a Dropbox folder where you can download your files. To download the files, I will tap the brush set and tap "Download", wherever you can find the download button on your screen. I'm using Safari here, so if you also use Safari, it will probably look the same for you. Then I will tap back to fetch the other file and tap "Download" that file as well, and download, again. It's one brush set with the brushes and one color palettes. To install these files in Procreate, all we need to do is to tap the color palette, and tap the brush set file, and that will add the brush set at the top in your brush library and the color palette to your palettes. That's all you need to do to download the freebies in this class. Now, we're ready to get started. 4. Choosing a Theme: The very first thing that we want to do is to choose a theme for our Christmas collection. We already have chosen the main theme, Christmas, but now we want to narrow it down even more so that our theme is smaller, more narrow, that way it will be easier for us to find inspiration. It will be easier for us to move forward when we create our mini collection, and also, we are creating a mini collection with a set of three patterns. If we have a narrow theme, it will be easier to figure out the motifs that we will include in our collection. The first thing that you can try out to figure out a theme for your Christmas collection is just to scroll through Pinterest. I have a board that I called Christmas. I can link this here in class. You can check out my Christmas inspiration board, but you can also create your own board with inspiration. The very first thing that I do to choose my theme is to look at other illustrations and patterns and see what's common. Because when we are creating these types of seasonal designs, and especially I would say Christmas, people tend to like the traditional things. They tend to like the same things so it's ornaments, Christmas trees, Santas, gingerbread houses. Sometimes you can find something that is a little bit more daring, let's say for example these Christmas illustrations. It has really bright colors, it still has the traditional red and green though, and white, but it also has a really bright blue and a pink and the motifs are these little animals. Here's a little bunny. There is a Santa and a Christmas tree, but this whole illustration is a little bit more modern and not that traditional so you can go in that direction. But I would say that to sell your artwork on the print and mount sites, the safe road is to go with traditional Christmas motifs, because people tend to want those motifs, especially for Christmas. This is the very first step of finding inspiration. Scroll through what others have drawn both illustrations and patterns and see what typically is Christmas. Of course, there's Santas and reindeers. There's also some snowman and snowflakes and things like that. I'm not saying to you that you need to create the traditional Christmas-themed pattern collection with only Santas and gingerbread houses and Christmas trees, but I'm just saying that for these seasonal events, especially Christmas, people tend to like the traditional motifs, and also most of the time the traditional colors. If you want to sell your artwork on print and mount sites, which I will show you how to upload later on in class, it's typically good for these seasonal collections to keep it more or less traditional. That is the first step. The next step is to go to Spoonflower because in this class, we will upload our designs to both Spoonflower and Society 6. I found that Society 6 doesn't have as good search engine when it comes to keywords and popular designs, but on Spoonflower, I know that these two sites don't have the same target group, but I will go for the Spoonflower search results. Then I will hope that that will work out on Society 6 as well. What I do ask Spoonflower is that I tap Fabric, By Category, Holiday, Christmas. Here I have some really popular keywords. You can always check this out. It's Holly, Reindeer, Santa, Sleigh, Snowman, Christmas tree, Pine cones, Retro, Sled, Snow, Stocking. It's really good to create patterns with these motifs, but if you don't want to do that instantly, that you know that you want to create the Santa pattern then just do that. But if you want to check out what is popular, tap All Christmas. Here you will get all fabrics with a Christmas theme. You can tap best selling, which is really good, and trending. Those are the two that we want to have a look at. Trending is really good because those are up and coming. You can check out here the motifs. I see some Christmas candy, dogs with Santa hats, Christmas trees, and this general wintery theme with stockings, pine cones, hot cocoa. Also inside of the Christmas tree. That's really nice theme. You can have ornaments and candy canes and whatever you can hang in your Christmas tree. That can be a theme. It could also be this Christmas animals, could be a theme, that's really fun. Also, like gingerbread, that's also a part of Christmas candy, more traditional trees. You can just scroll by here and see what you find. Based on this quick look at Spoonflower, I can see that Christmas candy seems to be really popular. Then I take the decision. Is Christmas candy something that I want to draw? Because I don't typically only create what's trending and what's popular at this time. I also go with my feeling of what I want to draw when I create patterns for print and mount. But of course, it's really good to see what's popular. But I'm really excited about this Christmas candy theme. Let's choose Christmas candy. I'm going to choose Christmas candy for this class, for my mini collection. If you want to choose another Christmas theme, feel free to do so. Then we can head over to the next lesson where we will find inspiration for our mini collection. 5. Finding Inspiration: Now it's time to find the inspiration on what to draw. I already find inspiration here on the Spoonflower search, that now I want to find inspiration that I can actually use to create my pattern. Because these are other designers who have created these patterns, so I don't want to be inspired by the actual patterns. I will head over to Pinterest. Here instead of being inspired only by other illustrations and patterns, you can also get inspired by other designers, of course. But it's always good to find some other inspiration as well, so that you make sure that you don't copy other artists' work. I will head over to the search on Pinterest, and I will search for Christmas candy. Just like that. Here we will get photos instead of illustrations and patterns. I think that this is a good way of finding your own inspiration from photos of, in this case, Christmas candy, instead of looking at other artists artwork, because it's really easy to copy other artists work if you look at it too much. Of course, if you are going to create a pattern with only candy canes, then you might not even need to look up a photo of a candy cane because you already might know how it looks, and can draw it from your imagination. But here I want some different Christmas candy, and I want to just scroll through all of these candies and see which ones I want to include in my pattern. I think that I definitely want to have candy canes, and maybe cookies. These little fudge Christmas trees are really cute. Fans send the cookie. You can just scroll through here and see what you find. Peppermint is also something that's popular during Christmas. This is one way of finding inspiration on what to draw in your Christmas themed patterns. Let's move on to the next lesson, where we will start to sketch up our patterns. 6. Sketching: Now it's time to start with the sketching. What I will do is to create a Canvas, where we can lay out our whole pattern collection and see what type of motifs we want to draw, and also later on what colors we want to use and things like that. So I will just create a new Canvas, and I will use a screen size, but I've found that the P3 color mode isn't quite the same as the sRGB, and I usually use this sRGB. So I have a screen size Canvas with sRGB, which is 2,732 times 2,048 pixels. But this size that you use for this sketching phase really doesn't matter. But I would just use screen size here with the sRGB color mode. Now it's time to start to sketch our motifs. What I want to do is to have a look at the inspiration, so I will just tap at the top here in the three little dots. Split view and choose Pinterest. Here I will drag my Pinterest window to the left, and do my sketching on the right, because that's just how I like it. Then let's increase the size of the Pinterest so that we know which images to start with. So I think that I want to create a Christmas candy like a mixed Christmas candy [inaudible] pattern. So let's just scroll here and see what we want to include. I will definitely include candy canes, and I think that I also want to include gingerbread cookies, because that feels really traditional Christmassy. So I will just make the Pinterest window a little bit smaller and have my sketching over here. Choose black as the color and then a sketching pen. You can of course use a sketching pencil if you want to, but I'm just going to use the crunchy crayon brush that is included in this class, to sketch with, and have a small size of the brush, and start to sketch my patterns. So first, I will just sketch up some squares here because for me it's easier to see the whole collection if I just have the squares all ready. So 1, 2, and 3, those were a little bit big, I will just tap the transform tool, make them smaller, and then draw the third square. You can of course also copy the squares if you want to. It really doesn't matter how large they are, or if they're perfectly squared or little bit wonky like mine here. This is just a sketch. In this mini collection we will create three patterns that match each other. The first one I want to have, as I said like a mixed Christmas candy pattern. Let's just sketch out some Christmas candy, a candy cane over here, and gingerbread cookies. I don't think that I want the little guys over here. I probably want like hearts and things, so let's just search for gingerbread. Here we have some really fun gingerbread cookies. So lets just tap one of these, maybe a heart would be nice like a gingerbread hearts. So I'll sketch that up, and I probably want something, a little white thing around the edge. Maybe I want it bubbly, or maybe I want it just to be like this. Let's try and see later on, and what else? Maybe a gingerbread Christmas tree. We have some over here. We also had some nice ones over here. Like a Christmas tree, I'll just keep it simple. Well, a fat Christmas tree, something like that. This is just a really rough sketch that we can fix later on. What else? I'm not sure yet. I think that I don't want everything to be gingerbread. I think that I want this to be a traditional candy cane white and red and gingerbread cookies, maybe I want some like wrapped candy. These ones are really nice. Let's get inspired by those, and draw something like that. At this phase, I'm really just brainstorming to see what I want to include in the pattern. Maybe we want to have like stripes in this direction, or maybe just like that. That might be a simple stripe. I think that I will just make this one a little bit smaller, so I will select that one and just place it over here. So maybe we want one more type of candy, like wrapped candy, maybe a rounder one. My style is typically simplified and stylistic, but you can draw as detailed motifs as you want in your style, of course. What else? This little thing makes me think about those small peppermint. Maybe I can draw one a those just the regular simple round peppermint, something like that, and also, I think now that I'm looking at this, that it will be nice to have one pattern with gifts. Even though that the [inaudible] pattern, we'll be like Christmas candy. I think the gifts can also be part of this collection, like gifts and candy. That feels like a good theme for me. Let's just be finished with these candies and I will just select all of those, and drag them to my pattern over here, and just place them there. I think that I wanted to create some gifts for this secondary prints. I like to keep it simple. I can just draw it straight in this just like square gifts like this, I'm not sure about the placement yet, but this is just the idea face. I want like a bow on them. Let's try to add a bow in the top, maybe in the center. Now, I think that I will keep all of my bows in the top to keep it simple, something like that, and I probably want to create something to make this pattern a little bit more interesting. So maybe some of these have lines and some of them have dots like a wrapping paper, like keeping it simple as it's a secondary print, but still make it a little bit more interesting. So let's just do a diagonal lines on that one. So now I know my idea of that pattern, and here maybe I just want to try out to duplicate the motifs. First, let's just move that one so that is not just beside that one. Maybe over here. Did I draw them on the same layer? I did. You can draw the squares on the separate layers so that you easily can change where your motifs are placed on this layer, but this is a really rough sketch, and I don't mind that much, that is not perfect from here. I will just duplicate the motifs a little bit to see how it will look. I think it will look good. Let's just copy this. I'm on the wrong layer. Now, select the first layer, then swipe those two layers together. Select the first layer and maybe I just want to duplicate this heart, so select the heart to copy and paste, drag it up there, that looks pretty good, and then swipe those layers together to merge them, maybe just select the peppermint, copy and paste, and just add the peppermint over here. That looks like a good pattern for me, like a mixed Christmas candy pattern, and here we have our Christmas gifts pattern. Now, I think that I want to create something really, really simple, maybe just like a stripes pattern. It can be like a gift wrap for the gifts, and also reminding us of the stripes in the candy cane. To just remind myself that I want to create the stripes pattern. I can just draw the stripes on this little square. Maybe I want larger and smaller, thinner and thicker stripes. I'm not sure exactly how yet, but some stripes pattern will look good with these like a blender print. So now we have our sketch for this pattern. Of course, you might spend some more time on this. But to be able to create this class, I already created these patterns before, so I know what I wanted to draw. But this is to show you my process, and when I do this in real time, it can take a bit longer to figure out what kind of motifs that I want to include in my patterns. 