Create a Christmas Scene Pattern in Procreate

1. Intro: Hey, I'm Maya Faber and in this class, you will learn how to create this cute winter wonderland Christmas scene pattern in procreate. You will learn how to incorporate a story into your patterns to make them more engaging and interesting. We will also focus on creating a balanced flow in our scenes so that our eyes move smoothly through the pattern. Additionally, we will be working with colors to create a natural flow, and we will practice on using filler elements to create interest and a good balance. This class, you will get free resources, including two procreate brushes and one procreate color palette. Join me for a fun and interesting class where you will learn how to create this fun Christmas scene pattern in Procreate. 2. Your Project: Project in this class is to create your own Christmas scene pattern in procreate. You're welcome to experiment with the story, composition, colors, or filler elements to make the design feel uniquely yours. You can follow along with me closely, or you can give it your own creative twist to tell a different story. When you're finished, share your pattern in the project gallery. I can wait to see your take on the Christmas scene theme. 3. Finding Inspiration & Bulding the Story : So let's start this class with finding some inspiration for our patterns. So we are building a Christmas scene pattern. And I'm going to head over to Pinterest and search for Christmasy things. So first, let's just search for Christmas and see what comes up. It doesn't need to be more complicated than that. So I get a lot of illustrations as that is what is showing in my feed. But you might get some photos. It doesn't matter if you find inspiration from illustrations or photos at this point because it's the story that we're building. So we won't copy any other illustrations. We might just find an object or something interesting. For example, for me now, I really like this car with a little Christmas tree on it, and that's a pretty common illustration, I think. So I really like that one. I will actually save this to my cameras. I will tap the three little dots and tap download image. And then you can just continue. I really like this one, so I'm going to save it to my Christmas moodboard, as well. So you can just scroll on and see what you find. Maybe you really like these animals, like, here we have another Christmas tree, but maybe we like the deer here or maybe you want to build a story around Santa Claus, something like that. I think for Christmas patterns, people really, really enjoy traditional motifs. So you can kind of mix it up a little bit and do something more modern if you want to. But for Christmas, generally, people really enjoy, like, traditional colors, traditional motifs, and you can draw them a little bit more modern if you want to. So there we had some different objects that could be fun. And here we actually have a story pattern. So let's just have a look at that. So this is a little story about some houses, woods, and there's some animals. So this could definitely be an idea, I will download that. And when we are looking at other people's patterns and illustrations, just as I mentioned, it's not about copying their style or copying their exact story. It's just about finding inspiration. You can, of course, also find inspiration from your fantasy, just thinking up a Christmas story, or you can find inspiration from photos. Anything you want to. But let's just start with illustrations. So here we have some skiers. That might be a fun pattern. I'm not going to draw that right now because it's a little bit complicated to draw people and characters like that in this class. So here we have more like houses and trees. And I really like this, like the houses, the trees, and the snow and to build a little bit of a story around that. So let's tap this one and download this one as well. I think that my story is building now in my head around houses, woods, snow, and something else. Maybe that car with a tree on it. Here we have another car with a tree. I think that's a really nice story about someone going out to the woods, getting a tree, and driving home. That might be my story. So now I have a few different illustrations that I'm inspired by. You could also be inspired by like gingerbread houses. Here's a really fun pattern with penguins. So that could also be a story, like an animal pattern. Somehow, I'm not going to download this because I'm not gonna create animal pattern in this class. But let's just search for Christmas and photos instead. So then we get some other inspiration, and this might suit you better to find inspiration in photos. So you could have like decorating tree, maybe, like people who are decorating a tree or there we got some more illustrations, maybe baking gingerbread cookies. That might be something that you can build a story around. So then you might find a lot of inspiration in one image, for example, this one, and you can use that to build your story around. So let's just see what we are finding. Here's someone decorating a tree. So this image alone could be the background to the story of your pattern. Like people decorating a tree, there's snow, there's hats and winter clothes, or maybe like Christmas gifts, people been out shopping for Christmas gifts or opening Christmas gifts. You know, things like that. So see what you find. Here's this like the real life Christmas tree in a car. I really like that. I'm going to download it because I really want to draw, I think, a car with a tree on top. And here's another one. Super fun. Okay? So I have downloaded a few images now, and that is the start of my story. And now I'm going to head into Procreate. And I'm just going to open up a screen sized Canvas. I'm going to tap the plus over here and just tap screen size. So we're just building a mood board here and figuring out our story for the pattern. Then I'm going to tap the three little dots up in the middle and split view, and I'm going to tap my photos library. And here I have a few photos. So I just have six photos, and that's fine for me. But you might have ten or 15 or whatever. It really depends on how much inspiration you find in each photo. So now we have all of these photos in procreate, and I just swipe away the photos up. And now I'm just going to place them. So I'm going to tap the transform tool when I'm on one of the image layers and just make it a little bit smaller by tapping and dragging in the blue little notes. I think these two are kind of the same, but let's just place them there for now. And then we have this one. I really like that one, but I don't need the top, so I'm just going to drag it up and place it and drag it down and place it. So I don't really need the bottom and top of that, I just need the image. So I just cut that off in a quick way. So we have a little bit of winter wonderland there. And here we have another image that was the scenes pattern. I don't need this whole scenes. I'm just going to drag it down and tap the transform tool and that has cut off the pattern. And then I have this Oh, this one. That one was fun with a lot of objects. I'm