Mid-Century Illustration Fun: Make it Purr!

1. Introduction: A mid century series wouldn't be complete without cats and a little spotlight on the atomic age. So here we are. Hello, mid century lovers and welcome to another class in my Mid century Illustration fun series. I'm Yuta an artist and educator from the Middle of Germany. Mid century Illustration is my absolute favorite style. And over the years, I've created several classes, exploring it from different angles. All focused on making the style playful, approachable, and fun to work with. In this class, we're going to create these iconic, elegant atomic cats in classic mid century style. We'll work with clean shapes, bold colors, and subtle texture, inspired by vintage prints, fabrics and wallpapers of the Atomic age. I'll also show you how you can turn your illustration into a seamless repeat pattern because atomic cat items at home are kind of a must. We'll be working digitally in Procreate again, and the class comes with a custom brush set and a color palette so you can focus on creating. I'll guide you step by step from the first sketch to the final textures until you end up with a seamless repeat pattern full of retro charm. This is part four of my mid century Illustration fun series. And if that's your vibe, make sure you check out the other classes as well. Alright, ready to make it per, then let the fun begin. 2. Class Project & Preparations: In this class, we'll illustrate a cat in a typical Atomic Age design and turn it into a seamless repeat pattern. I'd love for you to upload at least your kiddy illustration, but if you've created more and turned them into a seamless repeat pattern, go ahead and upload those two. We'd love to see everything that you create. Before I started my design, I built a small visual library, the same way I explain it in my flagship class. If you'd like to understand this process in more depth, make sure to check that class out as well. For this project, I collected motifs I wanted to include along with typical color combinations. But as always, it's perfectly fine to follow along step by step and draw what I'm drawing just to get the hang of it, and then you can adjust things to match your own style ideas. This class comes with a custom propriate brush set and a color palette. You'll find these resources in the projects and resources tab as a ZIP file. Once you download it, the file will be saved in the Files app on your iPad. To unpack it, simply tap the file and to import everything into Procreate, tap these files once more, and your iPad will take care of the rest. And that's all the preparation we need. So let's move on and take a closer look at the Atomic Age and its visual characteristics. I'll see you in the next lesson. B 3. Atomic Age & Visual Language: Before we start drawing, I want to take a quick step back and talk about the atomic age and the visual language behind it because understanding that makes designing in this style much easier. The atomic age refers roughly to the period after World War two, mainly the 50s and early 60s. It was a time shaped by new technology, science, and a strong belief in progress and the future. And all of that showed up very clearly in art and design. Visually, atomic age design became more abstract, graphic and playful. Instead of realistic illustrations, artists use bold shapes and simplified forms to express ideas like energy, movement, and optimism. Typical elements you'll see again and again are things like starburs, boomerang shapes, orbit lines, and sparkles. These shapes don't represent one specific object. They're more like the symbols for motion, speed, and futuristic mindset. What's important here is that atomic age art wasn't about realism. It was about stylization. And this is exactly where cats come in. Cats wear a surprisingly popular motif in mid century and atomic age design, not because of science fiction stories, but because of their shape language. Cats have long elegant bodies, strong curves, and very recognizable silhouettes, which makes them perfect for graphic abstraction. When you reduce a cat into its essential shapes, it suddenly fits beautifully in the same visual world as starbursts and boomerangs. The curves echo each other. The forms feel balanced, and everything works together in a very modern decorative way. So, in short, cat content back then worked just as well as it does today. Another important part of atomic age design was textile printing, especially on fabrics like bar cloth, a heavy textured cotton that was very popular for curtains, upholstery, and home decor. Because prints were applied directly onto this textured surface, they naturally looked a bit grainy and imperfect, and that's where a bit of wonkiness comes in. All right. Now we know what we're aiming for in this class, so let's move on and start with our sketch. I'll see you in the next lesson. He 4. Sketch: All right. Let's get the fun started here. I'm already in Procreate with my trusty four by five Canvas. It's 2000 by 2,500 pixels white, and I have my wonderful brush set and my color palette handy. As usual, we will start with our sketch. That means I'm going to get my sketcher, and I will first start with my rule of thirds. Usually I start with it by dividing my canvas in three equal segments. By length and also by width, just to see where to put my focal point, the main motif on my canvas. Illustrations are usually the most interesting when