Easy Striped Patterns In Procreate

1. Intro: Who doesn't love a good stripe. In this class, I'm going to show you one of the easiest and quickest ways to make striped patterns in the Procreate App. We will create vertical, horizontal, and even diagonal stripes within minutes. Grab your iPad and let's get started. 2. Vertical Stripes: So we are going to start off with a squared canvas and it can be any size you want as long as it is squared. My favorite is 12 inch by 12 inch. I'm going to start off with a 12 inch by 12 inch canvas. Make sure it's at 300 DPI and our color profile will be RGB. Now we can tap on Create. So now that we have our Canvas, we can turn on some guides. We will turn on our drawing guides. We will click on Edit drawing guides because we want to make sure we have a vertical guide. We will click on symmetry, make sure it is on vertical, and now we can click on DE. So we're going to make sure we're on a brand new clean layer, and we're going to want to just fill this entire layer with one solid color. It can be any color you want. It can be just a color placeholder for now and later you can switch out the colors. Or if you already have a color palette in mind, you can select your colors now. So I'm going to grab this light pink color. I will drag and drop to fill in the entire canvas and that will be our first step. Now I will go and create a brand new layer above that and we're going to do the same thing, but we will select a different color. I'm just going to grab this dark pink color and I will drag and drop it. Now we're going to want to get this entire layer and slide it over to only fill half of the canvas. I'll make sure I'm on my top layer. I will select it. Make sure we are on free form and our snapping and magnetics are turned on. We will grab this little node and just slide it over till it snaps right in the middle and now we can deselect it. And now we will merge our two layers together. We can either pinch them or tap on the upper layer and tap on merge DL. As you can see, it is one unit now. Now that we have our base layer, I'm going to select the entire thing and I'm going to do the same thing. I'm just going to slide it over until it snaps right in the middle and we can deselect it. Now I will go and duplicate that layer. Make sure it is selected and I will just grab it and slide it over till it snaps to the other half of the canvas. Just like that, and we will deselect it. Now I will merge these two together. I'm going to do the exact same thing. I'm going to select the entire canvas, slide it over till it snaps in the middle, deselect it. I will duplicate my layer, select it, and slide it over to fill the other half of the canvas. Make sure it snaps right in the middle and I can deselect. Now I will merge my layers together. That is how you make a quick stripe pattern. The more I slide over, the thinner the stripes will be. If you want a thicker, broader stripe, you can just do it less times that you slide over. But if you want a very thin pin stripe, you can keep doing this till your stripe width is exactly how you want it. I think I'm going to do it one more time because I want them a little thinner. I'll just make sure that everything is merged together. I will grab the entire layer, slide it over till it snaps in the middle and I will duplicate it, slide it over to the other side. Now I will merge my layers together. We can test our pattern to see if it repeats seamlessly. We'll make sure we have our original layer. We're going to duplicate it. We're going to turn off our original layer here at the bottom. I'm going to turn on my quadrant guides to make sure I have four even spaces on my canvas, we'll select quadrant and tap on done because now we're going to be testing our pattern. So I'm going to make sure I'm on my duplicated layer. I will select the entire thing and I will make sure now I'm on uniform because I want it all to go together into this square up on top. I'll grab this little node, slide it over till it snaps into my first quadrant. Now I will just duplicate it to fill each one of my spaces. I will duplicate it, slide it over, I will just continue doing that till I have filled the entire campus. Now we can turn off our drawing guides to make sure everything repeats seamlessly and as you can see, I'm not seeing any white hairlines anywhere. We know our pattern is good and that it repeats seamlessly. So now that we tested it out, we can get rid of our test pattern. We'll turn on our original layer and here's the fun part where we can change color. We will duplicate it. I always like to have my original layer. I'm just going to turn off my original layer. Now I will just grab a different color. I think I'll go with this dark blue color and you can just drag and drop it into the stripes you want colored. If everything is coloring in, just slide your pencil to adjust the threshold. Then we can tap on continue filling, and then you can just tap on the stripes you want We can play with maybe a three tone color. Again, I'm going to go back to my original layer. I'm going to duplicate it. I will turn it off my original layer and now I will work on my duplicated layer. I'll grab this gold color. I'm going to drag and drop it here. Then maybe I want to make. You can just play with this and try all kinds of different unique color combinations with your stripes. You can just keep practicing and experimenting and you can also test your pattern to see if you like the way it is looking or if you want to make adjustments. You can just test out. That looks great. Just play around with the colors, try different combinations. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to quickly take this vertical stripe and turn it into a horizontal striped pattern. 3. Horizontal Stripes: In this next lesson, I'm going to show you how to quickly take your vertical stripes and turn them into horizontal stripes. We're going to go back to our original layer. Again, we will duplicate it. We're just going to make sure we're on the new duplicated layer. We will select the entire thing and rotate at 45 degree angles twice. Now we can test it to make sure everything repeats seamlessly. You will just duplicate our layer. Again, we're going to make sure we put it in the four quadrants to make sure everything repeats seamlessly. I'll just snap it into place, duplicate and slide it over till I fill in my four sections. As you can see, it repeats seamlessly. Now we have a vertical striped pattern. In the next lesson, I will show you how to take our stripes and turn them into diagonal stripes. 4. Diagnol Stripes: In our final lesson, I will show you how to take our vertical stripes and turn them into diagonal stripes. Again, we will go to our original layer. We are going to duplicate it. Now I will select the entire layer, go to rotate 45 degrees, and I will just rotate it once. Now, make sure you are on free form for this part. I'm going to just grab our little nodes and bring them in till they snap to the corner. We're going to do it to our right side and our left side only. Make sure you bring it in till it snaps and it should look just like this. It will fill the middle portion of our canvas. Now for these two sides, we're going to grab these little notes and stretch them all the way past the canvas like this. I'm going to do the same thing to this bottom one right here and that's exactly how you want it to look. Now we will deselect it. Now that we have it like that, we're going to go back to that layer. I'm going to duplicate it once. Now I'm going to grab this top layer. I'm going to select it and I'm going to snap it till it hits that top corner, an, the fourth quadrant. I can turn on my guides to help me you can see, they're turned on. I will just now grab my duplicated layer and I'm going to slide it over vertically and then slide it up horizontally till it snaps in perfectly in that center. And now I will deselect it. I will go back to my layer panel and I'm going to grab that first bottom layer that we rotate it to the side and I'm going to duplicate it again. This time, I'm going to bring it to this bottom quadrant. I will slide it down until it snaps in place, and then I will slide it over till it snaps in place, just like that, and I will deselect it. And now I can merge my three layers together just like that. There are my diagonal stripes. Now we can test out the pattern to see if it repeats seamlessly. I will just duplicate it. I'm going to turn off my original diagonal stripe layer. The same thing, we will fill in our four quadrants, make sure we're on uniform. Fill in our four quadrants. Now we'll just duplicate and make sure I place it in each one of the four squares. Now I can turn off my guides to make sure I don't have any hairlines and then everything repeats seamlessly. That my friends is how you create striped patterns in the Procreate app, how you make vertical, horizontal and diagonal stripes. Play around with this, try different color combinations, different widths of stripes, and see which is your favorite. 5. Thank You!: Thanks a whole bunch for joining me in this class. I hope you have fun creating all kinds of striped patterns in Procreate. I love seeing your pattern creations, so please share your beautiful work in the project gallery. And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. You can start a new discussion in the Discussions tab and you can find that located right below this video. Thanks again, and I'll see you next time.