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1. Welcome to Class: Surface pattern design
is just so much fun. There's something truly
magical about seeing your design come to life
as a repeating pattern. Would you love to create
gorgeous patterns from the cozy comfort
of your couch? How about while
hanging in the park or chilling by the pool? I'm here to teach you how. Hi, my name is Chelsea. I'm a surface
pattern designer and illustrator based in
Brisbane, Australia. I spend my days
creating artwork and patterns that are then printed in a whole
range of products, including fabric, stationary, room decor, and
tech accessories. In this class, I'm
going to walk you through my entire
process for creating one of my absolute favorite
types of pattern to create on the iPad,
the scallop pattern. Also known as fish scales, scallops are super
versatile type of pattern that look great on
so many different products. Scallop patterns can seem a
little intimidating at first, but I have been earning
my own method for a few years now and I'd
love to share it with you. In this class, I'll be teaching
you my entire process, which includes making a custom actions
template and scallop pad that you'll be able to use anytime you want to
make a scallop pattern, sketching your
initial design using my favorite tool in
Procreate, the symmetry tool. We will test, review, and refine your design before moving forward
with coloring. I will show you how to turn
the full-colored design into a repeat pattern tile. Then you'll get to
experience the magic, seeing your design turned
into a repeating pattern. Finally, we'll use a super
quick and easy process to recolor your pattern tile
into a second colorway. Plus, all along the way, I'll be sharing a bunch of
my favorite Procreate tips and tricks to help you get
the most out of the program. This class is aimed at both beginners with very
little Procreate experience, and also intermediate students who might want to
expand their skill set. Regardless of your
experience level, I'm pretty sure that you're
going to find creating scallop patterns just as
fun and addictive as I do. When you're ready,
grab your iPad with the app Procreate, and your Apple pencil, and let's get started.
2. Class Project: The project for this
class is pretty simple. Follow the lessons in class to create a repeating
scallop pattern in Procreate and then
upload an image of your final pattern
to the project gallery. At the end of class, you'll have two unique colorways
of your final pattern. It's completely up to you
whether you want to upload both designs or just
pick your favorite. I've provided a couple of
resources that you can download to help you
get started with class. You can find them under the
Projects and Resources tab. The first one is a link to a
Pinterest inspiration board, where I've saved
a whole bunch of beautiful scallop
designs that you can browse through to help you get inspired to create
your own pattern. The other download is a PDF
document that I've created. That includes a list of some of my favorite
Procreate brushes, a couple of pre-made
color palettes that you're welcome to use, and also a list of themes
and motifs that might help you to get
inspired when you start to draw your
own design today. As we go through class, I would like to
encourage you to put your own unique spin on the
design that you create. However, if you
would like to simply practice the process
the first time through, to feel free to follow
along with me step by step, at least until you get
the hang of the process. Then you can always
have a go at creating your own unique
design after that. I can't wait to see
what you create.
3. How a Pattern Tile Works: Before we dive into
creating our templates, I thought I'd just give
a quick overview of how a repeating pattern tile works using this simple
daisy pattern here. The key to a repeating
pattern tile is simply this. Anything that crosses
the border must also cross at the exact same point
on the opposite border. When this tile here is repeated, this half a daisy see
at the top is going to match exactly with this
half a daisy on the bottom. This half a daisy
on the left will match exactly with this
half on the right. I'll quickly demonstrate what I mean by duplicating this tile four times and then shrinking
them down to half the size. Don't worry that
I'm just breezing through this process
at this point. I'll be explaining it all very thoroughly later on in class. As I move this first
tile to the right, keep an eye on this
daisy on the left. When the tiles snaps into place, you can see that we have
our first full daisy here. That is how the repeat works. When you match up the tiles, the motifs repeat seamlessly. We'll do that again, but this time take the child
to the bottom. As I do watch the
daisy on the top, it snaps into place and joins the other half here to
make another full daisy. Again, for the final tile. There we have the magic of
the repeating pattern tile. The really fun part is that this process is
infinitely repeatable. I'll quickly demonstrate that by repeating the same
process again, just at real speed to
show you what I mean. That is how a repeating
pattern tile works. It's pretty simple.
It's lots of fun. In the next lesson, we're going to make a custom
actions template that is going to help us create
our own pattern tile.