7. Color Blocking: Now it's time to choose the colors of our mini collection. When I create patterns, I do this in a few different ways. Sometimes I will draw a pattern and spontaneously choose the colors as I go. Typically, I have an idea of which colors I want to use and then I try them out as I draw the motifs and draw the pattern. But when we are creating a collection and we know that we will create a collection from start, it's always easier and the workflow will go smoother if we have a color palette to start with, and then we can always add colors if we need to later on. In this class, I've included a color palette as a free download. It's called Holly Jolly, and it's filled with some nice Christmas colors. I've chosen this palette by looking at my Christmas mood board on Pinterest and seeing what colors are traditionally Christmasy. I don't want to go too far from the traditional Christmas colors, so I know that I want some green and some red and I also love pink, so I want to have some pink. Many Christmas illustrations and patterns have some light blue or even dusty blue like this, that's more of a vintage feel, but I don't think that I will want to use a blue color in this mini collection. To choose colors, you can either use pre-made color palettes or a color palette that you created before or you can have a look at other Christmas inspired designs and see which colors that inspire you. I'm really inspired by this look, for example, like a lot of pink and greens and red. But as we have a color palette that is included in this class, we will block the colors in the pattern that are from this color palette. I did a little mistake there first that I draw the squares not on one separate layer, but everything in the sketch on one layer. But I don't want to redo it right now, and this is just a sketch, so I will instead just tap to add a new layer and drag that beneath the sketch layer, and here I will start to color block. I will use the Crunchy Crayon that is included in this class and I can tap and drag my color palette to my canvas so that I have it over here or over here or wherever you want. Let's start. With the crunchy Crayon, I think that I want to have one really bright pink color in the background, and I think it's also good because I know that I want my candy canes to be white so then I know that I can't have a white or cream white background because they won't show. The contrast won't be enough. I can choose to have a green background or a red background, but I want to have a pink background on my candy pattern. Let's just try one of these pink colors out. For this, I will just create a square and fill it with a color. Then let's see which color I want for the second pattern. You can start with the backgrounds if you want to, because then you can see that your pattern collection will be cohesive so you don't only have like pink backgrounds or green backgrounds or white backgrounds, but that you have a little bit of variation in your collection. As I am drawing Christmas gifts here and I want my Christmas gifts to be in a few different colors, I think that I will use a white background for this. Maybe this is a little bit of cream white. Let's try that out. We can even try this cream white that is a little bit more beige. I've included a few different colors here. You can choose yourself which of these that you want to use. If we have one pink, one white, then I probably want a green, maybe a red but I think that I want a green. Let's try out the red first. That can look really good but I'm liking this combination more. Already here, I have decided the background of my patterns. I can change my mind later on if I feel that it doesn't work but this is the idea that I will base my color selections on when I create the patterns later on in this class. Then we want to add the motifs. You can choose to just draw on the same layer but as I might want to change the color of the background if I need to, I will just add a new layer. Here, you can draw beneath the sketch or above the sketch. I will just draw above the sketch so that I really can see how the colors are matching each other and contrasting each other. I will firstly tap the sketch layer and drag down the opacity a bit so that I don't see that black sketch as sharp. Then on a new layer, I will select the white because I know that I want my candy canes to be white. I will just fill those in. Maybe that was a little bit too big of a brush. Something like that and I can fill it in. This is just color blocking and this is not drawing the final motifs. I'm just trying out the colors and how they work with each other. If I have white candy canes, I know that I want some brownish gingerbread cookies. Let's try out one of the brown colors. It looks a little bit too sharp for me, but let's just try it out and see how that looks when I've colored everything. Let's add a new layer on top where I will just draw in this white little lines on the gingerbread. White little lines. Choose the white color and draw in the lines. As you can see here, I'm doing this really quickly just to see how the colors will look together. Here I have a lot of brown and now I want to bring in something red. I will bring red to the wrapped candy over here and maybe I want to have some green candy as well. That looks a little bit bright, but let's just try that out. I just realized that I'm on the layer with the white mark on the gingerbread, but it really doesn't matter at this stage, we're just color blocking. Just make sure that you can recolor your color block motifs, so that you put them on separate layers if you need to. All that I care about here is that the white line of the gingerbread cookies are on top of the brown gingerbread. That green color of that wrapped candy looked a little bit too sharp. Let's try the darker green out instead. Then for the peppermint, I want them to be white, but I want to have some colored layer on top. I will just add the white at the bottom layer here and draw that in, and the other one and then on the top layer, let's just try out this light green color over here. That looked a little bit strange, like that. This is really rough. We are just trying out the colors and the next thing is to add the lines on the candy canes. Let's try the red. Maybe I want that red or maybe I want the darker red. No, I think that I want the light red for this. I will just add some more color there to see how it looks. That looks pretty good. Let's try to add some lines on the candy and maybe darker green on that one. I will just select the green and choose a little bit of darker green and add some lines on top of that candy. If we zoom out, I think that this looks good, but I want to try out to choose a lighter color for the gingerbread cookies because I think that those were a little bit too dark brown, and now we can try out the background color. I had chosen the lighter pink, so let's try out the darker pink. No, that doesn't look good. This looks good. Let's move on to the Christmas gifts and we can just add a new layer so that we know where we are drawing. Here I will start to just draw the gifts. Let's just add a green gift and a green gift over here as well, and maybe a red gift. If this one is red, and this one can be pink. Pink, and red. That looks pretty good. Let's try out the darker pink color. No, I didn't like that one. This might be actually good from the start. On top I will add a new layer, and I will use this darker brown color to add some contrast and draw these little bows and string on top of the gifts. That looks really good, I think with the colors, and now I want to add in just a few details of the wrapping paper that we had on the sketch layer over here. To do that, I can just add a layer on top here, and I will choose the blending mode color burn, and I will use a gray color to just draw in some details. The lighter gray I have here, so we are using blending modes on this layer, which means that when we draw with gray, it will be a darker version of the color that is beneath. If I will choose a darker gray, the color will be darker. I will go up here somewhere and then just draw in some light details of the wrapping paper. This way I don't need to choose a darker color for all of the colors. It will be that automatically. That looks pretty good. I don't need to do that on all of the motifs as I already feel that that looks good. Then for this lines pattern, we can just turn off the sketch because I know that I want to draw lines here. We'll just add a new layer on top as well, and I will choose the white color because I think that that will make a good contrast. I would just draw a few lines here with the white, and that looks a little bit plain. We can just try out to use the blending mode color burn here as well, and with a grayish color somewhere over here, maybe we can draw in some thinner lines in-between. Maybe I want those to be a little bit darker, not that dark. Something like that. Now we have color blocked our patterns, and I think that it looks good. We might want to change the colors of some motifs later on. But let's just try out how this will work. When I have all of my patterns like this color blocked, I will just do one small change to see the difference. I will change the gingerbread again to the darker brown because that way they will match the gifts' pattern. Now I think the dull looks actually better. Let's just be satisfied with this at this point, and then we can move on to the next lesson, where we will start to actually create the patterns. 8. Hero Pattern - Draw the Motifs: Then I will head back to the gallery and I will create new canvas where we will start with our hero pattern. So tap the plus sign and you can tap "New canvas" and you can choose any dimension you want to, of course. I wouldn't go lower than 3,000 pixels square when I create patterns that I use for print-on-demand sites and also that I might not know where I want to use them for the future, so the high resolution and the largest size that you can create your pattern in, the better. When I create patterns specifically for Spoonflower, I use 3,600 pixels as a standard and I will just show you why. Spoonflower has this size guide that you can see the pixel calculation for common measurements. Here, you can see that if you have 150 DPI on your patterns, we have 300 because that's large resolution. As I don't know where I want to use my patterns in the future, I always create my patterns with 300 DPI. But if I would have 150 DPI, 3,600 pixels would be 24 inch. I think that it's good to have whole inch measurements when I create specifically for Spoonflower, it just makes everything so much easier. But you can choose for yourself and if you also create patterns for Spoonflower, you can use this size guide. But my standard size is 3,600 pixels with 300 DPI and that will bring me 47 layers to work with. As a color profile, I use the first sRGB. I found that the Display P3 have a little bit of difference in the colors, and typically, sRGB works really good for me. Tap "Create" and now we have our first canvas where we will create the hero pattern. What you can do now is to start to sketch the hero pattern once again, but as I've already, created a sketch, I will just use that one, so tap "Actions", "Add", and I will add this photo of my sketch and color block. So we will create this Christmas candy pattern, and I will just drag up the size of my sketch so that it fits my canvas and then tap the transform tool and that will make everything else disappear and I only have this sketch. So now you can choose if you want to refine your sketch. But this pattern that I'm creating, and in this style, is a bit simplified, so I will just use this sketch and draw on top of it. If you want to, you can just erase the square here so that it won't be confusing. Then I will just bring my sketch to the middle and drag down the opacity of the sketch layer. Next, I will add a background layer, so I tap to add a new layer and I will choose the pink color from the color palette, and tap and drag to add that pink color to the background. I won't mind that it looks a little bit strange here, because the reason is just that the sketch layer has a white background, but that's fine because I already made the color blocking so I know how the other colors look on this pink background color. So tap to add a new layer on top and now, I will start to draw my motifs. So when I create patterns, I make sure that I don't mix the colors up in the layers, so what I mean with that is that, if I'm using whites, I will draw everything that is supposed to be white on one layer and then everything that is supposed to be red on one layer. Sometimes I have several layers with white, and several layers with green and red, and things like that. But the important thing is that I don't mix it so that I don't put the green and white on one layer. If you know that you never want to recolor this pattern, you can, of course, put everything on one layer. But I always want to make sure that I always can re-color my pattern without difficulties later on, and that is why I separate the colors with layers. Moving on, I will choose the crunchy crayon that is included in this class and start to draw the candy canes. Here, you can choose if you want to just draw one of the candy canes and duplicate it, or if you want to draw more so that they aren't identical. But let's just start. I will use a brush size that is about 20 percent. Then I will draw from my sketch and this time, instead of tapping and dragging a color to fill the motif, I will draw in the motif with