Creating Patterns in Procreate - Half-drop Repeats

1. Intro: Do you see patterns everywhere? I ready to only show creativity, unlearn the Art of creating stunning half-drop repeating patterns. Join me in this exciting journey as we dive into the world of pattern design using the powerful Procreate app on your iPad. I'm Sandra Mejia and I'm an illustrator and pattern designer. I license my artwork companies around the world for them to using their products. And most of that ART is created using Procreate. In this class, I will guide you step-by-step through the whole process of creating a seamless repeating pattern in Procreate, from setting up your canvas to creating beautiful illustrations and transforming them into repeating pattern tiles that are ready to use for printing on fabric, grading eye-catching products, or even starting your own print-on-demand business. The sky's the limit when it comes to showcasing your creativity. Discover the pros and cons of using Procreate to create pattern designs and learn how to overcome its limitations. Learn what makes a pattern a successful pattern. I'm follow my tips and tricks to make sure you have the ability to create editable and amazing patterns that will impress your clients or will make your personal projects shine. By the end of this class, you'll have a solid understanding of the pattern design process. In Procreate, you'll know how to overcome its limitations, create half-drop repeats, and even transform them into normal repeats for barriers applications. So what are you waiting for? Join me and let's start making patterns. 2. Class Project + Supplies: Welcome. Let me show you what we're going to create. Will be making this patterning class. Since I'm coming to you from the future, and I have already created my pattern. I have made it into little booklets. I have created different colorways for the Pattern. And I have even been fitted on fabric to create these beautiful detail. So aren't you excited? I am. I'm going to tell you what supplies you need for these. And we're going to start the class. You can draw your own tropic calls, fruit or tropical flower elements, or you can follow my design. I have provided for every step of the Pattern Making. So you can follow with my sketches until you feel comfortable to follow with yours. You'll find the sketches in the class resources area, so don't forget to download those if you want to follow my sketch. Remember to log in to an internet browser to download your resources and not on the app. And does go to the Projects and Resources tab. And you'll find them on the right. For this class, you will need an iPad with the Procreate app installed. And I strongly suggest having an Apple pencil. It's not required, but it makes your drawing process much easier. At least. That's what I think. You'll also see that I'm using this on my Apple Pencil the whole time. This is a silicone grease and it just makes it more comfortable for me to draw for long periods of time. It's not required, but also a game changer for me. To post your projects in the project gallery. I would love to see whether you create. If you want specific feedback, please let me know when you post your project. Remember to tag me on Instagram at ArtBySandraMejia hashtag learned with Sandra Mejia. I would love to see what you create and if you have any questions or comments, I would love to hear them. Gather everything and I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. Patterns in Procreate - Pros and Cons: In this lesson, we will talk about the pros and cons of creating a pattern using Procreate. Procreate was not designed for creating Patterns. Procreate is a very, very powerful Illustration app that works on iPads. And it is amazing for what it does. But it does not have a pattern creation functionality. That said, you can create patterns on the iPad and this is what this class is about. So I'm going to show you the whole process. What do you need to understand that it does have its limitations? Procreate is one of the most amazing things that has happened to me as an artist. For some reason, being able to create ART from the couch, the coffee shop, or virtually anywhere that I go has changed the way I create because I don't have to wait until I'm sitting down on my desk to actually start creating things. I use Procreate for almost all my illustrations now, except for the original watercolors and paintings, procreate is so powerful for illustrating that it doesn't make sense to use anything else, at least for me and my style. And we'd all these power that Procreate has comes to question. Can I make patterns in Procreate? And the answer is yes. Should you? Yes and no. Let me tell you why. The way patterns work is that you create a tile. It can be different shapes, but let's use a square in this example. These tile has to match on every side. So the elements that are cut off here at the top have to be cut off here at the bottom, at the exact same place. Same with the left and right hand side. What's cutoff here has to be repeated here so that when you lay your tiles down, Art repeats seamlessly. This is why they're called a seamless repeating pattern. Procreate is 100% capable of doing this. And this is what I'm going to show you in this class. But it has limitations when you compare it to other professional programs that actually have the Pattern Making ability built into the program. Programs like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator or even Affinity Designer. I don't want to forget this carrier here because these are just limitations. And I'm going to walk