going to place it there, and then we have this one. Okay, so let's see what we can do. I am going to delete that image because I think that those two are the same, deleting that one and just placing this one maybe on top here. Yeah, I'm going to place it over here. Okay, I'm mostly interesting in this part of that illustration, so I'm going to tap the transform tool and just drag it up to cut it off, and then I have a new image over here. Okay, so this is great for me. I'm starting to build my image in my mind. I'm just going to swipe all of these together, and you don't need to be detailed about this at all because we're just building the story behind the pattern. You don't need to show this to anyone at any time, so it can be as messy as you want to. So the first thing that I'm going to do is just to tap the transform tool on that layer and just bring down the size a little bit because I'm going to write a little bit on the sides of this. And then I am just going to choose a color. I'm choosing the brown from the Christmas scene color palette. And let's just use the bold pencil, and we can just write a few words that we want to use. So for me, I really want to use this car with the tree on it, and I think that I will base my story around that. So the car with a tree, Christmas tree, on car. I think driving home after the woods, picking up the Christmas tree. And I really like the houses and the trees. And also here, I think that I'm going to have some houses, driving home to the house and the house will be kind of in the woods as well. So house and wood or I mean forest forest. And I definitely want to have snow in my scenes. I'm going to write plus snow. And something that I really like about this is this little ice pond. So I think that I'm going to incorporate some kind of maybe a texture or something like that. So plus pond. Is that what you call it? Like ice pond. Yeah, you know what I mean? Were you can skate, like a little lake that is frozen. I have Christmas tree on car driving home to the house in the forest, there's snow and there's ice ponds. That might be enough. I don't need more than that. Now I've built this story of a car that's driving home with the Christmas tree to the house. And there's forests, and there's maybe snow and some ice pond. We're going to create a sketch in the next lesson, but now I have an idea of the story that I want to build in my pattern. When you figure out your story, it doesn't need to be finished. You just need a little bit of an idea of the story before we start with the sketching. Then you can continue with the next lesson. 4. Sketching: So before we start to sketch our pattern, I will just save this as a JPEG to my camera roll. If I want to have a look at it later on, so I will tap the actions panel, share and JPEG and just save the image, and that will save it to my camera roll. That way, I can have a look at it later on if I need to and I'm sketching for the pattern. Next, we will tap gallery, and for this pattern, we will use the pattern perfect template, which means that you don't need to create the pattern action. If you want to learn how to create the pattern action, you can check out the pattern perfect template lesson here in this class, where there will also be a mini class about how to create your own templates like this. And in that lesson, you will also find a link to download the template so that you can use it with me here in class. So tap into the pattern perfect template, and then I will just hide the visibility of that guide layer and tap to add a new layer. I will drag out my color palette to the canvas, and let's just use this brown color for sketching. That is from the Christmas scene color palette. So that is a really nice color palette for a vintage kind of feel for Christmas pattern. So you can use this for all future Christmas patterns or any type of patterns as you want to. So let's move on, and I will sketch with the pattern elements, perfect pencil brush, which you also can download. Check out the free download section here in class. There's a link to the pattern elements brush set. So, we use the perfect pencil to sketch our pattern. So basically, I will show you the simplest way of creating a scene like this. So this scene will be with a car driving home with a Christmas tree on top to a house that is in the forest, and there will be some kind of ice ponds and some snow. So that is the story that I'm after. And we can have a look at our mood board. If you need to. Oops. When you're moving through your pattern and sketching, if you need to find inspiration for either the motifs, but I wouldn't suggest that you copy other Illustrator's motifs, but just to get a feel for what you want to draw. But I have pretty clear in my head what I want to draw. So I'm going to head back to Procreate, and here I will start to draw my motifs. So basically, my tip here is to keep it simple, at least for your first scene pattern. And I want to keep mine a little bit airy, so I'm not going to fill all of the space on the canvas. So that also makes it harder because when we have a little bit of air in between our elements, it's often easier to see where the patent tile is. So this is my tip for creating this type of scenes pattern, and that is that I'm just going to make sure that I'm on a new layer. Yeah. And that is that on over here, I'm going to place some kind of motif, and that is going to be the same over here. Then I'm going to place another kind of motif here. And another one here. Then we have some filler elements. We're going to have some background elements and things like that. But if I do like this, I will get a natural flow in the pattern and your eyes will move through the diagonals. You can make it as complicated as you wish, but this is my recommendation to start with these scene patterns. Moving on. We have one type of motif there, which is the same there. You can draw it differently, but it's the same, and then we have one here and one there. So let's move on. I will just delete that layer and add a new layer. The first thing that I want to draw is the car. So I wanted to have a car, and I'm going to place my car over here. We can always move it later on. So I'm just going to draw like a simple shape of a car. I want it to be a little bit maybe, like, round and at the top and something maybe like that. Not sure how I want a car to look yet. And then maybe something like that. And then I want the same type of car over here. So I'm actually just going to duplicate that one and place it over there. I'm not super happy with how that car looks, but we might redo the sketch. This is the rough sketch to start with. So now I'm going to tap the layer and merge down so that I have everything on one layer. The next thing that I want to do is to draw the motifs that will be here. So I'm going to draw a house, and I'm keeping it simple here. So just like a house. But I want maybe I want the front of the house and also a little bit going back like this. I'm not going to do something super realistic, but just to keep it a little bit fun and interesting. I like it to be a little bit, like, imperfect with angons. I think