Mini Pattern Collection in Procreate: Summer Theme

1. Intro: Hey, I'm Maya Faber. I'm a surface pattern designer and online teacher with over 100,000 students worldwide. In this class, I'm going to teach you how to create a summer themed mini pattern collection in Procreate. We will explore how to find inspiration from the summer season. Think sunny beach days, ice cream, playful waves and bright colors. We will also work with a seasonal color palette to make sure your mini collection captures the vibrant vibe of summer. I will guide you step by step on how to create a pattern from scratch in procreate, and how to use pattern layout templates to make the entire process more fun, easy, and seamless. As a bonus, this class includes my free Power Pack Procreate brush set, featuring 20 of my favorite brushes, including two pattern layout templates that I will show you how to use during the class. Using the Power Pack is optional, but I highly recommend it to follow along and to get the most out of this learning experience. This is a fun creative class, perfect for anyone looking to practice designing pattern collections around a specific theme. You will need a basic understanding in Procreate before you watch this class, and it's good if you have created at least a few patterns before. If you never made a pattern in Procreate, I recommend checking out my class on creating an editable pattern with color variations in Procreate before diving into this class. And if you're eager to dive even deeper into pattern design, be sure to check out pattern Rebels, my membership program. In Pattern Rebels, you will get access to monthly design classes, resources like Procrit brushes, color palettes, mockups, and pattern layout templates. Plus, we have monthly design challenges, feedback sessions, and Q&A opportunities where you can ask me anything about design or running a creative business. You can learn more at pattern rebels.com. This class is also part of my mini pattern collection series where we explore how to create small but cohesive pattern collections around different themes. If you enjoy this class, be sure to check out the other classes in the series like the Easter theme, Christmas theme, Valentine's theme or Halloween theme. So with all of this said, let's get started with creating your summer pattern collections. 2. Your Project: For this class project, you will create your own summer themed mini pattern collection in Procreate. Your collection will include at least three patterns inspired by the summer season and using a seasonal color palette. Feel free to use my free Power Pack Procreate brush set to make the process easier or work with your own brushes. Once you have completed your mini collection, share your patterns in the project gallery. I can't wait to see what you create. 3. Downloads & Resources: This class, you will have access to my free Power Pack Procreate brush set, which includes 20 of my favorite brushes designed to streamline your pattern making process. This set also includes two pattern layout templates that we will use during the class to make designing your mini collection more efficient and enjoyable. While using the power Pack is optional, I highly recommend it for the best possible learning experience. Download the brush set, download the PDF from the project and resources section, and tap the link in the PDF. Or you can go to mayfaor.com slash POWEPAC. Write in your name and email address, and you will get the Power PAC delivered straight to your inbox. In the class, I'm also using my summer and vacation Pinterest board for inspiration. I made this board specifically for you, my students in this class. Feel free to stick to just using this premade board. Or if you want to take it a step further, you can gather your own inspiration on Pinterest yourself. I've also included a summer color palette that is free to download as well. All of the links to the downloads, you will find in the PDF that you can download in the project and resources section here in class. If you want to use the mockups that I'm showing you here in the class, the five summer themed Procrit mockups, you can either join my membership Panebos in the All Access plan, which will give you the mockups for free, or you can go to my webshop at mafavo.com where you can buy these mockups, as well as the other mockups from my other mini pattern collection classes. 4. Make Pattern Template: So the very first thing that we will do in this class is to create a pattern template that you can reuse over and over again when you create patterns in Procreate. If you've been watching some other online classes, for example, in my membership Pattern Rebels, or if you have watched the other classes in this mini pattern collection series, you probably have created a pattern template before, and if so, you can just skip this lesson. But if you haven't created a pattern template before, then Uh, check this out and you can create a template that you can reuse over and over again. Okay, so let's just get started. We will start with creating a new document in Procreate New Canvas. So I will tap the plus at the top right corner, tap up here, New Canvas. And my standard size is 3,000 pixels square, so 3,000 pixels in width and in height. I keep it to 300 in DPI that brings me a maximum amount of layers of 204, which is a lot because I have a lot of storage on my iPad. If you have a lower storage on your iPad, you will get a less amount of maximum layers. That really doesn't matter. I think for this class, we need about 20 or 30 layers. So if you have around there, that's fine. Then tap color profile, and I usually use the first S RDB color profile below display Pt. This one, and then I tap create. So now we created a new canvas, and it's time to create our pattern template. So this is a really easy process. Just follow my lead and it will go rather quickly. So I will drag out. I've included the summer color palette. I will drag out my color palette. It doesn't matter at all which colors you use to create this pattern template. I'm going to use these because I have them handy here. And then I will start by tapping my first layer. I have one of the colors, whichever color that I want. Tap the layer, tap fill layer. Then I will tap the plaster at a new layer, and I will choose another color. Tap the layer, tap fill layer, tap the plaster at a new layer, and then another color. Again, it doesn't matter. You actually can color all of these to the same color, but it's just easier visually when we create the template later on to have them in different colors. So that is why I do that. So let's just go for, I don't know, an orange. And fill layer. So I have four layers with different colors. And the next step, I will just shut down my color palette there. The next step is to tap one of the layers. I will tap layer four, tap the transform tool, and here I will tap in the top left corner node, the little blue dot over here. Make sure that I have the little chain symbol tapped in so that is blue, and then type in 1,500. Then I will tap the next layer, layer three, tap the transform tool, the arrow, and the top right corner node. So this is a little bit annoying because I can't really reach it there. So I will actually just untap that so I don't accidentally mix around with the square and just zoom out a bit without having anything selected. Then I make sure I have the blue layer selected again and the transform tool, and now it's much easier to reach this blue corner node. So then I will type in 1,500 again, and then I can tap the transform tool or the layer, next layer. Purple layer. Here I will just zoom out a little bit again because I know I need to reach the lower nodes. So I will tap the layer, tap the transform tool, tap in the bottom left corner node, type in 1,500, and then the last layer, the base layer, tap the transform tool and the bottom right corner node, and type in 1,500. And then we have all of these. Then I will start over again. I will tap the orange layer, layer four, tap the layer, tap select. Now we have four squares that are half of the size of the canvas and they are placed in each of the edges. So they are perfectly aligned. No white little lines in between. So I have selected the first square, which is the top left one, then I tap the selections tool and save and load, and I tap the plus in the selection tool and I have saved this to selection one. Then I tap the layers panel again, layer three, select. Save and load, tap plus, that one is selection two. The next layer, layer two, select, save and load, tap plus. Make sure that you don't have color field selected here. Otherwise, it will look a little bit wonky, and it might not work. So then I will tap the xt layer, the last one, layer one, select, save a load and tab plus. So now I have selected four selections, check the selection tool and you can just merge these layers together if you want to keep them. And if we check out here, save a load, selection four, three, two, one. So now we have four selections, and this is our pattern template. So let's move on to the next lesson. 