the main motif is on either of those joints here or on either of these axises. So that's what we're going to aim for in this illustration, as well. Well first start with a single cat with a fun background, a typical mid century atomic background, and later on, we're going to add more cats and we will turn it into a pattern. Let's get going with our first kitty cat, which is going to be a Sim cat. Back in the days, the Sim cats were really on trend in the 50s and 60s. They were exotic. They were something new, and they were just overly a sign for future for progress for moving onwards. So that's why you see a lot of Sim cats in this era's illustrations. Absolute typical sign for mid century cat is a very white and pointy head and a very slim and extremely long body. No one cared really for proper proportion. It should be nothing less than realistic. That's what we're aiming for here too. I want the cat's head to be up here with two point ears, and it's going to have a very long neck and a slim one. Then this is where it lays. It's a lay cat. It has a nice curve here. Like this. And I feel the bottom is a little bit too big. So I'm going to make it a bit smaller. And let's turn off snappingsF now, like this. And I guess I want to squish it a little bit. It's a little too high. Something like this. Yes. Okay, so going to work on this pose here. And again, in this era, illustrations were absolutely minimal. They were reduced to the absolute minimum of information. So we're going to stick to that as well. So the cat's going to have one leg here, one front paw, and another one here. Something like this and a rear leg as well. Maybe like so, and then a nice curved tail. And this is all we need for a cat. Of course, it's going to have this dark area in their face and blue eyes. And it's going to look really majestic. So that's something all cats had in this kind of illustrations. They were all looking like queens or kings, like on a throne, like, really, they're the best. They need to be adored and they knew that they should be adored all the time. So that's what we want to picture in our illustration as well. Alright, this is the cat, and then let's add another layer and pull it underneath for our background. In the atomic era, you'll find a certain set of shapes in all kind of illustrations and a lot of artworks, an atomic sign it is stars, of course. It's trapezoids. And then there's these boomerang shapes. It might be indicating the orbit of a planet or of a moon or also of the electrons around a nucleus. So that was really famous and often used symbols. So this is what we're going to include in our illustration, as well. We're going to start with trapezoids, and I guess they're going to be kind of the cats go to overlapping them. Let's put just three here, kind of the same and later on, we can just copy and paste the shape and just fill it with different colors. Let's see how that matches something like so. And then maybe another trapezoid kind of here. Maybe like so. And then we have our atom shape kind of here somewhere, and the nucleus in the center, and maybe some stars around it to indicate this is the future. Like so. And maybe down here, we are going to add our boomerang shape which couldn't be miss. And here we're just going to have some sort of a post. And there's a star in the center. Something like this and maybe we're going to have another star down here. So that's the sketch. For our illustration, it has everything. We want a picture, the cat, atomic features, and I think we spread everything nicely. So let's move on to the next lesson where we block out our colors. I see you there. 5. Meow!: All right. Welcome back. Here we are with our sketch, and in our next step, we are going to turn down the opacity a little bit, and I think I'm going to make the background invisible for now, as it's going to be a little bit distracting right now. So I leave my rule of thirds just to make sure that the cat is where I want it to be. And then I'm just going to add a new layer. I think I will start with the background color right away, which is going to be my brown tone here. Brown was just a typical color from back then, and I think it matches nicely with a lighter cat. All right, that's the background layer. So let's add another layer, and we're going to start with our cat. First of all, I want to prep my canvas a little bit because I need to work with the symmetry tool quite a bit in this illustration. Unlike my regular illustration style, this one is pretty crisp and pretty symmetrical. That means lines are straight. They're not jagged. And we don't have so many wonky lines in this one. So this is what we use the help of Procreate for. I want to turn on the drawing guide for this one, which is here under the wrench tool. Drawing guide, I'm going to turn that on and then I'm going to tap dit drawing guide, and I will set it to symmetry. Now you see we have this symmetry line here in the center where it doesn't really help me. We can move the bar a little bit and I want to set it onto the axis of my rule of thirds. Just here, just drag the blue node and just move it around to where you want to have it. This is where the symmetry is going to happen now. We tap done, let me turn of the rule of thirds. Here you can see this small line here. Turn on the rule of thirds again. And in my next step, I switch to this off white U and to my catad stamp, which is really fun. So I'm on this layer. It