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1. Introduction: My name is coach safe and
Kirsty cell two designs. I'm an illustrator and
surface pattern designer and online teacher. Today I'd like to introduce to you my new Skillshare class, which is all about introducing the different layouts that are available when you're creating your surface pattern designs. To help you through my class, I provided four different
styles of motifs, along with the range
of color palettes which you can use at
your own discretion, or even bringing
your own motifs into this design as you
process through my class. At the end of this class, I hope that you
were able to create your own style of pattern. It either using whichever
move tastes you decide, and much every frame
of design you'd live. As I go through my class, I'll pick out and motifs
that I'll like to use within the actual
style that I've chosen. But don't feel that you
have to do exactly as I do. Pick whichever color palette you like and play with
it as you feel. At the end of this class, I'm hoping I'll
be able to see in the class projects your
own unique take on your motif or the
selecting resources that I provide along which whichever
color palette, YouTube. Let's get started.
And let's dive in.
2. Layouts: To get started in this class, I'm going to run through
four layouts that I really love using throughout my
patch and design process. I'm going to run
through two that are quiet seen as the
most simplest design. Last to put together. The other two are a little
bit more technical, but just as fun to create. The two simple ones, our block, repeat and drop and half-drop, which are really simple, great patching layout to use. Especially if you're looking at something very simple like baby apparel or even just a
nice repeating Dona cover, something like that works really well with
this pattern land. And the two more technical
lats are toss and diagonal. Toss is one of my favorite ones. I love the fact that I can
utilize different scales and really work in a few different
layers and depths with this actual pattern land. The other one is diagonal, which is probably my go-to
when I'm working with florals alone, finds
branches, leaves. I love the way that
I can actually make my motifs sort of flow
through the pattern. The real differences with
these four pattern designs, they all have their own
unique Luke and style. Now with blogs and
drop half drop, quite easy and quick to make, especially if you're using
very minimum motifs. They're very easy to spot. I've added at the end of this just images to show examples of my previous patch and designs using the layouts I'm
going to teach today. I hope these help
and the layouts of the designs and
give you a bit of inspiration and what you create as we go
through this class, Let's get started in
creating our first patterns.
3. Block Repeat: Let's get started into
making block repeat pattern. Now, I've chosen to use a
Christmas fever motif set. The main reason I've
chosen this motif set is because it's very simple. Motifs matches very well
with the block repeat setup. So I've opened up the file here. This is exact same as
what you will find in the Skillshare resources tab. If you go there,
you'll be able to find all the supplied motifs. So there's four on each one comes with
its own color palette, along with the motif set inside. And there is also the keyboard shortcut
for illustrated there. And if you want to print that off and have that
in front of you, it's really good as a
reminder of the shortcuts, especially if you're
new to Illustrator. What I'm gonna do
here is I'm going to basically open
up a new art board. I'm just going to click on that. I want to want to do is I just
want to have simple books. There we go. Happily have that aligned with my motifs on the
left, the color palette. Obviously the name. Over here, you will find
that every time you open a new document
on Illustrator, it will place in a
standard swatch of colors, which is over here,
which is gray, especially at the beginning when you're getting used
to Illustrator. But what I like to do just to keep it clean and
especially if I know I'm going to be utilizing
a certain color palette, like with selection here. What I tend to do
is I tend to go in and remove the
excess that's here. But keeping white and black. How I do that is I'm going to click on the
red and I'm gonna hold shift and go down to the very bottom
one that's in there. Then down here in this
little swatches section, Here's the little trash can. Just gonna let you click that. Delete the swatch selection. Yes, it removes them. Now what I want to do is add these colors into the
swatch panel onto a folder, so they're always there. So by end up getting
rid of this, and it's okay because within this file there'll
be saved here. Now to do that, because I've added them all
as little separate colors. What you need to do
is select them all. And to show those selected, each one will have a
blue outline along them. Come up to the Swatches, tap this little folder here, just click on that. You can enter a name here. So I'll enter fever. Then just click, Okay. Then you'll see here, all of these are added in. Now the one thing I
did get asked once how there's looked completely