5. Finding Inspiration: Okay, so in this class, I have included my PinterSbard that is named Summer and Vacation. It's just some random summer vacation vibe photos that I really enjoy. And you can find your inspiration here in this Pintresbard. Or if you want to, you can use your own inspiration, maybe your own photos that you've taken from some vacation or from some summer images, or just search for inspiration yourself on PITSt. But I have linked to this board, so if you want to use the same as me, you can do that. So here we have some really nice inspiration. I really like this Mediterranean vibe. I'm thinking that I might create something with that. But actually, maybe not for this class. I think that I will go for, like, a summer really summary feeling. And for these mini collections, I create one hero pattern with some sort of more distinct motif, like an object or something like that, and for this mini collection, I want to create something like a summer motif for the hero pattern. And then for the two other patterns, the secondary and the blender print, I will keep them pretty basic like stripes or dots or something like that. So I'm actually just searching for inspiration for one type of motif. It can be strawberries, which is fun, but I've created a lot of strawberries patterns lately, so I want to do something else. So I'm thinking that I want to go for something like summary food, I think. Maybe ice cream. I have some ice cream images up here. So this is really, really nice. I like that one. Okay, so I think I have decided that I want to create some sort of ice cream pattern for my hero pattern. Again, this is kind of a simple mini pattern collection. So we're keeping it simple and easy, not complicated, not a lot of motifs. Just keep it to one motif. You can, variate the colors and things like that. Or you can, of course, create with many different motifs. But if you want to follow along with my lead in my speed, then I suggest to keep it to one motif. Okay, so I have decided to do something with ice cream, and I also really like these kind of pastel colors. So let's move on to the next lesson where I will show you how to sketch for the collection. 6. Sketch the Collection: So let's start with sketching our collections. You can use your square pattern template, but we actually don't need that right now. So I will you can use any format of canvas you want to. You can use a square canvas. And yeah, anything that you want. I am going to use a screen size canvas, I think, and I have a screen size, but it's PT, so it's up here. I also have one here in RGB. So let me just show you how to create that one. It's 2732, 273-22-0408. Okay. So creating a new Canvas, 27 32, 2048, doesn't matter if that was wrong as well, because we're just using it as sketching. I'm keeping mine at 300 DPI and color profile the first SRDBUnder display PT, and then tab create. So this is just my sketching and Ideas Canvas. So the first thing that I want to do is actually to drag out my color palette. This is some colors, and I have made this color palette with inspiration from images on Pinterest. This palette is included in the class, and later on when we create the sketches of the patterns and everything, I will use this palette, but I also want to show you how I create this type of color palette. If you have watched my other mini pattern collection series with the classes, you have created a palette with me before. But for now, if this is your first class, I just want to show you how I do it. I have split view, Pinterest, and then I drag out my Pinterest board over here and the thing that I do then is just to take a brush, some kind of solid brush, maybe the monoline too from the power pack. And I just find some images or one image. I really like this one, where I like the colors. And then I use this color fetcher, what's it called? The panel here, colors, is a square one. You can also use this one if you like that, but I like this one. And then I just try to fetch some colors that has the vibe of my inspiration. So let's just create like some kind of apricot, maybe some kind of like greenish yellow. And then I go on like this. And this is for this pattern, I want, like, pastel colors and probably some neutrals. So maybe maybe not gray, maybe more like beige and some kind of white, cream white. And what do I want more? Maybe something more blue. So this is how I go on, and I create a palette with a bunch of different colors like this that kind of fetches the vibe that I'm after here. These ones are really nice. Maybe I want some kind of brown one down here. Maybe softer brown. And then I'll go on like this. And when I then later on sketch my pattern collection, I try out these colors to see which of these will match the vibe that I want to create in this collection, and I mix and match the colors until I find my perfect palette. But to fast forward a little bit, I created this pre made palette for you, so we will just start there. So the first thing that I would do is just we can save these as inspiration. I will just rename the layer to color, and then I will just make it smaller and add those colors to the side here. And then I want to start to draw my motifs. So as I mentioned, I am focusing on the hero pattern, and I want to create an ice cream pattern, and then I will keep the secondary and the blender pattern much simpler with stripes or dots or something like that. So as I have already decided that I want to create ice creams and I want to show you in this class how to use the pattern layout templates. So I have two that is free, and there's much more to find in my pattern toolkit. You can find 25 layout templates in total. So 23 more than these. That's a standalone product you can buy. And there's also in my membership, the patent toolkit is included, and you will also get one new playout template each month when you subscribe to my membership Pan Rebels. So check that out if you want to explore even more playout templates. But for now, let's try the tossed rectangles, and I will just use a black color for this. And I will just start with adding that here. Let me try out the size for you. I have this hoover effect with my Apple pencil. I know that not all iPads have that, and it's not actually necessary. I will try out to size the works 21%, so around 20%. And you tap one time, and then you get the template. So the way that I use this template in this sketch is not the way that we will use it when we create the final pattern. So just follow along with the sketch and then follow along with the hero pattern. So I will show you there how to use the layout template in a final pattern. So now I have the colors and this on the same layer. I didn't want that, so I will just select the layout template