that gives it a nice Look, and I'm just drawing some windows and a door. It's a little bit big the house. I might want to select it with the selection tool, tap the gray dot, and tap the transform tool. And then I can also use the free form if I want it to be a little bit more narrow. So when we're sketching, it doesn't matter if you change the size of your sketches because we de a sketch. So now we are copying that. So I am selecting with a selection tool and free hand selected, tapping at the gray dot when I selected a house, and then I tap copy and paste and move the house over there, and then I will actually flip it horizontal. It looks a little bit wonky, but that's completely fine. And then I'm going to place it up there. So how does this look? I think that it looks good. I might want to I'm going to merge these two together first. So tap the layer tap merge down. And then I might want to select the car at the bottom and just drag it up a little bit. To give it a better flow in the pattern and maybe drag down this house a little bit. So I'm selecting that house and dragging that one down. Now it's not perfect. One is at the corner there, one is at the corner there, one is there, one is there, but it's a little bit more flow in the pattern. The next thing that we will do is to draw some trees here. And let's just see where we want those to be. First, we're going to do a tree on the car. And on this car, I'm just drawing the triangles there now. And then I want some trees in front of the house, maybe. So maybe I want the same type of tree like there, and then I can overlap. So I can do another type of tree. Maybe over there. That might look good. No, I don't like the look of that, actually. So I'm just going to draw maybe there and maybe just the top of the tree overlapping. Like that. I think the dells good. And then a tree over here maybe to kind of get the direction of that. I haven't decided yet how many types of Christmas trees I'm going to draw. Et's just see might be two or three to make it a little bit more fun in the pattern. I think that I want one more of the triangular ones. So I'm kind of trying to balance out the different types of trees and one like that and maybe another one like that. And that looks good to me. Maybe we need something over here as well, because it will probably be a little bit empty, and then you can also feel that this foresty things goes up there because this pattern will be repeated. So this part will be over here. So then we might want to place something over there. So I think that that looks good. And I also want to add the pond that I said. So let's just try, I'm going to do this loose, maybe not so big. I'm thinking that I will add pond like objects in the background. Here and there, just to add some color in the background, probably. I didn't like that one over there, maybe just a smaller one. And that car can also be driving and that could actually be going over here somewhere, and a little one over there maybe. These pond things we definitely need to fix later on. But let's create a pattern of this sketch now and continue with it in the next lesson. 5. Make the Pattern Sketch: Moving on, let's make a pattern of the sketch to see where we need to add more elements. So I will tap the guy layer and tap the plus to add a new layer on top. And here I will just fill this layer with a color. So I'm using you can use the cream white from the Christmas scene color palette, actually. And then we will swipe to the right on both of these layers and group them. Then I will tap the group tap the selection tool, save and load, selection eight, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again. To deselect and then tap the selections tool again, save and load selection seven, the transform tool, flip vertical and flip horizontal, tap the selections tool to deselect, and then tap the selection tool again, save and load selection six, the transform tool, flip vertical and flip horizontal, tap the selection tool to deselect and tap the selection tool. Once again, save and load selection five, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal. Next, I will just tap the transform tool and rotate my motif, four to five degrees four times so that I get it in the right direction. So now we need to add some more elements here to this sketch. I will tap the layer with the sketch. Let's just rename this to rough sketch. And I'm using the brown again on the sketch and the same brush, the perfect pencil. And now we will continue to add elements here. So let's see what we can do I definitely want to continue this pond, at least, so that would be something that goes maybe like that. And then I want to add I think that we should add something here, but maybe it's just a tree. Let's see. Maybe it's a tree like this. Somewhere that's not exactly beneath that one. But it would look good to have it there. Maybe I will change where this one is. So I will actually just erase. I can erase with the pattern elements, monoline brush, tap the eraser tool, and tap pattern elements and monoline. Or you can erase with any brush that you want to. I'm just going to erase this little tree over here because I felt that it would be a good position to place a tree right beneath it, and I don't want that line in my pattern. So then I'm going to place a tree maybe over here somewhere. Like that. And I could place that tree that I had maybe over there instead. That might look nice, actually. So I just move that one and then probably a little ice pond somehow. If I move up that tree, I will tap the selection tool, select around that tree. I can have free form selected and make it a little bit more narrow and move it up a little bit, and then I can draw a pond like that. I'm just trying to get a good, like, vibe with the shapes of these ice ponds. And here I might need another type of tree. So let's just place one of these triangular trees here. Now we will see how that looks. And in this position over there, it looks a little bit empty. We probably need something there. I'm not sure what it is. It's probably some kind of pond. Maybe we can drag down. We have, like, a pond over there. Maybe we can drag it down like that. And we can add some trees over there, maybe. And they can continue over here, maybe. I'm thinking that this will look good. Let's see. We definitely need to adjust this pattern a lot when we are creating the final pattern, but this is a start. So now we will just see how this pattern is repeating. So I will swipe down with three fingers, tap, copy all, swipe down with three fingers, tap paste, and I will first try it out in my pattern tester. So tap Safari, split view the three little dots, tap safari, and the link to the pattern tester is in the downloads and resources lesson here in class. So you can tap and drag your flattened image, and I'll just swipe away procreate. And here I can see how my pattern is repeated. I think it has a good flow. There's one car going that way, one going that way. Both are going to their houses. It might be a little bit empty above this house, but I'm not sure yet. It's hard to see when it's just black and white like this. But