4. Custom Actions Template: In this lesson,
we're going to make a custom actions template that will help us to make
our pattern tile. This is actually a great
template that you'll be able to use for any full drop
repeat pattern in future, not just the scallop that
we'll be making today. We'll start by creating a new canvas by clicking
on the Plus icon, up in the top right-hand corner, and then clicking on
the New canvas button. I'm going to create
my canvas at 3,000 by 3,000 pixels at 300 DPI. You see here that on
my rather old iPad, I have a limit of 18 layers. If you have a newer
version, or a pyramidal, you likely have many more layers to work with, which is great. That'll just give you
even more flexibility. So click "Create." Now, the first thing I like to do when I'm dropped
into my new canvas, is that, I pinch to
zoom out a little bit. I actually didn't even
realize that I did this, until I was planning this class, and my partner pointed it out while he was trying
to follow along. So I would recommend
that you do the same while you're
following along. The first step to create
this template is to drag and drop to fill the
entire canvas with color. Now this color is just going to be a temporary placeholder. So it doesn't matter at
all what color you use. So click and drag
to fill the color. Once the canvas is filled, come up to the top and
select the Arrow tool. Come down to the bottom and
click on the Snipping tool. You want to make
sure that magnetics, and snapping are toggled on, and turned up to max. Click on the blue node in
the top left-hand corner, and we're going to
shrink the square down to half of the
original canvas size. So my canvas is 3,000
by 3,000 pixels. I need to make my
square 1,500 by 1,500. Note here that if you started with a different canvas size, just enter the number that is exactly half of
your canvas size. I like to use the
layers button as a safe place to de-select when I can't see the arrow tool. That's because in Procreate, if you tap around the edges of the workspace while you
have something selected, you can actually nudge your
selection over by a pixel, which can throw out
your whole design, and we definitely
don't want that. So use your buttons at the
top to safely de-select. Click on the Layers button
again to open your layers, and then click on Layer 1. From the new side menu
here, click "Select." You'll see that these
faint gray lines appear on the other three
coordinates of the canvas. You're going to be
seeing a lot of these lines throughout the class. Down the bottom of the screen, we're looking for the
Save and Load button, which is this one with
the little hot icon. Click on that once, and then click on the plus icon. You'll see that selection
one has now been added. Now we're going to repeat this exact process for the
other three quadrants. So come up to the top, and click on the Arrow
tool to bring up the bounding box around
your colored square. We're going to drag it across to the right until it
snaps into place. We're looking for these
yellow guidelines to appear on both the
horizontal and the vertical to let us know that it has snapped
perfectly into place. Once it has snapped,
come back to layers. Click on layer 1 again, and bring out the Flyout menu, and then click "Select." There are those
gray lines again. Come back down to Save and Load. Click on the little plus, and this Selection 2. Now Procreate doesn't give us the option to rename
these selections. So it's just a matter
of remembering which order we save them. I like to save mine
in a clockwise order, so that it's easy
for me to remember. We'll move on to
the next quadrant. Click on the Arrow tool. This time we're going to drag it down to the bottom-right corner. Remember to look for your
yellow snapping lines. Release the square, come
back up two layers, click on "Layer 1",
click "Select", they're are the gray lines, back down to save "Enlarge", click on the plus, and
there's Selection 3. The last quadrant, click on the Arrow tool, drag it across to
the left until it snaps, click on layers. Click layer 1, click "Select", down to Save and Load, click on the plus icon, and then Selection 4. Now, we don't need this
little square anymore. So you can come back up
to your Layers panel and swipe left on that layer, and then click
"Clear." That's it. The custom actions
template is now ready. To save you from having to
repeat this process again, at least for this
size of canvas, we're going to save
this as a template. So click on "Gallery" in
the top left-hand corner, to take us back out to
the Procreate gallery. Click under the canvas where
it says Untitled Artwork, and rename it to something
like custom actions template. Now, whenever you want to make a new design using the template, all you need to do is duplicate the canvas and you'll
be ready to go. That's exactly how
we're going to start off the next lesson, where we'll be making
a scallop shape guide that's going to help us
to create our design.