here and just swipe down with three fingers and tap cut and paste. So now I have the layout on one layer there, and I will rename that layout. Next, I can just track down the opacity a little bit on that one to maybe around 15%. And then I want to add a background. So I will tap the plus in the layers panel, rename that layer to background to add a background layer beneath. So now I will use my color palette here, and I want to use this cream white background. Let's just go for a solid, so I'm gonna line two or gonna line one is good for that. And I'm not drawing a perfect square. I'm just drawing kind of like this. I think it looks nicer on a sketch than being like all straight. Now we are moving on. This is the layout, and I want to draw like ice creams in there. So I will tap on top of the layout layer and tap the plus, and let's rename this to Should we do a sketch here or just maybe the ice creams? Mmm I don't know. Let's do a sketch. Sometimes I do sketches and sometimes I just move on straight ahead with colors, but let's do a sketch so we can take maybe the dark brown there and the perfect pencil. And we can just sketch out some ice creams. I will do it. I will do simple ice creams, nothing. Big. You're kind of just maybe like this. And the way that these layouts works is that you don't have to I'm just going to resize this. I tap the transform tool and just resize the ice cream. You don't have to draw exactly inside of the rectangle, and you can draw it in any direction you want to. But it's a guide to help you get started with your balance in the pattern and where to place your motifs. And then we can adjust the details in the final pattern later on. But for now, I'm just drawing some quick sketches here. So there's one ice cream, and maybe we could do like one here. So there's numbers on these. They are made for colors are specifically made the numbers are specifically made for colors in this layout. So number two here and number two there can be in the same color. I'll just select that one and drag down the size a little bit. I think that I want all ice creams to be kind of the same size. Okay, so now we have there, that there, and we can draw maybe one here. I don't want it to be in the exact same position as that direction or not the same direction as that, but more maybe a little bit more up, maybe something like this. Okay. And then I'm gonna drag that one down a little bit. Okay, so that's good. And then let me just turn off the visibility of the layout. Here I have four ice creams. I don't need to sketch the whole pattern because I just want kind of a visual of the ice creams. So I will turn down the opacity of the sketch layer, tap the plaster add a new layer, renamed automotives. And here I want to use a texture brush. Let's use the dry acrylic. And where did my pallet go there. So I want to use this kind of beige color for the cones, I think. Let's try that out. Just quickly drawing them. This is not to make the perfect motif here, it's just to kind of figure out which colors I want and which style I want so that it will go quicker when I create the actual pattern later on. And now I also want to add, like, ice cream. Mm maybe we should add a layer with some stripes on the cone first. So here, we can tap clipping mask, and I have this thin stripes. Let's try that out. I have a few different in my power pack because I have changed the size of it. So if you want to do that, this is the original one, I think. If you want to change the size, you tap the brush, you tap grain, and here you can adjust the scale. So this one is 15%, but you can adjust it. So let's keep this one to 15%, and we can see how that works. For this, sketch, it works good with 15%. Let's try that a little bit darker. Yeah, that looks really nice. When you twist the canvas, you get a different angle on the stripes, and then I go for one side and other side. Again, I will show you more in detail how to make this look good when we create the actual pattern, but this is just to see I really, really like that. Looks great. Okay, so I will tap a layer on top, and I will just rename this to Motifs top here so that we have the clipping mask on the cones. And then I will continue to draw with the dry acrylic. And let's create different colors of the ice cream, maybe brown like a chocolate. And then we can do maybe a blue ice cream and pink. So I have already created this colour palette with that in mind that you have a light and a dark version of the colors so that you can use it for sprinkles. Let me show you. Okay, so that looks good. And now I will add, let me just add the sprinkles on top here. It really doesn't matter. I will use the perfect pencil and just add the sprinkles. I think that this looks great. So now on the brown, I will use the darker brown, small brush, 5%, maybe perfect pencil and just add a few sprinkles like this. I will be more detailed when I create the finished pattern. On the apricot, I will use a darker color of the apricot there and the darker blue. So, of course, to be able to create this class, I have created this pattern before, so I knew which colors I wanted. But this is also how I do it when I do it from scratch, when I kind of figure out which colors to use. Okay, so that looks good, and I think I'm happy with how that looks. I might want to add some textures and things, but let's experiment with that in the lesson where we create the hero pattern. So I will swipe away Pintres because now I have the inspiration for my first pattern. Now I want to create my second pattern. I'll go for the monoline brush, and maybe I want to do something like the diamond shapes there on the cone. I could do I think that I would do it simple and just let's just start with the green whites. Like this, make a square on the background layer. And then for this, we don't use any layout or anything. I will tap the motifs layer, and here I will use the stripes, which stripe did we use. Let's start with the original one that has the scale. I will tap the brush. It has to scale 24. I'm not sure that you have the same scale. I might have changed this, but mine have 24 and then tap done, and I will go for like a beige color. Let's try that one. And just draw the stripes, maybe the lighter one. We want to do I will add a layer on top of the background and tap clipping mask there because then I can do it like this. So that is an easy way to create that pattern. I will show you how to make the edges match later on. And then I might just want another color. So that is oops. I want it to be Horizontal. Okay, I really like this. So this will be a super simple way to create this kind of played pattern with small or thin stripes. So I'm happy with that, and now we move on to the next one, and I go for the monoline brush on the background layer. And now we want, like, a colored pattern, maybe pink or maybe peach. I like this peach. Let's try it out. Oops. There we have some I'll just do like this. You can see that you have some stripes there. I will go to that layer with a eraser tool, use the monoline brush, or you can just select around there and just delete it. Then I will go on the motifs layer. And I will use the same brush to dry acrylic to just maybe create like a sprinkle pattern, so I will do with white. This is the blender print, so I want it to be simple. Otherwise, I could do like sprinkles in different colors, but I want it to be really simple. I will just add some sprinkles like this so I know what I'm thinking, and I could definitely, try different colors out so that I can see how the full collection will look if I have these in different colors. Blue is really nice as well. I think I will go for the peach or the apricot, but you can create several different color ways of one pattern later on as well. So I am happy with this kind of quick sketch. So I will go to share and save it as a JPEG to my camera roll so that I can use it as inspiration in my other