the crunchy crayon, that way I'll get this really nice crunchy texture, which I think adds a bit of interest in this pattern. That looks a little bit fat, so let's turn off the sketch layer. I'm not really happy with the shape of that, so let's just try that once again. Maybe something like that. I will choose to use the same candy cane several times in this pattern, so I will just draw one candy cane, and then I will move on to the next layer and I will add a clipping mask on this layer. I will show you why in a minute, so I would choose the red color and with the crayon, I can draw in these lines. But as you can see, the lines are going outside of my motif, so if I tap the layer, tap "Clipping Mask", it will hide everything that is outside of my motif. So let's just draw in those lines and see how we want that candy cane to look. So now that looks pretty good. Let's move on to the next motif. I will tap to add a new layer on top. Let's continue with the white. So I will draw the peppermint. As I know that I want the peppermint to be white and green, I will add a separate layer for this motif, the white peppermint. Otherwise, I would mix the white and red here, on top of this layer, and that will just make it confusing. So on the new layer, I will draw the peppermint. Here, I can draw some different peppermints if I want to, to make it a little bit more interesting. So something like that. Then, I will add a new layer on top, tap "Clipping Mask", and here I want to use the lighter green color and a smaller size of the brush, maybe like seven percent to draw in this swirly peppermint thing here. The same here, I will just draw in the shapes so that I keep this yummy crunchy texture, and I'm doing the same with the other two peppermint shapes. So next, to remember what colors I chose, tap, access panel and reference, and I will just import that image with the color blocking, and have it over here so that I remember my colors. I don't need it that big actually, I can just make it smaller, like that. Then moving on, I will add a new layer, and here I will draw the brown gingerbread cookies with a larger brush. So I'm drawing the tree and the heart, the gingerbread cookies, and I'm just drawing in the shapes with this brown color and the crunchy cream brush. Now, I want to add the white decorations on the gingerbread cookies. So I will add a new layer on top of the gingerbread cookies, and let's try out about seven percent in brush, maybe a little bit higher, eight percent. I think that I want a little bit more, maybe 10 percent. Something like that and on the heart as well. Next, I will draw one of these wrapped candies, so I will start with the one at the top in this red color. It's that one over there. Then I will just draw in the shape. I like to use a larger brush here because I like the rough look of this brush. It looks a little bit more rough in the edges when I use a larger size. Then I will draw in the wrapping over there. So something like that. Then I will add a new layer on top. Here, I will try to use this dark red color. That looks good. So just drawing some lines here. Maybe I want some smaller lines, or not smaller, on the edges. So let's just try that out to have a few of those lines on the edges as well. Then we're moving on to the last motif, that green wrapped candy over here. I make sure that I'm on a new layer and I have about 20 in brush size and I draw this little wrapped candy. Like that. Then I will add a new layer on top and just drag down to a darker green and add some lines, just like on the other wrapped candy. So now we have drawn all of our motifs and it's time to create the repeated pattern. 9. Hero Pattern - Make the Repeat: So now it's time to create the actual repeated pattern. The first thing that I will do is just to turn off my sketch layer. I can drag that to the very bottom. Then I will, for now, just shut down the reference Window and have a look at my motifs. So this will be a fairly simple pattern, where we will just duplicate these motifs and place them in the pattern tile. So first, let's just arrange the motifs in the center of this square. What I do to move the motifs is that I will select the layers that I want to move a motif from, let's say this gingerbread, and swipe to the right on both of those layers. Then I will tap the selection tool and just move around my motifs. So you can just really try things out here. We will do a tossed pattern, which means that all of the motifs are tossed in different directions. In the end, you can use this pattern or the printed product, for example, the fabric that we will sell on Spoonflower. You can use it in any direction. That is what a tossed pattern is. So just move around your motifs. If you want to move around all motifs, we can just group all of the motifs together. Swipe right on all of those layers and tap Group. Then we can select that group and select the motifs that we want to move and move them around. So here, maybe we want a duplicate of the candy cane. So in this case, I will just swipe to the right on both of those layers and group that within the group and then Duplicate. Now I have a copy of the candy cane that I can move around and twist and turn to place it balanced in my pattern. So what I want to make sure here is that I don't place any motifs at the edges of my canvas because then they will be cut off. So we will place all of the motifs in the center at first and then we will start to build the tile at the edges. Just twist and turn a little bit here and place your motifs in a way that feels balanced to you. We can change this later on as well. But let's just have something to start with. So maybe like this. What I do with this pattern is that I tried to make a balanced whitespace between all the motifs. This is the basic way of creating a pattern. The motifs are placed balanced throughout the pattern. So now we will continue. Here, I will show you a little trick to see how your pattern tile will be repeated. So turn on the Access Panel, turn on Reference and tap "Canvas" and drag up your reference Window. You can move it around on your canvas. You can just drag it up and increase the size of your image within that reference Window. Then I will increase the size of my canvas and I will match the edges from the reference window with my canvas that I'm drawing on. So this is not a perfect technique, but it's working like a pattern preview that we have in, for example, Photoshop and Illustrator, we have the pattern preview option. We have the pattern preview in Photoshop and we have the pattern tool in Illustrator. But here, it works the same, but we don't see the full repeat. So we can only see that the repeat is repeating to the left. But we can get a glance at how it will be repeated and where we can place the motifs, so that they aren't repeated in a way that doesn't look balanced. So let's just select the group again, and now we can start to move around our motifs when we see how the pattern is repeated. So for example, I can see that this won't look that good, that the candy canes are in a line. So to do something about that, I will just start to move my motifs based on what I see here in the reference Window, how the pattern is repeated. So maybe if I drag up this candy cane a little bit and I can move the gingerbread. So this is really detailed work, but what we do is just move around the motifs, and at the same time, we look at how the pattern will be repeated, and we can make sure that our pattern is balanced and that the motifs are placed in a way so that it looks dynamic. So that looks pretty good if we would have one more candy cane. So let's just duplicate the candy cane and drag it maybe somewhere around here. Let's try that out. That might look good. We need to select the whole group when we want to move the objects around. So let's duplicate the gingerbread as well. So to do that, I will select the layer with the cookie, the brown cookie, and drag around the heart, copypaste, and then I will do the same with the layer with the white line on it, copypaste. Here we have our gingerbread cookie, the heart, so we can move that around. Maybe it will look good with a heart over here. That might look good if we just change the position of the wrapped green candy. Then we go over our whole pattern, and add our motifs so that they are balanced throughout the pattern. I also want a copy of the wrapped candy, so I will group the two red wrapped candy together. I don't think that I want to place it over here because then we will have a wrapped red candy down there and one that is repeated just beneath it. Maybe over here will look good and then we need to change the position of this. So it is a little bit tricky to place your motifs to make them balanced, but it's also part of the fun to create the pattern. But I will just work with this a little bit more. I think that I want a copy of the tree as well the gingerbread tree. So I will just select that layer and copy with the cookie and then copy the layer with the white decoration and select both and let's see where we can place them so that it will be dynamic. It probably will be good maybe somewhere around here, or maybe actually here at the very edge. I think that will look the best. We will just keep that in mind that we want the tree to be in the edge there. So I will turn off the visibility of those layers and I will just drag those on top of the group because we will need those when we create the repeat later on. I will group that wrapped candy because I know that I wanted the tree to be around there somewhere and I also wanted it to go around here. So then I want to move that candy cane. So find that candy cane in the layers panel and then we can just move it around and see where it fits. You can also try to flip it and see if it looks better when it's flipped. I save my tier because we need to create the actual repeat before we know how this will look. The way that we will create the repeat here is by using selections and flipping them around. If you watched my other classes about how to create patterns in Procreate, you probably have seen me using this technique before. It's a really great technique when you have a bunch of layers and maybe you will reach the layer limit if you just duplicate the motifs and move them around. So follow my lead here, and I will show you how to do this. So just choose a color and add a new layer on top of all of the layers. Tap and drag to fill that layer. We can just turn off the reference window here, so just tap "Actions" and turn off. Then we will duplicate this layer four times or three times so that we have four copies. Tap the selections too. Tap in one of the corner blue nodes. I'm tapping in the top right corner blue node, and I want to make sure that I have the chain symbol blue here and tap in the half of this size so half of 3,600 is 1,800. That will make this square half of its size and align it perfectly to the top right corner. Then I will tap the next square, tap in the bottom right corner and do the same. Tap the next layer, tap in the bottom left corner, 1,800 pixels. Tap the Transform tool, and tap in the top left corner, type in 1,800, and tap the Transform tool. So now we have four squares like this. Then I will select each of these squares. So to tap the Layer, tap "Select", "Save and Load", and the plus sign and selections. Then tap the "Selection" tool again, choose the Layer beneath. Tap the Layer, Select, Save and Load, tap the plus sign and Selections. Now we do the same with all of these four squares. We need to select the Layer, Save and Load, tap Selections, and then select the last layer, Save and Load, and Selections. So now we have four selections based on these four squares. Now we can just delete those because we don't need those anymore and we make sure that we have the group selected. Now, we want to also make sure that we place this background box in your group so you can tap it and drag it within your group. So I messed it up a bit there, but as long as you have your background books in your group, then we're good to go. Then we select our group. Something happened with the Clipping Mask so tap that Layer and tap "Clipping Mask" again. Then we make sure that we have the group selected, and we tap "Selections", "Save and Load" selection Number 1. Tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal, and then Save and Load selections Number 2. Flip vertical, flip horizontal. Save and Load selections Number 3, flip vertical and flip horizontal. Save and Load selections Number 4, flip vertical and flip horizontal. Now we have turned around our pattern tile so that what was on the edges are in the center. Now we want to fill this space. We do that by, for example, using our gingerbread tree that we saved from before. So I will just add that to the place where I thought that it would look good. I think it was down here somewhere, and it was maybe in this direction. So now to see how this looks, I will turn on the Reference window again, and match the edges like this. It don't need to be perfect. You just need to have a general overall look of how your pattern is repeated. Then we will just move our motifs around until we get a look that is looking good. So I will select the candy cane and I will move it around until I find a spot that looks good, that looks balanced, so maybe around here. Then I want to move around the other motifs. I can move in these two layers with the gingerbread tree within the group again. Now I can start to select motifs within that group and move them around. I forgot that I have the background box within the group. Just move out the background box again from the group, tap the group and now I can select motifs and move them around. If you want to duplicate a motif, you select that layer. So I will select the layer with the peppermint candy and I want to duplicate this one. So I select the white part of that, tap Copy and Paste, and then I select the green part of that layer and tap Copy and Paste. Then I will just drag those beneath the other peppermint candy and tap "Clipping Mask" on the green layer, and now I have a duplicate here that I can group and move around. So I can fill out the spaces with peppermint candy as I feel that it's a little bit empty in some places. I can also move around the motifs if I need to. Maybe I want to move around this candy cane a bit more. I can also choose to duplicate motifs and place them where I think they will look good in the pattern. So maybe I want the green wrapped candy over there and I want to remove the peppermint so let me just see. Where was that layer? I just select those two move the peppermint. Do I even want this peppermint? Maybe not so I will just remove that. Now I can move my motifs around. I will just speed up this process. So I think that this looks good. What I want to do is to access this space. So I tap selections and I tap the Transform tool and flip vertical. Then I do the same with all of the selections. Flip vertical. Save and load, selections Number 3, flip vertical, and selections Number 4, flip vertical. So now I can access this heart that was on the edge. So I will just move that around a bit because I saw that it wasn't perfectly balanced. So maybe something like that and instantly I can see that it looks so much better. 