says assisted for now. But when you stamp, it can cause a problem. When you just want to have a single shape and the drawing assist is on, I show you what happens. You get those two heads right away. You get them mirrored. So that's not what we want. For now, I'm going to turn drawing assist off, and I'm just going to at my cat head. So I just sm and the head appears, and now I want to move it onto my bar here from the symmetry. I'm just going to make sure that the nodes are on the symmetry axis right now. Alright. And that's enough. Okay. The head is there. It's a little bit wider than a sketch, but that doesn't really matter. That's okay. So let's move on with the body of our cat. I will add another layer underneath the head. And then I'm going to switch to my nice liner tapered brush. And here again, I don't want the symmetry right now, the drawing assist right now because then our cat would end up with two necks. We don't want that. We just want the body like this. So I'm going to draw a really Oh, my gosh, it's a little bit too big. Let's go with this size. I'm gonna draw a really big and thin long neck and go back up. Then I'm going to close the shape and fill it with color. Let's turn on the sketch so we see. I think the back could be a little bit longer. Alright, so that's the basic shape of our cat. Now it needs the paws. So Asymcat had a cream colored fur, but it used to have like dark legs and this dark shadow in their face. So that's what we're going to draw here now. Let's add another layer on top of the cat's body. And then we're going to switch to black. Oh, wait a second. No, our cat needs a tail. So let's go back and draw the tail first, back to beige. And now I think we can increase the brush size a little bit. My nice liner tapered is pressure sensitive. So by pressing harder, the strokes going to get wider, and by loosening up, the strokes going to get thinner, which is really nice. This way, you don't have the equal width of the stroke all the way around. So that's exactly how I want my tail to look like. I'm just going to add a nice flowy curve, something like this. Yes. That's a very majestic tail poster. All right. So the basic body is finished. Let's move on to our already added layer on top and draw first a front leg. And then we go behind the cat's body, add there another layer, and here we're going to add the other paw. Perfect. All right. We want to add the darker spot in the cat's face. So let's go to the head and add another layer on top. And here we want to use symmetry. That's for sure. And in our next step, we want to fill the ears, but we don't want to go beyond the line of the shape. So I'm going to go and select the head. And then I'm going to go back to the black layer here. And I also want to erase the center of the ear. All right, we can turn off the selection. And what I'm looking for next are the eyes. So a Siam cat has definitely blue eyes. So I'm gonna pick my teal here and I'm going to pick my cat eyes dam brush, and then let's see what size the eyes are. A little bit too big. So let's make them a little bit smaller. And place them in the center. Oh, brilliant. In our next step, I guess, I also want to add a little tiny nose in pink. I didn't show you that yet. With this little square here, I can turn on and off my drawing assist. This is a function. I've set here, wrench tool, preferences, gesture controls, assisted drawing. You can see I've put here on tap this rectangle, so I can toggle on and off by just tapping this rectangle icon. Wanted to show you in case you want to do that, too. I'm going to turn on the drawing guide, drawing assist on, and I need to change my brush. I go back to the nice liner taper, adjust the brush size, and then I'm just going to draw a teeny tiny triangular nose. All right. On the next layer on top of the eyes, we want to have the pupils, and I want to turn this layer into a clipping mask, so it doesn't draw beyond the shape of the eyes. So let's say clipping mask. Yes. Oh, great. Okay, we miss some whisker. So let's add some whiskers, too. On which layer should we do that? Let's go to the black layer where we indicated the ears and the face. I think the only thing I want to add is below the black ears, I want to have pink to indicate the inside of the ears, just to add a little bit more interest. So I'm going to add another layer on top. Oh Wonderful. Yes, that's a great sin cat. I love it. I just think she should have her head a little bit tilted. Let's go and mark all the layers that belong to the cat's head, which is all of those. And I'm gonna group them, as well. And then I'm just gonna go and tilt the entire thing. Great. Let's turn off everything that's distracting our eyes. Also, the drawing assist here. Alright. Oh, yes, that looks fantastic. I really like this kitty cat. I just noticed we're missing the black tail, so I want to go back. I think I'm going to go back to this layer with the legs, but I'm going to select my cat's body first. Go back to this black layer, turn my color to black, go to the nice liner tapered. And then I can only draw where the tail is. Okay. Yes, now I think we have everything. Let me see. Yes, this cat looks fantastic. Let's move on to the next lesson, where I will show you how we can add this wonderful mid century offset to our kitty cat. I will see you there. 