canvases when I create the patterns. So let's move on to create our first 7. Hero Pattern: Sketching: So first things first, we will create the hero pattern. We will start with the sketching in this lesson. So I have saved this sketch for the collection. So I will tap gallery, and I will rename here my pattern template to pattern template. Whoop. Pattern template. And I will duplicate my pattern template. This is just an extra. I can delete that and I will tap my pattern template and I can duplicate that. Actually, I can duplicate it so that I have three copies because we will create three other patterns. So we have our original pattern template that you can save and reuse over and over again. Let's move on to our ice cream pattern. I will rename this to Ice Cream. So I will tap into that and then I will just delete this first layer or clear it. I will drag out my summer color palette, and first we will start with the sketch. So for the sketch, the first thing that I will do is to add a background layer. So I will tap that, rename that to background layer, the first layer, tap the cream white, tap the layer and tap the layer. And then I will tap the plus and I will rename this to layout because we will use the pattern layout. So I will swipe down and tap the tossed rectangles layout. For this size of canvas that we have 3,000 pixels square. I usually go for around 60%. Can go for a brown or black or whatever you want here. I will go for a brown because that's just the color that I have in my color palette so it's easier. And then I tap one time to place that stamp one time. Then I tap the transform tool, fit to canvas, and then I tap the transform tool again to place it. So now we have our pattern layout here, and it works so that we will create the motifs that are at the center, and then we will flip the pattern around, so the edges will meet up at the center, and then we will draw the motifs that are at edges right now. If you didn't follow along there, I will show you in a minute. So first, tap en symbol on the layered layer and drag down the opacity to around 15% and then tap the plaster at a new layer and rename this to sketch. I can use the same brown here or if you want to sketch in black, I'm using the perfect pencil and the power pack to sketch, and now I will sketch the ice cream cones. Let's see what brush size, 16%. I might want a little bit bigger, 29%. Yeah, that's better. I have around 29%. Now it's still a sketch, so it doesn't need to be super detailed, but as this is the sketch for the final pattern, I still want it to be working balance wise. So that was a little bit too big, I think, so I will tap the transform tool, drag around this yellow little square here so that my selection is more aligned with the object. Then I will just arrange the size. Okay, so now I will go for this one. And it doesn't matter to stay exactly inside of the rectangles. The important thing is that the balance of the pattern is good, and this is the panel la is your guide to start with, you can definitely change it up. Let's just start there, and then we have this one. So I'm only drawing the ones that are in the center of my canvas like this. And then I'm gonna do one over here. I don't want it to be in the same direction as this and not in the exact same direction as that, so maybe a little bit more like that. Okay, so all of these are, I think, a little bit too big. I don't like that one. Let's undo. And I can just do a new one, maybe. Maybe like that. And this one is way too big, so I will tap the selection tool and with free hand selected, I will tap and drag around that one, tap the gray dot to close the selection, tap the transform tool, and move the selection around with this yellow little thing in there and drag down and twist with a green node. Maybe you can twist it a little bit more down. As you can see, I'm changing the motifs already from the original layout, just a little bit so that they will look good because the layouts, they are kind of different depending on what motifs you have. So you need to flip them a little bit sometimes to make it look good. I think that this looks good now. Maybe move this one a little bit more. For this pattern, we are going to create the sketch first and make the whole pattern with a sketch so that it's quicker to create the actual pattern later on. So how we do that is that now we have the background layout and the sketch layer. We swipe to the right, so we have all of the layers selected, tap group. Now we will flip the pattern around. So I will tap the group, tap the selections to. If you get an error message here, it is because you have color fill selected. Then it will say this, what you need to do then, I will just show you color fill is selected and I try to tap the group, tap the selection tool, and it says group selected. Would you like to open layers? Then you just tap Cancel and you need to tap into one of the layers, tap the selection tool, and check color fill, tap the group, and tap the selection tool again. That way you can select the whole group. If that still doesn't work, you can just select all of the layers. It really doesn't matter if you select the group or the layers. The function is the same. But I select the group, tap the selection tool, zoom out a little bit. Tap Save a load, and then I will tap selection four, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selection tool to deselect and tap the selections tool again. Save a load, selection three, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selection tool to deselect and tap it again to select selection two, tap the transform tool, not rotate, flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selections tool again to deselect and tap it again to select Save Load Selection one, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal. And now I taped the transform tool to deselect and now we can draw the other ice cream cones in the sketch. So the numbers are, as I mentioned previously, that number four here and number four here will be the same color. So that is how you can balance a pattern with this layout with the colors. But now let's just start with I will draw this number two here. So I think as this ice cream cone is that way, this is that way. That way, maybe I should draw this one this way. I'm going to try it out because I want, like, a tossed pattern, so I don't want them all to be in the same direction. And also, if we would create motifs in the same direction in a tossed pattern, it's easier for our eyes to see where the pentile is. So it's better to keep them different from each other. Okay, moving on. So if I created this one in that direction, I should probably draw this one in this direction, maybe like this. And then this one, maybe it can be in this direction. This one is a little bit large, I think. Maybe like that, and then this one could go in this direction. I'm not sure how to fix that. Maybe this direction is good. A little bit like that. Then I will turn off the layout. And now I can just twist and turn them around a little bit so that I get a good flow here. And this is just a matter of experience to create a lot of patterns, and then you will see what looks good. I will select around one of the cones, drag around my selection, and then just maybe make the cone a little bit smaller, make it fit good in the flow of the pattern. I'll do this for all of these, I think. Sometimes it might be just to twist it a little bit. And sometimes I might need to adjust the size. Maybe. I'm not sure. Should it be that way? No, I don't think so. Maybe I should be this way. There's something that feels a little bit off with this one. Let me just wait with that one and select this one, maybe drag it a little bit more down so I can decide what to do with this one. Maybe up like this or down, actually. I'm going to turn on the layout again to see the original. Yeah, that was kind of like the original. Okay, so