10. Hero Pattern - Test the Pattern: That looks really good to me. It's time to try out our pattern and see how it repeats. We will do this firstly, Procreate, and then I will show you another way to try out your pattern. We can just remove the reference window first, swipe down with three fingers, copy all, and swipe down with three fingers to paste. Then I will just duplicate this so that I have one original and four squares. Then I will tap one of the squares. You can tap the little node in the top right corner and right in half of the size. You can also turn on snapping and magnetics and just tap and drag until you reach 1,800. But if you feel that it's hard to match, the quickest way to make sure that you have the right dimensions is to tap the corner nodes and right in half of the size of your original Canvas. This is our pattern repeated, and for me, this looks really good. Now we will try it out in a different way. I have my original pattern here, and I will tap split view, tap Safari and on my website, you can find a pattern tester on the resources and pattern tester. Here you can tap your image in Procreate and drag it in the repeat pattern tester. If we make a full view here, you can see how your pattern tile repeats in small scale and in large scale. This is a really nice tool to quickly be able to try out how your patterns are repeated. Now, I think that this looks really good actually, but let's just try to add some more details to the pattern and see if we like it better. Because I've added a snowflake stamp brush for you in this class that you can play around with and see if you want to use to add some details. In the group with the motifs, I will add a new layer and with the white as a color. I can play around with the size. Let's try six percent in the size. I can just tap to add some snowflake stamps in this pattern. I think that this pattern was really good balanced as it is. But if you feel that you have a lot of spaces in your pattern that aren't that balanced. This is a good tip to fill out the space and trick the eye that your pattern is better balanced than it actually is. With the snowflakes, we will swipe down with three fingers again, tap Copy All, and tap above the group and tap Paste. Now, we have this image as a layer, split view. Back to my website. Tap and drag the pattern with the snowflakes and here you can see how the pattern is repeated with the snowflakes. That looks pretty good to me. I can see just one problem area with the snowflakes and it's, where did it go? It's these two over here that are in the same position. Just head back to the pattern, and where is that? It's probably this one and this one. I can just erase one of those on the snowflake layer. Erase and maybe I want to add one, I don't know, over here instead. Then you can try out the pattern again. You can do this for as many times as you wish until you're happy with the pattern. You actually don't need to try out the pattern inside of Procreate if you don't want to or if you have reached your layer limit, for example, you can try it out on my website in the pattern tester. That looks really good and I'm happy with this pattern. Now we can move on to the next pattern. 11. Secondary Pattern - Draw the Motifs: Moving on to the secondary pattern, the gifts pattern. I will just stack these two together. Select those and tap "Stack". Then I will hint into my stack. Now to keep it efficient, I want to use the same pattern actions with the selections as we used in the Christmas candy pattern. I will select that one and duplicate it that way I don't need to create the pattern actions once again. Then I will tap into one of those. I will just select all of the layers, delete them, and also delete the sketch. I can still have the background color layer. Then I will add the photo of my gifts. Then I will just drag up the size and tap the transform tool and here I have my sketch. Then I can just go in and erase this part if I don't want the line. It looks a little bit sketchy, but that's okay. Then I will drag down the opacity just as we did in the previous lesson. Then I will tap to add a new layer and the background layer of this one. Let's just tap Canvas and reference so that we will use the image once again. I wanted the cream color of the background. I will just tap the cream color and tap and drag to feel the bottom layer with the cream color. On the new layer on top of the sketch layer, I will start to draw my motifs. This is a fairly simple pattern with simple motifs it's just squares that are gifts and some colors, some patterns on top of the gifts as wrapping paper. Let's just start with drawing some of the gifts. I actually don't think that I need this reference as it's pretty simple. I want to use the green and the pink and the red and then the brown. With the Canvas, full size, I will start to draw the gifts. As usual, I use the crunchy crayon and I make sure that I draw all of the gifts that are in the same color on the same layer. Let's start with this one and bring up the size. I will just lower the opacity even more. Then with about 20 in size, I will just draw the squares. I think it looks good if they are a little bit imperfect. I will fill in that square with the pink color so that I get this crunchy texture that this brush gives you. Something like that. Then we can continue. If we have a pink here, let's say that we want a pink over here. We can move this around later on, but I will draw a few gifts with the same color so that they don't look exactly the same and also so that I can draw different patterns like stripes and dots on the different gifts. When I've drawn two pink gifts, I will tap to add a new layer, and I will use the green color and draw, let's say this one. I'll fill it in. Then this one. It doesn't matter at this point where you place the different gifts that are different colors because we can move them around later. I think that I will draw so that I have two pink, two green, and two red. Make sure that you add a new layer before you draw the red ones. Now we draw on the flat motifs. Let's look in our layer panel. Oh no, know red motifs ended up in the same layer as the green ones. But this is really easy to fix. Drag to select both dose, and then swipe down, tap, cut and paste and that will bring your red motifs on a separate layer. This is a quick fix if you end up with different colors on one layer because we want all of the colors separated, just as I mentioned before. Tap to add a new layer, and now I want to draw the bows. I would use the brown color. Maybe 20 is a good size for this. I will just draw in all of these on one layer. Now we're finished with those and we want to add the pattern on top. I will just turn off my sketch layer. Now what I want to do is to just draw in some dots and stripes on these different gifts. I start with the pink. I add a new layer on top of the pink layer and I will tap clipping mask to make sure that I can draw only within that layer. Now I will show you a little technique on how to add a texture or something on top of a layer. It will be really easy to change the colors of the objects later on if we would like that. I will tap the blending mode and turn on Color Burn. Now I want to choose a grayish color, so somewhere around there. With my crunchy crayon, I can draw in some diagonal stripes and maybe some dots on another one. As you can see, with the Color Burn blend mode, you will get a color that is darker than the base color. It will just be a darker pink. I want to save this gray color now because if I would loose it, I want to make sure that it's really easy for me to add in the same colors. I will just tap in the color palette to save that color. I want to show you how it will look if we would just use a darker gray. That way, it will look like this and it will be a darker pink color that will be added on top. But let's use that light gray and add some dots on top of that one. For me that looks good. But I actually might want to try to add a little bit more saturation in that color. I will swipe to the right with two fingers or you can tap the layer and tap Alpha Lock. Then I will choose just a little bit darker gray. Tap the layer again and tap fill layer. There you can see that the pink is darker on that layer. Now I want to save this gray color to make sure that I don't lose that one. I will just tap in the color palette to save that color. Then I do the same in the green. I tapped add a new layer on top of the green, tap clipping mask and hear I want to add maybe some lines. I need it to be color burn. As you can see the green, the color turned out really dark with this gray so I will actually just go back to the lighter gray. I'll swipe to the right with two fingers, tap the lighter gray color and tap fill layer. That looks better. Then I will do the same with the pink layer like that. Then I will swipe right with two fingers again to turn off Alpha lock and I will continue to draw with a light gray color. On this one, I might want to add some diagonal lines as well, maybe from the other side like this. That looks good. Then I will tap the red layer, tap to add a new layer on top, clipping mask on that layer, turn on color burn. Here I want to add some dots and let's add some stripes. 12. Secondary Pattern - Make the Repeat: So now, it's time to make the repeats. But first, I just want to show you what will happen if we would change the color here. Let's say that we want to change the color of the green layer. We would swipe right with two fingers on that one to turn on Alpha Lock. Then let's change the color to this beige color for example. Tap the layer, tap fill layer. What happens there is that because we used color burn and the gray color on the texture layer with the patterns on the gifts, they will change automatically to the new color. This way, it's really easy to recolor your pattern. You don't need to re-color all of the layers with the textures. They will just follow along when you re-color the other layers. This actually looks really good. But let's head back to the green color because I like that one too. Now, it's time to create the actual pattern. I will do exactly the same here as I did with the previous pattern, the hero pattern. I will turn on the reference and tap canvas and increase the size to as large as I can. Then I will just increase the size of the pattern tile to something that looks good and then match up the edges. If you feel that this is a little bit hard to see, you can turn on the light interfaces there. You can tap Preferences and Light Interface. As you can see, it's a little bit easier to match up the edges of your pattern tile here with the reference window when you don't have all of that black. As I mentioned before, this isn't a perfect pattern preview, but it helps us a lot. Until that day, that Procreate can create a real pattern preview tool for us. Please do that Procreate because we really want it. But until that day, I think that this works okay. It's a little bit detailed to work it out, but I think it works fine. Then tap Actions panel and I like the black interface at the moment so I will just turn on the black interface again and then I can start to move around my motifs. The first thing that I will do is to just swipe to the right on all of the motifs layer and group them. Now I can just tap the group and start to move around my motifs. I will select my different motifs and move them around. I don't want them magnetics and snapping turned on. Here you can see how much easier it is to place our motifs when we can see how they are repeated. At least we can see how they are repeated in one direction. As you show, this is like a parcel and we will just have some fun with placing our motifs here. I don't want them to be placed in perfect lines. I want them to be a little bit more imperfectly placed in this pattern. Now I want to duplicate the motifs instead of redrawing them. I can just draw some more motifs if I want to, but I want to duplicate mine to save some time. I will select the green layer, tap with the selections to select that and tap copy and paste and then I will do the same with the pattern layer. I can just drag that layer underneath and turn off clipping mask so that I have those over there and turn on clipping mask on the texture layer. Then I also want the little bow so I will just swipe down there, tap copy paste, and here I have that one. Now I know that I have this one over here. I can tap and drag it. We'll just make sure that the clipping mask aren't turned on with that layer and I also want to make sure that I have color burn selected on that layer. What I could do now is that I could use another type of texture here if I would like to. Maybe I wanted some dots, for example, I can just delete that layer or erase what's on it. I could do that too. We can just select it, tap and drag it outside of our canvas. On that layer with the light gray color and the crayon selected, I will draw some dots on this little gift, something like that. Now, maybe I want another pink gift. If I don't want to go in and copy everything, I can just draw a new gift so I could do that here. This all