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Pattern Bites: Simple Surface Design | Reusable Layout | Adobe Illustrator

teacher avatar Leanne Friedberg, artist | pattern designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Hello

      2:46

    • 2.

      Project and Resources

      1:31

    • 3.

      Workspace in Illustrator

      5:26

    • 4.

      Drawing Guide and Pattern Layout

      8:31

    • 5.

      Create Artwork

      10:00

    • 6.

      The Big Reveal

      2:20

    • 7.

      Variations And Bonus Pattern

      7:08

    • 8.

      [OPTIONAL] File Prep for Client Submissions

      8:36

    • 9.

      Next Steps

      0:52

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About This Class

The two most frequently asked questions I get as a Surface Pattern Designer are of course, “How did you make that?” But also, “How on earth are you so productive?” 


During this class, I will take you through a step-by-step process of making one of my most popular patterns and use it as a way to let you in on some of the tricks of the trade to help you create a tight and stress-free workflow, letting your creativity and productivity soar.

Class overview:

We will create a simple geometric floral seamless repeat pattern design in Adobe Illustrator.

What you will learn:

Designing this pattern will help you learn several skills and tricks to use in pattern design that will help you tighten your workflow, grow your portfolio and have more time for the creative aspects of design because the tech stuff will already be complete.

Some skills you will pick up will include 

  • Custom workspaces
  • Maximizing the use of properties
  • Creating a drawing guide (an easy to tile scallop shape)
  • Working with symbols
  • Creating a reusable, editable pattern layout template

So you can

  • Tighten your workflow
  • Grow your portfolio
  • Focus on the creative side of design (because the tech stuff will be done)

This class is for:

  • Beginner pattern designers - start off on the right foot
  • Intermediate pattern designers - grow your portfolio with shareable, printable, sellable patterns
  • Advanced designers - tighten your workflow and add a quick process to your SPD toolkit

You will need

  • Adobe Illustrator - everything else is optional
  • I will demonstrate on Adobe Illustrator CC 2022 on a Mac
  • Course free download (optional) with shortcuts, color palettes, and a traceable template

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Leanne Friedberg

artist | pattern designer

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I'm a Canadian pattern-obsessed designer and licensed artist. My designs can be found at Target, West Elm, Barnes & Noble, Minted, Spoonflower, in fabric shops across North America, and boutique fashion brands across the globe.