5. Scallop Guide Template: In this lesson, we're going
to make the scallop shape that we'll use as a guide to
help us create our design. Spoiler alert, this is the shape that we're
going to end up with. Starting out in the
Procreate gallery where we ended the last lesson, we're going to duplicate
our custom actions template by clicking on "Select" in the top
right-hand corner, clicking the template
to select it, and then click "Duplicate"
back up in the top right. Click the X to close out. I'm going to click to
rename my duplicate. I think I'll call mine
scallop template. Click "Done", and
then open the Canvas. For this process, we need
a nice even smooth brush. In the brushes library, I'm going to go to the Calligraphy folder and then select the monoline brush. Which is native to procreate so everybody should have
access to this brush. We're going to use the
quick shapes function, which is a super
cool tool that's going to help us create
a perfect circle. The key to QuickShapes
is that you need to keep your pen down on
the screen when you complete the shape
until the ellipse created pop-up appears at
the top of your screen. There's the pop-up. You'll
notice that when it appeared, your shape popped into
a smoother shape, and you should get a new
pop-up that says ellipse. Don't worry if this
doesn't appear. QuickShapes can take a couple
of tries to get used to it. Just undo and try to
draw your circle again. Once you've got the pop-up,
click on the down arrow, and then select "Circle". Your shape will pop into
a perfectly even circle. Now come up to the arrow tool, and now come down to the bottom and click on the button
"Fit to Canvas". As the button suggests, the
circle will now snap to fit the entire canvas so it will
be touching all four edges. Next, drag and
drop to color fill the circle with the same color that you used for the outline. I actually think that pink color might be a bit hard for
you to see on screen so I'm just going
to drag and drop and change mine to
this green color. Come over to the
Layers panel and swipe left to
duplicate the layer, and then again so that you
have three identical layers. Click on the top layer and then swipe to the right to also select the second layer so that they are both
highlighted in blue. Click on the arrow tool
and then double-check that snapping and magnetics are
still turned up to max. Now we're going to drag
the selection down until it snaps into place in the bottom half
of the canvas. As always, we're looking for
the yellow snapping lines. Once in place, come
back up to Layers, and click to select
only the top layer. Click the arrow tool and
then drag that layer across to the left until
you get your yellow guides, and then come back
up to layers and select only the second layer. Click on the arrow again, and then drag this one to the right until it
snaps into place. We're going to come back
up to your layers and pinch to merge together
the top two layers. Click on that top
layer to bring out the flyout menu and
then click "Select". You'll have those
familiar gray lines covering the rest of the canvas. Come back up to
Layers and click on the bottom layer that has
the full circle in it. On the flyout menu,
click "Clear". Now, you can't see much
change on the canvas, but if you watch over here
on the layer preview, you can see what happens
when I click Clear. I'll just undo to
show you that again so watch over here on
the layer preview. There's that scallop shape so the template is almost ready. We're done with the
top layer now so we'll swipe left and then delete it. As this scallop shape is just a guide layer
that we're going to be using over and over again, I like to make
mine a super light gray color that isn't
too distracting. I'll pick a gray, app will lock my layer by
two fingers swiping to the right and then
clicking "Fill Layer". Actually, I think
that gray might even be a little bit
dark so I'll come back and pick a
lighter color and fill again. That looks better. Come up to the Wrench
tool and under Canvas, turn on "Drawing Guide". Click "Edit Drawing Guide", and then come down to the
symmetry option on the right. Click on "Options",
and we want to make sure that vertical is selected. You're looking for this faint
line down the middle of the canvas. Click "Done". Come back up to the
Layers panel and click on the plus to add a new
layer at the top. Click on that layer and then
turn on Drawing Assist. Now, every time you open
the template to use, your drawing layer is already
there and good to go. The very last step
we're going to take is to clear out the
time-lapse video of this process so that
you don't have to see the boring setup part at the start of every
single time-lapse. Come back up to the Wrench tool and click on the "Video" tab. Click the slider to toggle
off time-lapse recording. You'll get this purge video pop up and you want
to click "Purge". This is going to
delete the recording of this Canvas up
until this point, which is great, there's
nothing exciting to see yet anyway, so click "Purge". Now make sure your toggle
time-lapse recording back on. You want it to be blue. Unless you have space or storage issues or
something like that., you'll definitely
want to be able to watch back your
design process. Also the time lapses make really cool content to
share on social media. That's the setup out of the way. Our template is all
done and ready to go. We'll come back out
to your gallery, and in the next lesson, it's time to get
into the fun stuff , sketching your design.
6. Sketching: Just before we get
into sketching, I wanted to quickly touch on a couple of sources of
inspiration that you might find helpful
as you're thinking about ideas for
your design today. As I mentioned earlier, one of the resources
I've provided for you to download
includes a list of themes and motifs
that you can use as a starting point to get
inspired for your design. The list mentions themes like clean geometrics
for her rainbows, celestial or floral designs. But because scallops
is so versatile, I think you can really run
with any idea that pops into your head and it will probably make a really cool
scallop design. I've also included a link
to this Pinterest board, where I've saved a bunch of cool scallop designs
that I found. This will be a
great place to take some broad inspiration by noting things that you like
about other designs, such as the line qualities
or the level of detail, or just the general
idea for a motif. Always remember though,
that you should absolutely not copy directly
from other artists. We just want to be
inspired indirectly and then crack home with making
our own unique design. With that being said, take as long as you need