I'm thinking that it looks good. Let's see if we need to adjust some things when we create the final pattern. The other way you can try out your pattern is by swiping to the right on your flattened image four times and duplicating it. And then tap the transform tool and I will tap in the top left corner node. I make sure that I have the little blue chain symbol tapped in, and I type in 1,500 pixels, and then I tap the next image, tap in the top right corner node, and type in 1,500 pixels, tap the transform tool to place it, tap the next image, tap the bottom left corner node, 1,500 pixels. Then I can tap the next layer, tap in the bottom left corner node, bottom right corner node, and type in 1,500 pixels. Here you can also see how your pattern is repeated. It might be that we need to adjust some things here. I can see that this pond is a little bit empty. It's not moving to that one. Maybe we should fix that before we move on. So maybe this one should go like that maybe or something. That will probably look good. So let's just try that out before we continue. I will actually erase all of these, delete them, and I can see that it's here that we have the problems. I will repeat this pattern again, tap the group, tap the selection tool, save a lo selection eight, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again to deselect, tap the transform tool, tap the selection tool, tap flip vertical, and flip horizontal, tap the selection tool to deselect, tap Save and load in the selection tool again, tap the transform tool, flay vertical, and flat horizontal, tap the selection tool to deselect and the selection tool again to select. The selection five in save a load and transform tool flipwardGFlip horizontal. Then I will tap the transform tool and rotate the image four times, and I can see that this is where I have the problem area. So I will tap my sketch, and I will just continue. I think that this is going a little bit too far now, so I will just delete that and I'm thinking that we might just drag this one out a little bit. Maybe like that or something. I think that we will definitely need to try out the shapes of these ponds when we are creating the full pattern, but now I really like how this looks. And we're back to our original sketch with the cars there and the houses there. So let's move on to the next lesson where we will start to draw the actual motive. 6. Draw the Motifs: So now we have finished our pattern sketch, and it's time to continue with drawing the motifs. Let's start by tapping the N on the sketch layer and drag down the O past. I think that I will keep mine on around 20%. The first thing that we will do is to add a background color here because I know that in my pattern, I want the windows or no, the roofs and probably some snow details to be white. If I look at my mood board, I can see that I don't want this look where I have a white background and colored houses, but I want the snow to be on top of the houses. So I will in procreate, tap the background, and I will move out my color palette so I will tap the color palette and drag it out in the little line there and choose the darker of the blue colors, tap and drag to fill the layer. The next thing that I would do is to add a layer on top of the background, so I am going to draw beneath the rough sketch so that I still can see the sketch through my motifs that I draw, and I will draw on top of the background. I'm thinking that we should start with the car here. So let's tap the red orange burnt color there, and I will use the solid irregular brush from the Christmas scene brush set. I am using around 7% in brush size, and I'm just going to trace my sketch here. Doesn't need to be exactly like the sketch, but kind of kind of like the sketch, a little bit more detail than the sketch. As this is a solid brush, I can tap and fill the colors. I would just tap and fill. If you feel that when you tap and fill, you will end up with a little white line here between the stroke and the fill. I suggest that tap and fill and then move the threshold. You move to the left and to the right until that line disappears. Usually, with these solid brushes, you won't see that, but if you do move up the threshold in percentage. I have my threshold to around 75% here. So now we have the car, and let's turn off the visibility of the rough sketch so that we can see the car. I see that my car is tilting a little bit. I could draw it in, but I could also turn it around. So let's just turn it a little bit, so that is a little bit more straight. And what I will do then is that I will tap the transform tool. And here, you need to make sure that your interpolation is set to bicubic because this way, your movements with your motifs, your rotations and when you move your motifs will create as little loss of resolution as possible, which means that you won't get as much blurriness as possible. It is said that in Procreate, as soon as you move something or rotate something, you lose resolution. But if you just do that a little bit, you won't lose so much resolution, and it won't show when you print it. But if you move around a lot, it will show. And if you have nearest neighbor here, it will show instantly when you move something. Let me just show you what I mean if you have nearest neighbor and we move this and place it. If we scroll in, you can see that the edge of your motif is blurry, really blurry. It's always a little bit because when we zoom in that much, it will become blurry. And especially if we would rotate with the nearest neighbor, and you zoom in, you can see that you get this little uneven edge here. So let's just undo that. And this is because it shows more when you're using solid brushes with straight edges. If you use texture brushes, you won't see it as much and it won't even show in print because the edge of your brush is already textured. But now we have a solid brush and actually always, but especially now, it's really important that you have bicubic set to the interpolation when you tap the transform tool. Now I can zoom out a bit and I can just rotate my motif just a little bit until I think that it's straight there, and then I'm happy with how it looks. Then I can just fill it in. So that I have a more straight line at the edge there. So when you zoom in like this, you will always get a little bit of blurry edge because you're zooming in. I don't know how I would explain this. You're zooming in larger than the actual canvas is. So the car isn't this big if you would print it, and that is why it will look blurry when you zoom in. That's at least how I explain it. Okay, moving on, let's add some details to the car, so we will add the wheels. So tap to add a new layer, and I will tap the brown color here, the darker brown and add two wheels. And I also want to add some details with the windows. I will tap to add a new layer, and I'm keeping all colors separated on different layers so that I can change the color of all of the layers later on. So that is my best tip for being able to recolor your patterns without losing quality. So now I'm just drawing the windows here. Tap a fill and another window. So I think that