different size to how my screen look. The reason is, if you click
on this little tab here, you can change how big the icons in that little
swatch lists look. Initially when I first
started illustrating, this is what the size was, and it was very small and tiny. I like to have them as
large as I can so I can see them and get a good idea
of what I'm working with. Now to start off
with my pattern, I want to create a block, repeat a simple blog page. To do that, what
I'm going to start doing is I'm going to bring over the motifs that I
feel like I want to use a field like a want to
incorporate into my design. If I hold Shift and
grab this corner, so it keeps a proportion, but don't hold Shift. This is what happens. Basically, goes all
different sizes and shapes. Height, width goes a bit crazy. If you hold Shift, it
holds a proportion. Just going to put it up
at that size. It's not. So let me go. I want to do is I
just wanted to align these so they look
quite nice and tidy. So to do that, I just selected
top and bottom up here. Illustrator is very kindly just put these little easy shortcuts. I'm just gonna do that
with each of these. Just so it gives me an idea of how they look top to bottom. I quite like that. It's really nice and simple. I'm actually probably
going to just reduce you down because you're quiet enormous
against the rest of them. Same again, just
going to check the aligned. Quite happy with that. Actually, I'm gonna
show you how I create repeating patterns with block repeat to ensure
that I don't miss anything or have any cut-offs
as I go through this. One I'm going to do is I'm
happy with that. Repeat. What I want to do. Actually wanted to add a
little bit more detail. By doing that. I think what I'm going to try
and do is I'm just going to add in little bits and pieces. Just to fill in the blanks. I'm sitting here in my pattern. Now I want to do here is
that whole selection. I'm going to go
Control V, going to, I'm just going to use
my guidelines here. I'm just going to hold
it directly underneath. I'm literally just copying
exactly what I've created, but putting it
straight underneath, I'm just going to group
that box that I've created. Just align them as well. Looking at that and it's quite pretty, I'm quite
happy with that. The only thing I'll
probably would do is I will add that little flower that
I created with a long stem. I'm just gonna pop that in there and I'll actually even just
rotate it as well. Just move the cherries double-click to break
into the group. That's quite nice. Same again. Now looking at this, I'm really happy
with how this looks. It's not too spaced, but it's simple
enough and clean. And with a little motifs
have added in-between, makes it look quite
nice and delicate. Quite happy with that. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to copy and paste exact selection of motifs and just give it
just enough gap. That doesn't look too busy. Place that they're going
to group that selection. I'm going to group
this selection. I'm going to do is just
make sure that they are equal along the line. Now what I want to do
here is I wanted to see if I can find a repeat. Finding a repeat
means I can create a bounding box and I can
start working through my design and make sure that my pattern isn't going to have parts cut-off it when I
end up doing the repeat. To do this here, and this is my pattern so far. Now what I'm looking for is exact sections that
are identical, which this bubble and that bubble and that top of
that bubble. That's a square. That's, that is my, that is a repeat. I could find another repeat the top of this bow
down to this bot. And I could even find another repeat from the top of this cherry to this Cherry, Cherry. And that one. It's quite simple how it's, how we find it, even
the top of these birds. There was another
repeat inside there. So that's what you're
really looking for when you create an block repeat. Just looking for
that repeat within, within the side of that. Now I've found this repeats. What I want to do is
create a bounding box. And to do that,
what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go
over here and I'm just going to pick the top of
this bubble is close to come with that bubble to be the exact same
position as the other. Then let go. I'm
going to give it a Black quarter, just
so I can see it. Then the next thing I
want to do is just have a quick look at
it and see if I'm happy with the layout
of the design. Everything looks great. The only thing I probably
want to do is I just want to add in another little motif. Nothing to date full of detail. Mainly because there's
a bit of a gap. Is a bit of a gap
with that bird. Nothing too bad, but
I'm just going to make sure they're
matching and good. Just going to copy them again. I'm going to do
the same up here. Try and get in the
same position, but it doesn't matter too
much. Since I've done that. I'm just going to give a
quick look over and yeah, I'm pretty happy
with how that looks. It's not too much open space. I'm going to go ahead and
find my repeating pattern. Now the next thing I need to
do is place my guiding box. Now this is going
to allow me to work out the different measurements that I'm going to need to
create my repeating pattern. By doing this, what I'm