depends on if you want to draw your motifs first and then place them or if you want to draw your pattern as you go, you can choose however you want here. Something like that, it's a little bit large. Let's select it, drag down the size a bit, and then on the layer with the takes theorem, I will make sure that I don't have Alpha Lock on that layer and use the crunchy crayon and here we can draw some stripes like that. Then we will add the little bow on that layer like that. Now we have a bunch of different gifts here. First, let's just move them around so that they look balanced. I probably would like to have another red one as well so I can just go in and duplicate one of these, copy-paste on the flat layer, copy-paste on the texture layer, and copy-paste on the layer with the bow. Then I will drag all of these beneath the red layer. Make sure the clipping mask aren't on the flat layer. Turn on the color burn, turn on the clipping mask, and then tap and drag and make sure that the clipping mask aren't on that one. Then I will select all of those and I can move that one around and place it down here. Maybe I want diagonal stripes on that one so I can just drag out the texture from that layer, make sure that I have the light gray color, and then I will draw in some diagonal lines on this gift. Something like that. Now we have the start of our pattern and it's time to create the repeat. Just like we did before, we want to make sure that we have the background layer within the group. I will just tap and drag to place it within the group then tap the group, tap selections, save and load selection Number 1, flip vertical, flip horizontal, save and load. Selection Number 2, flip vertical, flip horizontal, save and load. Selection Number 3, flip vertical, flip horizontal save and load. Selection Number 4, flip vertical and flip horizontal. Then I want to twist my pattern around so I will tap, rotate four times. We didn't do this in the hero print because that was a tossed pattern so you can use it from any direction. But this pattern is a one-direction pattern. So then we want to twist it around so that we have it in the same direction as we draw the patterning. Now we can start to move around our objects, but we want to make sure once again that we place the background box outside of our group again and then we can choose our motifs and change the position of them. It looks here like we don't need to add more motifs. We can just spread them out a bit here. For me, it looks like the last thing that we need to do is to move these motifs at the edge more to the center. What I do is that I select the group again and I tap save and load. Now we want to twist the outsides inside. With selection Number 1, I will tap the transform tool and just flip horizontal. That way, I will be able to move around the objects that are on the vertical edge of the pattern. Selection Number 2, flip horizontal, selection Number 3, flip horizontal, selection Number 4, flip horizontal. I forgot that we didn't have the background box. Undo again, if you followed me, I'm sorry about this and then we need to place the background box within our group otherwise, we won't move the whole box. Place the background box within the group. Tap the group selections and let's do it once again. Save and load selections Number 1. Tap, flip horizontal, save and load Selection 2, horizontal, save and load Selections 3, flip horizontal, save and load Selections 4, and flip horizontal. Now, we can see that we want to move around these objects. So I will actually move out the background box again because I feel that that's the easiest way. Then select these objects, drag them a little bit down for the red one, and a little bit up for the green one. As I can see here, it looks like my pattern is balanced in a nice way and I think that I'm happy with this pattern as it is now. But let's try it out. I will turn off the reference window. I also want to mention that we flipped everything horizontal. So if you feel that your motifs look a little bit wonky, you can always flip everything horizontal. So select the group, select the background box, and then the transform tool, and flip horizontal and there you have your motifs as you draw them from the start. So now we can swipe down with three fingers, tap copy all. Swipe down with three fingers again, tap paste, and here we have our image and I will just instantly try it out in my pattern tester. So tap and drag the image to the pattern tester and I will increase the size and decrease the size and see how my pattern is repeated. I think that this pattern is really fun and cute, but still really simple. I think it will look perfect on gift-wrapping paper. We're finished with the secondary print. Let's head over to the blender pattern. 13. Blender Pattern: So we're back in Procreate and I'll tap Gallery and just like before I want to use the same actions. I will just select the gifts pattern, tap Duplicate and then tap into the copy. Then I will delete everything so I'll just tap Delete, delete the sketch, and here, I can add my reference image. I think that I know what I wanted there but let's just see. So I wanted a green stripes pattern, white stripes and darker green stripes. So I don't really need the reference for this, so I will just turn that off because it's such a simple pattern. I don't need a sketch either because I will create stripes, so I want the background to be green so I will tap the background box and tap and drag the green color, and then I will tap to add a new layer. Now I will turn on my drawing guides, and I will make sure that my drawing guides are evenly spread on my canvas. So we had a canvas size that was 3600 pixels, so if I tap 360, it's a tenth of the canvas. So I always want to divide everything with two, so 180, and maybe I want this size or I can go down to half of 180, which is 90. So whatever you choose here, I will use 90 for now, and then tap Done. Then here we have some guidelines to create our stripes pattern. I have a whole class about how to create stripes and lines patterns in Procreate. So If you want to create diagonal stripes, or wonky stripes, or picture stripes, check out that class. I will just go through this really quickly in this class. So I will tap the white color and the crown sheet crayon, and then I want to see how large size of the brush I want, maybe up here about 40 percent, and then I want to make sure that I match up the edges of my stripes. If you want to create a perfectly straight stripe you can tap and drag to create a line, and if you tap once again you will move the line so that it's always straight but I don't want a perfectly straight line. So what I do is that I switch my canvas around because I think it's easier to draw in this direction, and then I will just start to draw the stripes. So I'll start up here. Maybe I want an even bigger brush so that my line will be in the center of those guidelines so about 50 percent of the brush, 56 percent and then I will draw a stripe. As I have my guidelines, I can see that I'm not like this because I want to match my edges so that the stripe matches up in the same guidelines. Doesn't need to be perfect as we will fix this later on but it's good to be as close as possible. So moving on, I will just go two squares down and draw these lines. So I think that that will look okay, and then I will add in some other lines. So I will tap to add a new layer and on this layer let's try to use the color burn again, and the same gray color, and the crayon that I will bring down the size to about 12 percent or something like that. Then I will just draw these really thin lines in-between the white lines. I make sure that they meet the same guideline at the edge. Again, it doesn't need to be perfect at this stage but just so you don't do it like this, because then, it won't work. So something like that. Now I will turn off the drawing guide and we want to turn our pattern around so with all of these three layers selected, I will tap this selection tool, save and load selection number 1, and I only want to flip it horizontal, so flip horizontal, save and load selection number 2. Flip horizontal, number 3, flipping horizontal, and number 4, flipping horizontal. So now we've met the edges of our stripes here in the middle. Now we can start by fixing the edges. So as you can see we have some things to fix here so I will tap the white layer and with the crunchy crayon sometimes I might be able to just go in and draw in a little bit to make sure that the edges meet up perfectly and sometimes I might need to do more than that if they are really wonky and don't match up at all. So just go over your lines and see so that the edges matches up perfectly. So this line looks a little bit wonky, and what I would do then is to just erase a little bit of the line and redraw it. I know that I had about 56 percent in size. Then I will start to draw over here and try to meet up that line down there. So something like that, and the same with these two, they don't look so matching in the edges. I will just erase a little bit, and go in and draw in the lines. Maybe even over here. So if you end up with a really wonky looking lines like I did here, you can erase quite a big part of the line and then redraw it. So let's go over to the next layer and we will use the gray color as it has the color burn, and here, I think it's easier to actually erase everything in the center, as they don't meet up that well at all. Then redraw all of the lines here. I don't remember which size we had. Was it around 12 percent? Yes. So drawing in the lines again, try to meet them in the center. Here's a little tip, if you feel that you will be able to see that you drawn in every line, you can actually erase some of the lines in different parts so that not all lines will be drawn in the center because that might make your piece a little bit more visible. So now we have our finished pattern. Let's try it out. Swipe down with three fingers, tap Copy All, swipe down with three fingers to paste, and then split screen back to the pattern tester and drag that image inside of the pattern tester. So when we're trying out this pattern we can see that it looks a little bit funky in the edge here and that probably is because we haven't turned the pattern around so we didn't see that this line looks a little bit strange. So I will go back to Procreate and I will delete the first image over there, and swipe to the right and all of those layers, save and load selection number 1, and now we will flip it vertical. Here you can see where it looks a little bit funky so it's in the center here. Then what I can do to easily fix this is to select the line layers. I will select the white lines layer. Here, I will actually just go in and select this white line, and make sure that I have magnetics turned on and then I will just drag it a little bit below. I want to make sure that I don't go above or beyond the edge so make sure that I'm perfectly on the edge and then I will tap the transform tool. Then I will do the same with the green line over there. So If you accidentally move your line, zoom in to see that the line is going all the way out to the edge. If you're like me, accidentally here, placed it a little bit inside or outside, you can just draw in that. So that looks better, I think. Maybe we also want to try to flip this line around. I will tap the layer with the white line, select that white line, and then the transform tool and flip vertical. Then I will flip horizontal and see if that looks better. So now we will try out our pattern again. I can see now that maybe I want to move that green line as well. So I will select that one and just move it a little bit. Zoom in to the edge, make sure that place the dashed line on the edge, and tap the Transform tool. So this looks better to me. Now I can swipe down with three fingers, copy all, swipe down with three fingers, paste, and let's try out the pattern again. Split screen, go to the pattern tester, tap and drag, and that looks much better. So now we have created our last pattern in this minical exam, the blender print. 14. Naming Your Patterns: We have finished with the designing of our mini-pattern Christmas collection. Now it's time to move on and prepare these files to upload on print-on-demand sites. In this class, I'm showing you how to upload them to Society6 and Spoonflower, which are the print-on-demand sites that I'm using myself. Let's start with naming our files. You can name them directly on the print-on-demand sites, but to keep your workflow smooth, and especially if you're creating lots of designs and upload designs to print-on-demand sites all the time, we want to keep our workflow as smooth and efficient as possible. The very first thing that I will do is just to name these designs. Here's a little tip when naming your artwork for uploading on print-on-demand sites. Generally, what you want to do with all of the text that you add to your artwork, and that includes things like description, keywords, the name of your artwork is to be searchable. There's really no idea of coming up with some imaginative name that isn't what you see on the pattern because no one will search for that strange name. Name your patterns to what they are. That is always what I do. This one, for example, I will name Christmas Candy, which I feel is a good name for this pattern. If I would create it in several different color variations, I would name it pink. Because maybe I will have one with a green background, one with a pink background or something like that. I will just name it Christmas Candy-Pink because if I would like to add more colorways to this pattern in the future is good to separate it from the start. Next pattern, I will name Christmas Gifts. Here you can choose if you want to name your pattern to like all the colors that are included in the pattern. In this case, it will be green, red, pink, and white because then you will have more search results. It all depends on if this is your only Christmas gift pattern or if you will have several different ones with many different colors in them. I will probably name mine green, red, pink on cream white. As I know that I probably want to create several different colorways of this pattern and maybe a lot of different colors on the gifts, so then that would be a good way to separate the different colorways on the print-on-demand sites. The last pattern I will name, Textured Holiday Stripes, because in my shop I already have a lot of stripes patterns. I want to separate them from each other. But if you only have one type of stripe pattern, you can just name it textured stripe, for example, but I have a bunch, so I will just name them Textured Holiday Stripes and White on Green background or just white on green. Something like that. I know that these names seem really long, but the thing is that the name affects the search results so you want to include words in the name that people can search for your patterns on these sites. 