Effortless Florals: Paint a Sweet Repeat Pattern in Procreate

1. Introduction: Hello, and welcome. I'm Aileen Juli, a watercolor artist, pattern designer, and a teacher. In this class, effortless floors paint a sweet repeat pattern in Procreate. I'll show you how to turn playful sketches into a polished repeat pattern. We'll create whimsical florals, explore color variations and build a seamless design. Then I'll guide you step by step to place your pattern into a mockup so you can see it come to live on products. This class is perfect for both beginners and experienced artists. Make sure to download the free brushes and color swatches in the resource section so you can follow along right away. I can't wait to see your beautiful creations. Let's get started. 2. Setting Up: Artboard & Class Assets: Okay, so once you are in procreate up, what you have to do is to create an artboard, and to do that, you just have to tap on the plus sign and then the plus icon here, see? And there you can choose the dimension of your canvas. So for this one, we are going to use 3,000 pixels width by 3,000 pixels eight with 300 DPI, and the color profile is set on this one, RGB. I'm just make sure that it's okay, 3,000 by 3,000 and you hit Create. By default, when you create an arboard, you have a white background and a layer above it. I'm going to show you what kind of brush we are going to use, and you could download them for this lesson. So the first one is the aquacolor one. Then you have the watercolor wet edges, liner brush, and blending body. Those brushes are set in the order of the use during the lesson. So this is the first one we are going to use. And you have two stem brush here, the petal one. It's on the lines. And that's the plain one, which is a bit different. The shape is a bit different. You can use those two ones to make the petals and to help you make the pattern. But you can also do it yourself like you can paint the petal by yourself. Going to show you the colors you could download. So these ones are white and black in useful colors. So black, white, and here you have background colors for the pattern. And then these are the colors that are inspired by my homemade ink. So you have mint ink, pomegranate ink, avocado, dipladenia, privet, everlasting flour, punsotina, and raspberry ink. We are going to use those colors to make the petals to color the petals. 3. Painting the Flowers: First of all, I have my first layer ready to put the first petal. I'm choosing black. So I'm coming here. I take the stamp here and I'm just checking the size. I know that 30% is okay with this format. And I just have to hit the screen, and on the first layer, I have this first stamp. If I need to lower down the opacity, I can do that here. So the black is not so present, and I'm adding a layer above it to color the petals, choosing the first brush. For this brush, I need four, 5%, and I'm going to choose this ink, this color. And now because I'm above the first layer, I'm going to color this flower and I pinch to zoom, and I'm starting to color the first petal like this and see the brush is a bit blotchy on the edge. And one thing important it's that I'm not lifting up the brush until I've colored the whole petal because I'm going to show you that in a minute. If you lift up the brush and go back on the layer, the color layer like this, you have another layer of color and we don't want that. So to undo tap with two fingers on your screen, and I'm continuing to make this flour and color it. And the last petal doing the same like this coloring and filling the petal properly. And that's okay. So now I have my first color layer. I'm adding another layer above it because what I'm going to do is to add another color. On the third of the petal, which is a bit with a contrast. So I'm taking this one, the raspberry ink, this one, changing my brush with watercolor wet edge. Just checking the size here on the side, 4% is okay. I'm pinching it, checking I'm on the right layer, and you are going to just add with this color, something like this on the third of the petal, or half of it like this. And it's quite rough. Actually, we do it like half of the petal colored and quite roughly like this with the brush strokes. And now that's the second layer I've added. I'm going to add another layer, another color, and something contrasty. So I'm taking this color, which is quite clear and taking the line of brush, I'm going for 5%. I'm zooming it, just checking I'm on the right layer. And I just feel the tip of the petal like this. To add more contrast and color and texture. And that's the first flower we've made. So we keep that like this, and I'm going to add here another layer to make another kind of flour. So I'm choosing the black color here, taking this petal stamp and just checking that I'm on a separate layer. 