looking for is every corner of my square needs to be on
the exact same motif, which I can see
quite a few here. It could be the top
part of this bow. On each of these ones here, it's gonna be the
exact same motif. The top of these bubbles here. Many options within
this repeat so far. I'm going to go away and
then press M for square. I'm going to go with
the top of this bubble, the ribbon, and then
go down to here. That's as close as I can get
it and I'm gonna release. Now I'm just going
to swap that over. Give it a black border, mainly because I want
to be able to see it. It's sitting on top, so it's not being hidden by any
of these motifs. Now the next thing that
I do is I come up here. I'm going to round
off these numbers, so it's not so hard to remember. I'm going to change this to 105 and change this one to 12. Choose 122105. Those are the dimensions
I'm working too. Then the next thing I do for
security sake is I click our basic press command to
lock this dialogue box down. I've had in the past
where I've been creating patterns and I haven't
locked this down. And it is being such a nightmare because what's happened is I've accidentally moved it
slightly forward or back, and I've ended up losing parts of my pattern
and I didn't notice so right at the very end
when I was trying to create it and it took a lot of backtracking for me to figure out where I
thought she'd gone wrong. Be sure to lock this down. If you want to unlock
it. It's really simple. It's just command option two. Now unlocks everything
on your art board, which we'll see when
we come to unlock it. Now my next step, I now unlock. Not unlocked, sorry, pardon me. I ungroup all of these
motifs that are together. Then I also go
around and I remove any motifs that I
don't need anymore. There we go. Now, remembering that I know that at the top
of this box is one to two. The bottom is 105. Just going to let the
ambulance roll past. Since we're going to now make sure that these motifs that fall off the edges are
the exact same idea decides. To do this. I'm going to remove all the
motifs on the bottom. All motifs on one side. So I'll pick the
right-hand side. For the top. Security sake. I'm just going to
remove the bow. I'm going to leave
this one here. I'm going to do the top bar, so I'm going to grab everything
that falls off the top. I'm going to
right-click and go to transform and then go to move. Now remembering that we're
going from top to bottom, so we're going vertical. So I don't need horizontal. So your value in
there should be 0. For vertical, it is one O2. Now we click Preview. It should give you a view of
how this is going to look. Now because I don't want to move the motifs from
here down here. What I want to do is
I want to copy them. I wanted duplication. So make sure you
click Copy not okay. We've got our first copy of
motifs from top to bottom. Now I'm going to do the
ones from left to right. Now. Yes, I have ones here. But what I'm going to do is
I'm going to remove them. Same again, select
everything that goes off. And click Transform. Move. Value was one to two, horizontal, one-to-two
vertical 0, and then click Copy again. There we go. Now the next stage is for us
to unlock this green box. Command option two.
Should see it. The guides come back up again. Now, here's the part where
we create a bounding box. Now the bone box is where everything inside the
box is our pattern. To do this. I click Copy and
then be sometimes a, my computer doesn't work. So go into layers. And this is just a
standard for me now. It's an a nervous B. Just like to check. You should see here, this box here needs to be at
the bottom of everything. The other way to
do it is to click, right-click, arrange and back. That should move it all
the way to the back. Just remember when you copy any object within Illustrator, you'll end up copying the exact same characteristics for this because of palpate, the guideline box, which
has a black border. My bounding box also
has a black outline. So make sure you
remove that here. The other thing I'm
gonna do is because I don't want a I don't want a black outline repeating
within my pattern. The guidelines box. I'm also gonna remove
that back border. Now, this is the fun part. This is the part
where we actually get to see if our pattern works by selecting
all the motifs here. Drag it and drop it into
the swatch panel here. You'll see here you'll have
a little icon that appears. Click em and draw a box. I'm going to fill
it with my pattern. Go, we have a repeating pattern. I'm just going to check it out. As it doesn't have a background. I'm just going to click
Scale and I'm going to drop it to uniform and make sure it doesn't
say transform and drop it and say 15. That will allow me to
just check out my repeat. Now I know my repeat
was used by using the top of this little bow here. And I can see there's
no line cutting through any of those new
issues of my repeat. Right now we've got
this repeating pattern. Pretty happy with that. I'm happy with the amount
of spare space. With this. If I wanted to add add a box, I could draw a box and just arrange it to the back
and then give it a color. Work with the color scheme, There's even one with
a green background, which actually
looks really good. I'm pretty happy with that one.