to look through the inspiration sources and roughly decide on the
direction you want to take. Then let's get into the fun stuff and start
sketching our design. We're going to start
by duplicating the template so that we
don't touch the original. We want to make
sure that we keep that saved so that you can always reuse it whenever you want to start a new
scallop design. Click "Select,"
select the Canvas, duplicate and X to close out. I'm going to click to
rename the canvas. I'll coal mine
scallop Pattern, 1. Click "Done" and
open the Canvas. As always, pinch to
zoom out a little bit. Now, we know from how we set up the template that we already have our clean drawing layout
all set up and ready to go. However, I would still highly recommend that you
get into the habit of always double-checking
your layer before you start
to draw anything. There's really
nothing worse than getting into your
design and then having to undo all
your work because you realize you've been
drawing on the wrong layer. Always double-check that you're drawing
on the right layer. Select your sketching pencil. My favorite can be found
in the sketching folder. It's the 6B pencil that is
also native to procreate. I like to sketch in
a dark gray color. I'll just pick one now. But you can pick whatever
works best for you. I'll just find a size
that I want to draw with. I'm good to go. As you
sketch your design, you want to make
sure that you keep your elements within
the scallop shape. That's why we have
our guide here. However, if you want to include some full
arch lines that will touch the border of
your scallop shape you can draw them so that
they crossover like this, and then just clean them
up with the eraser. Keep in mind that this is just a rough sketch
at this stage. We're just trying to get a
feel for the layout imbalance. Nothing needs to
be perfect at all. For my design today, I think I'm going to include
some arches at the top and then have a main
motif in the center here. It'll probably be a daisy. I think I'm going to try
to tune into that '90s Nostalgia via that are so
popular at the moment. I'm not going to
lie as a '90s baby. I'm absolutely loving it. One of the elements to
consider while you're sketching is if
you would like to include a scallop shaped
outline in your design, or whether you
would rather leave the scallop shape a
bit more loose and imply like I did with this
design here on my front case. Sorry, instead of
a solid outline, I've just got these
little dashes around that are implying
that scallop shape. If you do want to
add a solid outline, I'll actually show
you how to do that in another lesson a
little bit later on. That's because there's a couple
of extra steps involved. If you do want one
for the moment, just do as I'm doing here
and draw in a rough outline that is approximately
the thickness you would like your
solid outline to be. I'm going to speed
up the video here at this point so that you don't have to watch me as I sketch. But remember to take
as long as you need to sketch your own
design and you can always reference that
Pinterest board or the theme list if you need
some help with inspiration. Man, I love the symmetry tool. I think it's got to be my
favorite tool in Procreate. I love that I only need to
draw half of the design and Procreate will magically reflex it for me on the other side. I'll just erase
these little bits that fall out of the guide here. I think I'm done with
my initial sketch. I'm feeling pretty happy
about how it's looking, but I weren't really know for sure until I see it repeated. Once you've got your
own rough sketch ready, come and join me in
the next lesson, where we will use
our custom actions template to test and
refine our design.
7. Test and Refine: Now that you've got
your initial sketch, it's time to test it out using the custom actions that we
saved a couple of lessons ago. Follow along with me and
in just a minute you'll be able to see the first draft
of your full pattern tile. Come on up to the
Layers panel and swipe left to duplicate
your sketch layer. Click on the second
layer and then click the "Plus" to add a new layer
between the two sketch layers. You want to fill this layer with any light color so that you
can see your sketch above it. You can either drag and
drop to fill the canvas or click on the "Layer" and
then click "Fill Layer". Both options are going to give you the exact same results. Now, we're going to
group the top sketch with the colored square
by swiping right, to highlight them both in blue, and then clicking Group. Click where it says New group to select the whole
group at once, and then come up to
the S selection tool. Fine, save and load
down the bottom, that little hot icon. Click it once, and then
click on "Selection 1". You'll see those familiar gray
lines should be taking out three quarters of the canvas everywhere except for the
top left-hand square. Click on the Arrow Tool and you'll get a bounding box around that top left corner to show
you that it is selected. Come back down to the bottom
and you're going to click on "Flip Horizontal"
and then Flip Vertical. Or you can do that
in the other order, Flip Vertical and
then Flip Horizontal. It really doesn't matter so
long as they both get done. That corner will now look
out of place like this, but that's exactly what we want. Click on the "Arrow
Tool" to de-select, and then click on the
"S Selection Tool". Come back down to save and load, and this time click
on "Selection 2". There the gray lines on
the other three quadrants. Click on the "Arrow Tool",
come down to the bottom, and click to Flip
Horizontal and then Flip Vertical and
error to de-select. We'll repeat the process
again S Selection Tool down to save and
load, Selection 3. Click on the "Arrow Tool", Flip Horizontal, Flip
Vertical, arrow to deselect. The last one S selection
tool, save and load, Selection 4 Arrow Tool, Flip Horizontal, Flip Vertical, and then arrow to de-select. You can see here that the
negative space in the middle of the Canvas is an
upside-down sculpt shape. What we need to do is flip the canvas backup the right way. Click on the "Arrow Tool", which will select the whole canvas, and then click, "Flip Vertical". Click on the "Arrow"
again to de-select. Now are you ready
for the reveal. Come over to your Layers
panel and click to de-select the checkbox on
the colored square layer, and there's your pattern tile. I think that this skull up guide is a bit distracting as well, so I'm actually going to turn off that layer for
the time being. What we're going to do
now is check out how the design looks while we're