PBS Fabrics | Minted | Spoonflower | LeanneFriedberg.com

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1. Hello: Hey, I'm Leon big Berk. I'm an artist and pattern designer based in Guelph, Ontario in Canada. This Skillshare course will focus on this fun retro plurals. I'll use it as a way to introduce you to some of the specific skills I've gained over the years. Things I really wish I knew when I started that have helped me tighten my workflow, grow my portfolio and license model works. You'll complete this class without leads to printable, shareable, sellable patterns that may look similar to these or may highlight your own unique style. This way of working allows me to streamline the tech side of pattern-making when I wanted to. I can spend more time on the creative aspects of design. These types of patterns can stand alone and be used for anything from wallpaper to art prints, greeting cards, textiles, really, anything with this surface. Mastering this template can also help you quickly add to existing collections, especially when you're under a tight deadline. So first, I'll show you how I set up my workspace and Adobe Illustrator. Create a scallop shape with the shape builder tool and lay it out in a pattern template using symbols. Next, you'll have the option of creating something new. Pulling from your own portfolio or making this simple vector flower with me in Adobe Illustrator. Then we'll plug it into the template for the big reveal to show you how to work with symbols to create variations, and do a quick walk through how I use this template in other ways. Finally, we'll make a bonus pattern in under a minute with the motif you've already created. To take this class, you will need Adobe Illustrator. Everything else is optional. I will be demonstrating using Adobe Illustrator CC 2022 on a Mac. Although this is definitely a beginner friendly course, I've included several little gems for the more experienced designer. This may seem like a lot of setup, the workspace, the Scala, the pattern template. But once the prep is complete, you get to skip to the good part. Each and every time you set out to make a scallop OG pattern to add to a collection or your portfolio. Join me in the next video to go over the class project and class resources. 2. Project and Resources: Your project will be to share at least one of the patterns you created during this course. But feel free to share as many as you'd like. You just might find the process a little bit addictive. I actually can't wait to see your patterns. It's definitely the best part of teaching. Just click on the bright green Create Project button on the Project and Resources page under the video. The downloadable resource for this class includes a list of shortcuts that I use. The color palette for this floral and some current palettes I'm obsessed with. I've also included a printout of the scallop shape we will create and my contact info. Because part of my teaching goal is to tighten your workflow. I use a lot of shortcuts, will use them repetitively throughout this class. So I think most will stick. But just in case you might want to print out the shortcut sheet from the download and keep it close at hand for reference. One more note on shortcuts. As a Mac user, most of the shortcuts include the command key. So if you're using Windows, you just replace command with control. E.g. I. Use Command S to save. At a Windows user would use Control S to save, to download the file. Make sure you're on the Skill Share website and your Internet browser and not the app. And then go to the Downloads and Resources tab and click on the file. Join me in the next video to set up your workspace and Adobe Illustrator. 3. Workspace in Illustrator: Two things I want to share with you right off the bat is how I set up my workspace and rely on the properties panel. These two things have really improved my workflow, but I want to share my setup with you so that your screen looks like my screen. That will make this class really easy to follow. So let's get started by opening adobe Illustrator on your computer. At the top left of your screen, select New File. Over the right, change your units to pixels. Double-click on the width field, and enter 2000. Do the same for height. Select RGB color mode. Raster effects at high 300 ppi. And click Create. This may look familiar. Panels on top of panels. Some never used, somehow losing others off the screen. And the constant need to return to Window to search for what you need. I worked like this for too long and wasted a whole lot of time. I would rather spend drawing. So let's clean it up. But don't worry, I'll show you how to save your current setup in case you prefer it in the end. At the top of your screen, select Window, Workspace, manage workspaces. Hit the plus sign and name this setup. I'm going to name mine. Beautiful, chaos. And click. Okay. Now your workspace is saved and you can revisit it anytime you like. Head back up to Window Workspace and check essentials. Head back to Window Workspace. Reset Essentials. Now your screen should look like mine. Let's set it up the way you will use it for this class. Had up to the top to select Window. Move your cursor down to symbols, and click to select. I personally don't use brushes. So I'm going to click and hold the tab, drag it out, and just click the X to remove. This will always be under window. If I change my mind. Let's move the symbols and Swatches over. Click to the right of the x and hold, drag it over to the tabs. Wait for the area to highlight and release. I'm also going to get rid of the comments. So I'm going to click and hold, drag it out and hit the X. Now select the properties tab. Press V as in Victor on your keyboard for the selection tool. And take a look at the properties panel. From here, you can edit artboards, change some documents settings, access your documents setup and preferences. Now hit L on your keyboard. As though you are about to draw a circle. In your Properties. You can see Transform Flip horizontally or vertically. Fill stroke opacity. You can access your effects. As we continue on in this class, you'll see how intuitive properties