40% is okay, and I'm just tapping here. If I want to lower the opacity, I'm tapping on the ensign here and I'm lower the opacity. Now, what I can do is to unshake all these. So I'm just seeing this one. I'm adding a layer to color the petals, and I'm choosing the first aquacolor brush. Now what I will choose is, for example, this color with a privet ink, with the aqua color. The size of the brush is okay. I'm just pinching and I'm feeling the petal like this with the guide underneath. And I'm doing the four petals like this. And the last one is just a guide. Actually, I'm going to unshake this guide now, but I keep it here because it's good to have them there, but I don't see them anymore. What I need to do now is to add another layer above this one to do the same thing we've done here on the half of the petal with watercolor wet edge brush. And I'm going to choose a contrasting color this one in the pansotina ink. Zooming it, checking that I have a layer, that's okay. And I'm just filling half of the petal like this on every petal. Quite roughly, because we are going to blend that later. So that's okay. I have to add another layer here. Take a color which is contrasty. I'm going to take this one and the liner brush. The size is okay because I didn't change it with the last flower. And I feel the tip of the petal like this very roughly, as you see. And now I have two different like shape, color, and that's what we need. We are going to group that so we can keep these in a group. So to group, I need to swipe right like this and then ask to group. That's one group. I leave it like that. I'm just unchecking this one. I'm coming here on the top of the layers, and I'm swiping right like this, and then I group them. So now I have two different group. And what I need to do is to duplicate those group to have six flowers. So first of all, I'm going to duplicate this one, so I swipe left and I ask for duplicate. I'm just unchecking one of it, so I can see where I'm working and I'm coming in the group to open it. You just have to tap on the arrow here. And what we are going to do is to change the color now. To do that, we need to tap on the icon here, ask for Alpha lock because if we don't do Alpha k, the color will go on the old board. And now with asking Alpha Lock, it will just be applied on the petals. So I'll show you that. You have tap on the icon, check Alpha log. I'm going to change the color. I'll go for the yellow color. I'm on that layer, the first one, and I just ask fill layer, and you see the color has changed. I'm doing the same thing for this layer. I tap on Alpha ok. I change the color with this one and ask to fill the layer. The last one, the tip of the petal, I'm going to do maybe maybe something quite contrasty. So this one, very red one. I'm tapping on alpha ok and then fill layer. So now you have one group and one flour. What you can do is you can merge them together, tap on alpha look because we don't need that anymore, and you take it out of the group and you come and put it here. So this group can be deleted, okay? But we have our two originals. So I have this one and I have this one. Now I'm going to duplicate this flower. Shake this one. And I'm going to do the same thing. So changing the color by tapping here, Alpha ok. I'll go for maybe this color fill layer coming here, ask for Alpha look, change the color here with this color per example. Fill layer. And the last one will be a very dark blue. So we always try to have contrast. I'm tapping on Alpha lock and then fill layer. So now I have the three layers. I change the colors. I can group them together by pinching the three layers, and I uncheck Alpha lock. I take this out of the group, so I put it here, I can delete that. And so now I have in total four flowers, and I just need two more. So I'm going to duplicate once more this one coming here, change the color, and I will go for something like this with the Pneotina, tap on alpha ok, and then fill layer. Going on that layer, ask for maybe a yellow one, light yellow one, lp ok, fill layer. And this one has to be quite contrast it, so I'm going to go for this very dark raspberry ink and tap on Alphaloq and then fill layer. Now I can pinch them together like this. Check Alpha Lock, take this out of the group, and I can delete that. Now I want to check what I have. I know I still have to do one flower, but I'm going to move a bit the flower so I see what kind of color and what kind of flower I have. And to do that, I'm just going on the layer, tapping on the selection tool and move them around with the pencil. What I can do is to duplicate once more this one, so I duplicate this one and check this one to have just one selected, open the group, and I'm going to change the color. I'll go for something like this, this color, a tap on the icon, Alpha Lock and fill layer. Then I have this color. I can change it to something maybe actually, that's quite okay. Just changing maybe this one a little bit, but I'm not sure. Maybe it's the same one, yes. And