still in sketching phase. This is the best time to make changes and refine the design. Before we go to all
the effort of adding color and doing our
final linework. I think my tile is looking pretty good
to me at this stage. But to really get an idea about how this is going
to work as a pattern, I need to see it repeated
a couple of times. To test it out, We're
going to three finger swipe down to bring up
the Copy Paste menu. Then select the Copy All button. Three-finger swipe down again, and then select Paste. Now, if you come up
to the Layers panel, you should have a layer
called Inserted Image. Swipe left to duplicate that layer until you
have four copies. The rest of this process is
going to look familiar from that first lesson where I explained how a repeating
pattern tile works. We'll click on the top layer
and then swipe right on the other three so that all
four are highlighted in blue. Come over to the Arrow Tool, and much like how we shrunk down the square to make our
custom actions template, we're going to click
on the node in the top left-hand
corner and make the dimensions half of
the original canvas size. Again, for me, mine is going
to be 1,500 pixels squared. I feel like the background
layer is a bit distracting, so I'm going to come back
over to my layers and turn off all of the other layers that I don't need at the moment. Now select the top layer and drag it across to the right until it snaps into place, with those yellow guidelines. Select the second layer and drag it until it snaps into
place in the bottom left, and select the third
layer and snap it into place in the
bottom right-hand corner. Now we can really
get an idea for how the pattern tile is going
to work as a repeat. Great, I think I'm
really happy with this. I like the way that my
elements are working together. I think the Daisy
is fun and it's a nice balanced
composition overall. The only bit I'm not
really loving is these small objects at the
bottom of the skull shaped. I don't think they
look quite right. I'm going to make a mental
note that I want to try something else for
that area of my design. Looking at the dots in this arch and then in the
center of the daisy, I think I might try to
add a couple more dots in place of the arches and
see how that works. Take the time now to go
over your own design and make notes of any areas
you'd like to change. Then once you're ready, you can come back over
to the Layers panel and delete the
full image layers. We're done with them
for the moment. I also don't need the group with the duplicate sketch and
the colored square anymore, so I'm going to delete them too. All I'll be left with are the original sketch layer
and the skull up guide, which I will turn back on now
so that I can see it again. Now is the time to
refine my design. If you are completely happy with your design and you don't
want to make any changes, that's awesome, good job. If you just hold
tight for a moment, does only another minute or so left in this lesson anyway. I want to get rid of these
options down the bottom here. I think I'll just erase them. I'll grab my sketching
pencil again and find dark gray color and then
try out some circles. A little procreate tip here. If you're having
trouble drawing over the center line when you're
using the symmetry tool, you can always come up to
your layers and click to Turn Off drawing
assist temporarily. I often do this, especially when I'm drawing
circles over the middle line, just to make it a bit easier. Do remember to go back and turn drawing assist back
on once you're done so that you get that symmetry tool
working for you again. Now, since I only made a very simple change
to my design, I'm not going to go
through the process of testing the tile again. But you should feel free
to repeat the testing and refining process as
many times as you like. If you need a refresher
on how to do that, just rewind this video
a couple of minutes, and follow along with
that same process again. Remember that now is
the best time to make changes before you get
into coloring your design. Once you're happy with
your final sketch and you're ready to proceed. Join me in the next lesson, where we're going to be
adding color to our design.
8. Colour Your Design: Now, it's time to get into my favorite part of the process, where we really see
our design come to life: Adding the color. Start by selecting
your coloring brush. I'll be using the
monoline brush under the calligraphy set because
I like that nice even line. There are stack of free brushes that come native with Procreate. I've included a list of
a few of my favorites in the download document under the Projects and Resources tab. In that document,
I've also included a couple of pre-made color
palettes that you can use, if you'd like to
get a head start, rather than creating
your own palettes. I've already got my color
palette here ready to go. I'm just going to
select my first color. I think I will go with
this light cream, and let's get started. As we get into coloring, the main thing to
remember is that each color should be
on its own layer. The reason for that is so
that we have the option to easily recolor
the design later on. Remember that when
you pick a new color, you should start a new layer. Come over to the Layers panel
and add a new layer on top. Click on that layer and turn on Drawing Assist to activate
that symmetry tool, and let's start coloring. Remember, again, that you
can turn off Drawing Assist if you're having
trouble with areas that cross that center line. Just remember to turn it back
on again once you're done. I'm going to continue to
color my design by drawing the outlines and then dragging
to drop and color fill. Something that I really love
about the symmetry tool is how it brings a sense
of balance to my design. My personal drawing style
is hand-drawn and organic. Even though I'm
not really worried about getting these shapes to be perfectly spaced or
exactly the same size, they look balanced
anyway because the symmetry tool has mirrored them perfectly on both sides, and that just brings
this awesome sense of cohesion to my design. Another cool Procreate tip
to speed up your workflow. If you outline multiple areas in one color and then drag
and drop to color fill, you can click on this little
"Continue Filling" button at the top and then just tap into each of those areas to fill them
one after the other. If you ever find
that the color fill isn't filling correctly, you can always drag
the pen across the screen to alter
the color threshold. Dragging it to the
right will increase and dragging it to the
left will decrease, so just play around
with what level of color fill works for you
