Create a Colorful Intuitive Mandala Repeating Pattern

1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Maria. I'm an artist, illustrator and surface pattern designer. Welcome to my studio. And welcome to this class. We will be creating a repeating pattern using the same techniques we used into create a colorful, intuitive Mandela class. If you haven't taken that class material to head over there and do that first. We'll be using just the iPad, Apple Pencil, and the procreate app for this class. We'll set up our pattern. We have to make a secondary Mandela using some of those same techniques we used before. There'll be a lot of pinching and zooming. And of course, I'll help you through those pesky little mistakes. If you haven't taken, create a colorful, intuitive Mandela. Head on over to that video. First. I'll look forward to seeing your colorful intuitive Mandela repeating patterns using the Procreate app, Apple pencil and iPad. See you there. 2. Setting up tile: Welcome back friends. I want to talk to you about taking this colorful intuitive Mandela and creating a repeating pattern. Now here I have a Mandela that I have created. And I'm going to show you step-by-step on how to go ahead and create that repeating pattern. First thing I wanted to show you yet again, it was in the bonus section of my last videos, is how changing the color changes the entire look and feel of your Mandela. So this one has a greens and pinks, and I just wanted to show you what it looks like in a variety of color ways. This has like a brownish pink color to it and then goes out to a blue kind of a purply color. And then this one has the gray on the inside blue and it starts to come out again to gray. And I don't get over into this darker color, so that's that color way they are. Here is that one. And then finally, this very much reminds me of candy. So the candy color here. So just play around with the colors just so I could once again show you that. The thing that we'll have to keep in mind is that once we merge layers together, we won't be able to make those changes. So definitely keep that in mind. The way I'm going to show you. There are other ways to get around it, but that's not this class. So I really like this color way that's happening here. So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to copy my Mandela layer. And then I'm going to copy my color layer, the background layer. And I'm going to merge those two together. So I want to drop one down, two-finger pinch to merge. And then I'm going to turn off all of these other things happening here. So I have right here the Mandela in the color merge together. We will be then going in and duplicating this four more times. I'm going to save one of those, so I'm going to turn one of them off. Actually let us turn them all off so it makes it easier for us to move. So we're going to turn this, push, this Mandela to all four corners. And you'll notice here I will click on the arrow tool. I have it set to uniform and I'm just going to click and drag till I get the two Goldman's. So that means it's perfectly split in half horizontally and vertically. You'll notice your thumbnail then goes to change. So I want to get rid of that. Click on the next one. I gotta get to that layer first. Let's turn that one off. Click on the arrow tool. And then I'm going to slot it over to the right, again, waiting for those gold lines to show. Turn it off, go to the next one, click on that layer. Now to get these to happen, you have to have your snapping and magnetics turned on. I've gotten to six and Max. I still play around with those sometimes depending on what I'm doing. Ok. And vary those. Click on the last one, my arrow tool, and then I'm going to bring it down to their back on the arrow. So when I highlight all of these, I now have my Mandela's split into four quadrants and push to the edges. So that's the step 2 and the process of creating a colorful intuitive Mandela repeating pattern. 3. Creating second Mandala: So we've completed step 1. We've pushed our Mandela to all four corners, making sure that they're perfectly lined up. You can always zoom in and make sure you don't have that single little pixel on that might show if you miss those the imperfectly on the corners. But because these are perfect circles, you will need to make sure that you're lined up. You just can't erase anything in that pixel on. So what we're gonna do is I've got my four corners turned on. I'm going to merge those four corners. I have my copy of the merged color and the original Mandela. Here is just the Mandela with no color. So if I turn that on and then there's the white background, you can just see what it looks like in black and white. You could always work with that too. And then there's that colored layer and the other colors. So when came up background layer on for right now because I wanted to show you what happens here. So I am actually on a system, but I'm gonna go in here and show you. So we're going to turn on Drawing God's edit drawing adds choose symmetry. And you can always change your thickness of your lines and your opacity. I keep mine down just a little bit, but I'm gonna keep it up to keep it up a little bit because you might not be able to see that super-duper well. And then of course, along this color bar here, you can choose different colors. But because I've got red and green here, I'm just choose I chose an orange color. So o a tapped on that white by accident. And so I'll click Done. I'm going to come back to this layer and I want to make sure that I have this colored layer, the same color that I've done this Mandela. I want to make sure I have it turned on, so I'm going to duplicate it one more time. I'm going to slide it underneath my four corners step 2, and I'll turn it on. So what will happen now is as I draw through the center, it will start creating those same colors that we have here in this Mandela. So I make sure I'm on that layer. Click my eraser tool, and I'll go to my technical pen. This video is not about how to create a Mandela. You can watch me go through the process of creating one if you choose to. But otherwise you would just have to make sure that you have taken or viewed the other class and how to create a colorful intuitive Mandela. I'm using only the brushes in Procreate. Otherwise you can just sit back and enjoy watching me create this video. You might notice in even though I've sped it up for you, my pen is a little wobbly and Milan's are very straight. Turned out that I had a slight problem with my screen protector that I had on my glass. It had old up in some other things that happen. So as I was working, you'll notice the lines are really wobbly, but I went back and corrected this at a later time. But you'll get the idea of how we're just doing the same process and we'll meet you back in the next video. 