seems to be. In my old way of working, each of these tools would have required me finding an opening, another panel, eventually just bearing my work, especially when working on a small screen. I know it sounds like I'm overselling it, but switching to using properties made a really big difference for me. I hope you'll give it a try. On to the most important step, saving this workspace. Select Window. Workspace, manage workspaces. Click on the plus sign. I'll name it pattern, template. And click. Okay. Now I'd like you to select this workspace because we're actually in the edited essentials. So Window Workspace and choose your newly named workspace minus pattern template. If for some reason this gets a little bit chaotic by adding Windows, you can always go back to window workspace and then reset pattern template. It will return you to this beautifully organized, easy to navigate, custom-built, clean workspace. Join me in the next lesson where we will create the drawing guide and pattern layout. 4. Drawing Guide and Pattern Layout: In this lesson, we'll create a scallop shape drawing guide and design a reusable pattern layout using symbols in Adobe Illustrator. Just in case he took a break. I have a 2000 by 2000 pixel art board ready? In my pattern template workspace. Let's make a scallop shape. Select L on your keyboard for the Ellipse Tool. Click anywhere on your workspace. Double-click in the width field. Enter 1,000. And do the same for height. Click Okay. I'm just going to center it so you can see it better. Now let's take two round bites out of the bottom of the circle. Press and hold Command Shift M. For the move tool. Move it half its width to the right, or 500 pixels, and half its length down 500 pixels. Hit Copy. Command Shift and move it to the left by its full width, -1,000. And enter zero for vertical. Copy. Command a to select all Shift M for the shape builder tool. Holding down the option key, click to delete the unwanted shapes or the bottom two circles. Here's the scallop with tail that we're going to work with to create our pattern. Now to introduce you to the next game changer for tightening your workflow and building out your collections. Symbols. At the top right of your screen, click on symbols. Let's delete the default symbols by clicking on the first one. Hold down the Shift key, click on the last and release and just hit the trash can at the bottom, delete the selected symbols. Yes. Press V on your keyboard for the selection tool or the field arrow. Click and drag your shape right over to that Symbols panel and release. The settings here are irrelevant for what we're doing. I'm just going to name this one blank. Scallop. And click Okay. With this symbol on the art board still selected, head over to Properties and hit Horizontal Align Center, and Vertical Align Top to bring it to the top of your art board. Command C to copy command F to paste in front. Select Vertical Align Bottom. Up in the Transform section of properties, rotate 2,100.80 degrees. A quick note on why I rotate instead of flip, I often use hand-drawn motifs that are not perfectly symmetrical. So let's say it's a flower with leaves. And a leaf on the right is slightly wonky. If I were to flip it, the same imperfection would be right below it. This is a subtle thing, but when it's tiled and zoomed out, the flip version may draw the eye and create an unwanted perceived vertical line. Whereas if you rotate it, the wonky leaf will be over here. It allows the viewer's eye to kind of go side to side as it tracks the pattern, giving the pattern of feeling of movement and a more handmade feel. I know this might not make a lot of sense to you if you're just starting out. But it is one little trick I use to keep things more scalable and less automated looking even when using a super streamlined process like this pattern layout. Back to the template with the bottom symbols still selected. Hit Command C to copy command F to paste aligned to the right side of the art board. And vertical align center up to rotate and select 90 degrees. Command C, Command F, again, aligned to the left side of the art board and rotate 270 degrees. Command a to select all. Command G to group. I know it doesn't really matter in the end, but to keep things simple and appease my completely uptight brain, I'm going to adjust these pixels up at transform to 1,000 for x, 2000 for width. And make sure it's still 2000 for height and 1,000 for y. I'm not sure why Illustrator does this at this point in the process and it probably, as I said, doesn't matter. I'm just changing it for simplicity sake with the group selected. I'm just going to hit Command day, make sure it's selected. Let's hit command shift M, horizontal -1,000 pixels, vertical -1,000 pixels, and hit Copy. Command Shift M to move again. The full width of the art board, 2000 pixels. And zero for vertical. And hit copy. Hold down your shift key to select the group on the top left. So now both top groups are selected. Hit Command Shift M, horizontal set to zero, vertical set to the full length of the art board 2000. And hit Copy. Command a to select all. And Command Shift G to ungroup. It's going to zoom out. So you can see. Now I'm going to select all of the symbols that fall completely off the art board. Clicking on one, holding down Shift to click on the rest and hit Delete. It doesn't look like much at this point, but here is your game changing, oh gee, scarlet pattern template. Now let's test it to make sure it repeats properly. Hit M as in Michael on your keyboard for the rectangle tool, click anywhere in your workspace. Enter the dimensions of the art board. 