then if I twist this one up, it might look better with that one down, and then I can select around this one and drag that one like that. And this one I can maybe move. Two or should I have like that? No. Okay. Maybe like that. Turn off the visibility of the layout. And yeah, that might work. There's something that looks a little bit odd here. I'm not sure what it is. I think that we need to turn this one a little bit around and maybe move. Move them around just a little bit. So as you can see, the more detail I am in the actual sketch here. This might be better, actually. The better the final pattern will be or the easier it will be to create the final pattern. Maybe that wasn't working. Yeah, I like this much better. Now it's a better flow in the pattern if I twist that one. Okay, so I think that this looks good, so now it's time to test out the sketch. So I will swipe down with three fingers, tap, copy all, tap the group on top of the group, tap paste, tap the three letter dots, split view, tap Safari and I will tap and drag my image. And to the pattern test, you're on my website. Sorry for that and then try out the pattern. So I think that it looks good. We can have a little problem here, but it depends on how I draw the final motifs. So I'm going to leave it like that, and then it's time to draw the actual motives. 8. Hero Pattern: Make the Pattern Part 1: Okay, so we are going to create this pattern, so we have the sketch, and it's time to draw the actual pattern. I will actually take out my inspiration image here as reference window, so I will tap the actions panel Canvas reference, tap reference, tap image, and we saved our sketch for the collection in our camera roll. So I will just tap that and here I have a little reference window, so I can see the colors that I choose there. Okay, so now let's just start to draw. What I will do then is to just delete this. I don't need the flattened image of the sketch. I will tap in on the sketch layer, drag down the opacity. For now, I do not need the layout layer. I need that for the numbers, but I don't need that to start with, I think. So I will tap the sketch layer, tap the plasta a new layer. And first, I will add, I think, actually, I will add all of the cones on one layer. This is just to save layers. If you can afford it, you can draw all of the cones that are to the different colors of the ice creams on different layers. But as I know that not everyone have an infinite amount of layers, I want to save as many layers as possible. So we will start with the cones. I'll just rename that to cone. How I name the layers is just so that I myself will know what's on that layer. It doesn't matter. Sometimes I name the layers one, two, three, sometimes I name them blue, purple, pink, sometimes I name them elephant, cone, sun, you know, whatever. So it doesn't really matter what you name the layers. So now let's start with the cone layer, and we are using the dry acrylic brush and the beige color that we used for the cones here. So let's try out which size. Now I have around 3%. I actually think that's good because if I go too large, I will get, like, a really blurry edge. I don't want that or not blurry edge, but turised edge. So I will go for around 3% in brush size, and I'm drawing The cones, and I'm filling them in because I want to get the texture, the yummy texture of this brush. So I don't tap the color to drag and fill it, but I fill in with the texture. With a texture brush. So I am just going on and drawing all of the cones that are in the center. I won't mind those that are on the edges. We will do that later on. So just all of the cones in the center. I want this pattern to be a little bit to have, you know, like, painterly feel. So I don't want them to be perfect. I want them to feel more hand drawn. So I'm doing it a little bit quicker. That way, it's harder to make them perfect if I draw quick, Okay, like that. So now we have four cones. And the next step was to create that diamond shape. So I will tap the cone layer, tap the plus, and I will just rename this to maybe cone texture. So I know what that is. And I will use the little darker beige color there. And let's see now if we can go for the original thin stripes. Yeah, we actually can. So that is my original thin stripes. If you tap the brush, tap green, the scale is 24%. I wonder if I tap about the brush and reset brush, go to green. Yeah, it's 24%. Okay, so you should have 24% on your thin stripes brush in the power pack. And that will probably work, tap the layer, tap clipping mask. And then I want to make it diagonal. So maybe you have to see how much you need to twist. That's good for me, and then I twist the other way around so that I get this diamond shape. Then I do the same on this one. As you can see when you have the right brushes for what you want to do, it goes pretty quick. And let's do this one. And this one. A little bit more tilted, maybe. Like that. And like that. Okay, so now we have those nice diamond shapes on the cones. And I will tap to add a new layer. And here I will separate the colors on different layers. And that is only because if I want to recolor this pattern later on, it's easier to keep the separate colors on separate layers, especially if we are using textured brushes because that can be a little bit challenging to recolor if you don't create separate layers for each color. So first, let's start with brown. I'll just name these layers as the colors. So let's start with brown, and it's this kind of medium brown with the same brush that we draw with a dry acrylic. And which one was supposed to be brown? This one? They're not twisted in the same way, but it doesn't matter. So what we want to do now is to know the numbers of the cones because then we will use the same number to have the same layer. So let's just unshake the cone. This one is two. So I can just rename that to brown two. That way we will save time later on. And we can actually, while we have the layout here, we can tap that new layer and we can rename this to blue. Three, and then tap a new layer, rename it to pink. Which number was that? Pink one. Pink one, and then the last one, Apricot four. So this is just a way of being a little bit more efficient here and to save some time and frustration going back and forth on the layout layer to see the numbers and everything like that. So now we know apricot is four, pink is one, blue is three, and brown is two. Okay, so we are going to draw this one as the brown. So let's just use the brown there, and I can just add a brown little dot there. And then the blue number three. Is over here, the pink number one is over here. If you don't follow along here, this is just something that I apparently decided to do right now to just get an idea of which one is the right number to the right cone so that I can turn off the layout layer. Now I will start with the brown layer and tap the dry acrylic. I have around 3% in brush size, and with the brown brush on the brown layer, I will draw this Ice cream. So I am filling that in. Like that. And then what do I want at that point? Maybe a little bit more? Maybe like that. And then the blue, the blue layer, the blue color. Draw the blue ice cream here. Oops. Trying to get the same kind of shape for all of the ice creams here. Yeah, and then the pink, choose the pink color. Draw that one there. And the apricot or the peach and draw that one there. Okay. So I think that this looks good. Let's turn off the sketch layer to see like that. Yeah, this probably looks good. And then I want to add some sprinkles. So as I want to sprinkles in the same color, I can just add a layer on the top here, tap layer, rename it to sprinkle. No, I don't want it the same color. That was my mistake. I don't want it in the same color. I want one sprinkle on the brown, one sprinkle on the blue, so I will just rename it to brown, sprinkle. And I will tap that a new layer on the