15. Scaling Your Patterns - Part 1: Now we have named our patterns and it's time to think about the scale that we want to upload our patterns in, so let's just head over to Safari and I will show you what I mean. On Society6, we don't need to think about the scale that we upload our filing, we need to think about the file size and I will show you that in the next lesson where we will prepare our files for print. On Society6, you generally need just one or two or three files to upload and I will show you how to do that in the next lesson. But on Spoonflower, it's good to think about the scale of your design and that is why I've picked up this sizing your design into Spoonflower help center for you. I will give a link to this in the description of the class, but you can also just Google size guide Spoonflower and you will get this. Then you just tap pixel calculations for common measurements and here you can see the different sizes. We have created our pattern in 3,600 pixels, which means that it is 24 inches. This is just a guide to help you figure out which size that you want to scale down your pattern in. It's always good to have a look at that. But now let me show you how we will check which scales that we want for our pattern. I'm on Spoonflower now and I will upload my patterns to show you how I decide the scale on those patterns. When on Spoonflower, tap ''Upload Design'', I have one link over here and I also have one under my little menu up here, upload design. We will actually upload the designs and add the keywords and do all of that in a lesson later on in this class. But this is how to know which scales that you want to upload your design in. If this seems confusing, just follow along and I will show you what I mean. First, we need to export our files as JPEGs. Select these, we know that they are 3,600 pixels, share, export as JPEGs, and I will export them to my files. Save the files. It's important that you don't save them to images because then you will lose the file name. I always save to files. This is also to keep your workflow smoother and more efficient. I have on my iPad a folder where I save the files. Then I head over to Spoonflower and here I will just do a split view with my files folder and select the files. You can also tap Choose Files and look them up, but this is quicker. Tap ''Select'' and tap ''Your Files''. If you don't select all files and just tap and drag one file at a time, you won't upload all files. Tap ''Select'', select all three files, and then drag them over and now we can see that it says three files over there. Then I own the rights and I have the permission to use this artwork as I've created it myself and then I tap ''Upload''. Now, this might take a little while, so I will just fast-forward here until our files are uploaded. Now our files are uploaded and I will show you later on in this class all about all of these settings here. What I want to do now is to tap into each of these designs and I find it a little bit harder when there's small thumbnails over there, so I will just tap this three-column view instead or this full view, it really doesn't matter. Then I will tap on the images and that will take me to the patterns page like that. Then I will head over to each of these designs. As you can see, you already named the file, so the file name is already set on your pattern. You can, of course, change that name later on if you want to. But right now, what we want to do is to check the scale of our patterns. I want to start with this Christmas candy pattern. I can see here that it's 24 inches and if I tap this smaller button, you can see that it is smaller in size. I can only go as large as my file size is here. As you can see, we created this pattern in 300 DPI, but Spoonflower automatically changes it to 150 pixels. That probably is to get as large scale as possible. You can change the DPI if you want to. We can change ours to 300 as we created the pattern in 300 and that would bring us a 12-inch pattern. But as it's enough to print with 150 DPI on Spoonflower, I'll just keep 150 DPI and that will bring me a 24-inch pattern tile. It can be a little bit hard to see how this looks on products or even as fabric when you just have this little square. Sometimes I find that it's helpful to tap the wallpaper because here you can really see how it will look in a scene, so that's good. But I will tap fabric again and what I typically do here to check which scale I want this pattern in is to tap View all Products. If I tap it with two fingers, it will go in a new tab instead of just changing this tab. Here, I have our products and I can scroll down. If you want to also see it as a wallpaper, you can just tap one of the wallpapers with two fingers on the title, and otherwise, you can just scroll down to see the products. Let's see what we're thinking about this pattern. If you think that people would like to create duvet covers or buy pre-made duvet covers from Spoonflower off this pattern, it all depends on what type of pattern you are creating and what you imagine your pattern to be used for, then you might want this large scale for one of your designs. If you think that they will use it as curtains, for example, let's just head over to the curtains and see that mock-up, then maybe you would like that large-scale. But for me, in this pattern, if we go over to the products again, I think that it's a little bit too big. I wanted it to be smaller. Generally, I upload a few different scales to Spoonflower because people might want to use it differently. I could choose to keep it at 24 inches, but I can also choose to have the largest scale a little bit smaller. Let's just try that out. I will tap ''Smaller'' and let's try out 18 inches and then tap ''Save Changes''. We want to see how this size looks on the products, but it can take a little while until the product page is refreshed. If you tap the Refresh button on the view product page, you can see if it's finished with viewing the new scale or not, and it's not, then I would just head over to the next pattern and I have three patterns to work with, so I don't need to sit around and wait for the scale. Then we can tap New Products on the gifts pattern and see how the scale looks here. I also want to check the wallpaper even though I don't think that this would be a really common wallpaper as it's so seasonal. But you never know. This looks a little bit big to me and checking out the other products, it looks really, really big and this wasn't what I imagined for the scale of this pattern. I know that I want to change it in size. We'll head back to that and let's try 18 inch for that as well. Then we can head over to the stripes pattern, view all products, and scrolling down. I think that this pattern can look good in a really large scale and also in smaller scales. I think that I will keep this at the standard file size, so 3,600 pixels. Then I will do a few others, maybe two others that are a lower file size. Then I know that I want this one to be the same size as it is. 16. Scaling Your Patterns - Part 2: If you now feel that it gets a little bit confusing, to remember all of these file sizes. We can just head over to procreate again. We can either tap into our sketch here. Let's just do that. Then we can write which different file sizes we want on these patterns. I will just use any pen. Let's just add a new layer so that we have that on a new layer. I want to use the 3,600 for this as a large file size. I want to go down in scale on these two. Let's head over again. This is a little bit of work, but it will end up really good on Spoonflower with the different scales later on. I also feel that when you have uploaded a bunch of designs, you may be know which scales your designs work on, and especially if you are aimed to the kids and baby market for example, then you might know that you want to have smaller scales, and you usually upload your patterns in the same scales. The same pixel size. Let's check out the product page for the Christmas candy pattern and see if it has changed in scale. You can either just tap "View All Products" again. I already had a product page there. Then let's scroll down, and it looks to me as it has changed in scale. Sometimes I find that this process of this page to refresh takes a lot of time. If you find that it is the same for you, one little trick is to tap the pillow because somehow it seems that some products changed quicker than others in the scale. You can tap the pillow. Most of the times, that is one of the products that have changed the scale quicker than the others, at least for me. I think that this scale looks good and it's on all of the products. I think that this is the largest scale for this pattern. I will keep it at 18 inches. Then I will head over to my sizing again, and see how much is 18 inches in pixels, and it's 2,700 pixels. Then I will head over to procreate, and I will write 2,700 pixels in the large size. Let's check out the gifts pattern as well. There. The gifts pattern is also in 18 inches now. I will tap "View All Products" again. I already had it there, but let's tap it again. Give it some time to refresh, and scroll down. Sometimes I find it easier to tap into product. I usually use a pillow, because I think that it's easy for me to imagine the pillow size. This might be a good largest size as well. If someone wants to create some type of large fabric project, and it also might look really nice as duvet way for Christmas. That's also 18 inches, and that is 2,700 pixels in the large, as well. I usually name my patterns large, medium, and small when I have three different scales. You can also, of course, if you want to name them 18 inches and whatever that was, 24 inches and like that. But I just named them large, medium, and small. Heading over again to the textured holiday stripes. Something is happening with the image view, so I can't see the image. How strange is that? There it goes. We have the 24 image as the largest file. Then I will just tap. Maybe we want to just tap two times for a medium size, so 18 inches. Save that change. I think that they will look good, but I would just want to check out the product page for that as well. Eighteen inches for that one, and let's tap into the gifts pattern. We had 18 inches, maybe nine inches would be nice for that one, so 18 inches and nine inches, that's half of the size. Tap "Save" on that one. Then where are we? On the Christmas candy, and I will do the same with the Christmas candy, nine inches for that. Then I will save the changes. We will check if these changes are good. While this is saving, I will head over to the textured stripes. Which now is 18 inches, and I have this product page here, so I can just refresh it and see if something has changed. It looks to me as it has changed. Yeah, it has changed. Tap into the pillow, for example, and see how that looks. I think that that was a really nice scale for this pattern. Then I've decided that I want 18 inches for that pattern as the medium size. I know that 18 inches was 2,700 pixels. So 2,700 as the medium. As you can see, when you upload a bunch of patterns to Spoonflower like this, it's a little bit of work to decide on the scales. But as I mentioned, when you created a lot of patterns for Spoonflower and it's in your style, you probably will know which scales works the best. Then you can just create those file sizes from the start with the scale and upload them. But I'm showing you the process to decide on the scale here, so that you know which scale to choose from. The textured stripes was finished, let's head over to the Christmas candy. Do we have a product page here? Yes. Tap "Refresh". It probably haven't changed, because we wanted a nine inches. I will tap the pillow, and it hasn't changed. Then it takes a little bit longer. This is the problem with trying out the different scales, because it takes quite some time, sometimes to make these changes. But I think it has changed on the tea towels. Then you can tap into the different products and see which ones have changed because this is the 18 inches. Then you can see on the new tea towel that it's a smaller scale and that looks really nice. Then I will decide nine inches for that one, I will head over to resize this guide again. I have eight inches here and 10 inches there. Basically, what you can do here is to divide 18 inches the 2,700 pixels with two which will bring you the nine inches. Or if you don't mind just going down one inch, you can just create 1,200 pixels file. But let's just divide 2,700 with two and if I'm not completely wrong, it's 1,350 pixels. I will just write that 1,350 pixels medium. Then I will head over to the Christmas candy pattern again. This is a lot of back and forth, but that's just how it goes. The Christmas candy pattern, let's tap your all products over there. We had the nine inches, so let's tap into the pillow. Let's also tap into the tea towel to see those new sizes. On the tea towel it has changed and I think that this was a really nice scale for the tea towel with this pattern so I will keep it like that as well. It's the same as the gifts patterns, so I will just use 1,350 pixels as medium. Then we have one last because I usually upload three scales. We will need one more scale, so let's head back to the stripes pattern again. I know that this is a little bit of work, but it will look really good once we have uploaded the right scales of the patterns, so just follow along. Let's tap into the