2000 by 2000 pixels. Click OK. Center that square onto the art board. Change the fill to none. That first square with the red line through it. And change your stroke to none. Hit, Arrange. Send to Back. Command a to select all. Select your swatches tab. Press V, like Victor for your selection tool. Click and drag your pattern into your swatches. Hit M on your keyboard for the rectangle tool. Click somewhere off of your art board and drag to make a rectangle. And select that new pattern as your fill. Just make this bigger actually. So we can see the pattern bigger. An OG scallop pattern template with symbols ready to go. But it's devoid of artwork. So let's jump right into the next lesson and draw. 5. Create Artwork: You have a lot of choices for this next step, you can use assets you've already created. You can print the scallop shape right from the class download and layer it behind a piece of paper and use it as a guide to create. Or you can import it into Procreate or affinity or any drawing app that you use or join me in making this simple vector flower, right in Illustrator works really well with this layout. If you're going offline to create, just stick with me for a few more steps and I'll cue you in to pause the video. Now in case he took a break, I have my scarlet pattern template file open. In my pattern template workspace. I'm going to select V as in Victor, select that test swatch we just did, and delete. Select the symbols tab. Click on the symbol if it's not selected, and click on the hamburger or the three horizontal lines at the corner and select Duplicate symbol. This way will keep an untouched version to revert to if needed. I'm going to rename this symbol right away by clicking on the hamburger again. And symbol Options. And I'm just going to rename it with the number one. Click. Okay. Now let's delete that transparent square we laid behind all of our symbols. So layers. And then just click on the little carrot right down at the bottom it says Rectangle and delete. I'm going to hit Command a to select all of my symbols, go to Properties and replace symbol with my second one. Let's just save this file. If you haven't already Command Shift s0g. So ODE is the name of this type of pattern 0 g scallop. One. Let's save and click. Okay. You are now free to follow along as we create the simple vector flower. Or stop the video here. Create offline and bring it right back into that second symbol by double-clicking on it, pasting your artwork in here. And you can join me in the next video to continue for everyone else creating the flower with me. Let's start the flower right inside the symbols. So double-click on that new symbol to open. Open properties. Hit L on your keyboard for the ellipse, click anywhere, enter 200 for width tab, and 400 for height. Click Okay, Let's change the fill to your petal color. I'm actually just going to quickly delete all of these swatches by clicking on the red one, holding down the Shift key, clicking on the very last one, and deleting the swatches. Yes. I do not want to use this red color. So I'm going to click on that palette. I'm from the class download. I'm going to enter the yellow color from the retro floral palette. In case you didn't download it. It is a cda800 and hit return. I just want to add this color, make sure I add it to my palette, back over to the left. Click and drag that yellow square and release it into my document palette. And I'm going to leave my stroke color at none. Command a to select all V as in Victor on your keyboard for the selection tool, click on the scallop shape to make it your key object, Horizontal Align, Center, and Vertical Align Top Command Shift D to de-select. I'm going to click on the pedal and hold the Shift key down to move it. So it's just above the center mark. Hit Shift C for your anchor point tool. And click on that bottom dot the bottom anchor. A for the direct selection tool or the unfilled arrow. Click on the anchor point to the left. Hold down the Shift key, and click on the one on the right with the two anchors selected, drag them upwards. And if you want to keep it symmetrical, just hold down your shift key. And it'll help you stay in the middle. And release. Now that I see it, I want to make it a little bit skinnier. So we'll hit V for the Selection Tool. Hold down the option key to keep it centered. And get those two little arrows on the side and drag it in. And release. I'm just going to adjust the height a little bit more, make it a little shorter. Command C, command F. Rotate it 45 degrees, enter 45. And hit Return, pull it down and to the left. Command C command F to paste in front. And now right under height in properties, I'm going to hit the Flip Horizontal tool. Here's a little trick in transform in the x field. I am just going to delete that negative sign and hit Return. Take a minute if you'd like to play around with the placement of your petals in relation to each other. When you're done, hit M on your keyboard for the rectangle tool, click anywhere in your workspace, enter 15 for wet, TAB 500 for height. And the Selection Tool. Hold down the Shift key and select your scarlet. Click on your scale up again so that it's the key object. Center your stem and bring it down to the bottom. Click off the art work to de-select. Select the stem if you would like to change the color. I'm going to click on fill back to that palette. And I'm going to use the green from that download retro floral palette. It's eight to seven, Five way that you can use any color you want and return. I'm going to make a little shape to sit on top of the stem by starting with the ellipse tool of L on your keyboard. And drag and make a short and wide oval. Hit Shifts C for the anchor point tool and click on both sides. A for the direct selection tool, select the top anchor, hold down the Shift key to keep it symmetrical and bring it down a little bit. V4, the black filled arrow. Click on your new shape. Hold down the Shift key, select the stem, release, and then click on the stem one more time. So that is your key object. Center the new shape to your stem and vertical aligned top. Now let's click off of it and take a look. See what we think. For me. It's too wide, so I'm going to click on and again, hover over the side to bring up the width arrows, bringing it in, but hold down the Option key at the same time to keep it symmetrical. Anymore like that. And move it up a little bit so the stem doesn't peak out. Now we're gonna make it a little bit shorter. I think. I'm happy with that. I'm just going to re-center it just in case. So hold down the Shift key, select both shapes. Release, select the stem again as the key object, and hit Horizontal Align