blue, blue, sprinkle. I'm feeling really organized today. I usually don't do it like this, which is a little bit strange and I'm teaching you how to do it like this now, but you can do it in any way, but usually I do like one motif at a time. But I think that this will save me a little bit of time to be this organized. Let's give it a try. I know I want the brown sprinkle there, the blue sprinkle, the pink sprinkle and the aprico sprinkle. So on the brown sprinkle layer, I will go for the perfect pencil, and I will choose this darker color brown. And here I will just see which size 29%, maybe that's 16. Now, around 30% is probably good. And I'm just going over here, adding some sprinkles. Like that trying to make them not all in the same direction. So it looks nice, maybe like that. And then the blue sprinkle, choosing the dark blue color. Sometimes it's easier if you are, like, zoomed in, but sometimes it's actually easier to see the full picture if you are a little bit zoomed out when you draw these type of details, at least I think so. And sometimes you can feel like when you're zoomed in that it doesn't look good, but then you zoom out and it looks good. So always zoom in and out to see how the end result gets. So some lines, sprinkle lines trying to make them spread out, and then the apricots sprinkle, fetching the dark apricot color and just adding like this. So in some patterns, I actually do all of the basic shapes and, you know, colors of the motifs first and then add texture. But for this pattern, it made sense to do it all on these four and then flip it around and do everything on the next in that order. 9. Hero Pattern: Make the Pattern Part 2: Okay, so now it's time to turn on the sketch layer again and we can also turn on the layout layer, and then I will tap the new group, tap the selections tool, tap saving load, selection four, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selection tool to deselect and tap it again to select selection three, tap the transform tool, flip vertical and flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again to deselect and tap it again to select saving Load Selection two, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, and flip horizontal. Tap the selection tool to deselect and tap it again, and select Save and Load Selection one, tap the transform to flip vertical and flip horizontal. So now is pretty easy. It says one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and we know which color is supposed to be which color. So I will start with the cones. If you think it's annoying, you can turn off the layout, or you can just track down the opacity of the layout. We can do that to around 8%, and then I will go on the cone layer, dry acrylic, and there I have around 3% again and with the beige color and draw the cones. So now let's start with this one. Filling it in. And this one filling it in. Here you can see a little bit of the stripes there. We can remove that in a minute. And this cone. So this is, like, the good part of creating a detailed sketch where we already tried out the pattern because we know that it will look okay, at least. We might need to change some details, but if you create a good sketch of the pattern, it will go much quicker to draw the actual motifs later on. Okay, and then we have this one like that, and now it's time to do the cone texture, go for the like the medium beige color, and then the thin stripes and we will do in one direction and in another direction. This is just a matter of preference. What you like here. I'm doing it in one direction, and another one hoops a little bit too steep. Maybe like that. Yeah. And then this one, I can first erase that little one there. So I take the eraser tool and I'm online just erase that. And again, with the tin stripes going over there, and here and then here and here. Okay. So now we can create the brown. So brown two. Okay, I don't know if my plan worked here, but let's just turn off the cone. And brown is number two, so it's supposed to be there. I'm just going to do the same as I did previously. So I'm going to go for a dry acrylic. Brown is number two. It's over here. Blue is number three. It's over there. Pink is number one. It's over there, and apricot is number four. Oh, Ops which is over here. Okay. Now we can turn off the layout layer, turn on the cone layer, and now we can draw the brown first. With the dry acrylic, draw the brown. Ice cream cone or ice cream on the cone. Filling it in. And the blue on the blue layer. Filling it in. And the pink and the pink layer. And the apricot on the apricot layer. Okay. And then we move on. We can turn off the sketch layer, and then we move on to the brown sprinkle. Fetch the dark brown color, the perfect pencil with the brush size 29%, and I'm drawing the little sprinkles. Then the blue sprinkle. And the pink sprinkle And apricot sprinkle. Okay, so that's great. And now the last thing that we will do in this pattern is to create an overall texture, I think, to add a little bit more depth. So tap the plaster a new layer and rename this to overall texture. Let's just shut this inspiration reference window. Hello. Set that, and I want to use a gray color here and tap the N on the overall texture, tap color burn. And then I want to use let's try the grungy background and large in size. See how that looks. Also try the grungy texture. I think I actually like that one better for this pattern. I usually go for the granchi background, but let's do half in the gran texture and half in the granchi background and see what I like the most. I actually like the granchiground. No, the granci texture for this. So with the granzitexture, a gray color and color burn on that layer, I will just kind of move over like this. And then I will the pattern around to make sure one last time that I don't have any lines in the texture. I will tap the group, tap the selections tool, save and load selection four, tap to transform to flip vertical, and flip horizontal, tap the selections tool to deselect and tap it again to select saving load selection three, tap to transform to flip vertical, and flip horizontal, tap the selections tool to deselect and tap it again to select selection two. Tap to transform to flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again, save and load selection one, tap to transform to flip vertical, flip horizontal. Now we can see if we have any obvious lines. Yeah, we did have one there. Then I'll go with the eraser tool. And the grounds texture brush, I can go for a little bit smaller here and oops the overall texture layer. And I can just delete that obvious line. Did I have any other line? Maybe there, maybe here? So anywhere you can see, like an obvious line and then you can go over again and fill it in here at the center so that you get a smooth texture. 