4. Finishing Mandala : Thank you for joining me back for this section. I'm going to speed everything up as you can see, but then I'm just going to skip forward and get to the good stuff. I decided to come in and create yet another lattice point on this Mandela like we did on our bridge tunnel video. And now I'm getting closer and closer to the original Mandela. Just working my way around adding things, pinching and zooming and making adjustments as necessary. Okay. So now we've got this expanded up even further. Again, I would probably spend the same amount of time that I did on this one for this Mandela. And I'm going to show you some examples later. First thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come over here and I'm going to cut off my drawing guide because that way I'm going to get rid of those lines to see. Second thing you could definitely do is fill in these spaces between the two. Mandela was. So you've got the one over here and then one here. You can definitely come in. And I generally by the time I get this far, I'm like, I just wanted to be done in beautiful, which it generally always is. You could just come in and put in some swirls or some teardrop shapes. This point meets up over here. If you go and try to add onto this Mandela right here is the colors are very similar. But if I try to go in and add onto this Mandela, see how I pick up the green and this yellow doesn't match with this color here. And if you would cross over this Mandela, your race through to that other side. So I'm going to avoid doing that. So all everything that I'm doing now all has to do with this Mandela. Not this one. I definitely now don't like it now that there's all that green or that yellow in there. So I'm gonna kinda my paintbrush and a bump that bad boy up in size. And I'm going to get rid of all of this. I'm going to just keep that. And I think I'm going to get ribbon, this one. And this one. And I'll redo this one. I don't mind this lighter yellow color and I don't mind it extending out on one. Get rid of these. I'll keep just the swirl shape. There we go. That, that to me feels right. And same thing we've done before. Now, I'm gonna make a duplicate of this layer. So this layer has the original blue are going to white line there and we're gonna do is still my heart. So I'm going to create a duplicate of this, which is going to have this plus my original that has been divided out. I'm going to duplicate that because I already have a copy of the under or the background layer. I don't need to keep that. So I'm going to bump it underneath the background layer, turn this one off and turn the background layer on. So now we've got it back. What we have to do is we have to merge these two. I'm going to merge them. So it's all one thing now. Everything else is turned off. And I'm going to duplicate this layer five times. You could duplicate it twice, push to the left and then push to the right. And I'm going to show you the way I like to duplicate or I like to push. So among the very bottom. Layer here. I'm going to cut all of these off. Go to my arrow tool. And let's click on the bottom right node here. So it pulls up my current dimensions, which is the size of my canvas. If it happens to be off, you should know that leg off as in not the proper number of mounts. And I'm going to divide that in half. So 2500 because it's locked. It's going to go ahead and decrease that size. Because I hit this node down here, it shifts everything down to this bottom right side. I'm going to go up to the next one. We can cut we can leave that one off. We wanted to we can go up here. And I'm going to be on that second, fourth layer or whichever one it is. Click the Error tool. I'm going to click on this bottom node and I'm going to 2500. And boom, it moves it there. Don't touch the canvas because you don't want to nudge anything. This is going to make sure they're shifting. Absolutely perfect. Come up here, turn that one on, click on it. Arrow Tool node 2500 is going to push it up there. Back to my arrow, don't touch the canvas. And then finally, top layer arrow tool node, this as we need. And it shoves it up there. And then we'll click off. There is how you create a repeating pattern. So you can leave all those separate. So I've got 1, 2, 3, 4. So these are the four they're at on the screen. I'm going to go ahead and merge those. Silly and my chart, I didn't do anything wrong. Okay. So these top 41234, there's the ones I've got. I'm going to merge those top four. Let's try this again. They have that will be visible for you to merge them or they did severe mercy. So I'm going to merge all those. So here they are, all of those. You can again go in and test this pattern even further. You know, it's right because here's our original Mandela has super cute detail, really tiny detail in here. This is the one we just created, is a little bit bigger, a little bit bolder. And then we can duplicate this again. And I'm just gonna do it for, and we'll do the same process. So we click over here to the arrow tool, click the node 25. And all we're doing is just testing the pattern to see if we like it. We know we did. Let's be honest. It's just awesome. I'm gonna do this for all the different corners. Selecting them, clicking on the node which I wanted to go to and letting it shrink down. So you might have noticed that I entered in the 2500 and then immediately click the arrow before it had Tom to pop down to that smaller says beacon on with your little Procreate app. It might take it a moment, but she hit the 2500, let it shrink. And then you can go to your error tool and deselect or colorful intuitive Mandela and our repeating pattern. So just to talk your way through this, just really, I wasn't really impressed with these ones with the dots. But I think it brings like a little tiled background. I like it when I see it in this full pattern. So I'm gonna walk you through this steps yet again. And let's cut off. We can merge these four if we wanted to. X, we've