Center. Just going to zoom out. To take a look. I think I would like that top petal, lower down. I'm just going to drag it down and hold the Shift key to keep it in the middle. And release. Take a minute to play around with your shapes and make sure your flower looks the way you want it to. To create the leaf, I'm going to click on the pedal on the left command C, command F to paste. Drag it down. And in properties, I'm going to change the fill to green. From here, click anywhere on your workspace, then press a for the direct selection tool. I'm just going to drag it over and clicking on the anchors and the handles to change the shape to something I like for leave. Yours may look very different than mine. Once you're happy with it, hit V on your keyboard, click off of it, and then click on it again just to make sure that you have all the anchors. Select it. Command C, command F. Flip horizontally, go into the x field and just delete that minus sign, and click off of it. Feel free to move things around, make any changes at this point. And we are actually going to pause here so that everyone who made their own artwork can read join us in the next video, which is the big reveal. 6. The Big Reveal: This lesson is all about one thing, the big reveal. In case you took a break, I have my OG scallop pattern template file open in my pattern template workspace. And I have my symbol opened with my artwork roughly centered on the scallop and sized relative to the drawing guide. Some of you will have this basic flower or variation of it. And some will be working with your own unique art, which I am so excited to see. Press V on your keyboard for the selection tool. Select the Drawing Guide or the scallop shape. Hit Delete on your keyboard. For the big reveal, just tap on the left arrow at the top left of your screen. Now let's test the pattern. Hit M for the rectangle tool, click anywhere on the screen. Enter 2000 for width and 2000 for height. And click Okay. In Properties, select no fill, no stroke, center, center. Arrange and send to back V for the selection tool Command a to select all, open your swatches and click and drag everything over to swatches. Zoom out M for the rectangle tool, and draw a nice big rectangle. In properties or in your swatches, you can select a fill for your background color. I'm going to choose white command C, command F, and change the fill to your new pattern fill. If you see something you want to change, just open the symbol backup, adjust and retest. I guarantee that the more you use this template, the quicker and easier it will be. Joined me in the next video to learn how to work with motif variations. Some tips when using different art-making methods, and a bonus pattern that you can quickly and easily get out of the work you've already done. 7. Variations And Bonus Pattern: In this lesson, I will show you how to work with motif variations. Share some tips for using the drawing guide in different ways and demonstrate a lightening fast method to make another pattern with the artwork you've already created. In case you took a break. I have my pattern template file open. My pattern template workspace with the pattern I just made. Let's say you want to further enhance the handmade field by making the same marks again, but just in different variations. Or maybe you're making different bouquets of flowers or different faces or elephants or whatever you chose to create. You can still use this pattern template by changing the symbols and keeping the pattern layout as long as your art work fits inside the scallop shape. To demonstrate how it works, I'm just going to change the petal color of this flower. I'll select the symbol I made. Click on the hamburger and duplicate, making four in total. Keep the first is the original and double-click on the second flower symbol to open. Click and drag to select the petals. Change the color. I'm using 017580 from the retro flower palette from the class download. Whenever you add a color, be sure to add it to your swatches. Double-click on the next symbol and make the changes you want. I'm changing the petals to B as in Bob. Do you like David for c5e? Add to Swatches. And now for the last one, I'm using a C, D like David, 1c9, Add to Swatches. Click on that left arrow at the top left of the window. Now I'm going to select all the flower symbols that are upside down by holding the Shift key and clicking on each one. Over the properties. Replace symbol and select a different symbol. Now I'll select all the symbols with the flowers on the left. Replace symbol and choose. And now select the symbols with the flower and the right. Replace open swatches. Select all drag to swatches and release. Now click on the large rectangle and choose the new pattern as a fill. Remember that was just a simple example of how to change things up. But you can do the same with more complex variations or any number of different motifs. Now I'm just going to zoom through the creation of some other patterns using this process. Hopefully touching on some of the skills that are relevant to you, your style, and your preferred way of working. Yeah, thanks. Now as promised, your bonus pattern. So here I have an earlier saved version of the pattern we've been working on. To make the bonus pattern, I'm just going to click on one of the instances of the symbols. Go up to object, down to Pattern and Make tile type brick by column. Brick offset one-half, which is going to be half of the measurement of the shape we've been working with. So for this, it's 500 pixels, height, 1,000 pixels. And click down M on the keyboard for the rectangle tool, drag it out here I have a white fill from my background. Command C to copy command F to paste in front and change the fill to the new pattern. It's that easy. I have one more little bonus lesson for you where I will demonstrate how I prepped my files for submissions. 