10. Hero Pattern: Test the Pattern: Okay, so let's test the pattern. We'll just shut down the color palette, swipe down with three fingers tap copy all, swipe down with three fingers tap paste. Here we have our flattened image, and you can drag that above the group if you want to. Really doesn't matter, but I usually have it above the group. And then tap the three little dots, split view. And you can go to the patent tester on my website, which is linked to in this class. It's a free tool, and tap and drag your flatten image. And here you can scale up and down and see how your pattern looks. I really like this pattern. I think it looks great. I don't see anything that needs to be changed, so that's just fine. And then we can head back to Procreate, swipe to the right to duplicate this flatten image so that you have five copies, and we will try it out in Procreate as well. I will tap the plus oh, tap the transform tool on the first layer, tap in the top left corner node, type in 1,500 pixels, tap the next layer, tap the top right Corna node, type in 1,500 pixels, tap the next layer. I'll just zoom out a bit, tap the next layer, tap the transform tool, 1,500 pixels, and then tap the next layer, tap the transform tool, and tap the bottom right cornon node and 1,500 pixels. And now we can swipe these together to merge them. So here you have your repeated pattern, and here you have your pattern tile. I will just keep my repeated pattern here so that we can export it later on. So that was the first pattern, or hero pattern. So let's move on to the secondary 11. Secondary Pattern: Make the Pattern: Okay, so let's move back to the gallery, and I will go in on this, and I will just rename this to plate pattern. And then I will tap that and just swipe it right and clear the first layer. I will rename this layer to background. And here I will move out my color palette. I will go for the cream white, tap and drag or tap the layer tap layer. And now I will create the stripes pattern. So we are going to create this super simple. So just follow along, tap the plaster, add a new layer, rename this to beige stripes, for example. Oops. Beige stripes. So I will go for should I go for the latest page? Let's try it out. And for this, we can try the thin stripes, the original one. And that brings me a really, like, thin. You can see the stripes are really close to each other. I think I want the larger ones. I already created one here that is around 31%. So let's try that out. So that looks good. So we will go into our thin stripes. You can actually duplicate it to create the copy, and then you tap that tap grain, and you can go to where we were around. Let's do 34%. So we have larger stripes on that one. Then on the base stripes layer, I will make sure that I am like, perfectly aligned. And then I will just make sure that I draw on the full canvas so that I don't leave any stripes out. Okay, so that is great. And to save time, I will now flip this around, fix the edges, and then we will re use this layer. So with both of these layers selected, tap group, tap the group, tap the selections tool, save a load selection four, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, tap the selection tool again to deselect, tap the selection tool again to select Save load selection three, tap the transform tool, only flip vertical this time. Tap the transform tool to deselect and the selection tool again, selection two, tap the transform tool, flip vertical, tap the selection tool again, save Load Selection one, tap the transform tool, and flip vertical. Now we can see that not all lines are perfectly aligned here. So what I will do then is to zoom in. And on the beige striped layer, I will go for a brush that is similar to this because I've created this brush with some kind of brush, and you don't have access to that exact brush, but you can use a brush that is similar to that. So let's just try out to see if the tape or texture that might work, and which size that's too small, 6%, that will probably be good. So I will go in and erase with a monoline brush. And to make this look good, we want to erase a little bit, use a little bit smaller brush, maybe around 20%. I will erase a little bit up here so that I can match that and then maybe a little bit down there. So I want to erase in the same exact position. That way, it will be easier to match. That one looked good. Some of them are okay. You can just fix a little bit of details. But on that one, I can fix the details. So it was actually just one, two, three, four, five, six, or was it seven that we need to fix. Okay, so on the beach strip there, I will zoom in, and here I want to draw. Let's see. I think this can work with the tape or texture. So it doesn't need to be like exactly the same brush. You can still get a good overall look because these details won't show that much. The most important thing is that the stripes are seamless in the edges. So I will just fill it in. Like that. Do we have something more? Here we can go in and just fix a little bit there. And we have this one. War like that. So now we have the stripes perfectly aligned, and now we're going to do a really quick thing. So we are going to duplicate this layer, tap the layer, tap Alpha lock, tap another color, tap the layer again, tap the layer, and then tap the transform tool. Oops, we actually need the background as well. So just duplicate that and I will swipe to the right on both of these because otherwise they won't flip in a good position. I will swipe right on both of those, tap groups. Now you have that in a group. As you can see, when you have the group selected, you tap the transform tool and rotate 45 degrees. That way you will rotate the full rectangle, and then you can just delete that background, not duplicate delete. And then drag whichever you want on top and on the bottom. And you can just delete that group. And here you have your stripes. You can play around if you want to do multiply. That might be nice actually to multiply on both. Yeah, I really like that. Then you lose a little bit of the pink color there, but you can do multiply on one of them as well. Let's do that. Multiply on the base, and I would rename this to pink. That is your finished pattern. So let's just quickly try it out. Swipe down with three fingers, copy all, swipe down with three fingers, tap paste, tap the three little dots, split view, tap sap and here, tap and drag your flaten image. Tom pattern tester on my website, which is linked to in this class, tap and drag up and down to see your pattern. This is such a cute played pattern, and I will drag up my flattened image above the group. Then you can swipe to the right to duplicate this and procreate. So you have five copies, tap the top layer, tap in the top left corner node, type in 1,500 pixels. Oops, I can see that I made a mistake. I need to not have the bottom layer selected, only the top layer. Zoom out a little bit, tap the transform tool, tap in the top left corner node once again. Tap the layers panel and make the 1,500, tap the next layer, tap the top right corner node, type in 1,500, tap the next layer, the transform tool, the bottom left cornind, 1,500, and the next layer, transform tool, bottom left corner node to 1,500. Then swipe these together to merge them. Here you have your repeated pattern, and here you have your pattern tile. So we'll just turn on the visibility of the repeated pattern, and now we are finished with the secondary pattern. 12. Blender Pattern: Make the Pattern: Okay, so moving on to the blender pattern, top gallery. You can see the blended pattern is this sprinkle pattern. And we can just rename this pattern template to sprinkle and then tap into that. I will swipe to right to clear the first layer, rename the first layer to background. And here I will drag out my color palette, and I will go for the apricot background. So Apricot fill layer, and now we have a background. So this is a super simple pattern. What we need here is the sprinkle. So I will choose the white and go for the same brush, the dry acrylic, choose the brush size that was way too big. 7% 7% is good for me. So try that out, and then I will just start to draw some sprinkles like this. The placement is just, like, random. I want to keep them balanced or kind of balanced, and a little bit air in between. And you can also twist around the pattern if you feel that that makes the pattern more tossed. Okay, so this is the first step. This is a really quick pattern. So for me, this looks kind of balanced. It doesn't need to be perfectly balanced with this type of pattern because I like it when it's a little bit wonky. But then I will swipe through on these, group them, tap the group, tap the selections two, do the flip vertical flip horizontal again. So tap Save and load, selection four, tap the transform to flip word flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again, saving load selection three, tattoo transform tool, flip Ll horizontal, tap the selection tool again, saving load selection two, tat transform tool, flip