4. Half Drop: I'm just going to use
the motif package of fresh spring to put together a half-drop that's
a little bit more detailed than using the
Christmas favorite motifs. Now I've created this repeat, making it a lot more detailed
than the previous one. Bringing in the soft dots to give a bit more texture
throughout the design. Now, I'm just going to
arrange this on front. Adults drop out at the back. I'm pretty happy with that now, I'm going to do the
exact same thing as the previous design. I'm going to try and
find the repeat. So for me to do this, I can't see it
evident right now. These are together. I just want to make sure
pretty happy with that. The only thing I'm going to
do is I just want to use or utilize this design here. Back. Just wanted to give it. I don't want to be too big, but next thing I want to do
is I really want to copy. I just want to fill in this
gap here for me to do this. I'm just going to ungroup. These group of
motifs want to copy, select to pull you out. Just want to make
sure I regroup. Again. Going to do is I'm just going to arrange
this range to the back. Now I'm gonna see if I can spot the repeat with what
I've got at the moment. So once again, just gonna
click em. I can spot one. Now if I go from the top of
that one's top of that one. Pretty much looks good. Even if I went to
the top of that one. It's going to have a look. Pretty much it there. Double-check the
exact same flower. Yep. Perfect. Okay, great. I'm just gonna go through the
exact same scenario again, you can follow me as I do this. It's no different than how
I've done the bloke repeat. Now I'm going to check to see
how this pattern concept, I'm just going to
see how it's going to look with a background. So I'm just going
to go across here and do my due diligence, get rid of the standard
swatch that gets given. Then I'm just going to
add in this color swatch. And then I'm just
going to arrange for my guide box at the back. I'm going to remove
that boundary. I'm just gonna see what it looks like with the background. Quite like it with
the navy background. So I'm gonna leave it with that. Then what I'm going to do
is I'm going to create my bounding box command C. Then check here the double-check that the
box is indeed at the back. Make sure I move any color
from the stroke or the fill. Then let's have a look to
see what it looks like. I'm just going to select it all, rid of that number, and then drag it in, drop, fill it in and then
just have a look at it. Remove, transform our objects. Perfect. Oops. Scale 60. Pretty happy with that. I'm just going to zoom
in and I'm just going to double-check nothing's cut off. I can reference myself here to see where the
actual repeat it. So it's obviously the top
of these flowers here. Can't see anything
that falls off. It looks pretty good. I just wanted to
show that you could have a very detailed design with a very simple layout by
just building up with different textures
like I've done here with the hand-drawn dolts. Let's move on and let's
get into a tough, tricky.
5. Toss: Now we've gone ahead and created a block repeat and half repeat. I'd like to show you one of my most favorite layouts when it comes to
surface pattern design, which is a tossed repeat. Now when it comes to
creating a tosser P, There are a few ways you
can do this with a towel. She'd P, It's also known
as a random repeat. Motifs are scattered or free
flowing across the pattern. I'm just going to
start the steps. I'm going to first
do my art board. Then I'm going to, I'm going to work within to
create my pattern. I want to do is
I'm actually going to create my guide box. Now the difference
between a block repeat and a half repeat when it comes to
a tossed repeat, that we're not really
creating our design and then trying to find the repeat
with a toss your page. We're actually working within our guy box right at the start. And building's design
focusing on the actual tile, the actual section of the design that is
going to be repeated. Now we can design this
guy bulks as a square, or we can do it as
any size rectangle. The one thing to really
remember is when we actually design
in a square your, your repeat is more
easier to spot because that tile is being repeated and repeated over and over again. When it's a rectangle, it is actually more
harder to spot. Especially if
you're working with a few more layers and building
it up on more textures. For this tossed repeat, I'm not going to create this as a square because
I feel like we've already run through the
basics of a block repeat, which is really sort of working similar to what a touchy
point looks like at the end, especially if we're going on,
It's a very simple design. I don't want to
deliver that to you. I wanted to deliver a
more technical design within a rectangle. Starting within a god folks. To do this, I'm going to click M. And I'm just going to draw my box of where I'm going to basically
place my motifs within. One thing I'm going to do
with this is I'm gonna do the exact same setup
as the other layouts. Is I'm gonna come up here
and I'm just going to run the soft to make it really
easy for me to remember. Let's go through 50. I'm also going to just write
that up here. So I remember. I've even forgotten
already. What are we? Four hundred eighty and
three hundred fifty four eighty and three
hundred and fifty. Just going to select that all I'm just going to
make that figure for me. Then what I'm going to do is I'm gonna work with a light