6. Misalignments: Okay, and welcome back. So a mid century illustration wouldn't be mid century if there wouldn't be this nice misalignment and fabric was no different. So this is what we want to add to this illustration as well. First of all, we want to group the entire cat. Let's mark everything. That's the body and also the group with the hat. And now we turn it into a group again. Let's name our group just to keep it in order. Let's name it cat. All right. What I want to achieve now is I want to keep my background layer fully intact, which will help us later on when we are going to create our seamless pattern. That's why we're going to go a different route this time, which is even easier. What I want to do now is I want to duplicate the group with our Sim cat. Then this group can just be flattened. That means everything that was on those multiple layers before is now combined into one layer, this one, now we want to turn on Alpha c and we are going to fill it with this off white so we tap it again and we tap Fill layer. Alright, now we just have the white shape of our cat, and I'm going to put it underneath our cat, but within the group. Next step I want to do is I'm going to tap the move tool and I'm going to move the cat bottom layer, the white shape, I'm going to move it to the side, and now we can see this nice misalignment here. Although it doesn't really make sense for now, but bear with me, we're going to get there. In our next step, that we have the cat itself also interacting with the color underneath. We want to turn the blend mode into linear burn. So all the layers belonging to the cat, let's see. It's for sure, the rear leg. Let's turn the blend mode to linear burn by tapping the N and then moving towards linear burn. Then we go the neck to the next layer, which is the cat's body. We tap the N, we set it to linear burn, and now you can already see what happens here. So those two layers on top of each other, the colors are interacting with one another. So the off white from the bottom layer from the white shape interacts now with the white from the layer on top, which, which turns it into this beige cream shade. And since we misaligned the bottom layer, we also get this darker outline here, which is just amazing. It's subtle. It's there, and it creates this vintage feel right away. Okay, let's move on to the cat's head. Now, to the legs here, the front legs, we also make them. Turn them to linear burn. And I saw this problem here. The real leg interacts, of course, with the body, which makes it kind of translucent. So we're just gonna erase what peeks into the body. Just like so wonderful. Alright. Again, let's move on. So let's open the head group. H. Next, we want to turn the black into linear burn. And I guess also the pupils, otherwise, we have a weird contrast between two black tones. A, let's also turn those into linear burn. Yes. I see a little bit of a problem here where the neck pokes into the head, so we just erase what's peeking into the shape here. Just roughly as good as you can. Yes. Amazing. Yes, and here we go. So our cat with the offset feel is now finished. And it looks gorgeous. I really like it. Alright, then let's move on to the next lesson. Where are we going to take care of the background? I see you there. 7. Background: All right, here we go again. So let's turn on our sketches again. Here's the cat. And here's the rule of thirds. Looks really nice. And here, let's bring our background sketch to the top and turn that on. And I guess our cat is really nicely located. It's absolutely on the focal axises, and I like that a lot. Time to take care of the background. Let's turn of the cat sketch and make the background sketch a little bit more invisible. And now we can shift around items when we feel like it should be there should be some changes. So I think I think this rectangle here should move up a little bit like this that it doesn't have the same heights as our boomerang kind of shape here. And I guess these can move down also a little bit those trapezoids here. Just to have some variation in heights and not everything on the same level. First of all, we can close the group that we are not distracted by too many layers, and then we are going to add another layer right on top of our background. Start with turquois. No, not with turquoise because the eyes are already turquois. So let's go with orange here. Let's pick orange. And then I'm going to pick my selection tool. I am at free hand. And then I just I will just make the trapezoids with the selection tool, and fill it with color. Tata. That's great. We don't need anything else. We are just going to duplicate this layer now. Just duplicate it. Just turn it into Alpha lock by either swiping with two fingers to the right. Although, for whatever reason, I find that highly complicated. I like to tap the layer once more and then just tap Alpha lock. And now you see the checkered pattern, that means you're only going to add color to the shape, the pixel shape that is already there on this layer, and nowhere else. And now we change our color too. Let's go with a yellow U. And then we say fill layer. And now we can move it to the side. I just see there is a problem. We apparently have k here. Okay. Now that's gone. And to have a little bit of interest here, I'm going to tilt it a tiny tat, just a diny. Okay. So let's now duplicate this layer once more. It is already an alpha lock, and now we're going to go with our teal. And we tap fill layer, and we move it to the side as well, and we might tilt it in the other