8. [OPTIONAL] File Prep for Client Submissions: The first and most important step is to check your specs. There is no longer an industry standard for file submission. So read the fine print. Look for details like required file format. Dimensions including units of measurement, resolution, which is usually listed as DPI, maximum file size, and flexibility of layout design. E.g. I. Always prep my files to be a minimum of 3,500 pixels. On my smallest side. I always present the pattern tile is a full drop repeat or a grid repeat. Even if that means it's just a half-drop seen twice. And I'll show you what that means in a sec. My files are always set at 300 DPI. If you are a spoon flour or raspberry Creek designer, make sure you're working at 150 dpi instead. And finally, my source files are always layered in labeled. So that is what I will show you here. You should be able to adapt this process to your own specific needs with ease. Here I have the two basic patterns we have created in a saved file. Save this as a new file. Command, Shift S to save as create a new folder with the collection name retro floral. And another sub-folder for the first pattern 01 file name will be my name, Leanne Friedberg, underscore, the collection name, retro floral underscore. And the number one, delete the bonus pattern from the workspace in the swatches. Go to layers and click on the carrot. If your layers are grouped. Select the bottom layer, the rectangle, by clicking to the right of the open circle and open properties. This was the no fill, no stroke rectangle we had made to test our pattern. Change the fill to white because I'd always submit with a background layer, even if it's white. I'm also going to add two pixels to the width and height to help me avoid the fine white line that sometimes appears when exporting or printing. Although the background is white, the motifs fall off the art board. And the artboard dimensions are whole numbers, not decimals. Still do it in case the buyer wants to change anything. At the bottom of the Layers panel, click on the plus sign to add a new layer. With just the rectangle selected, I'll click on the filled square to the right of layer one and drag it up to my new layer. Double-click on there too and rename it background. Click and drag it below. So it is behind the artwork. Rename Layer one. Artwork. Select all of the symbols by clicking to the right of the open circle next to where it says artwork, back to properties and click, Break, Link over to symbols and delete symbols. Go to swatches and make sure your colors are all there. Here, the black doesn't belong, so I'll delete it. I'll save it one more time. Command S. Now let's open the working file again to prep the bonus pattern layer, we created Command Shift S to save retro floral folder. Create a new folder. Zero to rename the file. Mine will be the end. Friedberg underscore, a retro floral underscore, zero to double-click on the pattern swatches to open, rename the pattern. I actually name it, double-click to edit as a gentle reminder for the client. So that when they're in swatches and I hover over it, that's what they'll see. As mentioned earlier, I need to present my patterns as full drop repeats with a minimum of 3,500 pixels on my smallest side. So let's look at the pattern options. Brick by column with the offset at one-half is referred to as a half-drop Spoonflower and most textile companies can accommodate to that, but some cannot. So I just always prep as a grid. At the top. Click Done. And I'll show you what this means by demonstrating the wrong way. First, let's delete what's there. Go to Properties, edit artboards, and change the board to the minimum requirements. For me, it's 3,500 pixels by 3,500 pixels. Em for rectangle. 3,500, 3,500. Fill with pattern. If I were to submit this pattern tile, the repeat would not work. Since the height of my pattern is 1,000 pixels, I can only use a multiple of that dimension. Think of it as counting by thousands, since it must be greater than 3,500, my next possible height will be 4,000 pixels. You can change your preferences so that the pattern doesn't scale or just re-select the fill. Now if I duplicate it and drag it down, you will see that the pattern repeats seamlessly. The width of the pattern is 500 pixels, which does divide evenly into the width of the art board, which is 3,500 pixels. But as you can see, it doesn't work. For a half drop repeat. You have to just double the width of the repeat. In this case, that would be 1,000. To find your dimension, just like the height for my specs, it must be greater than 3,500. So I will bring it up to 4,000. I will cook the pattern swatch to fill it again because it's scaled and test it out. Now click on the workspace. Properties, Edit Artboards, open the preset drop-down menu and select Fit to artwork bounds over two layers. Add new layer, rename it Pattern. Select the artwork, copy and paste in front. Select and drag one of those rectangles up to the new layer. Rename the pattern tile edit in swatches to hint to the client where they can edit the pattern. Rename the bottom layer background, and change the fill to the background color. Command a to select all add the two pixels to the dimensions, but makes sure that your pattern didn't scale. This is so important. So even if I think it didn't, I re-select the pattern fill just in case Command S to save. Very sorry that the explanation was super long, but the process is actually really fast. Once you are familiar with the steps, the good news, you now have at least two shareable, printable, sellable patterns with a re-usable method to create more. Join me in the next video to go over next steps. 9. Next Steps: I hope you learned something new in this course and are inspired to use it in your work, or use it as a starting point to create your own templates to ease workflow and grow your portfolio after you've posted your project here on Skillshare, you want to share it with the rest of the world, post it to Instagram with the hashtag pattern body. Tag me at the end. Friedberg, if you want me to share it, if you liked this class, follow me here on Skillshare and you'll find out when I post new classes, if there's a specific pattern of mine, you'd like to learn how to make. Just leave me a little note below that pattern on my Instagram feed, and I will add it to the class creation. Q. Thank you so much for joining me here, and I'll see you again soon.