the last one is going to be the light blue, privet ink, alpha ok, and fill layer. I can pinch them together. Hake Alphalog, take this out of the group like this. And I have now six flowers. I just delete the group, which is empty. So now what I need to do is because we're working in a way that we keep everything, so it's non destructive way of working. I need to duplicate this one, and I'm going to grab it to just put it here so I have it as a security. Doing the same with this one. So I duplicate this group and check this one, and I'm taking it here. Now what I need to do is the same thing I did before. So it's pinching them together, taking them out of the group, and delete this group. Open this group, pinch the three layers together, taking this one out of the group so I can delete the group. And now we have six flowers. I just need to move this one, so I tap on the layer and the selection tool and I move it. And I have six flowers now that are with different colors. And what we need to do is to use the last brush, which is the blending body. So we can blend the colors together, so it looks more blend. So I'm going to uncheck every layer on this one, a pinch and zoom. And because I have the blending body set one, three or four, that's okay, I think. We're just going to blend a bit like this. So it's more natural. The color is more smooth and the texture as well. If I pull the color toward this shade and stretch it the other way, it obviously goes in the wrong direction, and that's not what we want. You just stretch the color from the tip, then this one and to the petal, the main petal. So that's the first one. It's blend. I'm going to do this one now. And as you can see, you have white spot here. We can fix that with the blending body. I'm just stretching a bit the color as I did before, like this. And to fix the white spot, it's quite easy. You just have to blend the blue color, and you don't see the white spot anymore. You do that for every layer. Sorry. You have to go on the layer to be able to blend. So that's what happened. So I'm on the layer, and I'm just blending a bit like this, taking this white spot off and those white spot here. Of course, because we took the same example, we will find all the same the duplicate we've done. They will have the same white spot, of course. So I'm going on this one now and doing the same thing. So it looks like the real nature. That's okay. I'm going on this one, where it is here, pinching and then stretching the colors as we did before, like this. And the last one will be the yellow one. Once again, I didn't tap on the layer, so I'm on the other one, the previous one, and you have to zoom and then just stretch the color to make a nice blending color and just erasing the white spot here by blending this color. 4. Making the Repeat Pattern: So now we have all the different battles. We have our security here. And what we need to do is to duplicate those six flowers and move them around. So I'm going to duplicate every layer. So I can have more flowers and create the pattern. I'm coming on the first layer. I have to tap on the selection here, selection two. And I'm going to uncheck snappings and magnetics. So it's more fluid when you move because as you can see, it's a bit hectic when I move like this. So I'm unchecking this and look how easy it is to move the flower now. So when you move the flowers, we can go on the corner here, but we cannot do that. It can't be cut by the border, so you cannot touch the borders. But I leave it here. I'm taking the second flower duplicated and maybe coming here, I can also rotate with this green node. So I rotate it and I put it like this. I'm going on this layer, selection tool coming here, just rotate it a bit. Going on the next layer, maybe I'm just putting it here, going on this layer, move it, rotate it a bit like this in the corner, and the yellow one will go maybe here like this. And as you can see, we need to duplicate once again all the layers. So we have more flowers for the pattern. And I'm coming here, just moving this one here maybe like this, near the border but not touching it. Coming on this layer, the next one, I duplicate, maybe putting it here. If you want, you can also increase a bit the size, but not too much because otherwise, maybe you will lose in definition, taking the next layer coming here, moving it rotate it, sorry, and moving it in the corner. The next flower will go maybe like this. Mm. Okay, like this. And this one, we need to do the same. I'm going to increase the size a little bit like this. Near the border but don't touch it. And this one, I'm going to put it here. I'm increasing a bit the size, not touching the border. And now I'm going to decide to duplicate this color and this color put to fill the gaps here. So I'm duplicating this one, taking the selection tool, maybe I'm putting it here. I'm going to duplicate this one. Rotate it and putting it