vertical, flip horizontal, tap the selection tool again, saving load selection one, tat transform tool, flip wert flip horizontal. Go to the sprinkle layer. And now we can just add one sprinkle here and there. And you can also move them around. I can see that I maybe want to move this around a little bit and twist it that way I can make one of them. Fit there. And I also might want to drag this one down. So this is just a matter of preference and also experience in how you make a pattern balanced. Okay, so that looks good to me. So let's just try out this pattern and we might be finished with it already. So swipe down three fingers, tap, copy all, tap at the top in your layers panel, swipe down with three fingers, tap paste, tap the three little dots, split view, tap Safari. And in the pattern tester on my website, which is linked to in this class, you can tap and drag the flatten image. And here you have a perfect sprinkle pattern. I don't know how long that take like 3 minutes or something to create this pattern. So that is super cute and super fun. Simple blender print. You can duplicate the flattened image so that you have five copies. Zoom out the bit. I will just shut down the color panel. Zoom out the bit, tap the top layer, tap the transform two, top left corner node, type in 1,500, tap the next layer, tap the transformed two. Top right cornonode, type in 1,500, tap the next layer, transform tool, bottom, bottom left cornonde, type in 1,500, the next layer, transform tool, bottom right cornonde and typing 1,500. Then we will swipe these together to merge them. Here you have a repeated pattern. There's a parentile, repeat the pattern, I will leave it at that. So now we created all of the patterns, and I want to show you how to recolor the patterns and also how to export the files. 13. Recoloring: So recoloring is pretty simple as you have kept your colors separated in different layers. I will show you how to recolor the ice cream pattern as that is the most complex one, and then it works the same on all sorts of patterns that we create. So I will select that one and just duplicate it to create our kind of color copy. I'll drag that one down, so I know that that is the copy. Copy and rename it to copy and then tap into that, turn off the visibility of the flattened image images on top. And now, as we haven't worked with and moods on the other different types of textures here, we need to recolor each layer. So if you have see the other classes in the series, we sometimes use blend modes on textures, and that way, they kind of recolor themselves when we recolor the main motif. But here we will need to go in and recolor all of the different things. So let's go in to the cons. We can just pull out a color palette. Let's track that one out again. So we can just um like this, we can just tap that cone layer, tap phc, and then choose another color. Let's do the cones. I don't know. Let's do the cones pink instead. Tap the layer, tap fi layer, and then we might want to change the color of the cone texture, tap floc on that layer and tap the dark pink and tap fi layer. And now maybe we want to do maybe like all brown. Let's do that. So we want the blue, tap that layer, phloc want all of them to be chocolate ice creams. Flalaer, the blue sprinkle, half look, the darker brown, tap filaer, the pink, half look, the lighter brown, fill layer, pink sprinkle alpha ok, the darker brown, fill layer, apricot, apalc, the lighter brown, fill layer, and the sprinkle on the apricot afloc the darker brown and fill layer. So that is how you can recolor. As your overall texture is color burn on the blending mode, it will recolor itself, so you don't need to mind that. So that is how you recolor a pattern that you created in Procreate, where you have separated the colors on layers. So now it's time to export the 14. Export the Files: I will head back to my gallery. And here, I will just tab select on the three patterns, tap Share, and you can export them as any type of file format. I will export them as JPEGs to be able to share them in class, save them on my camera roll. If you want to export a pattern tile, you will tap into a pattern, turn off the visibility of the repeated image, tap actress panel, Acton panel share and JPEG, and then save the image. So that is how you export the files so you can share them here in class. 15. BONUS: Have a Look at Using Procreate Mockups: This is kind of a bonus lesson that if you watch the class on Skillshare, you don't have access to these mockups, but if you want access to them, this class is also available in the All Access plan in my Pattern Rebels membership, and you will get these mockups for free. So let me just show you how they work, my procreate mockups. I will tap into one of these. These are the summer mockups made specifically for this class. So here's a simple mockup file. All of the layers with the logs, you don't need to change those. So all that you need to do is just to tap the mask layer, tap the actions panel, add and insert a photo and insert an image that you saved. Let's say that we want to add our little plate pattern. So we'll turn off the visibility of my ice cream pattern here, and here you have your plates pattern. You can change the size. Up and down until you reach the edge of the actual product. So if you want it bigger, and then you don't need to do anything more, these mockups are once you on them, once you have them. If you are in the all access plan of my membership panel rebels, they are free to use for both personal and commercial products. So from here, you just go to the actions panel, share JPEG and just save your image, and then you can use it on Instagram, on your website or wherever you want. Type gallery, and these are the five mockups that are included in this class in my membership Pattern rebos in the access plan. So it's the T shirt, the flip flops, the hat, like the sun hat, packet hat, and the water bottle and sunglass case. So that's the five mockups for this class. And if you're interested in that, check out the all access plan in my membership Pattern rebos. 16. Final Thoughts: And that's all for this class. If you only get one thing out of this class, I hope it is that it doesn't need to be complicated to make a pattern collection. In this class, we create a mini collection, but if you want to take it further, you can add more patterns to make it a larger collection. That can be used for all sorts of purposes. There's no limit to what you can create, and you already done the groundwork by finding inspiration, choosing a theme, and creating this mini collection. If you enjoy this class, I also want to recommend checking out my other mini pattern collection classes with the themes Easter, Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine's Day. If you're eager to dive deep into pattern design, be sure to check out Pattern Rebels, my membership program. In Pattern Rebels, you will get access to monthly pattern design classes, design resources like procreate brushes, color palettes, mockups, and pattern layout templates. Plus, we have monthly design challenges, feedback sessions, and Q&A opportunities where you can ask me anything about design or running a creative business. You can learn more at pattern rebels.com. With that said, thank you so much for watching. If you like this class, hit the follow button by my name to make sure that you don't miss out on my future classes. You can also tap my name to go to my profile page here on Skillshare, where you will find all of my classes available to watch. If you have any questions at all about this class, please ask them on the discussions page here in class, and feel free to leave a review to let me know if you enjoy this class. I would love to hear your thoughts. Make sure to share your project here in class. If you posted on Instagram, feel free to tag me with my a favor. 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