you through how to work through those limitations. And it is totally possible the great, amazing patterns here. So don't get discouraged. And the good news is, those limitations are sometimes not even a bad thing. It just depends on what you're going to use your patterns for. Now. Let's address each limitations and it's working around. The first one is icon clipping. Each element in our pattern is called an icon. When you move on icon out of the Canvas in Procreate, it gets clipped. That means that you lose a part of the icon that falls off the Canvas edge. That is something that clients that want an editable file don't like because it makes their lives much harder. If they want to edit the Pattern and they want to move items around, they're going to be left with just pieces of the icons. These will make their jobs slower. And what you want to do is always make the Art Directors and clients jobs easier so that they come back to you and higher you again and again. In other programs like in Adobe Photoshop for example, which is what I used to assemble my professional patterns that I can doesn't get cut if it falls off the Canvas, it's all still there. If we decide to move it. The way to fix this is to either create all your eye can see in Procreate and then assemble them in Photoshop. Or if you want to assemble the pattern in Procreate, follow a process in which you always keep your original icons intact in case you want to come back and grab them. If you sell this to a client that needs editable files, it sounds a bit complicated right now. I know, but I'm going to show you the process on how I do it. And you're going to see that it's easy. It does involves creating multiple versions of each file as we move along the process. Let me show you. This is what I end up with after creating my pattern in Procreate different versions of the file. If I need the Perpetua, for example, I will go to this file and you can see that this one is not cut out. The icon is complete. So I can always acts as this original icons. I can reassemble the Pattern later in Photoshop if I need it, because the client is asking for a layered file. If you're going to be using these File for yourself or for print-on-demand sites, or you're going to print your own products. This is not only MI patient, just make the pattern. It doesn't matter that the icons are cut off. Because what you need is to have a thiol at the end of the process. And that's what you're going to send to your printer, is bringing us to the second limitation which is batch editing. If I have a pattern that has these elements repeated five times and I wanted to change it to a different color, for example, and change the face. I would have to do it five different times or do it And duplicate that layer and then move them again. So their index sack place they need to be so that they pattern works. These browsers takes a long time. And in other programs like Photoshop, we have what is called Smart Objects and an illustrator called symbols. Isn't a functionality in which you only have one real object and the others are just like clones of it. So if you change one, then all of them get automatically updated. If I have a pattern that has these elements repeated five times and I want to change it to a different color or change its features. For example, I would have to make these changes manually, and these takes a long time. The only workaround for this is to actually put in the work and fixed one of the I can duplicate it and then place it in the exact areas that you needed to be. These can be quite tedious if you need to do a lot of changes. No way to fix this one. Areas that work around, it's gonna take your time. But hey, that's a price to pay for making patterns on the couch. If you did want to make use of dysfunctionality, again, you could make the elements in Procreate and then send them off to a program that has smart objects like adobe Photoshop and then assembled a pattern there. If you want to see how I do that, I have a class that explains the whole process of creating patterns using adobe Photoshop. And I will leave the link to it in the class description area. Let's go to the last thing I have to point out. This is the organization of layers. Because Procreate has limited number of layers is will not be a problem. Ideally, if you'd like to create everything in just one layer, I like to create tons of layers for my illustrations. So I always ran out of layers, even when using the iPad Pro, I like to have lots of layers. For example, this character will have so many layers. There's one for his head, He's ears, body, Yale, shirt, phase and many auditors. Because of them a number of layers you're limited to in Procreate. Sometimes this is impossible. You end up with lots of files that each contain a part of the pattern. The only workaround to these is to create as little layers as possible. So create everything in one layer. Multiple icons are not separate them or create them with multiple files, as I'm going to do this in this class. And if you ever need to, just bring them into another program and organize your layers there. Again, this is only a limitation if you actually have a client that is asking for editable files. And you need to deliver a super organized file with all the layers in the same file. If you're making patterns for yourself or to use some print-on-demand sites like Spoonflower, for example. If you're creating this for a client or a printer that just requires a flat file, then you don't even have to think about these things. Just make your patterns in Procreate and follow my process so