background to start with. Then I'm just going to lock
that guide books done. The next thing I'm going
to do is I'm just going to select all the motifs
and copy them all. And just play some
on this art board. Just so I've got the
originals there just in case I end up accidentally
deleting them. Then what I'm gonna
do is I'm going to start building my
design within this box. Now the one thing I'm
really taking note off is that if I'm to place
this rose here, be mindful that we are going
to be copying motifs that fall off one side and then duplicating them
on the other side. Wherever I place this row, so that's falling
off or any motif. I have to remember
that I'm gonna be copying that and
moving it across. Same as I have this citrus fruit wherever its lending is going to the bottom of
those citizens who is going to basically appear
in this section here. There's no point in me
placing this rows here. And then this fruit here. If that's going to
fall over the top, by any means, do that. If that's the look
you're going for, but just be mindful, There's nothing worse
than laying out your design and how it looks right there
and then looks amazing. But then when you go to
create and move the motifs into a repeating pattern and
you find that you've got ones that are crossing over and you don't
want them to be. It can be a bit of
a pain and it can really do motivate you as you process through your design. Just be mindful of that. Now I'm just going to go ahead
and start putting together a Tulsi P. It feel
free to watch and, or even during this
time, create your own. As we go. You can run
through the steps as I go. I'm happy with where I've
got this design so far. I'm just going to do is
I've added these in. But really what I want them
to be as more of a textural, I'm just going to make
sure they're at the back. Now a lot of my designs
within this motif set or actually just outlines. You can color them in and add some paint brush work
to them if you want. I've left them just as outlines, mainly because I just
liked the fact that it's just looks like
sketch pen work. Can jump forward. What I'm going to start doing
is copy of the motifs from one side to the other to see how they're each going
to look on either side. My horizontal is for 80. My radical is 0. Previews on. So showing me on the other
side how it looks. Now you can see here that that's actually just
crossing a road, but I am going to
proceed and click Copy. One thing to take note of is just going to group
these two together. Then if I move this down, they're exactly the same. The only thing I have to
take note of because I'm off the actual corner. On this side. This searches fruits,
lemon or lime, whichever you want to call it, is going to appear criss
crossing over the top. My other motifs, this lemon, may not work here. But at least I can
have a look at that and see if I even
like that crossover. Now, I know that I've got
things over this side, the Aren't across on this side, which is going to be
just gonna be the same. But this time I'm
going back away, going from right to left. It's going to be minus
four hundred eighty zero on my vertical and click Copy. You can see there again, it's crossing over there
at the moment like that. So I'm going to remove
that at the current time. I want to do is do
from top to bottom. Transform Move. Now I'm going 0 on
the horizontal. I'm going to be doing 350 down. Preview. Copy. The only one
that isn't there, I was on the bottom is this one. So transform, so right-click
Transform, Move. Same settings. Just click that as a preview. But you have to remember here, we're going from bottom up, so that needs to be
minus preview again. There she is, click Copy. Now at this stage I really
like to look at my design, really get an idea of mainly the sea of it's
really sort of balanced. I do have some spared areas which some of my
designs I really hate. Button this one is quite nice, gets quite evenly
balanced those for the space there,
there, there, there. So it's quite nice,
it's very free flowing. One thing I do need to look
at is this open space here. This open space here. So I need to look to
add something in there. My options really, I could end up throwing
some more leaves in here. At the moment, this
lemon seems to be sort of repeating all the way down the center of my design. I really wanted to
change that so much. You're gonna move this one. See if I can select an
estimate guide there. I've put that one in there. That may work there. One thing I do want to
change is right here, I've moved this one. I want to put something
else in there. Sorry, a bit of a gauge. I really don't want to
use this orange motif. I'm thinking I'm actually
going to keep using these blueberry motifs and
just add them in there. Just to fill up,
but avoid there. I'm just saying how much? I've got these little
splashes of yellow. Just making sure that quite even across remembering that
anything I've put here, I've got this yellow here. That's going to
appear technically about here in this design. That will balance that out on
the yellow and that scale. Maybe do, is these
are quite cute, the little ones, some
maintenance add them in here. Right now. I'm just going to just copy
and move motifs I have actually added in horizontal
0 minus 350 copy. You can see that just
crosses over that flub. I'm just going to grab both
of them and just move them up because of both attached. The main thing I'm really
wanting to make sure is that wherever this motif falls off on this side is exact