direction. So even though it's three equal shapes, they look completely different. Okay, let's move on. We definitely add another layer, and then we're going to go with our selection tool again. Behind the cat here, we're gonna make the next trapezoid shape. Close it. And this one, I think we fill with pink. Tata. And then our boomerang shape, add another layer. Go to green. And then we're going to pick our boomerang stamp here. And we're just gonna let's see where we at, maybe a little bit bigger. Yes, but I want to flip it, so I'm just going to tap the move tool and say flip horizontal. And then I'm going to move it where I want it to be somewhere here. Awesome. I like it. And then we need a star. We definitely need a star here. So I'm going to add another layer. I'm going to go to black, and then I'm going to pick my starburst, brush stamp. And this one is also pressure sensitive. So if you tap lightly, you get a small star. But if you press harder, it's going to get a bigger one. Alright. And I want a small one here in the center. So I'm just gonna press lightly, and then we have a star here. I think I changed my mind. I think I don't like. When the star is on this post here, I might just put it over here instead, wow that's too big. Like this. And I'm actually unsure about the post. Let's see how it looks, and maybe we don't just use it. That's totally fine. I think I want to go with my nice liner mono now, which is set to 5%. Let's undo, Let's make it a little bit bigger. And now let's check and see what we've got. We like it. Churned out the sketch. Yeah, I think that's nice. I think we can keep that. Okay, but it's still super empty here. So let's add more items to the background. Let's see. I think we need our atomic sign here. Let's stay too black. And let's pick the atom brush stamp here. And then we're gonna stamp it just up here. But I want to add a little bit more interest. I want to have a nucleus, which could be yellow. Whoops. Of course, I need to go back to my nice liner brush. And then I'm just gonna draw a circle here in the center. Data, move it center is. And then I want to give those electrons a color too. That could be on the same layer. I just want to select the atom shape again. And now I can only paint on those pixel from the atom shape, and then we go back to the yellow layer. We pick let's say we pick turquoise. One electron in turquoise. One, let's say in green. And the last one I get in orange again. Cool. Hey I love it. Alright, I think we need more stars. Let's go back to the star layer and stamp them here. So a bigger one and a smaller one here. And then I guess I want white stars. How about that? We add another layer, go to our off white. And I think I want a big one. Oh, that's too small. A big one? No. But I want to move it here. It's on the edge a little bit. And a smaller one. Kind of here. And another big one, how about we put that here. So let's turn off our rule of thirds and check what we've got. Oh, yes, it looks fantastic. Just the post here, I guess I'm gonna ditch that post. I think it doesn't really add to the illustration. It's just confusing, so I'm just going to delete it. Here we go. Yes. Alright. I love it. The only thing that I don't like is that we don't have the offset yet. So let's add that, as well. So again, as we did it before, we are going to mark all the layers belonging to the shapes that are on top of our background. We turn them into a group. And now we just want to duplicate the group, tap it once more, and just tap flatten. And now we have all the items again, combined in one layer. We turn on alpha lock. And we fill it with white, and then we drag it underneath into our group. You can check it's now on the bottom. And now we can move it to the side to create this wonderful offset. Although it's not really working nicely yet, because our colors don't interact with each other. So that means we need to change the blend modes again. Whoops. Tap the N, go to Linear Burn, and right away, it's interacting with the layers underneath. And that's exactly what we want. So let's go on and do that with all those colored shapes. M. The only thing that's bothering me is, I guess, that the white stars can't be really red anymore. That's why I just want to go to this white layer here. Um, turn off Alpha lock. And then I'm just gonna erase That's fantastic. I like how the colors and the shapes are distributed. I like how the colors interact with the layers underneath. And I'm really happy with the outcome for now. The only thing that's missing now is the beautiful texture, and this is what we're going to do in our next lesson. I'll see you there. Um, 8. Texture: Okay, welcome back. Now it's time to do a little bit of a housekeeping. Name our group. We rename it. Background shapes All right. This one is our background color that's clear, technically, we could erase our sketch layers. When you're short on layers, make sure you do that, and I'm going to add another layer on top of our Sim cat and I will turn the blend mode to multiply right away, and next, I will pick my stipples brush. Next, I need to change the color to black. And now you see beautiful marks and stipples are added. It's just a little bit too obvious, so I'm going to turn down the opacity here. And then we add another layer. Now we go to white, and we add some marks in white as well. But again, too much too light, too bright. So let's turn down the opacity as well. Okay. Step