looks like a cute car. I think that I will add a thin line here as the car door simplifying the look of this car, but something like that. That looks good. And then I want to add the Christmas trees. I will tap to add a new layer, and I'm going to use this darker green color for this one, and drawing a triangle. Something like that. Tap and fill to fill that in. Okay. So that looks good. A little bit strange on the edge. That looks better. And then I'm going to add a new layer and draw the part of the tree that is the brown stem. But I am actually I think I'm going to use the brown layer here to save layers. So if you need to save layers, keep your colors on the same layer. Then I'm going to draw a brown little stem there. So let's just turn off the sketch, and now we draw on the tree there. I think that it looks good, but it looks like the car is moving in that direction, and the tree is a little bit too much in the front. So I will just tap the tree there. Also, again, make sure that it's set to bicubic in interpolation and then just drag it a little bit to the back maybe, like that. And I also need to fetch the stem there. What is it called on a tree and drag it out. Okay, so that looks fine. Maybe I want it to be a little bit tilted, even. Let's try that. A little bit tilted down. Yeah, that looks much better. Okay, so now we are happy with how that look. And now we can turn on the sketch, and I will actually copy this car to this position. So I will swipe to the right on all of these and just tap group, swipe to right on the group, duplicate, and then drag it down, and I will flip horizontal. Then I can just rotate it a little bit and place it in the position of that car. So if you're just doing these small changes and you have the bicubic set here when you are rotating and moving your objects, you shouldn't see that much loss in resolution or the loss in resolution that you actually get shouldn't be shown in print. You can, of course, always test print, but this is my experience with my iPad. If you feel that any movement that you create makes a loss in resolution, that is a huge deal for your print, then you need to draw each object separately. But for me, this has worked fine. As long as I'm not moving around the objects forever and ever, then I will lose too much resolution. Okay, so this car, I think that I want to do pink or this pinkish orange peach color. So I will tap and drag to fill that one there, and then I will turn off the sketch to see how that looks. And I think that that looks good. So now we have the two cars and we can turn on the sketch again. I will keep my layers like this. If you end up with your layer limits reached, which means that you can't add more layers, then you can select the layers that you need to merge. For example, I could merge these two white layers, and then I would just group them and tap the group and tap flatten. And then I would need to drag that one above everything. So now I have both of those white areas on one layer. We could do this with the cars just for now because I want to show you how to do it if you reach the layer limit. For me, I usually don't reach my layer limit as I have a two terabyte storage on my iPad. But let me just show you how to do it. So you group the two layers that are in the same color, and then you tap flatten, and then you group the next two layers, then you tap flatten. And these two are different colors, so we won't flatten those ones. And here you have the car. I will just drag it in the group. So there we have the cars. So you might want to flat then or merge layers together that are in the same color later on as well. But let's just rename the group to cars, and then we can continue to draw our automotives. But that is how you merge the layers together if you need to if you reach the layer limit while we are drawing. So I will tap to add a new layer, and here I want to draw the house. So I'm using the lighter brown color, the solid irregular brush, and I'm going to draw this house. Just quickly drawing the house. Something like that. Make sure that all your shapes are closed so that we can fill them in. So I will tap and fill, and then I can tap, continue filling and just fill in that shape as well. And tap the little check mark to not be able to fill anymore. Okay, so now I will turn off the sketch and see how that looks. That looks good. So now I will add the white roof, so I will add a new layer, tap the white color. I will just drag up a line there so I can see where I want it to be and drag down a line there, and out there. And let me just make this a little bit thicker. Like there's actually snow on the roof, dragging it down and meting it up over there. And tap and fill to fill that layer with the color. And then you can adjust this now or later on. However you want it to look. Then I will add a door and windows. I will tap the layer with the brown house and tap to add a new layer on top and use the darker brown color. I will just add a quick door here. You can use clipping mask if you want to, if you want to draw outside like this and just add clipping mask. Or you don't need to do that if you don't want to, especially if you want to merge your brown layers together, maybe you don't want to use clipping mask. So I won't do it here. I will just draw a little door and just match it up with edge there. And then I will add two windows. I think that looks good. And now we're finished with that house. So I will swipe to the right on these three layers. Tap group, swipe to the right on the group to duplicate it, tap and drag to drag it up to the other house and flip horizontal, and then make sure that you have bicubic in the interpolation again, and I will just turn it a little bit so that it's in a good position. It a little bit and then place it. I will turn off my sketch and see how that looks. I think that looks good. I will add some details in the next lesson, but for now, I think that this looks good. The next step is that you could merge these layers together. Let's just continue to do that so that we are saving layers. I will swipe the right on the brown house layer. Tap group and tap the group and tap flatten, swipe to the right on the door layers and the window, tap group, and tap flatten, swipe to the right on both of the roof layers, tap group and tap flatten. Then we can see there is the house, house houses, and this group, I think we can just delete because there's nothing in it. Now we have the cars and the houses. And we should add some more objects. Let's add a new layer on top and turn on the sketch again. And now I want to add the trees, but I will add them with different colors. So let's start with the triangular trees. I think that I want them in this color, the darker color. So I will go for the same brush, solid irregular, and this is a pretty simple shape of the trees. I will just make triangles like that, tap and drag to feel a color. And you could actually, if you want to save time, you could just draw the outlines like that, make sure that you close the gap, and do that for all of those triangular trees. And then we will fill them with the color fill. In a little while, here