Christmas candy pattern. I think that I want to go really small here. Maybe I will try 4.2 inches, is here because I know that I had a pixel dimension for four inches, so that's about the same. I won't mind that 0.2. I will tap into that and I will save the four inches and then head over to the Christmas gifts pattern. I also want to do the four inches on that one and then the stripes pattern. Maybe I want to go not as much as four inches. Maybe I want to go nine inches on that one or six, maybe. Let's do nine and save changes. Then once again, head over to the Christmas candy pattern that has changed. Then we can tap into the products. Oh, it was probably this one and it already had changed. That was a quick one. This looks really small, but let's have a look, four inches. This one hasn't changed no, but the pillow has changed. This is a really small size, but I think that it will look really good if you want to use it for example, like on some bow ties or some dog scarves or things like that that are really small, so I will keep it like that. Then I will head back to the Christmas gifts pattern. View all products. Or I just tap into that now. Back, view all products with two fingers on the link. Let's see, the Christmas gifts and that also has changed. I will tap into the tea towel and it hadn't changed on that image, so I will tap into the pillow. It's the same here, that this looks really small on these types of products. But I think if we would create like really small products for babies or dogs or something like that, it might look good with this small scale. I'm happy with that. Then the texture stripes. Have it changed? It has changed. I think that this also looks like a good scale, It has changed on the tea towel. Shutting down these products windows so that I only have my patterns which are over there and now I know that I want about four inches. I will do four inches actually not 4.2 and the Christmas gifts and the Christmas candy. That is four inches or 600 pixels. Then I will just write 600 pixels as the small. On the textile stripes, nine inches. Nine inches was half of the 2,700, so it's the same as 1,350. The handwriting is bad, but that really doesn't matter as I only want to remember which size I want to scale these patterns in. 17. Prepare Files for Spoonflower: Now it's time to actually prepare the files that we will upload to Society6 and Spoonflower. Now we'll start with the Spoonflower file sizes and then we will create some files to upload to Society6 as well, but let's start with Spoonflower. So we have the original file sizes here, and I want to keep these original sizes. I will just duplicate those so that I know that I have my original files down here. I will separate the original files with the other files that we will create. I will never touch these files because I always want them to have all the layers and I always want them to be in the largest size that they can be. When we rescale our patterns, we will create different file sizes, which means that we will create, for this pattern, we will create one that is 2,700 pixels, one that is 1,350, and one that is 600 pixels. You can never scale up. You can go higher than 3,600 pixels now. So let me show you how to resize the patterns. First, we wanted this first tile to be 3,600, so I won't change that, I will only write large in the description here. I know that that one is the large one. This one, we wanted to change to 2,700 pixels, we can see a preview here, 2,700 on both of these. We first can write large on these two and this one as well, large and then I will head into the Christmas gifts pattern, tap the Actions panel under canvas crop and preview settings and here you want to make sure that you have your chain symbol checked in re-sample canvas and then we can write in 2,700 pixels and tap "Done". Now we have resized this pattern to 2,700 pixels. Then we can do the same with the Christmas candy pattern, Crop and Resize settings. Make sure you tap in re-sample canvas and type in 2,700. There we have our 2,700. Now we want to go with the medium ones, so that is 1,350 for those and 2,700 for that one. I will just duplicate all of these. For me, it looks a little bit easier if the large are next to each other and the medium are next to each other, I get a bit confused, otherwise, I will select those once and just drag them over there and then I will write medium, medium, and medium. Now we want to re-scale them. The first one, this drives are supposed to be 2,700 so tap into that. That actions panel, canvas, Crop and Resize settings, re-sample canvas and 2,700 tap "Done", and then it has resized the file. The next one is supposed to be 1,350. Tap into gifts pattern, Crop and Resize settings, re-sample canvas 1,350. That one is done, and also this one is supposed to be 1,350 as well. Tap "Done", and that one is resized. Now we have the medial ones so let's select the medial ones, duplicate and I will drag those up here because I will be confused otherwise and write small on these and now let's see which size we want those in. This is supposed to be 1,350 and the other one's 600. Tap into the stripes pattern Canvas, Crop and Resize settings, Resample Canvas, 1,350, tap "Done". Now we're finished with that one. The gifts pattern, we want that to be 600, tap "Done" and the next, the Christmas candy pattern Crop and Resize settings, re-sample Canvas and 600. If you see that your patterns look a little bit blurry now, they aren't really blurry. It's just that when you have them this large, they are larger than the file size, so they will look blurry on the screen, but they aren't blurry in the correct file size. I hope that makes sense. 18. Prepare Files for Society6: Now we have the files ready for Spoonflower to be uploaded there. What we want to do now is to create the files for Society6. You can check on Society6 help center which dimensions you want to create your files in, you could create all sorts of different files. But to keep this process as smooth as possible with an efficient workflow, I create one file that is the pattern tile that can be used on for example wallpaper, and one that is a large file size. As my parents are square, I create a square for those two, and I will show you how in just a little while. Then it depends on what type of iPad you have, and how large file sizes you can create in Procreate. That depends on what type of iPad you have. You can actually Google that too, or you can just try it out. You want to do one file that is the largest possible, and it won't fit to all products on Society6, but this is the largest file that you can create in Procreate. If you want to use another app on your iPad, or to bring your file to your computer to create the largest file as possible you can do that. But if you create this large file that I will create now, it works for many products. If you don't mind that it doesn't work for all products, then you can just follow along with me. Otherwise, I recommend that you create these files on your computer in. For example Photoshop, if you want like a example large file size. If you don't have the newest type of iPad, which probably will make you able to create much larger file sizes than I can. Moving on, let's head over to Procreate. In Society6, I will use the original tiles, which are these ones. Then I want to create the largest file size that I can. I can tap into new canvas. I want 300 in DPI and I want to color profile to be sRGB. The dimensions is that I can try out. Let' say that I want to go to 10,000. I already know how large file sizes I can do on my iPad, but this is how we can just try it out. If you don't want to Google. I can't go 10,000 squares. Can I go 9,000? No, I can't. Can I go 8,000? Yeah, I can. That will bring me six layers. I think that I can do something a little bit above 8,000, but I will just keep it simple here and do 8,000 pixels square. I could even try like can I go 8,500? No, I can't. I will just go 8,000 and then I will tap Create. This is the largest file size that I can create in Procreate, or about the largest file size. I can do a little bit more, a few pixels more, but I will satisfy with 8,000 pixels. What I do now is that I make sure that I have saved my file somewhere. If you haven't done the Spoonflower process, you can just tap your files and share them and save them on the camera roll and then save image. Then I will tap into my Canvas and insert a photo. Also, you can insert the files if you've saved them somewhere. Then I will tap the Christmas candy file, make sure that I have snapping and magnetics turned on. I will tap and drag that one to the top left corner. You can zoom in to make sure that you have placed it perfectly. You can see that is placed perfectly when you have these yellow guidelines showing. Then I tap the Transform tool. Now I can't scale this pattern app like this, because then I will lose resolution. I will need to repeat it. I will swipe to the right to duplicate the layer, and then I will tap and drag and place it next to the other pattern, zoom in to make sure that it's placed correctly and then tap the Transform tool to place it. Then I will do once again tap, duplicate, tap and drag until it snaps, zoom in to make sure that it's placed correctly and then I will place that one. Now what I can do is swipe these layers together, duplicate that layer, tap the Transform tool and move it down. That is repeated down. You can just see so that it looks good with the repeats. Tap the Transform tool again to place it. Then I'll swipe to the right to duplicate that layer, drag down and place it in the edge of your pattern tile. Now we have filled our Canvas with our pattern, and I think that that looks good. I will just tap gallery. Now I can just add the name, so I will tap into my Christmas candy pattern in the name and tap copy. Then I will paste that name. Then I will just call this repeat or repeat pattern or whatever you wish here is just to separate these two files. Then I can just duplicate that File. I can add the name of the gifts patterns. I will copy that name and paste it over here and just name it Repeat pattern, tap. Then I want to place my gifts pattern here. Swipe to the right to clear. Then I will add my photo of my gifts pattern. I will zoom out a bit and tap and drag to the very top left. Zoom in to make sure that you are perfectly aligned in the edge and tap the Transform tool. Then I will swipe to the right to duplicate it and drag it to the side. Make sure that it's placed correctly, and then tap the Transform tool. Oops, I deleted it. I meant to copy it, duplicate it again, the layer tap and drag to the side and make sure that it's repeated perfectly. Zoom in. Looks good. Merge these two layers together by swiping them together. Duplicate that layer, tap and drag to place your pattern tiles beneath the first ones. Then I will duplicate that layer again, tap and drag to place it perfectly on the tile edge. That looks good. Now I have these perfectly repeated here too. Then I will tap gallery. I will do the same with the stripes pattern. Duplicate your eighth. Duplicate that file again. I will select the name of this pattern, copy it. Tap the name paste it, and write repeat pattern. Tap into that one. Clear the layer, add the photo of the pattern, and do the process. Once again, make sure it's perfectly placed. I think you get it by now, but this is how we create this larger file sizes of the pattern tiles that we can upload to Society6. I duplicate the layer, tap and drag. Once again, tap and drag. Swipe the layers together. Tap and drag and duplicate that layer again, and tap and drag and swipe them together. Now we can just zoom in because there was a little bit not that through and I did the placements. Just zoom in to see that everything looks good and that you don't have any white lines. That looks good to me. Now we have our original pattern tiles over here. We have our Society6 tiles. I will just tap and drag those to the bottom. We have our Spoonflower files here, our original files and our Society6 files. Sometimes I also want a rotated file on Society6. If you do want that the Christmas candy pattern is already tossed, so I don't need to rotate that. But for example products like towels and yoga mats, it can be nice to have a rotated pattern if you have a One Direction pattern. In that case, I will just tap these two files. Maybe I want to rotate of the stripes as well. Let's say that I do, I duplicate those. I tap into the pattern. I rotate it, tap out that a pattern. There you can see how easy it is to rotate the file. The gifts pattern, I will rotate to the left so that they are pointing to the right with the top of the gifts. You can write rotate on that file if you want to. Repeat pattern rotated. On this one, repeat pattern, whoops, rotated. Now we have all of the files and they are ready to be uploaded on Spoonflower and Society6. 19. Export the Files: Now, all we need to do is to export our files to a folder. I export my files to a folder on my iPad, you can also export them to your Dropbox, or you can save it to your camera roll. But I don't recommend to save them to your camera roll, because if you save them to a folder on your iPad, you will keep the file name. That will save you time in the workflow later on. I already have saved this original patterns, and now I want to save the files that goes to Society6. I also want to save the files for Spoonflower. I named them differently so I know what they are supposed to go to, and I tap "Share", as JPEG, and then I save them to a folder on my iPad. I tap "Save to Files", and here I have my folder and I just tap "Save". That is all you need to do. Now you have all of your files ready to be uploaded on Society6 and Spoonflower. 