here. Maybe this one to duplicate taking it here like this, and I'm going to duplicate the yellow one to put it here. Now I have a composition an organization that works more or less on the square, not touching the borders. So what I can do is to pinch all the layers together. So I just have one layer. And with that, I can manage a bit to rearrange the composition, and that's what I'm going to do. So I have pinched all the layers on this layer with the free hand tool, I'm tapping here. I can go around it. And after I select selection tool, I can just move it a bit like this, so it's more even and well arranged. Maybe I will change this one, so I'm on the right layer, at up on free hand tool, go around it, selection tool, move it, and maybe I'm just rotating a bit and resize like this. Now that I have that, I just I will duplicate this and check it. That's my security. So I have this layer. If I want to make the pattern and go on the selection arrow, you will see that not the whole square is selected. So the white square is not selected, and we want to select the whole square. Otherwise, we can't make a proper pattern. So to do that, we are going to trick the selection tool and we are going to make a mark with something like the red one here and the line of brush, but I will increase a bit the line of brush. And what I'm going to do is just doing this on the corner here. So as you can see, I have now marks on the corners, and that will trick the selection tool. See, now it has selected the whole square. To make the pattern, we have to move this square on the four corners. So to do that, I need to duplicate four times have four layers. I can move on the four corners. And now that I have done that, I'm on the first layer, I grab the selection tool, and I'm just checking that my magnetics and snapping are on, and the distance and velocity are at their max because that's how you can be accurate when moving your square. So I'm on this layer, I tap on the selection tool. And what I'm going to do is to move this square here. When you have the orange lines, it says it's in the proper position, so you can release your first layer. You go on the next one, do the same, tap on selection tool, grab the square. And when you see it's orange everywhere, you can release it. Take the next layer going down on the corner here. I have everything. The lines are orange. I can release it, and I'm doing the last corner here. Like this, I have all the orange lines so I can release it. Okay. So now what I need to do is to pinch them together like this, and I need to erase those marks I've made. So to do that, I'm taking the eraser tool in calligraphy moonine and I'm decreasing this so I can erase those marks properly so I don't have anything left. I'm on this layer, and now what I need to do is to move a bit to have a better composition. So we need to go and tap on free hand tool. We can go around it. And move it a bit. I'm just unchecking magnetics and snapping, so it's more fluid. I'm going to do that. Of course, we can move all the flowers that are in the square, but not on the borders, of course. And I'm going to move this one a little bit too. So maybe I'm going here like this. Go around this one selection tool, moving it a bit maybe rotated like this. I'm going to move this one a little bit, and going like this. What we can do now is to duplicate maybe the yellow one here. And to do that, I have to be on the layer, tap on free hand tool, go around it, and ask to copy and paste it. I'm selecting the layer that I've just copied and I just move it here. Like this, maybe. So I filled that gap. And now what I need to do is to pinch to put it in the final pattern. Let me check. I'm going to move this one a little bit, so I go around it, selection tool, and move it that here. So now I can duplicate one petal and put it, I mean, flour and put it here. I'm going to go for this one. I go over copy and paste selection tool, moving it here like this. And now I have to pinch the two layers to make this one in the final button layer. I'm going to just move this one a little bit so I can add another maybe I have to redo that because I'm going to do that. And so I can add a lanced flower here. And then I think we will be okay. So I'm going to copy and paste this color, the blue one, free hand tool, copy and paste, selection tool, move it, and just rotate it and maybe putting it here. I have to put this flower in the final pattern so I can have the whole tie together, and I'm going to move this one a little bit so I go around it with a free hand tool, tap on selection, and move it like this. Now that we have done that, we have a quite nice composition. Maybe I can change this one a little bit, so I will do that. Go over it and move it a little bit like that. So it's not so close with this one. And what we need to do now is to because this is the pattern tile, and I need to repeat it to see if it works, and I