got everything. So here was my original Mandela started with, you can start with any of your Mandela's. We talked about the different colors and how we could change the colors. A set with this pink color, and I like it. And then the next one, it's got all those up. And the next one is our Mandela. We push everything to the corners. And then we created the design and the inside. So that was the next thing. Here it is here. And then we shrunk these down into the different corners to create our pattern. And then we squished it even further to create this. 5. Creating Repeat and testing pattern: I just wanted to share with you a variety of patterns and Mandela's that I have created, showing you different colors. The foreground does not always have to be black here you'll see it's a brown color and worked kind of in the muted tones. Some of my Mandela's, the coloring is very, very intricate and I use a lot of tints and shades. Others not so much. I sometimes in-between the two Mandela's don't leave any space like in this one. It's very, very small details, little dashes, little marks. And so that color really comes through that first, that top layer of that all of color. The next one is very interesting. I use a textured brush to create some shading. The secondary methodologists might be my favorite. It is not as intricate and it reminds me a lot of filigree that to me is just stunning. And those are all one shades of browns and coppers and golds. This one, what do you say about the color teal and lime green and magenta with multiple multiple shades. I think there's about 15 to 20 in there. I created this Mandela, the original one really close to the edge. So I had to work in that second Mandela. And so there isn't a little feel of an overlap, which is quite interesting, but this one is printed on fabric, is just phenomenal. Be sure to upload your final designs so I can see what you've created or tag me on social media. It would mean so much to me if you would leave a review for this class. I hope you enjoyed this class. Have a great day. 6. Conclusion and examples: Okay, there we go. And that to me feels right. And same thing we've done before. Now I'm gonna make a duplicate of this layer. So this layer has the original going to white line there I'm going to do is still my heart. So I'm going to create a duplicate of this, which is going to have this plus my original that has been divided it out. I'm going to duplicate that because I already have a copy of the under or the background layer. I don't need to keep that. So I'm going to bump it underneath the background layer, turn this one off and turn the background layer on. So now we've got it back. What we have to do is we have to merge these two. So that's why I created that duplicate. So I'm going to merge them. So it's all one thing now. Everything else is turned off. And I'm going to duplicate this layer five times. You could duplicate it twice, push to the left and then push to the right. But I'm going to show you the way I like to duplicate or I like to push. So among the very bottom layer here, I'm going to cut all of these off. Go to my arrow tool. And let's click on the bottom right node here. So it pulls up my current dimensions, which is the size of my canvas. If it happens to be off, you should know that leg off as in not the proper number of mounts. And I'm going to divide that in half. So 2500 because it's locked. It's going to go ahead and decrease that size. Because I hit this node down here, it shifts everything down to this bottom right side. I'm going to go up to the next one. Didn't cut. We could leave that one off. We wanted to we can go up here. And I'm going to be on that second fourth layer or whichever one it is. Click the Error 2, I want to click on this bottom node and 2500. And boom, it moves it there. Don't touch the canvas because you don't want to nudge anything. This is going to make sure they're shifting. Absolutely perfect. Come up here, turn that one on, click on it. Arrow Tool node 2500 is going to push it up there. Back to my arrow, don't touch the canvas. And then finally, this top layer arrow tool node, this as we need, and it shoves it up there. And then we'll click up. There is how you create a repeating pattern. So you can leave all those separate. So I've got 1, 2, 3, 4. So these are the four there on the screen. I'm going to go ahead and merge those. Silly and make sure I didn't do anything wrong. Okay. So these top 41234, there's the ones I've got. I'm going to merge those top four. Let's try this again. And they will be visible for you to merge them or they did severe mercy. So I'm going to merge all those. So here they are, all of those. You can again go in and test this pattern even further. You know, it's right because here's our original Mandela has super cute detail, really tiny detail in here. This is the one we just created, is a little bit bigger, a little bit bolder. And then we can duplicate this again. And I'm just gonna do it for and we'll do the same process. So we'll click over here to the arrow tool, click the node 25. And all we're doing is just testing the pattern to see if we like it. We know we do. Let's be honest. It's just awesome at super-duper, love these colors. But I think I'm going to have to save this palette. I can go back and use it again. On the right. That one didn't smudge, carried away. And so there is our colorful intuitive Mandela and our repeating pattern. So just to talk your way through this, just really, I wasn't really impressed with these lands with the dots. But I think it kind of brings like a little tiled background. I like it when I see it in this full pattern. So I'm gonna walk you through this steps yet again. And let's cut off. We can merge these four if we wanted to. X, we've got everything. So here was my original Mandela started with, you can start with any of your Mandela's. We talked about the different colors and how we could change the colors. A set with this pink color, and I like it. And then the next one, it's got all those up. Next one is our Mandela. We push everything to the corners. And then we created the design and the inside. So that was the next thing. Here it is here. And then we shrunk these down into the different corners to create our pattern. And then we squished it even further to create this. So there is how you create your intuitive colorful Mandela in our seamless repeating pattern.