Make Your First Pattern in Procreate

1. Introduction: You want to make your first repeating pattern in Procreate, but have no idea where to start? Maybe patterns feel complicated or you think you need to be good at drawing before you can create something that actually looks good. You don't. And in this class, I will show you how to create your first repeating pattern in Procreate, starting super simple and building your skills as we go. Hi, I'm Maya Faber. I'm a surface pattern designer and online teacher, and I have taught pattern design to more than 120,000 students worldwide. Together, we will create these three floral patterns using three different methods. We will start with a really simple pattern using the stamp brushes included in the class. That way, you can focus completely on understanding how a repeating pattern works without worrying about drawing. Then we will take it a step further and create a more detailed floral pattern while learning a second way to build a seamless repeat. And finally, we will draw our own simple flowers and leaves and create our third pattern using my favorite way to make patterns Improcret. And if you don't want to draw your own motifs yet, that's not a problem. I've included stamps that you can use instead. You will also get a procreate brush set, a ready made color palette, and a pattern template so that you have everything you need to follow along. Along the way, you will learn the procreate tools you actually need for creating patterns, how to recolor your patterns, test your repeats, and export your finished designs. You don't need any previous experience with patterns or procreate, and you don't need to be good at drawing. By the end of this class, you will have created three repeating patterns in Procreate. And more importantly, you will know how to start creating more on your own. Patterns doesn't need to be complicated. It can actually be really simple and a lot of fun. So let's get started. 2. Downloads & Resources: Let me quickly show you how to install the resources that is available to download in this class. You have the pattern perfect template, the first pattern color palette and the first pattern brush set. There are two ways to install. You can install them from Inside Aprocreate or from your downloads folder on your iPad. So if you want to install the brush set, you simply just tap the brush set and it installs inside of procrt. If you want to install the color palette, that works exactly the same. You just tap it and if you want to install the pattern perfect template, you just tap that one, two, and all of these are now inside apcrte. That is the pattern perfect template, which I will show you in a later lesson how to use. And if you have a look. Oops, in your brush set, you can see that I have installed many of my first pattern brush sets over here and I have my first pattern color palette over here. If you can't find your first pattern color palette, it might end up at the very end of your color palette. I have a bunch of color palettes, so I needed to scroll all the way down and it ended up here. You can tap and move that one if you want to the most important part is that you have your color palette in Procreate. If you want to install your brush set and your color palette, inside of procreate, you can always tap your little brush symbol. You can tap the little plus sign up there and import from files. Here you can find your first pattern brush set and that installed number four of that set. Here you can tap the plus in the color panel and tap new from file and then tap your first pattern swatches. Scroll up there you can see that you have got your color palette inside a procrt at the top. I would actually say that it's easier to install your color palette and you brush set from when you're insider procrt because then your color palette will end up at the top of your color panel, which can be handy. I have two here, that really doesn't matter, but I can just delete my copies, tap the brush set and delete those because I only need one of those. And I can delete one of those as well. Now I have one color palette, oops, and one brush set. If you want to add the pattern perfect template from inside of Procreate, you can tap Import and you can tap your file. That is how you import a procreate file from inside of procreate. Now you have all of the downloads in Procreate and we're ready to create our 3. What is a Repeating Pattern?: Before we jump into Procreate, I want to quickly explain what a repeating pattern actually is and what we are going to create in this class. A pattern is simply a design where one or more elements are repeated across a surface. The elements in a pattern are often called motifs. A motif can be almost anything, a flower, a leaf, a fruit, a shape, or something completely abstract. In this class, we are going to work with simple floral motifs. But what makes a pattern a repeating pattern? A repeating pattern is built from something called a patentile. Pentile is the center of the design is where you draw your motifs. In this case, it's a square. When we place copies of that square next to each other to the left, right above and below, the design continues without any visible breaks. That's what we mean when we say that a pattern is seamless. For that to work, anything that crosses an edge of the pentile needs to continue in exactly the same place on the opposite edge. If part of a flower crosses the right edge of our tile, the rest of that flower needs to continue from the left edge and the same thing happens between the top and bottom edges. This little square pentile is what we will actually be creating and procreate throughout this class. There are several different ways that pentiles can repeat. In this class, we are going to create something called a full drop repeat. Full drop repeat is the most basic type of repeating patterns. The patent tiles are simply placed directly next to each other and directly above and below each other like this. There are other types of repeats too, where the tiles can be offset from each other, but we won't need to get into those in this class. Are going to focus completely on full drop patterns. And throughout the class, I will show you three different ways to create this type of repeating pattern in Procreate. The methods will be different, but the basic idea is always the same. We create one square pattern tile where the opposite edges match perfectly. And when we repeat that tile in every direction, we get one continuous seamless pattern. Now that you know what we are actually going to create, let's open Procreate and get started. 4. Getting To Know Procreate: Before we start making our first pattern, I want to quickly show you around Procreate and the tools that we will use in this class. There are many features and tools inside of Procreate and that is a whole class of its own to dive deeper into each of these tools. In this lesson, I will show you just the tools and features that you need to be able to create your first pattern in Procreate. If you have used Procreate before, you probably know most of this already, feel free to skip ahead to the next lesson. The only thing that we will do in this lesson that you need for the next couple of lessons is to create a new Canvas. If you know how to do that, you can just skip ahead. But if you're completely new to Procreate, this will give you everything that you need to follow along. Let's start here in the gallery. This is the start screen that you get when you open up Procreate. I have a bunch of things here and that is just because I have created a lot of artwork. Mine are single files or canvases, as it's called in Procreate, and then I have these stacked files. That is folders. Let me quickly just show you how you can stack your files if you want to do that later on. You can just tap two files and tap stack, and that will create this type of folder. That is just an explanation of why my Procreate gallery looks like this while yours may have single files. The first thing that we're going to do is to create the canvas that we will use for our patterns. We do that by tapping the plus symbol up in the top right corner, and then you tap this little folder symbol up here. I usually go for pixels. With my patterns and 3,000 pixels in width and in height. That's a good standard size. I keep my DPI, which is the resolution on 300 and maximum layers only shows me how many layers I can create in this procreate file when I have these other settings. The next thing that we will do is to tap color profile and I always go for RGB and the first SRGB that you see up here, and then I will tap the little check symbol to create my Canvas. Now we are inside of the Canvas. If you want to head back to the gallery, you tap gallery, and then you can tap into your Canvas again. Now we have our square canvas and this is the size that we will use throughout this class. Let's have a quick look around the procreate interface, the tools, and what we need to know to be able to create our first pattern in Procreate. So up here, you find the main tools that we use for creating our patterns. First, we have the brush library. If you tap the brush icon, you will have a brush library here. Yours might look different from mine because I have created a separate brush library for teaching where I only have the brush sets that I need for that class. But you will probably have a different library and you can access that if you squeeze out and you will probably have the Procrit library or the classic library. Which library you have really doesn't matter. But mine is only showing this first pattern brush set which is available to download here in this class. When you have a brush selected, let's choose this monoline one, for example, you have two different sliders to the left of your screen. The top one is your brush size, which you can drag up and down. To choose different sizes of your brush. You can see that my brush size settings have these little marks here and that is because I have saved brush sizes from that brush. If you want to do that, you can drag up and tap the plus over there and then you have saved that size for later. This little slider is the opacity of your brush. In this class, we will only use maximum opacity. The next thing that we will have a look at is the color panel, which is this little round symbol