to get the right fill. I'll speed up the rest of
this part of the video so that you don't have
to watch the whole process of me coloring. But you take your time now
to color your own design. Just remember, a new
color equals a new layer. I'm drawing my arches
here so that they overlap out of the scallop
shape. That's fine. I'm going to show you how
to clean that up later on. The reason I'm drawing
them like this is because I want
them to meet up with my solid outline once
I add that later on. I've got everything colored
except for my solid outline, which I'm going to show
you in the next lesson. For now, I'm going to Alpha
lock my scallop shape, I'm going to select the color that I want my background to be, I think I'm going
to use this pink. Click on the "Layer" and
then click "Fill Layer". Awesome. I think that
looks really good. I really love a nice
limited-color palette. I'll just tidy up
the red edges here, where they spill over the guide. To do that, I'll
start by clicking on the scallop guide layer and then clicking "Select" on
the fly-out menu. Those ever-familiar
gray lines should be everywhere except on
the scallop shape. But what we actually
want is to reverse that. We want the diagonal lines to be only on the scallop shape. To do that, we'll
come down the bottom and click on the
"Invert" button. Now, I'm going to come
back up to Layers and click on the red layer
that I want to erase from. I'll select my
eraser and go over to the bits of the red
that I want to remove. You'll see that if I try to
erase on the scallop shape, it won't let me because that bit is hidden
behind those gray lines. If you have multiple colors
that you want to erase, you'll just need to go back
up to Layers and follow the same process for each layer that you
need to erase from. Once you've tidied up all
the layers that you need, you can come back up to
the S tool to deselect. Then in the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to add that solid outline
shape to your design.
9. Solid Scallop Outline: As I mentioned earlier, if you want to add a nice, even outline to your
scallop design, there are just a couple of extra steps that you'll need to take. Let's start by adding a
new layer on the very top. We do not want to turn on
Drawing Assist for this layer. Select the color that you
want to use for your outline. I'm going to make mine bread. Next, we need to
select our brush. What we need is basically
a monoline brush with a nice smooth edge
that is thick enough to create an outline
in one single stroke. The problem I have with my
existing monoline brush is that when I bring
the size up to 100%, it's still far too
thin for my outline. To fix this, I'm going to create a new brush that's going to
work for me for this purpose. If you already have a brush
that's going to do the job, just go ahead and select it. But for those of you who also need to create a
brush like I'm doing, it'll only take a minute
and then you'll have this new super handy brush ready to go whenever
you need it. The first step is to select your monoline brush and then swipe to the left
and click Duplicate. You'll get a new brush
here called Monoline too. Click on that brush to
bring up the brush studio. Then look down the list until you find the
properties tab. Click on that once and
then come down to where it says maximum size
under brush behavior. We're going to increase
the maximum size by dragging that
slider to the right. I've already had a play around with this brush and have found roughly 400% to be a
good size for my needs. So bring the slider to
somewhere around 400. It doesn't have to be
exact and then click Done. With that new monoline
brush selected, if I pull the size up to 100%, you can see that I now get a much larger range
of sizes to use. Obviously 100% is
now far too big. But what we want to do is make the size of
the brush just a tiny bit thinner than the width that you want
your outline to be. You can test the size by making some dots
or lines against your sketch like this until you find a size that will work. Now that your brush is ready, the next few steps actually
follow pretty closely to the steps that we took to
make our scallop shape guide. First, we need to use the
Quick Shapes function to draw a perfect circle. Make sure that you're
on a new layer. Draw your circle and keep
holding your pen down until the ellipse created pop-up
appears. Release the pen. Now click on the down arrow next to ellipse and select circle. Click on the arrow tool once and then twice to reset
the bounding box. Then come down to the bottom and click on "Fit to Canvas." Double check the width against your sketch layer to make sure that you're happy
with the sizing. If it's not quite right, you can go up to your layers, click and then clear the layer, adjust your brush size, and then repeat that process
again to get your circle. Once you've got a width that you're happy with like this, we'll come up to the layers
panel and swipe left to duplicate that layer until
we have three copies. Swipe right on the
top two layers to select them both at once. Then click on the arrow tool. We're going to drag
down until those layers snap into place in the
bottom half of the canvas. Release when you see your yellow guidelines and then come back up to layers and select
only the top layer. Arrow tool, and then drag it
to the left until it snaps. Come back to layers,
select the second layer, arrow tool, and drag it
until it snaps to the right. If you ever find
that you're having trouble getting a layer
to snap properly, like I am here, two-finger tap to undo, to put your layer
back where it was. Then come over to
your layers panel and turn off any layers that
you don't currently need. I find that that usually stops Procreate from getting confused
by all the extra layers. Now that that
corner is in place, I'm going to come
back to layers and pinch to merge the
top two layers. You can see here that we have our full scallop shape outline plus a couple of extra
bits at the bottom here. I'm going to zoom
right into the bottom here to show you the
most important part. This extra little bit here
that pokes out the bottom of the circle is the key to getting this outline
to repeat seamlessly. Remember that the rule with a pattern tile is that
anything that crosses the border must also cross exactly the same place
on the opposite border. What we need to do is copy this extra area up to
the top of the canvas, as well as bringing it
across to the sides. We also need to get rid
of these extra bits of circle that go beyond
the scallop shape. Come back up to layers, and click on the second
layer with the full circle. Select your eraser.