can also change the dimension and the size of the pattern. So I'm just going to name this one. So I will say pattern tile. And just duplicate it to keep it in my security. Now that I have the pattern tile, what I need to do is to duplicate four times. So I have four layers. I can move like I did before. I just tap on the arrow, tap on snapping, check magnetics and snapping, so I'm more accurate when I move this. And now what I need to do because we are going to resize, we need to put the four tile in the corner, but with a different size. So you have two ways to do that. The first one is to tap on the blue node here and ask for the half of the dimension of your final tile, which was 3,000 pixels. Now I've asked for half of it. That's the first one. And it's done. I'm going on the second layer, tap on selection tool, tap on here, the blue upper node, ask for half of it. So now it's done, doing the same for the below part, tapping on the blue node. And asking for this dimension half of the final time. If this is check, it means when I tap 1,500 pixels, it will go equally on all I mean, the square, all the borders. So you have to have that check. And the last one, I'm going to show you the last way to do it without tapping on the blue note, but by stretching this like this and you can release it because you see that the sides are correct. We have the orange line and you can release it. So now we have our final pattern, and we can pinch all those ones together. And now, what I'm going to do is to rename this one final like this. Duplicate it because we keep everything. So we have all the step we've done so far. I don't like that. So on the final pattern, I'm going to move a bit the flowers. So I tap on the free hand tool, I go over around this one and I move it a bit like this, doing the same with this one and move it a bit like this. So it's more fluid. Maybe I move a bit this one. Okay just like that. And this one a bit like that. Maybe here, I can move this one a bit. I'm taking the free hand tool, then go around it and move it a bit like this. So they're not aligned, and the composition is more fluid. Maybe I change this one as well. So I go around it, selection tool, move it a bit like that. And that's much better. So now we have the final pattern. And what we need to do is we can change the background so we don't have a white color. To do that, I'm going to add a layer beneath the final pattern. And I'm just going to duplicate this one and keep it here. I'm going on the layer for the color of the background, and I'm choosing this color I provide just drag and drop it here on the layer. You can now pinch them together, so you have your final pattern 5. Mockup Time: Grab the photo I provide. And to do the mockup, we will need to make another layer to import the picture. So I'm adding a layer. I'm tapping on the range tool, then insert a photo. Here it is. So I'm taking this one, importing it. I can tap on fit to Canva, and I can just like this, I can fit the picture in the frame. So I have that here. Now, to make the pattern, to put it in this card cover, I need to make a rectangle in white. So I add a layer, choosing the white color and grabbing the monoline brush here to make the rectangle. So I just draw a line. And when I hold the pencil, it's straight the line, that I see, I have to go over it a bit. So I'm starting over. Here, I hold the brush so it straightened the line. I'm doing the same for this one, and it's straightened. I'm doing this here, too, like this. And the last one. And here, what I see is I have a hole. So if I want to put the white color here, it won't be on the rectangle because there is a hole here. So I need to just close that here. And now if I do there is another hole somewhere. I have to check here, as you can see. So I'm closing all those corners, and now it's just match the rectangle we have designed. So now we have this layer and this layer, and to attribute the pattern, we need to move those layer under the pattern like this. Select the pattern going on the layer of the pattern. Just tap here and ask for clipping mask, and you have your mockup with the pattern in the rectangle because you ask for clipping mask. 6. Conclusion: I hope you enjoy this class. Together, we create a delicate flowers, transform the colors, and build a seamless repeat pattern with a flowing organic composition. Finally, we placed our design into a mockup. If you'd like to dive deeper, feel free to explore my other Skillshare classes where I teach how to make your own botanical inks and paint beautiful nature inspired elements. I would also love to see what you've created. So please upload your projects to the class gallery, and don't hesitate to share your work on social media. Be sure to tag me at Alen Juli B so I can celebrate your progress with you. Thank you so much for creating with me today. I hope to see you in another class soon. Goodbye, and thank you.