that if you ever needed to do this in the future, you'll have access to all your original icons on your layered files. So you'll have workaround in case you need it. You might be asking yourself, well, how do I decide what to do? Personally? If I have to design a pattern that is for a client that I know needs and editable file, I will just create the icons in Procreate and then assemble them in Photoshop. If I'm creating a pattern just for myself or for print-on-demand or something that I'm going to print on my printer or in an external painter that I know just requires a tile. And I want to do and while I'm on the goal and not sit on my desk, then I do adding Procreate. Now that you have that knowledge, you'll be able to create informed decisions about how to create your patterns. So let's go and talk a bit more about what Makes a Pattern Work and some Pattern Making concepts. 4. What Makes a Pattern Work: In this lesson, I'll explain some basic concepts about pattern design. The first thing that you need to know is that you can create different tiles shapes to create repeat patterns. It doesn't always have to be a square. But today we're going to focus on two types of patterns, normal or straight repeats, which are just irregular, square, and half-drop patterns. Half-drop Repeats are great because they make your pattern flow better. Look at these examples, which one seems more pleasing to the eye? I'd say this one on the left because the elements aren't repeated in a boring way. This one on the right looks to repeated. So this is not a preferred way to make patterns. People want Variations in patterns and the brain wants the I to be able to wander around and not find like a super repeated structure unless it's like geometric pattern, and that's what you're going for. So patterns always look better if they're made in half-drop repeats. So this is a reason why we use Half-drop Repeats. They look better. But the problem with Half-drop Repeats is that not every client or printer accepts a tile that is made in Half-drop. So I'm going to show you how to fix this in 2 s after you're done with your pattern and create a normal repeats so that they have many more possibilities of using your patterns. The second thing I'm going to talk to you about is how to create an aesthetically pleasing pattern. The flow. Much of these will come with experimentation and time, but having the concepts in mind will make you mindful of making design choices. And will also teach you what to look for when you're studying other people's patterns. The following elements are going to determine if your pattern flows and if it's appealing to the eye equilibrium and I can variation, you need to make sure that you're icon's have different scale. Some are small, some are mediums, some are large. And those are your focal points. And that they're distributed in a way where they're not heavy on one side and they don't draw your eye too much there. For example, the pattern on the left is more pleasing to look at the New Pattern on the right, because this one has these heavy areas. Same thing with the shapes. Creating Variations of shapes gave special interests to the Pattern. Not making every element Long, Tall. Making them all different shapes will make your Pattern way more interesting. Makes sure that the spacing of your elements is consistent. You can choose to leave a lot of spacing between your elements or very little spacing. It doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that the spacing is consistent. You can just leave huge gaps in one side and then make it super clattered in the outer part because that way the pattern is not balanced at Chirico and trying to balance spaces out is slow. Always have very small icons that you can use as fillers. They can be a little dot or little tiny flowers. Those will help you feeling those weird gaps that are left in your pattern so that the spacing looks right. Or you can also draw your elements to feed each other perfectly. And that's what we're going to do when creating our pattern. Use colors to create a nice flow. If you don't scatter your colors around carefully, you're going to end up with an imbalanced pattern with areas that stick out too much. Assembling this pattern where I have bunched most of my red icons together in one spot. It's better to sprinkle them around the Pattern harmoniously so that they don't create areas that stand out too much unless that's what you're looking for. Although I can teach you the exact process for creating a repeating tile, that creates a seamless repeating pattern that works perfectly fine when you repeat it. I cannot teach you how to create a pattern that flows nicely. That comes just from experimentation and your own taste. There's no exact formula for that. What I can tell you is that as you practice more and more and have FUN with the placement of your elements in your patterns. Going to find your own flow and style. And you're going to love the process of discovering it. Don't worry too much about this at the beginning. They important part is that you'll learn how to create the technical aspect of the repeat. And that you have been experimenting with your icons. If you keep thing these, your style of grading patterns will soon emerge. Now that all of these and you know what to keep in mind when spending other people's patterns and creating your own patterns. Let's go to the next lesson and start creating our tropical Print 5. Setting Up the Canvas: In this lesson, we will set up our canvas because I'm going to create multiple files for my pattern. I like to keep them organized