up here with a color. If you tap into that, I have palettes selected down here and the first pattern color palette, which you can download here in class and which is the one that we will use. I will just tap into one of those and you can see that it's marked up here, which means you will also show that color palette in this classic and in the disc, for example. If you choose another color palette and go back to Classic, you will have another color palette down there. I will tap into first pattern color palette. We will use these colors if you want to change the colors, you tap into classic or disc which one you prefer, I usually go for classic and then you can experiment here with different colors. You can just change the colors just a little bit or change them completely. So the color palette is something that you can experiment with or the color panel is something that you can experiment with to understand how it works. But for this class, we will use the premade color palette, which is called first pattern color palette. Next, let's have a look at layers. Tap the layers icon up here and you can see that in this Canvas, we only have one layer. If you tap the little check mark, you will show the layer and hide the visibility of the layer. To create a new layer, we tap the plus symbol and then if you draw something on that layer, let's use another color, brown color, and I will just draw something on that layer, and then I can uncheck the visibility of the layer below, which means that I only see that layer. You can also tap and drag to change the position of the layers, which can come really in handy. And you can delete the layers by swiping to the right and tapping delete. Let's tap the plus again to add a new layer and up here, we can, for example, select both layers by swiping to the right, tap the layers and tap group, which also can come in handy. Layers are basically separate pieces of your artwork stacked on top of each other. We will use layers a lot when we create patterns, mostly because it's the easiest way to separate your colors so that when you want to recolor pattern, you can just recolor one layer and that will make your colors crisp and your edges crisp and you won't lose any resolution or things like that when you recolor your motifs. Don't worry if all of this feels new right now. We will use layers and all of the other tools that I show you throughout the class, so you will get plenty of practice. Another important tool is the transform tool, which is the arrow up here. We will use this when we need to move motifs and different parts of our pattern around the canvas. With the transform tool, we can move all of the motifs and objects and everything we have drawn on that layer. If you want to move it smoothly, you can just tap snapping over here and turn off that and then you can move it exactly as you want it. You can rotate your motifs, you can make them smaller and larger. One note here is that as procreate is a raster based app, you can't really upscale your motifs too much, meaning that if you have your motifs in this size, you can make them smaller, but you can't make them larger without losing resolution. And another note is that when we create patterns, we always have bicubic set here because that is the best way to keep a good resolution in your patterns. Make this setting now so we will keep it throughout the class. The next tool that we will have a look at is the selections tool. I will just tap the arrow symbol, the transform tool, and tap the selection tool. With the selection tool, you can select different parts of your artwork. We will use this later on in class, especially when we create our third pattern with the selection method. But the selection tool is generally that you can select different parts of your artwork. Let's say we choose free hand over here, and you will tap and drag around what you want to select, tap the little gray symbol, and then you can, for example, tap the transform tool again and move that part. There is a lot you can do with the selection tool, and I'll go through exactly what you need to know about that later on in class. So another tool that can come in handy is the eraser tool. If you tap into the eraser tool, you can choose which brush you want to erase with. I usually go for a solid mon line brush like the Monoline One brush from the first pattern brush set. Then I can choose the size of my eraser brush and I need to choose a layer. Let's choose that layer. Then I can just erase parts of that layer. That can be good to know. How you can erase parts of your drawing. There's also a few basic gestures that is useful to know. You can use two fingers to zoom in and out of your canvas. You can rotate your canvas in different directions if you make a mistake, you can tap with two fingers to undo and if you want to redo something, you can tap with three fingers to redo. You can also use the undo symbol over here and the redo symbol over there. For now, this is all that you need to know to get started. Procreate has a lot of other features, tools and settings, but you definitely don't need to learn everything before you start creating patterns. Throughout this class, we will look closer at some of these tools and settings as we need them and I will show you exactly what to do step by step. Now that we have our Canvas ready and you know your way around the basic Procreate interface, let's create our first repeating. 5. Method 1: Create Your First Pattern: Let's start with creating our first pattern. If you watch the previous lesson, you might have created a Camas already. But let's just quickly do that one more time if you haven't done it already. Tap the plus in the top right corner and then tap the little folder symbol up here and type in 3,000 pixels, pixels down there width and in height, and I will keep my DPI to 300. Then I will tap color profile and under RGB I tap the first SRGB. And then I tap the chick and I am in my new canvas. The very first thing that we will do in this lesson is to tap the layers panel and we have a layer over here. We will fill this layer, I'll just clear that. We will fill this layer with the purple color from the first pattern color palette. So I will tap the purple color, tap the layers panel, tap the layer and tap fill layer. Now we have a background layer. If you want to rename your layers, you can tap the layer, tap rename, and type in background. I won't rename all of the layers in this class because to be honest, I usually don't when I create patterns, but I just wanted to show you how you can name your layers. The next thing that we will do is to tap the plus to add a new layer, and here we will add our flour. Tap the color panel and in the color palette, you have a cream white, choose that one, and then I will tap the brush set and tap the flour stamp. This way, you don't need to draw anything to understand how a pattern works. We will just use the brush stamp and you can adjust the size, as you can see. There's different sizes depending on where you tap or where you adjust that scrolling menu. If you also twist your canvas, you can add flowers in different directions. However, I will undo with two fingers because I have made it so that if you drag up your brush size to 100%, you will get the same type of flower as me and the exact right size, and then I will just tap one time on your canvas. It doesn't matter where it ends up because now we will tap the transform tool, the arrow symbol and make sure that you have snapping and magnetics turned on down here in the bottom left settings. Snapping and magnetics should be turned on. Those are blue when they are turned on, and then we will tap and drag our flower to the center. How do we know when it's in the center? We know because your guidelines will turn yellow in both directions. As you can see now, we have a guideline that's yellow in the horizontal direction or almost we had and not in the vertical, but now as we pull this in the center, you will get a yellow guideline there. Now you know that it's in the center. So then we can tap the transform tool, and now we know that this flower is in the center. The next thing that we want to do is that we want to add a little round blob at the center of the flower. I will tap the layers panel and we can rename this layer to flower. In this first pattern, we will rename all of the layers, but I probably won't when we continue with the class, but now you know how to do it. Then I will tap the plus to add a new layer and I will tap and drag that layer below the flower. Because that way, when I choose a color from the color panel, the brown color, and I will choose a brush, the monoline one brush, I know that when I draw with this brush, it will end up at the bottom of the flower. If I would tap and drag the flower below, it will end up above. We can just erase this by either undoing or you can tap the transform tool and just pull out that from the canvas because that means that it has actually been deleted. Then I'll tap the transform tool, and now we don't have anything on that layer. That's a good thing to know in procreate that if you move things out of the canvas, they are deleted. But now let's head into that layer again. Layer three. I will pull that below the flower layer. I will tap the brush monoline one, and now I just want to draw around little blob here. As you can see, it doesn't matter if I draw here unless I come up there because then you can see the brown from beneath the flour. You can either just draw in like this, or you can draw around little blob. And then you can tap and drag to fill the motif, the outline with the color. Now we have a flower with a brown blob in the center. The next thing that we want to do is to duplicate the flour because we will place the exact same motif. This one, just a copy of that one at the edges of the canvas to create a repeating pattern. What we'll do first is to just swipe to the right on the flower layer and let's call this, blob and the blob layer, swipe to the right, tap the layers settings up here and tap group. Now I will swipe the right on that group and tap duplicate. That means that we have duplicated this group. If I now tap the transform tool and move the group, you can see that I'm moving the full layers. You could also merge the layers. Let me show you how to do that. You can tap that flour and tap