we have one more. So I'm drawing all the trees that are inside of the edge of the canvas that aren't falling off the canvas. Because those ones we need to draw when we have repeated the pattern. And here we have one more. I am not going to be 100% sure that the placement of all of these trees are perfect because it was a little bit hard to see that on the sketch. But for now, we will just draw them and we can move them or erase them and redraw them in different positions later on if we feel that our patterns are imbalanced. So then I will tap and drag to fill one and tap continue filling over there and just tap these trees. Next, I will let's just rename this to triangle trees or dark green and tap to add a new layer, and I will add another tree, another type of trees, I will use the medium green. Use the solid irregular again. And for this one, I will draw these shapes of the trees. Just make sure that you have closed shapes there and see maybe that one should be like that or not. But one of these should be definitely. So I'm thinking that I will draw these types of trees in two different colors. So we only had two of those, then I will tap and fill and tap continue filling. And then I want to add let's just rename that two. What should we name it? Medium trees. It doesn't really matter what you name them two. You can name them two whatever you want. It's just so that you know which of the trees are on the different layers. So next we will add the third type of trees. I will tap to add a new layer, and I will tap this lighter green color and draw a tree over there. I'm just going to fill that in instantly because I want to see how it looks. Okay, so that looks fine. And then the swan And there we have drawn all of the trees. So I will name it to Light tree, like the lightest green color. Then I will add a new layer and drag it beneath all of the trees. And I will just rename this to brown maybe. So I'm just naming the layers so that we can see where the different motifs are. It doesn't really matter what the layers are named. And here I will just add these little brown parts of the trees on all of the trees because all of the trees will have the same color on those parts. Oops too big. Okay, great. So now we have all of those trees. And I think that we will try to add some of the ice ponds as well when we have the pattern in this position, and then we might need to add some more later on. So I will just swipe through right on those layers and just name these trees. And let's add or actually, before we continue, I think that I want to add something more to this house so that it difference a little bit from that house. So open up the houses, and on the brown layer, I will just add probably like two windows here. To make this house a little bit different from the other house. Maybe the windows should be a little bit bigger, so you can't really see if they're on the lower part of the house or the second floor. Oops, didn't like that one. Okay. So I think that's fine. And then I will move on to ice ponds. I will close the group with the houses, tap the trees group, and tap to add a new layer. And here I want to use this lighter blue color, and I'm going to just swipe around a little bit to add these ice pond like that. This one will need to be continued, but I can just start it and we can see how it will continue over there. And then I will tap to fill, continue fill, and fill those two. And I will actually drag this beneath all of the other objects and then turn off the sketch layer just to see how it looks. So I really like that one and that one, but I'm not really fond of the shape of this one. So let's just select this one and I will redo it. So tap the selection tool, select around that ice pond and just drag it out. And then I can just do it maybe by free hand, like based on where the car is. Maybe like that? No, not exactly like that. Okay, so I like that. I'm not sure exactly why, but I like when the pond is coming a little bit, half of the size of the car. I think that looks nice. Okay, so moving on. Now we need to repeat this so that we will create the pattern. So I will repeat everything. Everything is in the group, so I can just tap the group and tap the selection tool, tap Save and load, selection eight, transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal. Tap the selection tool again to deselect and tap the selection tool saving load, selection seven, the transform tool, flipward to column flip horizontal, tap the selection tool to deselect, and the selection tool again, selection six, Transform tool, flip word to Column flip horizontal, selection tool to deselect, and the selection tool again, selection five, the Transform tool and flip word to colon flip horizontal. Now we can just turn this around and we can turn our sketch on to see what our thoughts were here. And we will just add some trees now. So I will open up the tree, and I can choose. I think that I want to add some medium tree. So I would choose the medium green color. And with the solid regular on that layer, I will add a little tree over there. So I'm choosing the medium green because I have the lighter green over there already. Then, maybe the same medium green. Over there. Oops. Tap to fill it. It was a little bit too thick, I think. Okay. And maybe we should do, like, a lighter green over there so that I'm mixing it up a bit. So like that, and just fixing it a little bit at the bottom. And then the triangle trees and the dark green color and just adding one of those trees over here. I'm filling it in. And then I'm going to choose the brown layer and just draw a little part of a tree over there, over there on all of the new trees. I'm going to turn off the sketch to see how it looks. I think it looks good, but I'm thinking that this tree might need to go down a little bit to make it a bit more balanced. Let's try that out. I will select that tree, select the layer, tap the selection tool, select around a tree with free hand, and just drag it down. I think that here would look better. It will make a better balance with the trees over there. So I will also tap the brown layer and select that part. That was part of that tree can zoom in and just place it over. There so that looks good to me. And now I want to add some ice puns here so I can turn on my sketch, and I can see that I wanted something here in the middle. And I definitely agree on that. So I can just try to add one over there, and then I want to continue on this one. Maybe like that, and I need to turn off the sketch to be able to see how it looks. Okay, so I'm really starting to like the look of this pattern now with the houses and the trees. And yeah, I think that it looks really, really nice. So now let's move on to the next lesson where we will add some details to this 7. Add Details: So let's add some details to this pattern. As I mentioned before, if you're reaching your lay limit, make sure that you are merging the layers that have the same colors. So you could, for example, merge the brown layer here with the brown car layer. I forgot to name those layers, but it's this one. So for me, it's not necessarily to merge the layers