in stacks, which is how Procreate calls folders. The first thing that I'm going to do is create a title for my new stack, solid, create a new file by tapping on the plus sign here. This press it here, and it will create a new file. Choose any color you want, and fill it in by dragging this into your canvas. And then add a new layer and choose a contrasting color. And write the name of your stack. Let's leave that there for now. And now we're going to create the file where we're going to start our pattern. So press this plus sign here and press here to create a custom size. I always like to create my patterns at 12 by 12 ". Here you can choose the inches, centimeters, or millimeters, or pixels. Some people prefer to work at larger sizes. But these has always worked for me. So this is what I use because this is not a vector program, this is a raster program that uses pixels. You're not going to be able to make your files larger after you made them. So make sure you make them at the largest size possible. And I always worked at 300 DPI. This is the minimum that you need to be able to print your files. Here it shows you the maximum number of layers you get. Here you can give a name to your preset. You can say 12 pattern for example. And here you can choose the color profile I always working RGB. They're used to be a very simple difference between RGB and CMYK. Rgb would be if you are designing something for web. And CMYK, if you were designing something for print. Now some printers use RGB. Make sure that you ask your client or your printer what type of file you need. If you don't know, I usually create everything on RGB in Profile. And Eve, my client ever need so that CMYK, I will change that in Photoshop. The only thing you have to keep in mind is that colors in RGB or brighter than CMYK, especially greens and pinks. So have that in mind if you're creating something for somebody else. Now I click Create. And this is where we're going to start working on our pattern. In the next lesson, we'll start drying our fruit 6. Creating the Basic Illustrations: In this lesson, I will show you how to create the basic shapes. You can either download my sketches and follow them or you can create your own. You can create your pattern from scratch. I'm going to show you how are you can follow my sketch. I'm going to bring my sketch. So add, Insert a photo. I'm going to choose this one which is the first sketch. I'm going to click here to set it. And go to the layers to reduce the opacity. Set to multiply. Now I can add another layer and bring it under here. And that's where we're going to start drawing. If you want to create your own pattern without following my sketch, just sketch your elements in the middle of the page and do not touch any of the borders. For this one, I'm going to use the summer palette. I'm going to go here and choose it Set as Default. And then I'm going to drag it out. And I am going to use my gouache brush. You can use any brush you want as usual. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to start coloring in the shapes. I'm not going to create every shape on its own layer. So I'm optimizing the layers. So I'm going to create things that don't patch in the same layer. I'm going to choose this one because this one is very close. So I'm going to choose this lime. I'm always confused between lines and lemons because in Spanish we only have luminous and they are the green ones. We don't have the white ones, the yellow ones here. So I think these are lemons, some strawberries. You have a lot, a lot of layers on your iPad. You can create each one of these in its own layer. What I'm going to create a life these in case you don't want. We always have to optimize layers. Maybe this little flower. Remember to reduce the size of the brush so it's easier to paint some things scene. Now I'm going to create another layer. Will go underneath. Just because I'm going to paint the in this lemon on the strawberry on there underneath another layer. If you're using a solid brush, remember, you can just create the outline and then drag your color in there. Because I'm using the gouache brush and it has some texture. I like to color it in by hand, so it's not all solid. Now another strawberry. Maybe these leaves here. If you want to try a design that's yours and original, maybe try using different fruits, different colors. You can use different layouts. There's many ways to make these year-old, but if you want the practice with mine, That's perfect tool. Okay, I'm going to create another layer, drag it underneath, and create the rest of the leaves. I'll use different greens for these just to create some variety. Usual rotate the canvas so it's easier to create certain strokes. Make these ones here. You don't have to follow the sketch perfectly. Because if you're tracing the lines of the sketch, you're going to get very contrived shapes. It's better to just use it as a guide and then just free handed. I'm going to vary this stems here, but not these leaves because those go on top of the strawberries, so those will go into layer on top. Make this a bit bigger. Now I'm going to create the last layer. So stand here. So you created on top, I'm there. I'm going to create these leaves, these flower and the leaves on top of this strawberries. I don't want this one to actually cover the flowers. So I'm going to see where the flowers, it's here. Here we have the strawberry. So I'm going to have to create another layer there. Just for these. So it's in-between this strawberry and the flour. Oh, and we forgot this stem here. So I'm going to go to those leaves, a