merge down, or you can swipe them together. That way, you have made it so that the brown and the white layers are on one layer that is perfectly fine to do. However, what I always go for when I create patterns is to separate the layers as much as possible because I don't know if I want to change the colors later on and right now when we have solid shapes, it will probably be okay to change the colors even though we have them on one layer. But when we start to use textures and things like that, it will be much more difficult. I always have it as a rule to keep my layers or my colors on separate layers. I will just delete that group where I used as an example and I will duplicate this group with the flour. I will actually duplicate it so that I have four copies. I was swipe to the right and duplicate the group, swipe to the right, duplicate the group. Now I have three copies and duplicate the group. Now I have four copies of that flower. This is the very easiest way to create a pattern. It only works with a few very simple motifs because I will show you what we will do next. We will take one of these groups, take the top one, for example, I will just zoom out a bit so that I can see the edges of my full canvas here. Then I will take the full group, tap the transform tool and then again, make sure that you have bicubic as a setting over here. We went through that earlier in this class, but in the interpolation setting, always have bicubic when you create patterns to keep the best resolution as possible. So what we will do is just to take this flower, as you can see, we have some little nodes here that mark the center or the edges and the center of the edges of your layers or of your motifs on that layer. So what I would do is to tap and drag. Again, I make sure that I have snapping and magnetics turned on under the snapping settings because this way, I will tap and drag up and you can zoom in a little bit. As you can see, it snaps when it's at the center, these blue little blobs. So this one that you pull to the top right corner, you want it to snap exactly at those blue nodes. If you don't you make it like this, you won't get a repeating pattern. Make sure that it snaps and that you have these yellow guidelines. When you have snapped it, you tap the transform tool and that way you have placed a fourth of that flower to the top right corner. You will understand why in a moment, but just keep creating with me and I will show you how this becomes a pattern. Choose the next group with a flower in the blob, tap the transform tool, tap and drag up to the top left corner. You can zoom in if you need to and just make sure that it snaps over there. On both that side and this side. This is a little bit sensitive or a lot sensitive to if you happen to notch a pixel over here or over there, then it won't match correctly. This is also why I don't prefer this method and you will see later on in this class, which method I prefer to make patterns in Procreate, but this is the simplest way to do it. I wanted to show you that first. When it's snapped, you tap the transform tool and now you tap the next group and tap the transformed chub and you drag it to the bottom left. When you see the yellow guidelines, you tap the transformed chub to place it, zooming out again, tap the layers again, tap the last one of the copies, the group, and then you pull that to the bottom right corner and you can zoom in and you see that it had these yellow guidelines and you snap it and tap the transform tool to place it. As you can see now, we have placed the flower, a fourth of the flower in each corner. That way we have made that flower repeat. So what we can do now is to just tap at the top of your layers panel and you can swipe down with three fingers and tap copy all, or you can tap actions panel and tap Copy Canvas, and then you tap either the action panel and paste, or you can swipe down and tap Paste. Both works. So now you have that merged image, which is what you see on your canvas on one layer. What we want to do now is to tap the transform tool because now we want to see how this pattern repeats. You tap the transform tool, and now you zoom out so that you see all of the edges of your canvas. You have snapping and magnetics turned on steel and uniform selected, and then you tap in the bottom right node, and you drag that one down until you see half of the size of your Canvas, which is 1,500 pixels. If you think that this is a little bit difficult, you can turn on the drawing guide. You can tap the access panel, Canvas drawing guide, Edit drawing guide, and pull up the grid size to maximum and then tap the chick. Now you have divided your Canvas into a guideline that is at the very center. Now we can tap that image again, tap the transform tool, zoom out so that you see the four corner nodes and then you tap and drag until it snaps can't be 15 oh one. It needs to be 1,500 exactly. Then you let go and tap the transform tool. Then we will duplicate this layer by swiping to the right, duplicate it, tap the transform tool, and then we will tap and drag until it snaps with the yellow guidelines over here and then place it with the transform tool. Then you can merge these layers together by squeezing them together or tapping the top layer and tap merge down. Now we can swipe to the right on that merged layer and tap duplicate, tap the transform tool and drag it down until it snaps and then tap the transform tool to place it. Now we can merge these layers together. You have a repeated pattern tile over there. We can just turn off the drawing guide by tapping the action panel Canvas, turn off the drawing guide. And here you can see that you have created your first repeating pattern in Procreate. This is a very simple pattern with only one motif that we pulled out to the edges. You can do this technique with a little bit more advanced motifs, but it's hard to get the snapping right at the edges, and I would recommend the other methods that I will teach you later on in this class because those will make it more possible to make your patterns right from the first time. So this is your very first pattern. As you can see, I just want to show you now where the patentile is. Let me just quickly outline the pentile for you. We started by creating a flower at the center and then a fourth of that flower on each center. The pentile is actually here then is just repeated to the top to the bottom, and to the sides. That is the basic of a repeating pattern and also how this pattern works. Now you have created your first repeating pattern and we will move on to the next method. 6. Method 2: Build Your Floral Motif: Let's get started with method number two of creating a pattern. Before we start, I just want to mention that method number one that we did in the previous lesson. That is the very basic way of creating a repeat pattern. You can't use that with all different types of patterns and with a bunch of different motifs because it will get really hard to make a pattern that way. However, I just wanted to show you that because that is the easiest way to create a pattern in Procreate. These two next methods, method number two and method number three, they will give you exactly the same result and you can create exactly the same type of pattern with these two methods. Which one you use depends on which one you prefer. I prefer method number three, and that is the method that doesn't leave room for too many errors. So that is my preferred method. But method number two works perfectly great for creating patterns as well. It's just a matter of making a little bit more room for making some more errors when you create patterns. However, some prefer Method number two, and then you can use that. So with that said, let's move on and create a pattern with method number two. The first thing that we will do is to tap the plus, and as you created the 3,000 pixels square, you can scroll down and you have that at the very bottom. So we created that canvas in the previous lesson, so we can just tap that, and we will create a new canvas with exactly same settings as you did in the previous lesson. So for this pattern, we will tap the layers panel, and on the first layer, we will use the cream white color from the first pattern color palette, and I can just tap the layer and tap fill layer. So now we have a background box with a cream white color. If you want to continue to name your layers, you can definitely do that as we did in the previous lesson. I will just move on with creating the patterns without naming the layers because to be honest, I usually don't name the layers when I create. So we have our background, and now we want to create our floral motif. So what I will do is to tap the plus, and I want to use the medium green color here from these three green colors. So I will tap that one. I will tap the first pattern brush set, and I will tap the stem stamp. So in this method, in this lesson that we will create this pattern, we will use the stamps as well. However, you can definitely draw your motifs as well. But we will use the stamps in this method, and in the last method, we will draw our own motifs. So use the stem, and I have made it so convenient. I have made 100% in brush size is the perfect size so that you will create the same size of your floral motif as me. Again, we stamp one time with our stamp on the canvas. It really doesn't matter where it ends up as long as it's not cut off by the edge. When you have that on a layer, you tap the Transform tool, you make sure that you have snapping and magnetics turned on. And then you just tap and drag your motif until you have two yellow lines, which is there. We have yellow line there and yellow line there. Now we have that in the center. We might want to shift this a little bit further down when we have placed our florals, our flowers on this stem because then the center of the whole motif will be a little bit switched. However, for now, we will use it like this and then tap the Transform tool. Then I will tap the layers panel and I will tap the plaster to add a new layer. Because again, as I mentioned before, when we create different parts of the motifs and especially different colors, we want to separate them in layers so that we easily can recolor the pattern later on. So with a new layer, I will choose the purple color and the flower stamp. And now we