20. Upload to Spoonflower: Now it's time to upload our files. Let's start with Spoonflower. I will just head over to Spoonflower. Here I already have my files, but I don't know which size they were in, so I will just delete them and we will start again. Maybe this is a little bit of extra work, but I want to keep everything organized. I will tap "Add Design" once again and then I will go to Split View with my folder. Here, I can upload eight files at a time and I actually have nine files. I will just start by selecting the large files. Those are the ones that are called, Large and then medium. That is six files and then two other small and that is eight files. Then I will tap and drag those on the right and tap "Upload". This might take a little while, so I will just wait until that's finished. Now the files are uploaded and I will add the last file, so tap "Add Design" and I will add the last small one and tap "Upload" and wait again until that file is uploaded as well. Now all of the Spoonflower files are uploaded and I will just swipe to the right here to make it full screen with the Safari browser. Then what I do to keep this efficient is that I tap my Design Library instead of having all of the files separate and then I tap the list view. Here, we will do some things. First of all, we can create a collection. I always think that it's good to gather your designs in collections when you have collections. Let's tap "Add Collection" first so that we will add a collection and I will make it visible to the public. You can name your collection whatever you want, of course. I will just name it Holly Jolly for now and then I will tap "Create", and now I have created a collection so that I can add all of these designs to that collection. What I do then is that I select all of the designs. This is to keep your workflow smooth and quick instead of tapping into the separate designs. Then I scroll up and I tap this little window up here. I scroll down to the collection that was called Holly Jolly and I tap to add all of those files to that collection. Then I can select again, I usually use the Swatch thumbnail, but you can try which thumbnails you want to use. But if you know that you're using the same thumbnails for all of your designs, you can just select all of designs and change all of those thumbnails there as well. Then as a description, I have a description that I use for all of my designs. I think it can be good to write a description for your separate patterns, but I have so many patterns, so I don't take time to do so. I will just copy the description that I have for all of these patterns and then edit description up here and paste that description and update. Then I will add that description to all of those designs as well. The next thing that's important to do is to add tags, which is keywords and these keywords will help your designs to be found on Spoonflower. We have three different designs, so we can use the same keywords for the designs that are the same, that are just different scales. Generally, instead of just typing in all the tags here, I go just to my notes app and I just write in the different keywords. Let's say, for example, for the gifts pattern, I want gifts, gift, present, Christmas, holidays, holiday, pink, I will add the colors, green, red. You can use 13 tags, so use them well. I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Then I usually add my own name, so Maja Faber and that's 10. Then I usually add kids and baby because I'm aimed for that market so then we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Then let's use, for example, Xmas. Now we have that tags for the gifts pattern and now we want the tags for the stripes pattern so I write stripe, stripes, line, lines, texture, textured, whites, green, Christmas, holidays. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That was a dot instead of a comma. If you put commas after every word, they will be added as separate keywords. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. I add my name, that's 11, and kids and baby, that's 12, 13. The next pattern, the Christmas candy, Christmas, holidays, candy, gingerbread, pink, red, green, Maja Faber, kids, baby. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Then we have candy canes and we have a peppermint. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Peppermint, and what else do we have in the pattern? We have candy canes, wrapped candies, gingerbread. Let's just write Xmas as well. Now we have a bunch of keywords and then we will head over to split view. Here I will just select my keywords and select all of those, like that, copy. This was for the gifts pattern. Then I will tap into checkboxes for the Christmas patterns, tap "Edit Tags". It's really small now, but you probably understand what I'm doing. Gift and then just tap "Update." Then I will wait for that to be uploaded as tags. As you can see, we have all of these tags here in those windows. Then I will just copy the stripes pattern tags, tap in the stripes patterns, tap "Edit Tags", paste the tags, and tap "Update". Then I will do the same with the last pattern, the candy pattern. Copy the tags, choose the candy patterns, tap "Edit Tags". I can actually make this larger now so that you can see what I'm doing. I'm tapping Edit Tags and then I paste the tags and I tap "Update". Now we have everything set for our patterns. We have the name of the pattern which you can change if you tap the names over here, but I already named my files, so I won't change them. Then you have the description, which you can if you want to, choose a description for each pattern. I have chosen my thumbnail view, I've added them to the collection and I've added tags. Now, the next thing that we can do is when we have ordered proofs of the designs, you can make them for sale. Then you can select all of them and you can make them for sale. That is how you upload your patterns to Spoonflower in an efficient workflow. 21. Upload to Society6: Now it's time to upload our designs on Society6. I have logged into my account, the Society6. I will tap sell to go to my artist's studio. Here I will tap "Add design", and I will do a split view with my files folder so that I can just tap and drag my files. I want to add my Christmas candy original file here. Let's start with the Christmas candy, the original file, and then I want to add the repeat patterns. I had two files for this pattern. I will just swipe away the files folder. I forgot to add the name so I can copy the name from the files folder. Tap your design, tap rename, copy the name, and then you can paste that name and if you want to, you can remove these underlines from that name. If you think that that looks better, then I will swipe to the right. Here I can choose which of these designs that I want to have featured, which means the one that will be placed automatically on the products. I will tap feature on the repeated pattern, and then I tap continue. I represent this artwork and I tap "No" they're doing mature content. When the file is uploaded, I want to add my tags. I tap split view and my notes. I will copy that Christmas candy tags and tap in the tags box and paste the text. Here, I can actually add 20 tags, so I can add some tags if I want to. Let's just type in minimalism. What else may be modern? Scandinavian is a word that I usually use as my designs are in a Scandinavian style. Now we have 16 tags, and then we can add some more. Let's add three as it's a Christmas tree and we can add heart and maybe wrapped candy. Now we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and I will add pattern. Now we have 20 tags and I will select which category this is. I will tap category and tap drawing. As it's drawing. I will tap, save details down here. Then it's time to check the scale of our products. Generally, I usually select all products and then I can deselect the ones that I don't want to use. But most of the time I want to use as many products as possible. Probably my Internet connection is a little bit slow right now, but let's try it out and see if it works. Tap, "Select All" and then tap enable. There you can see how all products are enabled. Now, I don't want all products, but for me, it's quicker to de-select products than to select all of them. I will just de-select the ones that I don't want to use, that will just tap them. My Internet connection is really slow right now, so bear with me. But I am deselecting all of the art prints. As I don't feel that this pattern looks that good on art prints. I can't imagine that anyone would buy a poster with this design. Maybe someone would, but in my mind, it's not suited for this pattern. The wall art, the wood wall art might be nice, that looks pretty good, and the wall hanging looks good. If I scroll down here and I see products that I think that the scale already looks good on. I will just leave it like that. Let's have a look at this. The floor pillow looks good. The rectangular pillow looks good, and the wall clock looks good as well. When I reach wallpaper, I will tap into that product. Because here I want to change to my pattern tile instead of the repeated patterns. I will just tap the 3,600, which is my pattern tile, make sure that I have 100 percent, and then save and enable. Here you can choose to enable more products with this design. But for now, I will just skip this step. This might be a quick way of enabling a bunch of product if you know that they will look good with the same design file size. Scrolling down and see how my pattern looks on different products. Hopefully, you don't have as much problems as I have with my Internet connection right now. It takes a little while for me to see the product. But I really like how this looks on actually all products, and that's the perk of using a toast pattern that it will look really good on a lot of products. Generally, I'm just scrolling down to see which products I want to change, either the scale or the file itself. Or maybe I want to turn off one product, for example, the puzzle, because I don't think that this pattern will be really good as a puzzle. But otherwise, this is looking really good. I think everything is looking good. The Apple watch doesn't look that good so I will just turn that one off. Otherwise, I'm happy with the scale and everything. You can tap into each of these products, of course, and change the scale. Usually I don't use the apparel that much because I tend to upload patterns and they work best with illustrations, with transparent backgrounds, so we'll just turn off all of the payrolls. On the tote bag maybe I want to scale it up so I can tap two fingers to add a new tab with the tote bag and then I can just continue to turn off the other clothing because I don't want that with my pattern. Then continuing with the carrier pouch, that looks good. Everything here looks really, really good. Then I will just turn off the, the kids' joggers, the kids' pull over and the kids' t-shirt, and the kids' crew neck, and the kids' hoodie. If you want to use this signs on these type of products, it's better to have illustrations and with transparent backgrounds because it looks really strange with just the square with a pattern printed at least I think so. Now we'll head into my tote bag and I think that I wanted to scale up the pattern a little bit. I will just scale it up and maybe that looks better. I can tap generate preview with my slow Internet connection. I have no idea how long this will take before I can view the preview, but they're recounts and that looks better. Then I would just save and enable that product. Now we'll skip the step where I can enable a bunch of products at the same time. Now, I've uploaded this file, I've looked through all of the different products and I'm happy with the scale of them. When I'm ready, I will check the little box that I represent this artwork and then I will tap "Publish artwork". That is how we upload files to Society6 and I just want to show you a little detail about uploading patterns that are in one direction. Let me just show you how to do with the gifts pattern as well. I will tap "Add new design", split view, and my files folder. Tap "Done" and I will fit the gifts pattern there and also the repeated pattern, and here I also have the rotated pattern. I will add all of those three files in the upload section here. Then I want to add it a name, so I will just tap the name, tap rename, and copy it. Then I will paste that name over there. Now I'm finished with that. I might as well, when I'm on the go, just continue with copying the tags. I split view with the notes and then I just copy that to the clipboard. I have the tags and now I can just focus on my upload. Here. I will just remove the underlines here, like that and then I will select which one I want to be featured. I will select the repeated pattern that is in the original direction and then tap "Continue". I represent the art work and it doesn't contain mature content and then tap continue. Then I will tap tags and I will paste in all of those tags. I can also add more tags here if I wanted to. I will just tap "Save details" over there. Now I just want to show you what to do when you have this pattern that is in one direction. What I would do first is just to select all and enable them. For this example, I just wanted to show you what to do when you have this one-direction pattern. If I scroll down and find a product that is in another direction, for example, this hand and bath towel that are supposed to hang with the short edge at the top. Then I will just tap with two fingers on that product and I tap into the new tab, and here I have the different files that I can choose from. Then I easily can just tap the rotated file and here you can see that now the pattern is in the right direction on this product. Then I will just tap, "Save and Enable", skip this step, and then I would do the same thing with the products that needs a file that is rotated in another direction. Now you know how to upload your files to Society6. If we tap, view my shop, maybe my pattern has uploaded already and it has, so I can see this pattern on the throat pillows. Then if I scroll down, I can see it on different products as well. It takes a little while before Society6 uploads the preview of all products. But once it's finished, you can check all of your products. This one is still uploading, I guess it looks a little bit funky and your designs are for sale. Once you hit the publish button on Society6 compared to Spoonflower, where you need to order proofs in order to sell your designs. 22. Thank You: That's all for this class. Thank you so much for watching. 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