cup dot color, and add the stem. In the next lesson, I'll show you how to add textures and details to your front 7. Adding Texture and Details: In this lesson, we will add some texture shading and details to our Illustration. Great, we have our first layer. So now I'm going to add the details. So I'm going to alpha lock each layer and go in and shade and add details. So let's get a darker green for these leaves. Now I'm going to delete this sketch. Go back to the leaves and start adding any details you want. Use different colors so you create variations on things look more interesting. Now with the full opacity and a smaller size, you can add some details like veins. This is all up to you. Depends on your style. You can also use a lighter color to add those veins. Here. I want to separate this live from these one. Make this darker. And then go back to adding the details. I actually liked the darker one better than the lighter one. So this is why you have to experiment and see what you like best. That looks nice too. I'm going to leave it like that. And I'm just going to use different greens. Now, different details. You don't have to add details. Heider. These ISO up to you. Remember the darker and lighter areas is what creates volume and also separates your shapes. Okay, great, that layer is done. Now we go to the next layer, which is our lemon, these leaves and the strawberry. So let's start with the lemon. Reduce the opacity, make the brush bigger. You don't have to add the same color like we can use these yellow for example. Because here the papaya might be reflecting on it. And you can add some white, maybe a darker green here. Just create some volume, some separation from these limits. Now these leaves going to a dark here, so it separates from these one. Maybe a darker here. Let's add some pink here. The tiny bit of this like very light pink. And now I'm just going to take the opacity to the maximum, reduce the size, and create some details. I'll just add this and then take, let's try these yellow. And at some of the little strawberry seeds. Remember that you can do this as realistic as you want or have an artistic style. Leave it in black and white, do whatever you want. The lemon, maybe we'll have some splatters. Just to give it a bit of texture on these leaves, probably just lines. So I'll reduce the size. Maybe add a beta, darker areas here. That said we're done with another layer. Now this one's very simple, it's just this. And I'm just going to add some lighter shades to it. That's it. And add some darker areas just to create some volume here. Then something make the brush bigger for the lemon. I'm going to add some darker green here. Just so you can see the flower better. A tiny bit of yellow to make it more interesting. You could also add a bit of white here just so you separate it more from the outer lemon. Now for the papaya, I don't like that brown for the papaya. So when to probably use a bit pink here. That's much better. Create that thing in the middle world is seats go and add some green for the bill. When to bring back some of the dark that got lost or with the light green. And these flower. And I'm going to start adding details. So raise the opacity, lower the size. I'm just going to add some yellow dots there. Maybe some white lines. The details for the strawberries. I'm going to be faster on the coloring here because by now you should already have gotten enough practice and you should be feeling comfortable with this part. Here we're just focusing on the pattern building, which will come after we have colored all of these. You can also make like really simple patterns. I just wanted to create these one that's more complicated and very packed and full because I don't like the class is where you go there. I'm like it's a simple project. It is easier to learn that way. But then you want to create something more complicated and you have no idea how to do it. So here it will take a bit more time to build the pattern, but you'll be able to finish this class having a super complex pattern that's going to serve you better. Joe's having a very simple thing. Going to raise the size a bit more just slowly can actually progress here because very tiny brushes take a very long time. I think that looks good. I'm just going to lower the opacity a lot and erase the size and go in with this dark color and just add some shadow here on some light here. Just so we gave it a bit more dimension. I think that looks good. I'm just when did that change? I'm just going to add a bit of red here. It's livelier. It doesn't matter that we covered a beat up the seats because it can be like in the background. Okay, we're done with this layer. We're making progress here, our last layer. So I'm going to add some yellow to this flower. The little center here. And that's it. These leaf. Let's raise the opacity, lower the size and give these one light details. Maybe more lines, veins. And we're done with our first step of the pattern. In the next lesson, we'll start building our file 8. Creating the Pattern - Part 1: In this lesson, we will build the first part of our repeat. Now that we have this part ready, I'm going to go to the gallery and I have already created my Pattern little title here. So I'm just going to stack these two. I'm now we can work in this stack. I'm going to name this one main image. I'm going to duplicate it. So now I'm going to name these 1 s step. And we're going to work in this one. This point here, you can either group them and work with them as a group or merge them. I think emerging them is way easier. It's cleaner, it uses less