can choose the size of the stamp. This is a little bit too small. Let's see here. I have 58 saved. I think that that works great. So I will just zoom in a little bit and turn the canvas, as you can see, if I turn the canvas that way, the flour will rotate along with me. I will just tap two fingers undo and I can swim in a little bit, and if I have the canvas straight and place a flower, the flour will be placed straight up, but I want it to move a little bit to the right as the stem here moves a little bit to the right, so it will just look a little bit better. I'm just twisting my canvas a little bit. And then when I think that it has a good angle, I place it. Over there. Yeah, that looks perfect. Then I have my first flower and I can rotate back with two fingers and pulling the canvas in different directions. I will try a different size. Let's try 37 in brush size on the flower and move it around a little bit until I find a good angle for that. Maybe over there. I don't want these two flowers to overlap for desmotif. You definitely can if you want to, but I don't want that. And then I move on to the third one and I rotate the canvas. We can save that if we want to. Save, oops, tap that, tap the plus, to save that size. And let's just put it down a little bit. So we had 37. Let's do 33 and see, maybe a little bit. 29. So that's a smaller one. Yeah, I think that looks good. So now we have the three flowers. Can we save that? Yeah. So we have three sizes saved now 58, 37, and 29. If we want to save the sizes or reuse the sizes of the floral stamp brush, we know that those were those sizes. Okay. Moving on. Tap the layer that has the stem on it and tap the plus. Now I want to add the center parts of the flowers. So I will tap the color palette, tap the brown color, tap the brush set and monoline one. And one thing that I want to mention is to make sure in this pattern, you can, of course, do as you want to, but that you have 100% in opacity. Otherwise, you will get a brush that is different from the other colors. All of the colors on this pattern should be 100% opacity. Now I will just draw in my little blobes here. Oops. What happened? I don't know. And I will just draw the blob there. As you can see, I don't mind if I go up here because that won't show, but if I go up there, that will show. So we'll just undo that. And then here. And here I can see a little thing that I don't like, and that is that this green part is shown here. So if I zoom in, you can see the green part there. So now the eraser tool will come in handy. So I will tap the eraser tool, and I will use Monoline one with eraser tool and go on the stem layer. So make sure you're on the stem layer. And with the eraser tool, I can pull down the brush size a little bit, and I will just erase this green that I can see through here. So that was easy. And actually, I have a little bit here too. Can you see that? I will just erase that. Okay. So now this looks great. And the next thing that we want to do is that we want to swipe to the right on these three layers, tap the layers panel tap group. And now I want to tap the group, and I will just move it to the center because now you can see, if you zoom out that the flower with the stems aren't exactly in the center. So I can just tap the group, tap the Transform tool, and move my flower. It's snapped quite far down now. So now we have the yellow guidelines, and we have it in the center, and I tap the Transform tool. Okay, great. The next thing that we want to do now is to repeat this motif to the edges. But instead of duplicating the group as we did before and trying to match up the edges of the motif, we will now duplicate all of the layers. So I already have the flowers in a group, and I will swipe to the right on the background layer as well because now we want the background box to be able to repeat this. So I will tap the layers panel, tap group, and now I will duplicate the whole group. So then I can duplicate it a bunch of times. And this works exactly the same as we did previously. So I will duplicate this so that I have four copies. And actually, I will turn off the visibility of this first group so that we clearly can see what we are doing. And then how you make this pattern is that you move the whole group with a background box, tap the Transform tool, make sure you have snapping and magnetics set in, and then you tap and drag until you reach those yellow guidelines, and then you tap the Transform tool. This one we moved up to the top left corner. Now we're moving the second group, tap the Transform tool, tap and drag to the top right corner and use the yellow guidelines to know that you're correct. And then you tap the Transform tool, and then we tap the next group, tap the Transform tool, tap and drag to the bottom left corner, tap the Transform tool again to deselect and then tap the next group line and tap and drag to the bottom left corner. So here's the thing with this method. This is a great method. However, if you just happen to nudge this box a little bit, your pattern will end up with white lines in it and won't be repeated correctly. With white lines, I mean that part of the background will be shown because the edges of the pattern aren't repeated correctly. What we need to make sure when we do this tap and drag click version, is that you place these parts of the pattern correctly. If you are unsure, oops, I will do undo there. I would turn on the drawing guide, edit drawing guide and tap up the grid size to maximum. Is to say maximum, nothing else, and then to degrade. Then I would tap the group again and tap and drag and it snaps easier when you have the drawing guide selected. So now we could create another flower over here. However, as you want to do a really quick and easy pattern, I will make a copy of the original flower and just flip it. But this is the basics of the pattern tile that what we had inside is turned outside so that you can fill this space with other motifs. You will learn more about this in the next method of creating patterns. So for each method, your skill level will grow. But what I will do now is that I will just delete these layers with the four white squares which are over here, and then I will tap. I will select those to the right, and then I will tap the layers panel up here and tap delete and delete. Now we have all of those deleted. And if I turn on the group at the bottom, you can see that we still have our flour. So now we have a repeating pattern with the flower at the center and it's repeated at the edges. I actually is the same type of motif, the same type of repeated pattern as in Method one. However, how we reached there is a little bit different because we moved the actual background tile. By doing that, you can add more motifs if you want to, and it will be easier to fit them in the edges of the pattern. I hope that that made sense. Otherwise, you will learn more in the next method, method number three, about this. What I want to do now, I will just turn off the drawing guide, and what I want to do now is just to flip this flower. I will twist it so that it's in the other direction. I will tap that group with the flower in the center, tap the Transform tool, and here I'll just tap flip horizontal. That means that I have some flowers pointing that direction and some flowers pointing in this direction. So now we have our finished pattern, and the next thing that we will do is just to tap at the top here and swipe down with three fingers, tap, copy all, swipe down with three fingers, tap, paste, and then you can swipe to the right. So this is another way of achieving the same result as in the last lesson. I'm just doing four copies of that, tapping the Transform tool, and then I can tap and drag one of them to the top left. The next one, tap in the bottom left corner node, and pull it up to the top, right, sorry. Then the next one, tap in the top right corner node, and rag it down until you reach 1,500 pixels. You need to make sure that it says exactly 1,500 pixels. Then you let go and tap. The Transform tool, and then the last one tap in the top left corner and pull it down to 1,500 pixels and you have your yellow guidelines here and tap the Transform tool. Then you can merge these patterns together. So this is your repeated pattern, and this is your pentile. Even though if you mess up with the moving of the squares, you still haven't messed up your pentile so everything looks good here and we have created our second floral pattern with method number two. Let's head back to the gallery, and it's time to create the last pattern in this class with method number three. 7. Method 3: Create Your Pattern Template: Let's create the last pattern in this class with method number three, which I call the Selection Method, and it's my favorite way of creating patterns Procreate. The first thing that we will do is to create our own pattern perfect template. I will just tap into this so I will show you what it is, and you can see the different numbers here. Shows, if you tap the selection tool, save a load, it shows where the different selections are. In this pattern perfect template, you have a total of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight selections that are saved in this procreate file, which means that you can use this file, reuse it, duplicate the file before you start creating a new pattern, and reuse it and you know that you will always end up with a perfect aligned pattern. However, I still want to show you how to create these selections yourself. I will show you firstly now before we create the pattern in Method number three, how to create a canvas with these four selections. We will only create four selections. Follow along because it can be good to know and understand how you do this for yourself. But then later on, if you want to use the Pattern perfect template and just skip the step of creating your own selections, then that's perfectly fine. But I just want to show you how you can do it yourself. This is the first step then before we start to create actual pattern. Tap the plus and we still have our SRGB, 3,000 pixels square. This is a really simple thing to do to create these selections. I'll just zoom out so that I have my full canvas here, and then I will tap into the color panel. I can tap and drag my color panel out here. And tap the little palette symbol there, and