I'll hold down to erase with my same
Monoline 2 brush. Then zoom in nice and
close to this bottom bit. I'm going to erase to the side of this overlap, like this. I just realized I forgot
to turn on Drawing Assist. I'm going to two-finger
tap to undo. Come back up to my layers,
click on the layer with the full circle and then
turn on Drawing Assist. Much better. I didn't
want to have to do double the work
for nothing there. Now, I'll move up
to the side areas and do the same thing. Now, I'll bring up
the size of my eraser a little bit and get rid of
this whole extra bit here. Come back up to
layers and pinch to merge both of the
outline layers into one. Swipe left to duplicate
that outline layer. Then two-finger
swipe to the right on the top layer
to Alpha Lock it. We're going to
temporarily change the color to something that contrast against the original. I'll go with this green color. Click on the layer
and click Fill Layer. Click on the arrow tool, and then come down to
the bottom and we're going to select Flip Vertical. Arrow to de-select and you'll end up with this funky shape. I'll zoom in at the top here, and you can see that we now
have that extra little bit poking out of the
top of the circle to match with the bottom. If I zoom in in the slides, you can see we've got the extra
little bit there as well. They are actually the only bits that we're going to
keep from this layer. So grab your eraser tool and then zoom in
to the very top. We're going to erase to cut a line like this so that there is only this tiny little bit sticking out
above the circle. Zoom over to the right
and erase like this. It's hard to describe in words, but basically the
green bit that is left needs to be contained within
the bottom outline border. Unless it's the area that
is coming outside of the scallop to meet the
edge of the canvas. Now erase the rest of the shape. So these three bits, the top and the two sides, are all that we want to keep. I promise we're almost done. Come up to colors and pick the original color
of your outline. So for me it's that red again. Come to your layers, click
that top layer and color fill, and then pinch to merge
the top two layers. If you zoom in super
close to the edges, you might find that
you have a tiny little pixel space like this. If you do, grab your brush and draw over the space to
get rid of that mark. If you're having
trouble drawing, your Alpha Lock
might still be on. So come up to your layers and two-finger swipe right
to remove Alpha Lock. Make sure that you
check all four of your edges for that
little pixel mark. Finally, if you turned off some layers like I did earlier, you can come back and
turn them back on now. I'm going to turn on everything
other than my sketch. There you have your design with a solid scallop outline
ready for the next lesson, where we will be
turning our design into a repeating pattern tile.
10. Create the Pattern Tile: Let's turn this scallop into
a repeating pattern tile. First things first, I'm someone who likes to
safeguard my progress in case something goes wrong or in case I want to
make changes later on, so I think that now is a
great time to come back out to the gallery and make a
duplicate of our canvas. You can rename it if you like, I won't bother right now, but I'll open up to new canvas. We'll start by coming up
to layers and I'm going to delete my sketch layer because I won't be
needing it anymore. I also still have a copy
in the previous canvas anyway in case I ever want
to access that sketch again. Next, swipe right to
select all of your layers together and then come up to
the top and click "Group". Swipe to the left where it says New Group and click
to duplicate. We want to have two
copies of that group. Now, we're going to
use our custom actions to split the top group
into the four corners. Click on the very top where
it says New Group and then come over and click
on the S selection tool. Come down the bottom and find
your Save & Load button. You probably know this
process pretty well by now, so I'm just going to walk
through it pretty quickly. Selection 1, arrow,
flip horizontal, flip vertical,
arrow to deselect, S selection, Save & Load. Selection 2, arrow,
flip horizontal, flip vertical,
arrow to deselect, S selection, Save & Load. Selection 3, arrow,
flip horizontal, flip vertical and
arrow to deselect, S selection, Save & Load. Selection 4, arrow tool, flip horizontal, flip vertical
and arrow to deselect. There's that upside-down
scallop shape again, and now it's the
moment of truth. Are you ready to see your
fully colored pattern tile in all its glory? Click on the arrow tool,
come down to the bottom, and click "Flip Vertical". Man, I just love the moment where it all comes
together like this. Take a moment to
enjoy your design. You've certainly
earned it. But then we've got just a little
bit of fine tuning to do. First of all, let's tidy up our layers to make the
file easier to work with. Come up to the color picker and select your
background color. For me, it's this pink color. Come across to layers and
find the background layer in the top group and swipe
left to delete it. You'll see that
that background has now cleared out of
the four corners. Now come down to the background layer in the bottom group, it should be the
very bottom layer, and you're going to