with the different colors. So I prefer to keep them in groups like this to make it easier to find. But if you feel the need to save layers, then merge the ones that have the same colors. And merge means just put all the layers together that has the same color. Okay, so moving on, let's continue to add some details. First, let's start with the houses. I want to add some kind of shading on the part of the houses that are moving backwards. And I'm going to do this in a very simple ways. So we will add a layer on top of the house layer, tap the plus, add a layer. And here I want to use the same brush, the solid irregular, but we want to use, like a gray color. So a light gray color somewhere around there. And then we will draw with the clipping mask selected on that layer, I will draw somewhere over here and just tap and drag oops, fill that in. And tap and drag to fill that part of the house. So now I made it gray, but we are going to use a blend mode, so tap the N on that layer and drag up to colour buurn. And here you can see that you've added some shadow to the house without using the brown color. So we're doing this because it will be easier. If we want to recolor our pattern later on, then we could only recolor the house. Let's say that we want to recolor the house to red, for example, and the shadow will be recolored automatically. If you feel that you get a too dark color here, you can always bring down the opacity of the layer, or you can tap the layer and tap a darker gray color and tap and drag to fill the layer with a darker gray color. So the darker you go on the gray here, the darker the shadow will be. But I'm pretty happy with how that looked. But now I don't remember which gray color I had, so I need to fetch that, so I will drag down to normal again, and I will fetch my gray color here, and I will just save it in my color palette so that I have it over there. And then I will drag down to color buurn again, and I will do the same on the other house. Hoops. I need to do a square here, and then I can just fill it in. So that looks fun. I have a little bit more depth in the pattern now. So now I want to add some more details. Let's see what I want to do. I think that on the cars, I want to erase a little bit on the cars above the wheels. I think that that will make it look a little bit nicer. I will use the eraser, the solid regular and on the red car layer and the eraser, I will just oops too big. Let's go down to around eight or 7% and just erase a little bit of the part of the car there. That goes underneath the wheel and then go to the pink car layer, you can erase a little bit there as well. Okay, so that looks better, I think. And then let's see what we want to do. We definitely want to add something to the trees. And let's see what we want to do. We could add a layer on top here in the trees, and we can use the same that we use color burn on that layer. The gray color, let's try the same gray color. And now I want to add some texture. So we have a bold pencil in the brush set that I will use and just add a little bit of details on the trees. Let's try out 4%. And on these trees, the triangular ones, I might want to add something that goes like this. Oh, but now I see that we need to have one above each layer. If we want to do, like, a clipping mosq. If you have enough layers, drag that part above the triangle trees, tap the layer and tap clipping mosk. If you don't have enough layers, I would just have one layer with texture, and then I would just tap, for example, the triangle trees, tap select, tap invert, and then I would just erase the part that are falling off the leaves the trees. So that is how I would do it if I don't have enough layers so that I could have one texture layer above each of the trees. But you could also do a clipping mask. So as I have enough layers, I will do a clipping mask because that's just easier. So tap the layer, tap clipping mask, and then I will do one texture layer above each of the trees. Oops, I want it to be a little bit larger around 8% maybe. Something like that, and just adding some texture to the trees quickly like that. And to this one, and also the one on the on the cars, but we will do those later on because those are on a separate layer. So something like that, now we have all of those ones, and I will add a new layer on top of the medium trees, tap the N, tap Caliburn, tap the gray color, and that was the medium green. We could do like a maybe like line. Oops. Where am I? Medium green. Oh, it was the light green that I was thinking of light green, a line in the center, and then some wavy lines that go down like that. And maybe not that line in the center there. So I could use erase that part. That looks kind of fun, let's do that on all of the lighter green trees. Like. And like that, and then we'll do the medium trees, tap to add a new layer, drag up to calibur, tap clipping mask. And then on these ones, I maybe just want some lines that goes down like this. So I use some ***** So I use different textures on the different trees to add some interest to the pattern. And one left or there. Okay, great. So now we added some depth and texture to the pattern. And what else? We need to do the trees on the cars. We definitely need to do that. And we also want to add some, I think, some snow. So let's add snow first. I will just tap the background, the little ice layer there, have to add a new layer, and I will use the white color. And with the bold pencil, I can try that out. I would just add some dots. Let's see how large brush I want to have. I want to create kind of round dots, not perfectly round, but something like that. That looks fun. A few dots here and there, so that it will be like the trees and everything are kind of placed on the ground. You get that feeling when you place the little snowy dots like this and also to add some elements like filler elements to make the pattern a little bit more fun. So I'm not sure how many of these thoughts there should be in each position. So I'm just kind of adding them now, and we might need to change it later on. It's like snow on the ground, I would say, something like that. And on the car on the ice there. That looks kind of fun, maybe more over here. And I probably want something around there. So I'm just trying to make it balanced with these filler elements. And how you know is just that you look at the pattern to see if you have a lot of dots to the left, you put some more to the right. So it's just a matter of preference, actually. Maybe some more here by the house. Maybe something there by the house. No. I didn't like that. Okay, so now we have the details here, and we need to flip the pattern around to be able to create the details on that tree, at least. But I'm going to start with this tree before we flip it around. So here we have that tree layer and I'm going to add a layer on top and drag to Caliburn, tap clipping mask and tap that gray layer. And I will add with around 8% some lines there. As I mentioned, if you reach your lay limit when we're adding all of these textures, then place them on the same layer at the top here. The textures on the trees is what I mean. Place them on the same layer, and then do the part where you select the object, invert it and erase what's outside. I showed you that earlier on in this lesson. But I'm not reaching my layer limit, so I'm just going to continue and we are going to flip the pattern around. So tap the group, tap the selection tool, save and load, selection eight, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again and tap the selection tool, save and load, selection seven. Oops, flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again, selection six, the transform tool, flip vertical flip horizontal, save and load, selection five, Transform tool, flip vertical and flip horizontal. And now we can flip the pattern around like this, and now we need to add some texture to that part. So on the cars in the cars group, on that texture layer, I will add some texture on that tree. Okay, so this looks good for me now, and it's time to try out the pattern and see if we need to adjust some details. 