one done. Now we need the bug cloth texture, which is this beautiful brush here. Here we go. We pick that. We go onto a new layer. Add a new layer, turn the blend mode to linear burn again to have the texture interacting with each of the colors, which makes it blend in right away and very nicely. And I guess I will stick to my off white tone and let's see what we've got. Yes, that's dark enough already. All right. Now you can see in some areas, it's a little darker, in some area, it's a little lighter. And again, this is way too obvious for my taste. I'm just going to turn down the opacity until I like the result. So in some areas, it's almost invisible, and in some it's a little bit darker. That's exactly what we're aiming for. So it already has this fabricy texture. The last thing I want to add is a little bit of noise. So I'm going to add yet another layer. Again, turn the blend mode to linear burn. And this time, I'm going to switch to my beige color here and I'm going to pick my noise texture brush. That just blends everything in super nicely. It creates this kind of stipply noisy texture, but it also interacts with the colors and makes them even more vivid and even more mid century. I don't know how to explain that. It's a little bit too dark, though. So I'm going to turn down the opacity once more. And here we are with our final illustration of our Sim cat. This would work on its own perfectly well. You could print it out, you could make it a poster. You could upload it to your print on demand shops, and people are probably gonna drag it out of your hands. However, I want to turn it into a seamless repeat pattern, so we could also have it printed on a wallpaper or a fabric, which would look really, really cool. So let's move on to the next lesson where I'll show you how we're going to do that. I'll see you there. 9. Pattern: All right, time to make the pattern. And this is what I did. I took the original we just drew. I selected it, and I duplicated it into this one. And let's open this canvas now. Before we can start making it a pattern, we need to adjust a little bit to make it easier for us. Let's open the layers panel. First of all, I've added more cats. I did that off camera, but I'm going to explain you what I've done. So let me show you. Let's turn off the Sim cat. Let's turn on our cat couple. So here, I have a girl and a boy cat next to each other. It's basically the same shape as the other laying cat, the sim cat we made before. Then I've added a sitting cat, not a laying cat, a sitting cat, and this one is just the black one. This one is just the white one. That's our couple. Let's call it cat couple. Next, I've added a ginger cat, which is stretching right now. Pretty simple, pretty straightforward. And then, of course, you know, no Atomic illustration is complete without an astro cat. Here we have our astro cat, which is basically the same shape as the boyfriend cat in our couple just with a helmet and the head is not tilted. So that's the only difference. And it looks like, really, you know, proud, maybe or maybe annoyed. I don't know. Maybe the food in space doesn't really taste so yummy. I don't know. Anyhow, that's the Astro cat. What I also did, though, I've flattened these cats, but I flattened them without the white background. And this is what we have to add now. Because if I would have flattened them with this white shape in the background, then we couldn't create this beautiful color interaction anymore because then the linear burn is not possible anymore. So that's why I removed the white shape background, and then I flattened it without. So let's duplicate our Astrocat then we select the layer. We pick our off white, and then we fill it. All right. We drag it underneath and put it to the side a little bit. Like this, maybe. And then we can turn our original cat back to linear burn, and we have the interactions again. Great. This is exactly how I want it to look like. So let's make it a group again. Let's do the same with our ginger. But I just see, like, we need to fill the ears. And then we can turn original into linear burn again, make it a group, tied up. So these are all my cats, and now we need to shrink them. They're way too big to all fit into this tiny canvas, if you will. So what we can do now is just mug all the groups and then shrink them all together. They need to be really tiny. I guess that's a good size that they fit basically in a quarter of this canvas. Alright, and now we want to move them around. So let's see. I think I want to name the layers again. Which one is this one? Okay. I want to name this cat couple that I know what I'm dragging around. Here we have ginger. Here we have Okay, Astro and here we have Siam. And Siam is the one I'm going to. Oh, interesting. We still have the background problem here. That is so funny. I think it's with the orange. Here we go. Alright. So, let's see. Let's start with our Sim cat. Let's move it here in the top right corner. Like this, I think that's okay. All right. Next one is our ginger. Let's turn that off. Let's turn Astro off. And I guess ginger should be flipped. Let's flip ginger. Let's mark the layer, go to the move tool, and flip horizontal. And then we're gonna drag her down maybe like over here. And next, what do we have next? Now we need our Astro cat. Astro, I want to place half of it down here and half of it down there. This way, we don't have to be super careful with everything we