How to Create a Seamless Floral Pattern in Adobe Illustrator - step by step for beginners

1. Intro: Hello and welcome to my class. My name is Milton plateau, and there have been a digital artist and illustrator for more than four years. In this class, I will show you how to create a floral pattern in Adobe Illustrator. We'll go step-by-step and learn how to sketch flowers in what programs you can use, how to drought and color them in Adobe Illustrator. Then how to create your own pattern, and finally, how to change the colors of the pattern. Thank you for deciding to join this class, and I hope you'll enjoy it. 2. The Sketch of The Flowers: Hello and welcome back. In this chapter, I will show you how to make a sketch of the flowers that we will use later in creating the pattern. You can use reference pictures that will help you to draw realistic flowers. Don't rush making this cage started with reference lines and basic shapes, and then move on to adding details. The better the flowers are made, the more beautiful the Parthenon look. Drawing this sketch, I used the Adobe Photoshop program we take considered the most useful by the sketch, can be made in any program you have on your computer or in the one that you enjoyed the most. Sketch can be made even on paper with a pencil and then you can scan the paper and it said the picture in Adobe Illustrator, all you need are the sketch lines over which you later draw the flowers in vector format. Thank you, I see you in the next chapter. 3. Drawing and Coloring: Hello and welcome back. In this chapter that I'll show you how to draw flowers in vector format over the sketch made in previous job that after saving the sketch is your AP format view enunciated in Adobe Illustrator and change the opacity to 50%. And then you'll upload the image by going Object Lock Selection. To activate the partition points of the tablet, you will double-click on the blob brush tool and you select pressure for all three options. He's good at size and variation in value. Then we change the fidelity to me though. The pattern you'll use only the lineups, so there is no need to color the intuitive for line art, you'd use a brush from Adobe Illustrator blob brush tool to make it easier for you to create liner, you'll need a graphic tablet with pressure points. This means that when you press harder on the graphic tablet, the line will be thicker. And when you press lighter than I knew would become thinner. Initially, you'll draw the lines on top of each other and then delete the extra parts we're using shape and be alert code. In order to delete the extra pads, It's important that the lights are overlapping. Then you select both. Go to shape builder tool, and then you'll press Alt and click on the path you want to be anymore. After you have finished round the lineup, the sketch will no longer be useful, so you'll delete it, not to confuse you in the next steps. To delete it to your first need to unlock from object, unlock all and Daniel, press Delete. Next. We'll take each Cloud and after making sure that you have deleted the extra parts properly, you'll select Pathfinder and unite. You can choose any color you like about. It has to be a color compatible with the background. Use for the path. Thank you, I see you in the next chapter. 4. The Pattern: Hello and welcome back. In this chapter I'll show you how to create the pattern using the flowers previously drawn. First, create a new 4 thousand by 4 thousand pixels square file. Then you'll continue with arranging the flowers. The flowers will be a ranch both inside the workspace and outside the workspace. We've simplified the process. You'll start window us outside the workspace. You will arrange them on the left side and on the bottom side. After placing them RC like, you'll make copies of the two sides and move 4 thousand pixels as follows. We will move the ones on the left to the right, and the ones on the bottom, you'll move them up. You will start with the ones on the left. You will select everything and press control C, control F to make a copy. Next you'll go to transform and in the zone you'll arrive plus 4 thousand and Enter. You will do the same with the button side, with the speech indications that you'll add minus 4 thousand in the rhizome. After all the sides are finished in the center of the pattern, you are free to organize the flowers as you wish. Again, create the duplicates of the same flower and not or reduce their past and desired. Next, you'll create the background wasn't by going to the Rectangle tool. And then with the left click, Create, let's create as big as the workspace. Right-click to eat and select, arrange, and then send the back. Next, you'll select everything and group them. And Daniel create another skirts similar to the previous one. And the unit put it on the top and centered in the middle. You'll select everything and right-click you'll choose Make Clipping Mask. Now the bathroom is ready and to see if it's shameless, you'll go to Object Pattern and Make. Thank you and see you in the next chapter. 5. Changing Colors: Hello and welcome back. In this chapter I'll show you how to change the colors in the created pattern. First, you need to release the clipping mask. On. For this, you'll right-click on the pattern and select Release Clipping Mask. Then everything will return us before selecting Make Clipping Mask. And a score above will turn into one without field, without stroke. So you have to click on the edge to find it and then the lipid, then you will select Ungroup. And then you'll be able to change the colors of the flowers and background. After you change the colors will create another square. And after you're bringing to phone to your select make clipping mask. This is how you'll do it every time you want to change the colors of the pattern. Thank you and see you in the last chapter. 6. Final Thoughts: Hello and welcome back. Looks like we've reached the end of the class. So let's recap what we learned. First, you learn how to make a sketch of the flowers, the Photoshop. I insisted on the idea that the quality of the drawing will depend on. Then you created the alignment using glow brush tool and color it both the flower and the background. Next to learn how to create your own pattern and how to change. It's Carla, thank you for participating in this class and I hope you found all of this information helpful. If you have any questions. Don't hesitate to put them in the comments section. Immune to plateau was with you and thank you for watching.