8. Test the Pattern: So now it's time to test our pattern. So swipe down with three fingers, tap, copy all, and I will just tap on top of all layers and swipe down with three fingers and paste. And that will give me a flattened image at the very top. I will tap the three little dots, split view, tap Safari, and I have my pattern tester, which is linked to in the downloads and resources lesson here in class, and I will tap and drag my pattern to the patent tester. And then I can scroll down and see how it looks in a smaller scale and in a larger scale. And this is like a simple scene pattern. And my story is that it's these cars that have been in the woods, got a tree, Christmas tree, and are going to their houses. Simple story, but that's all there is to it. And it's cold. There's a little bit of ice. There's some snow on the ground. And yeah, that is how it looks. I think that it looks super good. I will also show you how to try your pattern out in Adobe Illustrator. So swipe to the right on the duplicated image until you have four copies of it, tap the transform tool, tap in the top left corner node, 1,500 pixels, tap the next layer, tap in the top right corner node, and type in 1,500 pixels. Make sure you have the chain symbol tapped in there. And tap the next image, tap in the top left corner node, 1,500 pixels, and on the next image, bottom right corner node, 1,500 pixels. So that is how our pattern look, and I think that it looks super good. So now let's see how you would add some details or make changes to the pattern if you would like to. 9. Make changes & Test Final Pattern: So now I will show you how to add some details or make some changes to the pattern. If you would like to do that, I would just swipe to right on all of these images and delete them. And then I would just go into the layer where I want to make changes. So for example, maybe I want to add some white dots if I felt that it was a little bit strange looking with the white dots and the placement of them. So let's just add, I don't know, a little bit larger. Add some white dots there, and maybe I want to add, I don't know where O. I want to erase this one and add one over there. And then I might want to change something at the edges of the pattern. So if I want to change something in the center here, you can just make your changes to those layers. And if you want to make some changes that are in the edges where your motifs are cut off, then we need to repeat the pattern again. So we will tap the group tap the selections two, save and load, selection eight, flip vertical, flip horizontal with the transform two, selection tool again, selection seven, the transform two, flip vertical, and flip horizontal, selection two, selection six, flip vertical and flip horizontal with the transform tool, and selection tool selection five, tap the transform to, flip vertical, and flip horizontal. Then I would just rotate my pattern, and I can make changes to the edge of the pattern. So that is how you make changes to the pattern. And when you're happy with how it looks, we will swipe down with three fingers again, tap, copy all, tap at the top group, and tap paste. And now I will just check it out in the pattern tester. So this is our final pattern, and I'm super happy with how it looks. I think it will look amazing as, for example, gift wrapping paper. So now I will show you how to try out the pattern and procreate again, so swipe to the right to duplicate the flattened image, tap the transform tool, tap in the top left corner node, 1,500 pixels, tap in the top right corner node on the next layer. And type in 1,500 pixels and choose the third layer, tap the transform tool and the bottom left corner node, and type in 1,500 pixels, and tap the fourth layer and the bottom right corner node and type in 1,500 pixels. And now we can merge these layers together by swiping them together. And here you have your repeated pattern. Let's just shut off the color panel, the repeated pattern, and this is your pattern. 10. Recoloring: Let's have a look at how to recolor the pattern if you want to do that in the future. And as we have created this pattern in color separated layers, I will be really easy. So let's just give it a try and recolor the houses, for example. So just turn off the visibility of the flattened images, and I will tap the house layers. And here I can actually tap the layer and tap Afook and then I can choose a color that I want to recolor with. Let's recolor the houses to What color should the houses be? Maybe pink, and then I will tap that layer and tap the layer. You could also tap and drag, so let me show you that on the cars. On the car layer here, you could tap and drag. So let's just recolor the car to yellow, for example, or purple. I like purple. Tap and drag, and there you have recolored your car to purple. So this is a very simple way of recoloring your artwork. As I mentioned previously in class, when you have these brushes with solid brushes with sharp edges, you can do the tap and drag coloring. If you have a really textured brush, it's safest to do the Alpha lock and color. So let's just color that back. So Aphaoc on the layer, and then tap the layer and tap flayer. So that is how we recolor our patterns. I will just redo because I want it in my original colors. And let's move on to the next lesson where we will export our patterns. 11. Export: So to export this pattern to shared in class, I'm going to start with the pattern tile, and I'm going to tap the actions panel, share JPEG, and just save the image. And then you can export your repeated pattern, which is this one. So just turn on the visibility of that one, tap the actions panel, share and JPEG. And save image. And that is how you export your file to be able to share it in class and also to be able to upload it to, for example, print on Mn site and things like that. So now we have created the full Christmas scene pattern. I hope that you enjoyed it, and be sure to share your artwork here in class in the next lesson. 12. Next Step: Grab Your Free Starter Pack: Before we end this class, I want to give you something extra. 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