do that everything is lined up and, you know, like duplicate layers, duplicate move it around. We want to go with Procreates built in tools, and they are really helpful. So let's first of all, I show you what to do. Let's just duplicate the Astrocat then we want to turn everything else off beside one besides one Astro cat. So now I want to move Astro cat down here in this corner. And for that, I now need snapping. Okay. So let's move it down here that we have it snap to this line with the center nodes and to the bottom line with the bottom notes. Alright. And now we can do the same. With the other one. I just want to turn this off to not have it interact in a weird way with this side that we have the snapping happening easier and more correct. Yellow line, yellow line, snapped in. Perfect. All right. So this can be on. This can be on. This can be on. And Ginger was on, as well. And now we only have our beautiful cat couple, although I think I still want to move my Sim cat over here. And I guess the ginger goes into the center, maybe like this. And then I want to have the couple here and here. Let's see. Let's open the couple. And I guess we want to flip that, as well. Let's mark this layer. Let's go to the move tool, flip horizontal. Turn it off, and then we duplicate the couple as well. All right. And now we do the same trick. We are going to move it up. One couple we're going to move up, one couple we going to move down. But we want to have it snap with the center. Let me show you. I want to turn everything else off again and just move this one up. So the center nodes. So they snap here and there. We have the golden line here. We have the golden line there. Okay. And now let's see if it works with all the other cats. Oh, brilliant. Yes, I like it. I like it. And now let's see if it still works with our background. I think we have to drag a few things around. Let's see. First of all, let's see. I think for now, I want to get rid of the stars. And here we have a problem here with the white. All right. And I think the ginger is a little bit too close to the orange rectangle. So what I want to do is what I now want to do is just select the entire group through all layers. Procreate can do that. And then we're just going to move the entire shapes up here like this. And now it's not interacting with ginger any longer. And then we can move this group around as well. Here, the Atomic sign and the stars. And this is absolutely awesome. I love it. I think we can add a white star Let's turn the visibility of this one on again. I think we can move these stars here over there. Oh, I cut off a piece of the star. Let's do it again. So like this one, we can move these stars over here. Let's turn off snapping. It's easier to move the. Maybe like this. Oh, yes. Oh, yes, I like that. And what could we do with the white one? I guess it's just too much here. Let's just erase that. Let's try out how it looks when we add another star. Maybe a small one here and maybe a small one there, maybe a little bit bigger. Like this. So let's turn on our texture layers again. And now it's time to check if it's going to work as a pattern. But to not make any destructive changes to this one, we're going to do the same trick as we did before. We're going to go to the gallery. We're going to swipe to the left, we say duplicate, and then we open the duplicate. All right. And here in our duplicate, we can flatten all these cat layers with the background. So we only have one colored layer, and we mark all the five layers that are left and turn them into a group. This way, we don't have so many layers, which makes it easier for the one with a smaller iPad. So let's duplicate this three times. We go to group one. We go to the move tool, we enable snapping. And now we go to shrink it by half. And that can be a little bit tough with all the texture, so we're just going to tap it in the corner. Instead of 2000 by 2,500, we're just gonna type in thousand by 1,250, and that shrinks it automatically by half. Okay, we go to the next group. Move tool, the other corner node, 1,000. Boom, shrink. Oh, I can't wait to see. If I it fits, it's so exciting every time again. Alright, group three. Move tool, corner node, 1,000. And last group. Move tool, Corner node, 1,000. And here we go. You guys, I matches perfectly. There's no seam. There's no odd line. The texture matches up perfectly, and it just looks so cool. And this is our pattern. And as you can see, you don't always need a square tile to make a pattern. It also works with a rectangle. I think it creates even more interest if it's a rectangle because then it's harder to see where the repeat starts, and I'm really happy with how this has turned out. So I hope you give this a try and you show us your single cat, and your pattern maybe in the project gallery. So now let's move on to our final video where we wrap up the class. I'll see you there. A 10. Wrap Up: And that's it. Congratulations. You know now how to create a mid century Atomic cat illustration and turn it into a seamless repeat pattern. I'd absolutely love to see what you create, so make sure you upload your project to the project gallery. Feel free to share your art online and tag me. I always enjoy to see your art out in the wild and following along with what you create. If you enjoyed this class and found it helpful, a quick review really helps and means a lot to me. 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