here I get my premade color palette. You can create this selection canvas with any colors, but I will just use these as I have them here. The first thing that I would do is to tap the layers panel, and here I have my first layer, so I will just tap this layer and fill the layer with any color you want to, but I'm using the purple. Then I will tap the plus, and I will use another color. Doesn't matter which color you use, and you can even use the purple for this as well. But I will create four different squares with four different colors because it's easier to see what you are doing. Then I will tap the layer, tap fill layer, tap the plus, tap another color, tap the layer, tap filler, tap the plus, tap another color, and tap fill layer. We have four layers with four different colors. Now I can tap the little cross symbol here to turn off the visibility of the color panel. Now I will tap into the layers panel and zoom out the bits so that I both have my layers panel with the layers and my canvas here and I can see all of the edges of the canvas. Now I will tap the Transform tool with one of these layers selected. And here I will tap in the top left corner node and make sure that I have this little chain symbol tapped in so that it's blue, which means that I have the same size here as there in this case, with this file, but it really means that you keep the dimensions of the file. So I will tap in 1,500 pixels, and that is half of the size of my canvas. And I have a perfect square that is half of the size of my canvas that is aligned to the top left corner. Then I will tap the Transform tool to place it. Next, I will tap the next layer, tap the Transform tool, tap in the right cornon node, and I will type in 1,500, and then I will tap the Transform tool. Then I will tap the next layer, tap in the bottom left cornonde, type in 1,500 and tap the Transform tool. And the last layer, zoom out so that you can see the bottom right corner node, tap in that one, 1,500. And here you have four perfectly sized squares that is half of the size of the canvas, and they are perfectly aligned to the top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right of your canvas. So there's nothing in between here. There's no white in between, that's very important that they need to be half exactly half of the size of the canvas and perfectly aligned. The next thing that I will do is tap the top layer, tap the layer, tap, select. As you can see, I have this layer selected now and then I will tap Save a load and tap the plus to save this selection. What that means, you will understand later on. But for now, just follow my lead and you will end up with a really good template that you can reuse over and over again. Next, I will tap the next layer, tap the layer, tap, select, tap, save and load. And tap the plus. That is Selection two. Next, I will tap the next layer, tap select, tap Save and load, and tap the plus. That is Selection three and tap the next layer, tap select, save and load and tap the plus. That is Selection four. Even though we will remove the visibility of these layers now, when we tap the selection tool, save a load. Selection four, I have this little corner of our future pentle selected. Selection three, Selection two and Selection one. If you don't see these marks that I have, you can tap the actions panel and tap preferences here Selection mask visibility. Maybe you have it to zero ops. But I want mine to be up. Let's just save it or open it up again and you can choose. For me, it's easier to have it around 70% because then it's very easy for you to see on screen which selection I have chosen. That is all that you need to do to use this Canvas as a pattern template. The next thing that I will do is just to delete all of these layers. I swipe to the right, tap the layers panel and tap delete. This is your ready made pattern template. You can even write pattern template here. That's exactly the same as this one, although in this one, you have more selections that you can use both for full drop patterns like the ones that we create in this class, but also they come in really handy when we create more advanced patterns such as brick or half drop patterns. 8. Method 3: Draw the Sketch: Now we have our pattern template, and now we just tap into that, and it's time to create our pattern. So during this class, we have learned about how a repeating pattern works. What you need to do to repeat the pattern that the motifs need to be matched in the edges. However, we have kept it really simple and used the stamp brushes. But now we will create with the other brushes and draw our motifs. But if you feel during this lesson that that is too much for you, then you can still use the stamp brushes. So in this pattern, I will draw a flower that looks almost like this one, a little bit more wonky, and I will draw leaves that looks almost like this one. So you can still use the stamp brushes, if you want to, if you don't want to follow along and draw with me. However, I do recommend that you follow along with the sketch at the start. And then if you want to use the stamp brushes, you can stamp after that, or you can draw along with me. I also want to mention that placement of the motifs in a pattern is really important for how your overall pattern looks, so how the pattern is balanced and how it looks for your eyes. In this class, I've already made this pattern, and I will show you where to place the motifs so that it looks good. I suggest that you follow along and place your motifs. Almost at the same place or exactly at the same place as I place my motifs. That way you will end up with the same type of pattern. If you play some motifs on different places, then you will see that your pattern might look very imbalanced or really, really good. You don't know that before you tried it. But to learn this pattern, it's easiest to just follow my lead and create the flowers and the leaves on the same places or almost the same places as I do. Okay, so with that said, we will start with sketch. So we haven't started with the sketch before. I will go for classic and just black as my color, and you don't need to sketch any of your patterns or all of your patterns. It really depends on how you like to work. For me, when I create patterns that are a little bit more maybe not complex, but that has more motifs than one motif or that has a motif that is a little bit more complex, then I like to sketch my motifs. So for this, I use the perfect pencil from the first pattern brush set and black as my color. And let's see, 44. That works pretty good. I will just roughly sketch out this pattern. So we are going to create these types of flowers. So that's pretty simple, and it feels like many people can draw that type of flower. It doesn't matter if it looks like this or like this, you know, you can draw however you want. You can draw a flower like this. But I'm just keeping it to a kind of simple floral shape so that it's easy to follow along. I'm just going to undo those, and then I'm going to draw the flowers, and also the leaves that I will draw are just these types of leaves. And I also want to mention that when we draw our sketch, I'm going to draw pretty rough and quick, and then I will fix the shapes later on. But also this pattern will look a little bit wonky, a little bit hand drawn. That's kind of the idea with the whole pattern. So let's move on with the sketch. So I will draw a flower, and you can see I'm not super detail about that it should supposed to be even. I don't mind that. I will just draw different shapes of the flower. Although I think that I have one, two, three, four, five petals, I think that I want to have one, two, three, 45 petals on each flower. Let's draw a flower over here four, five, one, two, three. That one didn't turn out that good. This is the best part of using a sketch that you can get the rough shape of the flower before you draw the final motif. So I think that that looks good. They are kind of similar in size, but they still are a little bit different in size and also wonky. From here, what I do is that I will just fill out this space with leaves in different directions. I will just draw a leaf like this and a leaf maybe like that. I'm trying to fill out the space and not keep all of the leaves in the same direction like this because then it won't look that organic. I'm just trying to fill out the space and also it's fine if there's a little bit more space here or air in between the motifs and a little bit less here. I won't mind that. And I'm just twisting the pattern around a bit, trying to make this whole thing look nice. I also want to mention that it's fine if your pattern doesn't turn out perfectly balanced and things like that. We are just practicing using two pretty simple motifs and how to fill a pattern and how to make your pattern tile seamless. Then you can experiment with over and over again different types of motifs and different types of flowers, anything you want to draw. But this is just a first try on creating a pattern this way. Okay. So when we have our sketch, I will tap the layers panel and I will tap the plus sign, and I need to add a background layer. So I will tap and drag and use this as my background layer. And you can choose any color. For now, I will just do a white color, tap and drag to fill that layer with white. You can see it now, but it's actually filled with white. And then I will duplicate or not duplicate. I will swipe to the right on this, tap the layers panel and tap group. And then I will tap the group, and now comes the flip part. Now I will tap the Selection tool, save a load, Selection four. If you have the group selected and you get I will show you an error message. This is usually the most common thing that happens here is that you tap the selections tool and you get this error message. You currently have a group selected, would you like to open layers? Even if you tap open layers there, nothing happens. If you tap cancel, nothing happens. What has happened then is that you need to tap one layer, tap the selection tool, and you should have color fill here, and I always have free hand as well. If you tap off the color fill, so you don't have that selected, and then you make sure you have free hand selected. When you tap the group again and tap the selection tool, then you can get into the selections and tap