layers. And this is a reason why I have the other file because if I ever want to extract an element or something, I will have them separated there. So here I merge them and I'm going to rename these and call it main image. This is where our Pattern Making begins. So for patterns, what repeats on this side has to continue exactly at the same place on this side, on the same for the top and the bottom. What I don't like about making patterns in Procreate is that if you move something in Procreate outside of the Canvas, it crops it. So if you move it again, you have lost all that information. And this is not good for client work. So if you're doing client work, I suggest you make the elements in Procreate and then you take them all into Photoshop and there you assemble your pattern. But for creating things for yourself or Spoonflower or any other print-on-demand things. This is perfect. And again, that is why we have our elements saved in a separate file. Here we're going to have to go to selections and make sure that snapping is on. I have these distance at maximum and velocity at maximum, and turn on the magnetics and snapping. And then go here. Now we have that ready. The other thing we have to do is give this a background. It's going to be a temporary backgrounds. So just create a new layer, drag it underneath, and fill it with any color. That looks so good on black. If you think you're going to use a dark ground and you don't like these transparencies. You can duplicate this main image now and pinch them together to merge them. And that way you won't see any of those transparencies. Now we're going to duplicate the main image and duplicate the background, which I'm not gonna name because we're going to erase later and drag this one here. So each one has umami mentioned a background, main image or background. And we're going to select these two layers. So drag to the right and they are selected and then go here to selections. I'm going to reduce this a bit so you can see better. Drag it to the right and see that the orange lines are appearing there in the middle and here. Drag it until you see the orange line appear here also, and release it. Don't move at now. And for us here to set that selection. Now we go to this one. Swipe to the right to select the background also. And we're going to do the same thing, but we're going to move it to the right. See, there's a blue line, but no orange line. If you release it there, your pattern is not going to work. So move it again until you see that orange line there and release it. This is what's called a traditional repeat. So if we create our pattern like this, it's going to be repeating exactly like a lemon, lemons, lemons and the papaya is gonna be here. Papaya, papaya, papaya on the repeat is gonna be very obvious. And that doesn't look as nice. It's way easier to create it this way, but it doesn't look as nice. What looks better is half-drop repeat when they elements repeat diagonally. So the profile will be here and then here and then here. And it looks more aesthetically pleasing. I'm going to show you how to do that. We're going to duplicate these two. Duplicate and then duplicate the background. Again. Bring this one up here. We're going to select these two first and grab it, and grab the selection. Now we're going to go up. Again. Don't release there. There's a blue line, not an orange one. There. You want to release when you see the orange one. And set the selection. And now grab these two under the same thing. But we're going to go down. Again. It always, I'm very, very emphatic on this because it always strikes you and you're like, Oh, it's snapped, you feel it snap a know, it hasn't. You have to see the orange lines and release. Let's see There's no themes in-between the black areas. That's why I like using a dark color. Now what I'm going to do is delete every one of the backgrounds and merge These elements. Now if you're following my sketch, you can go to Actions and add, insert a photo and select the second sketch. Now, we're going to set it to multiply and it should match perfectly. I'm going to reduce the opacity. Now, we're going to create another layer, bring it under our sketch. And this is where we're going to start working. We're going to do exactly the same thing we did here. Eb or creating the Pattern yourself and you're not following my sketch, just sketch your other elements. In the middle. Again, you can feel in every any whitespace you see, but do not touch the borders. So see here, I have added some elements, but I am not touching the borders. These border is ready. So we're not touching that anymore. Now we have to fill in the space. And then we're going to feel the top on the bottom. But now concentrate on these. Make your sketch or follow my sketch. And let's fill in the middle. Let's get our palette out. So let their brush start painting. I'm going to probably start with the leaves. I'm going to make them dark so they contrast here. Remember that what are your painting here is saying these layer, maybe one something here. There'll be underneath this layer, just drag it underneath these leaves also. I probably want this flower to be on top of the strawberries. So I'm not going to put it in this layer. I have made this little dots just because I love my patterns to be full. Then you can just leave the whitespaces or add anything else and little bury you whatever you want. Okay, next layer, I'm trying to decide if I want these leaves to be on top of the beaches. Yeah, I think I want this layer underneath domain image to. So let's make the peaches there. And I probably