same on the other. If you end up having you've
already done your copy from one side to the other and want
to adjust the same motif. Make sure you just
click on both and even grouped them
just for safety sake. Then you can move them up
and down, left and right. Looking at that there, I'm quite happy with how it
looks at the present time. What I am going to do is
I really want to have a look to see how it's
working at the current time. I'm just going to move
that actually delete that. I'm not going to use it. Want to do is I'm
gonna go through the process of creating
my boundary box. I am going to drag this
pattern and place it into the swatches just like I
would do to create pattern. And that's going to be
able to show me how my pattern is looking
at the current time. The reason I do this is sometimes when I do a pattern
straight off the bat, it just doesn't the
something not right. There's an area
that's quite open. This just too much spacing. What I like to do is just
do this process and then it gets me the idea to
tweak it and change it. I'm just going to do Command Option two to unlock that box and do Command C, B. Make sure that
boundary box doesn't have anything in it and
make sure that it is at the back which doesn't look like it is
going to find it for us. Other shoes. Yes. She's at the back of
everything. There we go. I'm just going to grab
it all and drag it in. I'm just going to
slide over here, press M for the rectangle, fill it with the pattern. There we have it. That is how to create
a tossed pattern.
6. Diagonal: The very last pattern
layout we're going to do is a diagonal pattern. This one's a really
nice pattern to create, especially if you're
working with florals, tree branches,
leaves, that sort of thing gives it a nice flow
throughout the pattern. And it's one that
I've used a few times throughout my designs. Now for this pattern, I'm really going to start this a little bit different
than the other three. The reason I'm
starting it this way is I really just wanted to add some guides to the actual
guide box that I have an idea of the direction that my diagonal
lines are going. I'm just going to
create same as before. I'm just going to create
another art board alongside. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to create my guide box. Now I'm just gonna do this. Not exact square but just
slightly off a square. Going to give it no fill, but I am going to give it a black border black
stroke around. Then what I'm also going
to do is I'm going to add my guidelines. I'm just going to use
them using the pen tool. I'm just going to
go from one end, one corner to the other. Then I'm gonna do is
I'm going to copy and paste the exact same line. Just position it enough
with enough space so that my motifs nicely separated do
the same on the other side. Here we go. And then what I will do is
just looking at the distance, just going to put one on either side corners
here as well. To ensure I don't move
this box and my guide, so I'm going to select it all. And I've got a lock
it Command two. Then I'm just going to
proceed with creating my pattern following
these guidelines. As you can see, I've mainly
wanted to keep this flow of flowers and leaves suggests
really flow on that line. I am being conscious that
these motifs will pop up here. With other designs
coming across. But the reason I've
really sort of copied this row of motifs
and put them here is like the repeating factor
of these leaves and the actual way that these water colored flowers
sit along each line. It's quite nice and soft. The only thing I'm
noticing is this a few, these ones are all the same
because it is the same line. So what I will do is I'll
end up moving some of these flowers and switch
them in with these. What I've done is I've removed all the excess motifs that
were outside this guy box. Now the next thing I wanted
to do is I do want to actually check the
size of this box. I'm just going to
lock everything. And here I'm just going
to check the size. I'm just going to round
it off to 34328328. Now I'm going to do
what I've done before. Though. They're two
to four by three to eight doesn't seem right
at all in my head. So I'm just going to
double-check that with that box 384, sorry. 384. And then I'm just going to lock that box again
along with the guides. Now, I'm going to start the
process of moving all motifs from top to bottom,
left to right. To see really how this
design is laying up. To see if I need to add
any motifs that are, that need to build up on. So let's start
with that process. Now after I've done that, a few things I don't like that a converging from one
side to the other. And one thing I don't like is this flower crossing and
with this flower here. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to pull that one out. That looks a lot better. So I'm gonna delete that one. It wasn't falling off
on any of the edges. So that's not a problem. The only thing I
have to look at is this empty space up
here at the top. I'm just going to
add in some mutase just to fill this area in. Just looking over this pattern, I'm pretty happy that
everything is following its line and of mesh to copy and move from one
side to the other. It looks to be quite
nicely balanced. The next thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to
unlock everything. And I'm just going to remove all those gods that I
had because I don't need them as a guide
anymore because I've got the guides
already flowing through. I can see that there