the selections. If it still doesn't work for you, when you tap, let's see, I will show you again, so you don't need to follow my lead here. I will just show you the error message. If you tap here and you tap group and Selection tool, and this happens, tap cancel, and if it doesn't work for you by unchecking the color fill option, I would tap into the layers and swipe to the right on both of the layers and then tap the selection tool. That way, you can select your selections even though you have the color fill. So I hope that makes sense, and that is the most common issue that people have with this method. So I will tap into one layer, tap the selection tool, make sure I have color fill, not selected. Then I will tap into group, tap the selections tool, tap Save and load, Selection four. And then I will tap the Transform tool, and that has selected that selection. I will flip vertical and flip horizontal. Then I will tap the Transform tool again, and I have flipped this square inside and out. Then I will tap the group again, tap the Selection tool, save and load, Selection three, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal. So that means that I have flipped that little square inside and out. Tap the Transform tool, and then I will make sure I have the group selected, although you don't need to go into layers panel between each of these flips. I'm just showing you. I will tap the selection tool, save and load, Selection two, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal. It doesn't matter in which order you flip horizontal and flip vertical, you just tap one time on flip vertical and one time on flip horizontal. Then I will tap into the Selection tool again, save and load Selection one. Tap the Transform tool, and this time around, I can flip horizontal first and then flip vertical, and then I will tap the Transform tool. What has happened now is that all of these four squares has flipped inside and out so that you can fill this space with motifs and make the repeat pattern. Because what was usually, let me show you the edge of the pattern. This was the horizontal edge that was here and here, and this was the vertical edge. This was the horizontal edge and this was the vertical edge. This was previously here and here, and this was previously here and here. As you can see that what you draw here will actually end up there and there and actually there and there when we flip the pattern around again. That is the magic of a seamless repeating pattern that it repeats at the edges. Okay. I hope that makes sense. Now I will just tap the group and I will tap the Transform tool. In this pattern, it doesn't matter that much, but your pattern has also rotated. What I will do is rotate 45 degrees four times, tap one time, two time, three times four time, and that will leave me in the same direction as I drew this sketching. Then I will tap the Transform tool, and now I'm ready to fill out the space with more. Flowers and leaves. I will just choose black as my color and the perfect pencil again, which size did I use 44. That doesn't matter that much because this is just a rough sketch. Then I will I think I will make a flower somewhere here in the center. Oops. Something like that, maybe not that big. Oops. Maybe smaller. One, two, three, four, five. That feels good. And then I will add leaves to these places here. Let's see. Maybe this one should be in this direction. I'm trying to make the leaves in different direction so that they won't so that the pattern will look more balanced. Let me see what to do here. Maybe one leaf like this and one leaf like that. Yeah, that would probably look good. Then over there and over there, I don't know. Maybe I want to flip the pattern around again to see what I can do over here. Then I can take the group tap the Selection tool, tap save a load, and Selection four and tap the Transform tool, and I will actually just flip it vertical. That way, only the bottom comes in and not the sides. Then I will tap Selection three, tap the Transform tool. Tap the group, tap Selection three, tap the Transform tool and only flip vertical. Then I need to do that with Selection one and two, as well. I will tap the selection tool, save a load, Selection two, flip vertical, tap the Transform tool again to deselect and then tap the selection tool to select, save a load Selection one, tap the Transform tool and flip vertical. Now I have flipped it there, so I can just rotate 45 degrees four times and then tap into the sketch layer, and here I can see that I might want to just erase a little bit or move the leaves a little bit to make them. Look good next to each other. There might be a good spot for that type of leave that goes in that direction, and then maybe one that goes in this direction and one that goes in this direction. But that turned out a little bit empty there, maybe I can just do a larger one there. Then I can see that if I just change this petal of the flower a little bit, it fills out this space. I can just erase a little bit there and fill out that space. Okay, so I'm starting to feel that this looks good, but it might look a little bit empty here now, so I will flip it around again. So tap the group, tap the Selection tool, and now we want to flip the edges in sell tap saving load, Selection four, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal. Tap the Selection tool again to deselect and tap it again to select Save and load, Selection three, tap the Transform tool. Oops, flip vertical and flip horizontal. Tap the selections tool to deselect and tap it again to select Save and load, Selection two, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal, and tap the Selection two to deselect and tap it again to select, Selection one in the saving load, tap the Transform tool flip vertical and flip horizontal. As I suspected, we have a little bit of empty space there. I'll just fill that in. I can erase a little bit of this leaf and see what I can do here. Maybe if I do one there, one there, and I might want to redraw this. This is why we create the sketch because now it will be much easier to draw our motifs. Now we made the sketch and it's time to draw the actual pattern. 9. Method 3: Make the Pattern: First thing that we would do to create this pattern to draw the actual motifs are to first, change the color of the background layer. So I will tap and drag out my color panel and tap the little palette symbol, and the background color can be this light green color. So I can tap and drag to fill the background with that layer. So that is our background layer. The sketch layer, we can just rename that to sketch because it can be hard to see in this little thumbnail what it is. And then I will tap the N and drag down the opacity so I can draw on top of my sketch layer without seeing the full black white lines. So you can drag down your opacity. I will keep it around 15%, so you can see it on screen, you can put it down even further if you want to. We have an extra layer up here that we don't use, so I just delete that one. I don't know if you have that, probably not, but I have. Then I will tap the plus above the sketch layer so we can draw above that and I will use one of the monoline brushes. You can choose if you want to use the monoline one or the monoline two brush. Let's use we can try the monoline one for the flowers and the monoline two for the leaves. I will use the cream white. And arrange my canvas, and then I will draw the flowers. Let's see what size this have. That's probably good. I want to mention one thing now when we are drawing our own flowers. If you draw like this and you feel that it's too wonky or that is too streamlined, that it follows your hand too much or too little, you can always adjust how that works. I would recommend to duplicate a brush before you edit the brush. I will swipe to the right and duplicate it and then I will tap into that one here under stabilization, you have the streamline. This one is pretty streamlined, and then you have the stabilization. You can try it out. I don't like to have too much of that actually, and I like mine as it is. But you can try it out and have less if you wanted more wonky or have more. It was set to around 93, I think, because then it will give you a more smoother lines. So that is just a way to adjust your brushes. But I will delete that one because I like the original one and I will tap into the moonine brush, and I can just tap the Transform tool here and move out this because I delete everything that I move out of the edge of my canvas, and then I have an empty layer, and then I can draw my motifs. Okay, so let's start with the flowers. I will draw all of the flowers that aren't cut off by the edges. I won't draw these ones that are on the edge or any other motifs that are on the edge. I will only draw the motifs that are inside of the edge of the canvas that aren't cut off, which means this, this and this flower. And then we will flip the pattern around and draw the ones. Okay, so let's see. I will just draw like this. Also pretty rough. I don't want to have perfect flowers. So I'm just kind of following my sketch, but maybe making it a little more smooth, also as the mononine brush is a little smooth. So now we have three outlined flowers. I can tap and drag in the color to fill it. And if you tap and drag and you drag up and down the threshold, you can't see that much of that now. But if I drag up the threshold to maximum. You will fill the whole canvas, and if you have a textured brush and pull it down, you will get a little edge around. That doesn't really matter. What matters now is that you can have it around here, 80 or 70%, and then you can tap continue fill, and fill in those shapes as well. Or you can drag and drop to fill in those shapes. So that is good. Now if you want to see your sketch above, you can tap and drag that layer above so you can see the little dots if you want to see them. Then you can tap the plus and I will use the monoline again and the brown color, and I will just move in here and draw those little dots. I'm drawing them. You can of course, use a dot like this, but I want mine to be a little bit wonky. So I'm just drawing them. Oops, I wanted it to be smaller. I like the wonkiness of this. Okay, good. Now I will just drag that one or actually drag the sketch below my flowers like that, and then I will