want the banana on this flower on top. So I'm going to go to the main image. So I add another layer on top. I'm going to create my banana there and my little flower. And that's it. I'm going to delete my sketch. I'm not sure I liked the banana on top of these leaves. So I'm just going to drag it underneath. Yeah, I liked that better. Also. I don't want this specific layer to be so transparent, so I'm going to duplicate it and merge it. Just because the banana was too transparent and you could see the leaves behind it and I didn't like it. So you can duplicate the whole layer to make it less transparent. Now it's time to shade. So I'm going to alpha lock each layer and start shading. Grabbed my brush, reduce the opacity, raised a size a bit, and start adding some details. I'm going to make these flower darker. And that's it for shading the first layers. So now we're going to add some details. These lines is not working, so I'm going to go into my brush, go to civilisation, out some streamline on some stabilization, press Done. I'm going to make it bigger. You much better those lines are. Now I'm going to go back and take that away because that does not lead you draw so freely, like it will be very straight lines and I don't like that for painting. I'm going to have some splatter here. Me make it a tiny bit bigger. So it's a ripe banana. And I wanted to go back to gouache and reduce the opacity and with the white that a bit of light here besides the lines I'm going to add some details to this one. This one had some white lines. Maybe this one has solid lines do, but I'm going to reduce the size. Here. You can actually see them. Okay? We're done with that layer. Now. We go toward peaches layer. Grab the brush, increase the size, reduce the opacity. I'm going to grab this color. Not a tiny bit, but it's a very brown colors. So I think I'm gonna go in with some red just to make those more lively. With some yellow. Reduce the opacity, change the size and creates the shape of the beach. I'm not some lights That's seek for the pictures. What else do we have in this layer? Nothing Joseph peaches. So these layer, we have the thoughts, the leaves. So we're almost done. We're out the brush. Going to make it bigger. I want to keep these two leaves darker, maybe even like a darker shade here. So they really look like they're behind these banana, lemon. And raise the opacity, reduce the size, and let's add some details. We want dark or light details. Maybe light, but not as light. I just noticed I forgot to add shading to these leaves. And because that is one layer, we have two options. We can go in there, make sure that alpha lock is on for that layer. Yep, it's on. And just add the shading on top. Just because this is a very artistic style like you wouldn't notice. Or if you have something very complex, you could go back to the gallery. Go to your main image. Select that layer. Select the part you forgot to shade. Tracing her son. Copy. Then you go back through your other file, tree fingers down paste. And then you can turn off snapping. So it's easier on Joe's put it in place and then turn on Alpha Lock and shaded there. If it happens to be cut out here, you're going to have to do the whole pattern creating again. So I suggest at that point, just do the other thing we did and just make the details on top. Or it'd be very mindful and don't be like me and forget things. But I could've just gone back and not showing you this, but this is how it goes in real life. And I like teaching you how to problem-solve. In the next lesson, we'll finish building our tile 9. Creating the Pattern - Part 2: In this lesson a little bit creating the last part of our tile. What I like to do is go to the gallery again, duplicate this file called these final image. Go in there and merge everything. Again, if we need to separate our elements, we will have them in both of the other files, in one file, on the others in the first file we created. Let's rename these main image. Let's add a background layer again. Put her under your image so you can see it. And we're going to duplicate this. Drag this one here again. So you have a group of main image and background, main image and background. And we're going to select the main image on the layer. Remember we turned off snapping, so make sure you turn it on again. Now we're going to do the top and bottom. This one is way easier because it's only two steps. First we go up, makes sure the orange is there on the oranges in the middle. And release. And then select these two. We go down. Orange on the sides and release. And now we can delete the background. We can merge these two. So now we're going to feel things in the middle. If you see that this area is empty, do not be tempted to touch it because if you draw something here, you're going to run the pattern. So draw something here, but not here, and fill in any space that you see without touching the borders. If you're creating your own pattern. If you're following my sketches at the third sketch, set at the multiply, it should fit perfectly. Obviously not so perfect because I never follow my sketch to perfection, but things should be in place. We're going to reduce the opacity and we're going to create another layer. I'm going to drag it underneath because these things, I want them to be underneath the other layers. That layer we're going to create or last images. So again, direct the pellet out and let's start with the strawberry. Turn on the opacity and size. Big. These leave, I want to make it really dark. I think that seat for this layer now we need one more layer where we create the leaves for this strawberries. Probably a stamp. I'm going to add these pink dots here. Maybe add one here. Now I can go and delete the sketch. Turn on the alpha lock for these two layers. On start shading them. That's it for data one. And now these last layer, let's add some details. In the next lesson, I'll show you how to change the background of your patterns so that you can create different versions. 