is a row there. There is a row and
there's another room. I'm just going to delete them. Now the next thing I'm going
to do here is I'm just going to have a look to see if there is a background
may work with this design. I'm gonna have to make sure
that it's arranged back. The only thing I'm just
going to have a look at here is really intrigued to
see what this design, what the design would look like. If all these outlined motifs, I'm just going to
group, just lose them. Look like give them a bit
of a different color. I'm trying to do is just
send them all the way. Much as I think
that's going to work. I think it was just too
much detail with that. Cut that out what
I just did there. Now let us consider this design. I actually really like
the darker backgrounds. Time between that soft Navy, the black, quite like
the software navy. So I'm going to
stick with that one. The next stage I want to do is I just want to fill in some of these empty spaces
here just to build the pattern up before
I test the swatch, I'm just going to add in a
few little bits and pieces after moving those motifs just to be sure that haven't
missed anything off, I'm going to move the
motifs from the top and do the move and copy procedure on both from top
to bottom, left to right. Do this. I'm just going to
select the guide box and boundary and lock them to
make sure I don't move them. And then I'm going to remove anything that falls
off the bottom. And then same on the
right-hand side. Then I'm going to select
everything on the top. Do transform move to some growing vertical,
clicking Copy. And then going right to left. Transform move. I'm going horizontal, which is 3840 for vertical. Click Copy. Then just generally give
it a bit of Luke over. I'm quite happy
with how that is. So I'm just going to unlock the guide box
and the boundary box. Double-check that this notion
and stroke on my guide box. Nothing on the boundary box. And I'm just going to
select the whole patch in and dropping the
swatches panel. Just going to draw a box and
fill it with the pattern. Give me an idea how it looks. Now looking at it straight away. In C, there is a line
runs through my pattern. But when I zoom in, when I zoom in, it disappears. Now this is a thing
with it, illustrator. Some of you may experience. Sometimes with illustrator
with a pattern it will show aligned. But when you zoom in to try and technically check
it out, disappears. And after numerous checks
with Adobe Illustrator, the actually sits just something that the computer spits out. Doesn't mean there is
a line in your design. Just something that does. The one way to check sieve is repeating in there is
just to have a look at the top and then drop down to the next spot where it would be repeating that flora there. I zoom in here. There is no line,
vertical line there. There is something missing here. It's always good to check your design after
you've put together. Because as you can see here, something is cutting
off from my design. The best way to figure that out is to do the check which
straightaway I can see here, you may not be able
to spot it yet, but I have this flower here, but it hasn't copied
from right to left. That is why a lot of
design processing. It's always good if you
copy from top to bottom. It's also good then to remove everything
from top to bottom. Then to do the transform
move from bottom to top, which I'm gonna do for you
right now that we know. We're going through
that process again, I'm going to remove everything
from the top, falls off. Then I'm gonna grab
everything from the bottom. I'm going to lock my guide
box and boundary box. Transform move. And that's gonna be 0 horizontal
minus three to eight. Preview. Happy with that click Copy. Then I'm going to go this time. Everything that falls
off on the left, everything that
falls on the right. Right-click transform move. This time I'm going
from right to left, so I'm going minus,
minus 3840 copy. Now let's check to see how
design came out there. Doing so, I'm going to
grab the whole thing, unlocked my guide box
and boundary box. Select the passionate again, drag it over, drop it. Then just to make sure
that that is repaired, I'm going to watch it as I
click on the New Swatch. See there, that drops
in and fills in there. So just looking over
that design again. Illustrator. See, there it is. It's completely disappeared. So that's just an illustrator
lines splitting out there. I'm just going to scale back. I can get a better
look over the design. So click Okay. And they have it.
7. Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me today and taking my class. I hope you've managed to pick up some tricks of the trade
and balance to create your own repeating
patterns using either four of the layouts
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were able to create your own repeating patterns
throughout my class. And you're able to spend
the time to upload them into the projects
and resources section. I can't wait to see
what you come up with following the steps that
I've put in this class. And I look forward
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you take my class. And even if you post
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to be able to share. Once again, thanks so much
for joining me today. It's really been a
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follow in this coming year. Stay safe and thanks so much.
Kirsty Salter, Illustrator & Surface Pattern Designer