draw the leaves. I will tap the sketch layer or above the dots layer and tap the plast add a new layer, and now we will draw the leaves. The leaves, I will draw with this monoline too because it's a little bit tapered, so it will be easier to get those little pointy shapes of the leaf. And I will use the darker green color there and you can either have it zoomed out if you want to and draw the leaves like this or you can zoom in. It really depends on how you like to draw and tap a fill. Make sure you have all of the outline filled in. But I will have it a little bit more zoomed out just because it's easier for me to show you how to draw the leaves. And I'm just making sure when you want to fill a shape, you want to make sure that the edges match. If the edges doesn't match and you try to fill it in, then you will fill the whole canvas. You can redraw it if you want to or just fill it in so that you have a solid line here, and then fill that in. So that is good to know about procreate. I will only draw the leaves that aren't cut off by the edge of the canvas. Here, I changed that angle of the leaf just because I felt that those two were the same angle. And here I will do a little bit of cheat because I don't want to I will just draw that here. I won't mind that it's a little bit cut off there. I will just draw it on top of the edge there or above the edge. You can't draw something here because then it will be not repeated on the top. So I will just make sure that it's not cut off by the edge. Okay, so now I've drawn all of the leaves that aren't cut off by the edge. Now I'll tap and drag, continue filling, and just fill in this by tapping. Okay. So the next step is to just add some lines on the leaves. I will tap the plaster add a new layer, and I will just use the background color. You can tap and hold to use the background color or choose the background color in your color palette. I will use them on line two. And let's see. Here I had 9%, so I can save that for the outer parts of the leaf. And let's just try 3%, and I can see if I like that. No, I think it's a little too small. Maybe I can use 9%. Yeah, that looks good, I think. I think it's a little bit wonky now when I draw I want a smoother line. I will actually go in and duplicate that brush, tap into the new brush, and I will adjust the amount of streamline and actually a little bit of stabilization, too. So I have, let's see, 85% in streamline and 28% in stabilization. And now I will try again and see if I get a smoother line. Yeah. That brings me a smoother line on the leaves. And then I'm just adding a line here at the center of the leaves kind of quickly just to add a little bit more interest to the pattern so that there's something more happening in the pattern. Okay. So now we will flip the pattern around. I will tap the new group. We need to make sure that all of our layers are within the group. If we, for example, have a layer, That, I'm just going to show you now, you don't need to do this. Outside of the group, let's say that the background layer is outside of the group, then you won't be flipping the pattern correctly. Then you need to tap that layer and drag it in the group and drop it. You can also adjust the placement of the layers within the group, of course, as we did previous in this lesson. So I will tap the group, tap the selection tool, save and load Selection four, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal. Then I will tap the Selection tool again to deselect, tap it again to select Selection three, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal. Then I will tap the Selection tool again to deselect and tap it again to select Selection two, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal. Tap the selection tool to deselect and tap it again, save and load Selection one, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical and flip horizontal. Then I will tap the Transform tool and rotate 45 degrees four times so that I get it in the same direction as I draw it in. Then I will tap into the white flowers layer, the monoline one brush, and my cream white, and I will draw this flower. I zoom in a bit and just draw that one because that isn't cut off by the edge, tap and drag to fill it. I would just move into my brown dots layer and just draw a little dot here. I won't mind if it's not perfect. Perfectly like the sketch. And then this flower is cut off by the edge. So I will draw the leaves, so I will tap into the leaves layer, the darker color, darker green color, the moon line. We did the monoline too, I think for the leaves. And draw the different leaves here. And as I mentioned before, if you want to use the stamps, you can use the stamps. I can show you how that would look. You would just use the leaf stamp and you can twist it around and add the stemps like that. But I will draw my leaves. For this lesson, And here's a little leaf leaf. And maybe I should draw that one on that side looks better, I think. Let's see how that works with that one as well. Okay, tap and drag the color to fill the leaves. Oops. Like that. Then we need to add the little lines. So use them on line three and the background color and just add some lines. Just being loose on the hand so that if I push too much on the brush, put too much pressure, the line will go too thick. If I have too little pressure, the line will be too thin. I want the lines to be the same thickness. Okay, so as I can see it now, I don't like these lines actually, they were too thick. Let's try again. I think this is better. That's better. Except this line, I will raise that and draw a new one. Now I need to flip the top and the bottom part of the pattern. I will tap into the full group, tap the selection tool, save a load, Selection four. Now I will tap the Transform tool and I will only flip it vertical and then I will tap the Selection tool to deselect, tap Save a load, Selection three. Tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, tap the selection tool again to deselect, tap it again, save a load Selection two, tap the Transform tool, flip vertical, and tap the selection tool again to deselect and tap it again to select. Save a load Selection one, tap the Transform tool and flip vertical. Then I can tap the Transform tool and I actually like the way that the flowers are seen here. I will keep it like that and then tap the white flowers layer, the monoline brush flower color, the cream white, and I will draw this last flour, tap and drag to feel the layer, tap the brown in the colour palette, and just draw in a little dot ops in the center of the flour. What's important to me in this pattern is that it looks kind of balanced with the sizes so that the leaves are kind of the same size, the flowers are kind of the same size, the dots are kind of the same size. That is the look that I'm after for this pattern. Okay, so now I think we are ready to try out the pattern. So what I will do is turn off the sketch layer, and now I will try out the pattern. So I will swipe down three fingers, tap, copy all, swipe down with three fingers, tap paste, and I will tap and drag this above the group. And then I can keep the group or turn off the group if you feel that that is a little bit annoying. And then I will swipe to the right and duplicate this four times. And as you have seen in the previous lessons, you can do this in different ways. And now I will do it in this way where I take the Transform tool on one layer. I will tap the top left corner node, make sure I have the chain symbol tapped in and type in 1,500. Then I will tap the layers panel, tap the next layer, tap the top right corner node, and type in 1,500. Tap the next layer, tap in the bottom left corner node, and type in 1,500, and then the next layer. As you can see, I would just make an example here. If I drag and drop, it's possible that I get a little bit of pixels there if it doesn't snap correctly or if I happen to snap correctly, but then I still move my canvas. Oops, that didn't happen. But if I try to snap it, and then I accidentally move it. Well, not that much, but then you get a pattern that's not repeated correctly. So it's better or it's easier to make sure that you don't make that mistake by tapping the corner node in the bottom corner node now and typing 1,500. That way you would have the exact right dimensions and it will be placed exactly right on the canvas. If we merge these four layers together, this is your repeated pattern, and this is your parentile. So this is your repeated pattern, and for me, this looks great. So now you have created all of the three different patterns with three different methods here I Procreate. And what we will do now is to practice on how to recolor these patterns and also how to export them so that you can use them however you want. 10. Recolor Your Patterns: Okay, so we have created three patterns, and now I will show you how to recolor the patterns. So let's have a look at this pattern, for example, as we have that the recoloring works exactly the same with all different patterns, so it doesn't matter which one you use. However, I will tap into gallery first and I will select my three patterns, and I will tap stack. So I have those in a stack, tap the little chick symbol there, and then I can tap in throws. I will just duplicate the pattern that I want to recolor because I don't want to recolor my original, so I will tap that one and tap duplicate. So now I have a copy here and I can tap into that. The easiest and what I feel is the best way of recoloring where you have total control of your colors is when you have created a pattern that has separate layers exactly as we have down here because then you can very easily recolor the different layers. Usually, it doesn't matter if you have a bunch of textures and things like that, they will still be able to recolor perfectly because you have kept the colors separate on different layers. That is my first tip. If you want to be able to recolor your patterns, keep the different colors on separate layers. How we recolor now is that let's say that we have other colors. Should we just use the same color palette maybe and recolor. Let's do that. I will tap into the layers panel and tap the background layer. Then I can tap the purple layer or purple color, tap the layer and tap fill layer. So that is a very simple way to change the background color