10. Testing the Pattern: In this lesson, we're going to test our Pattern and Make sure it works. And we're going to make it a normal patterns so that you can upload it to places that don't allow half-drop repeats. This way you can use it in many workplaces. Ab go here and you share it. Anyone, this is a flat image. You can share it as a TIF, a PNG, or JPEG for example. It depends on where you're going to upload it, on how you're going to use it. So if you need as a JPEG PNG dV at 300 pixels per inch, you just go ahead and export these Save Image wherever you want. And notice that this is a Half-drop Repeats. So if you're going to upload it somewhere, it has to have the option to upload a Half-drop. But if the place where you're going to upload, it doesn't have an option to use a half-drop repeating pattern. You need a Pattern Tile than we would repeat normally. So I'm going to create a new file. And remember we had that at 12 by 12 inch. I'm going to create a file that's double that size. I'm going to go here. Make sure inches is selected 24 by 24. At 300, I get eight layers at the size. You might not get as many. You're going to need at least four layers available. So if your iPad doesn't have four layers at the size, you can try 18 by 18 or told by Paul until you get four or more layers. That means your Repeats are going to be a bit smaller, but they'll still work. So let's create these. I'm going to add that last image we created, which is our Title IV. You make your canvas smaller than mine. Your tau will be a different size when you imported. It doesn't matter as long as you make sure snapping is on. And then reduce it to one-fourth of your canvas size. Because this is 12, It's a fourth of these files, so just place it here, makes sure the orange lines appear and set it. And now we're going to duplicate. This is a problem with half-drop repeats. If they're print-on-demand side or the printer you uploaded through doesn't have the ability to create half-drop. This is what's going to happen on your patterns not going to work. So what do we need to do is create a repeating tile. So half-drop, repeat normally to the bottom, so I just place it there and it works perfectly. And now what we're going to do is duplicate this. And these would go here in the middle, but it's kinda hard to make it snap perfectly. So what I like to do is put it here on the corner, release it, and then grab it again. And now it's so much easier for it to snap in the middle. Look at the orange line, release it. If you don't have any more layers, you can merge these two layers together and you duplicate this one. And you bring it to the top. Now, we grabbed these layer again, this square, duplicate it. And we're going to bring it down. So make sure the middle is here. And you should have a seamless repeating pattern, so no gaps. And now these actually repeats straight to the sides and to the bottom. See this lemon or lime repeats here. And these Papaya, it's caught out here. It repeats here. Now this is what you would save. As a repeating pattern tile. Repeats normally in case there's no option for half-drop repeats. Now I like to save this as 24 by 24 thio. So I know that's the big dial, nine on how to create a half-drop repeating pattern and normal tile and even different sizes and resolutions. So you can adapt your file to whatever your client or your printer needs. In the next lesson, we'll create some variation so far pattern 11. Creating File Variations: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create different variations of your pattern. I always do this in a duplicate files so that I always keep my original files intact. For example, for Spoonflower, they asked for a JPEG or PNG at 150 DPI. So what I'm going to do is duplicate this file. I'm going to rename it. So Spoonflower, 150 DPI. Going inside and go to canvas, Crop and Resize and hearing settings. You need to click re-sample canvas that will keep the size and reduce the resolution AV1, these to be smaller, you can move it here. Now, you'll have a smaller print out, 150 DPI. Go to the final image. You can duplicate it and you can change the backgrounds as you wish. I also do this in a duplicate files so that I also have my original version saved. Now let's go to the next lesson. I'm Rob Things Up. 12. Wrapping Things Up: You did it have you made until the end? I hope you feel so confident about tackling patterns in Procreate and that you have lots of Fun with my class. Now you know how to set up your canvas. Create the illustrations, make the tile, change the backgrounds, create variations, and pay half-drop and normal tiles. Now you can create a whole collection of patterns or half this one printed. For example, I uploaded mine to Spoonflower and I really love how it turned out. Now I can create tea towels with it. There's no limit to what you can Create now that you know how the process works, because the technical process is the same for every pattern. You just need to change the icons. Hopefully now you can approach your pattern building with confidence and you can take your pattern design skills to new heights. I hope you enjoyed the class. 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