of your pattern. It's very easy because your background color fills the whole camas. However, if you would like to recolor, let's say that we want to use a darker purple now. I go to Classic and I just drag down my color here to this little bit more darker purple, and I want to color the layer with the leaves. I can't just tap the layer and tap the layer because that will fill the whole layer with a purple color. I would just undo with two fingers. What I need to do is that I can either tap and drag like this and recolor different motifs with different colors. However, the whole idea by keeping the different motifs that have the same color on a separate layer is that it's very easy to recolor them. By tapping the layer, tap Alpha lock, you can see that you have this little chick pattern, which means that everything else is transparent except the motifs that you have drawn on this layer. Then you can tap the layer and tap the layer. So then only the motifs that you have drawn on this layer will be recolored. So I can tap and hold to select the background color or tap the purple in the color palette, tap the next layer with little limes, tap alpha oc, and tap fill layer. And now I have recolored that as well. I can tap the white, although maybe I want the white to be white the brown, I can tap phalok and I might want those to be green, for example. I will tap the green color and fill layer. Now I have recolored the whole pattern. And if you want to save a color, let's say we have this new purple color over here, in your color palette, you can just tap one of those little squares and you have saved that color. You can tap and hole and clear the swatch. Or you can tap and hold and set current color. That is how you save a color. You can drag your colors here in the color palette. And that way, you can save all of the new colors. So that is how you recolor a pattern this way. So now I want to show you how to recolor in another way. So tap gallery, and let's use should we use the same? Maybe we should use the same so that we can see the difference. So I'll tap that pattern, tap duplicate, tap the chick, and tap the pattern template or tap in the file. Now if we have it flat and like this, you can tap here and you can tap hue saturation and brightness. And here you can see that you can very quickly recolor your pattern to a different Hue, for example, the pink was really nice and then saturation, you can make it more saturated or less or keep it at the middle, make it brighter or make it darker. Although what I recommend if you want to recolor patterns like this is to mostly work with the hue. That way you will get the same vibe in the pattern as your original, but just different colors. But as you can see, you can't control the colors as much here. You could also head in to one of the layers, tap the hue and saturation and just adjust the hue or saturation of that layer. That is a little trick to keep that more controlled, and you can tap into the background layer oops, Hue saturation, and try out different background colors. This is not my preferred way of changing the color because I feel that you have more control when you tap and drag and choose the color. But that is one other way of changing the colors. Okay, so that is the basics of how to change the colors of your patterns. 11. Test Your Pattern: We have already tried out our patterns in Procreate by repeating them like this where we match the tiles together to get a repeating pattern. If you want to try out how your pattern repeats in a smaller scale. You can duplicate that one. I will just make four copies and one original. And we are in one of the patterns now. It doesn't matter which one. And you can tap the Transform tool and you can tap in the bottom left corner node or top left corner node, type in 1,500 when you have the chain symbol tapped in, tap the next layer, tap in the top right corner node, type in 1,500, and then tap in the next layer, tap in the bottom left corner node, type in 1,500. And in the next layer and tap in 1,500 in the bottom right cordon. This is one way of trying out how your pattern repeats. Another way, I will just merge these together. You can swipe down with your fingertap copy, swipe down with your fingerstap paste, and now we have a flattened image of our pattern tile there. What we can do now is to try out the pattern in the pattern tester on my website. What we do then is that we double tap Procreate so that you get Procreate as a separate window like this. Then I tap and drag it over here somewhere. We can make it smaller, and then I tap up my menu here. I will tap Safari and pull this one adjust the size and drag it beside this one. Then I can tap my layers panel, tap and drag. The pentile in my repeat pattern tester on my website. Then I can double tap Safari, here, if we scroll up, this is an online free tool. You can see how your pattern is repeated in small scale, in large scale, and drag it up and down to see that you have a seamless pattern with no white lines and you can see how the pattern is balanced. That is a quick way of trying out your pattern. You can try it out in procreate and you can try it out in the repeat pattern tester on my website. 12. Export Your Patterns: The next step is to export your patterns so that you can use them however you want to use them. Maybe you want to create products from them. Maybe you want to print them on your printer at home or sell them online or whatever you want to do, you can use these files. So you can export the pattern tile, which is this one, and you can export your repeated patterns. Which is these ones. So to export these in this size, what you do is, let's export the parentile first. This was exactly the same with all files, so I will only show you with this pattern. We have the parentle here. We'll tap the actions panel share and you can export your procreate file if you want to save it for later. But if you want to use this file, for printing or whatever, I would export it as a JPEG or a PNG. I usually use JPEG. I will use that, export JPEG, and then you can save it to your files or save it to your image folder. And if you want it to save as the right name, you can tap here pattern template and write your name. Let's say bold floral pattern, for example. And then we can use this as a diamond, floral, and this as simple floral or whatever you want to name them. So I just tapped the name, wrote the name of the pattern and tapped Enter. So now I have both floral pattern, diamond floral and simple floral. You can export it from here as well. If you tap one of these, tap Share, and you can export to JPEG. And save it to your files, let's tap into one of those again, if you want to save your repeated pattern, this one, or this one, let's just use this one. You can just turn that one on, tap the actions panel, share JPEG, and either save to your camerao or save to your files. So another thing to mention is that if you want to use this pattern on a different size, let's say that you want to print this pattern on a print on demand product that demands you to have the pattern in a certain size, then you can't just resize the canvas because that way you will lose resolution of your file. So how you will do that is that you will tap the plus size tap new canvas. Let's say that we need a completely new size. We want 5,000 pixels times 2,800 or whatever, random size. And then tap. The little chick symbol. Then we will tap the actions panel, a insert a file. You can choose if you want to insert the bold floral repeated pattern or your pattern tile, I will import the repeated pattern, and then I can drag it over here. For example, you can also make it smaller if you want to, but I think it looks good there. Then I will swipe to the right to duplicate it, and then I will just pull it out there and tap the Transform tool. Make sure that the tile aligns next to each other. If you get the white line, let's see how we can do that. If you do I can't get the white line, but let's say that we just move it like this and we get a little white line in between. Then that will not make your pattern repeat correctly in this file. Be sure it's easier when you have snapping and magnetics to place it exactly next to each other. And here you have your repeated pattern on a different size. Let's see. Now you can save this size if you want to use that size for something later on. Now you know how to export your patterns so that you can use them however you want. 13. What's Next?: Before we wrap up this class, take a moment to look at what you just created. You started this class by learning what a repeating pattern actually is, and now you created three finished floral patterns in Procreate, using three different pattern making methods. You learn how a patentile works, how to make the edges repeat seamlessly, how to work with brushes, stamps, layers, selections, and the Transform tool, and how to recolor, test, and export your finished patterns. Hopefully, you also seen that pattern design doesn't have to be complicated. You can start really simple and build your skills as you go. If you want to keep creating, I have something extra for you. I put together a free sample of my Painterly Florals pattern kit. It's a fun next step if you want to practice creating more floral patterns with ready made creative resources to help you along the way. Inside the free sample, you will get a small selection of resources from the full Painterly Florals Pattern Kit that you can download and use Inprocrate. You can grab it completely free through the link that I've shared in this class. If you enjoy the sample and want to keep going, you can also check out the full Painterly Florals Pattern Kit, where you'll find even more resources and inspiration to create your own floral patterns. Most importantly, keep practicing. Try these three pattern making methods again with different motifs, colors, and ideas and see what you can come up with on your own. The more patterns you make, the more natural the process will start to feel. I would also love to see what you create, make sure to share your patterns if you can. And if you share them on Instagram, feel free to tag me with Maja Faber so I can see your work. Thank you so much for joining me in this class. I hope that you had fun, learn something new, and feel excited to keep creating patterns in Procreate.