two-finger swipe to the right to remove
the Alpha lock. Click on that layer and
then click Fill Layer. Now you've got a
background layer that fits your entire canvas. The next thing we're
going to do is to combine each of our sets of matching
layers from both groups, so I'll start with
my Layer 5 here. You can tell that these are matching layers
because they have the same name and also because they are in the same position
in each of the groups. So this Layer 5 is at the top. This Layer 5 is at the top. So you're going to click on
a layer and then swipe right on its matching layer,
then select Group. Then when the new group
title appears, click on it. You might have to click
twice to bring up the flyout menu and
then click Flatten. You're going to do this with all of your sets of
matching layers. So click on a layer, swipe right on its
matching layer, click Group, click on New Group to bring out the
flyout menu and click Flatten. Obviously, the
more colors you've used and the more
complicated your design is, the more sets of layers
you're going to have. Layer, swipe on its match, Group, click on the
group and flatten. Keep going until all of
your layers are done. You can also click Flatten
on the bottom group, which should only contain
your background layer. Great. Our file is
all super neat, which is going to come
in very handy for the next lesson when we
recolor our artwork. But before we get to that, I just want to take a
moment to look over my canvas to see if there's anything else that
I need to tidy up. When I zoom in really close, I can see an area here
that I need to fix and that is where the red
arch meets the red outline. It has this annoying
little white pixel line. It might be hard
to see on camera, but I can see it on my iPad, so what I'm going to do is
fill that in manually by coming back to my layers and selecting the layout
with the red arches. Make sure that it
still says assist. Select the color that
you need to fill in, so for me it's this red, and I'll bring the
brush size down to be super small to give
me maximum control. I'm going to zoom in nice
and close to the area and carefully draw over
the white pixels until the line is gone. I'll repeat this for
the other arch and then double-check over the
rest of the Canvas to see if there's any other places
with the same issue , and yes there is. I see another spot up here,
so I'll fix those too. I'll take one last sweep over the canvas and fix up
anything else that I can see. Awesome. I'm really happy
with how my design is looking and I can't wait
to see it in repeat. I'm going to come up
to the wrench tool , and under canvas, I'm going to turn off
drawing guide to get rid of that line in the
middle of my canvas. Now let's turn our design
into a repeating pattern. You've done this process before when we were checking
over our initial sketch, so I'll just walk through it a bit more quickly this time. Three fingers swipe down
to bring up the copy and paste menu and select Copy All. Three fingers swipe
again and select Paste. Come over to your layers panel and you'll have an
inserted image. If it has landed in a random
spot within your layers, just click and drag
it to the very top outside of the group. Swipe left to duplicate the layer until you
have four copies , select the top layer, then swipe to the
right on the other three so that they're
all highlighted in blue, click on the arrow tool and
then click on the node in the top left-hand
corner and shrink it down to half the
size of your canvas. Come back to layers,
click the top layer, click the arrow tool and drag it across until it snaps
into place on the right, click on the second layer, drag it to the bottom and click on this third
layer and drag it into the bottom-right corner,
and there you have it. You've made a repeating
scallop pattern. This here is actually
the image that I would love for you to upload
to the project gallery. I'd really love to see
your finished pattern and I'm sure your fellow
students would too. First, I'll just neaten up
my file by coming over to the layers and pinching to
merge the top four layers. Next, I'll come over to the wrench tool and
then click on "Share". Choose your file type, I personally like to
export as a JPEG, and then choose
how you would like to send it to yourself. I like to AirDrop
to my computer and then upload to the project
gallery from there. You could also email it to
yourself if you prefer, whatever method
works best for you. Congratulations on completing
your scallop pattern. I really hope that you
enjoyed this process. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you how you
can quickly and easily recolor your design
into a second colorway.
11. Recolour Your Pattern Tile: I almost always create multiple
colorways of my designs. Not only because
I've already put in all the hardwork to
create the design, so I might as well capitalize
on extra colorways, but also because it's just
so much fun to see how a new color palette can change the entire field of the design. Before we make any changes, we always want to preserve
the original file. Let's head back out
to the gallery and duplicate the canvas before
we make any changes. Open a new canvas and come up to layers and then delete
the inserted image, we don't need that
on this canvas. Use two fingers to swipe to the right on each
layer to Alpha lock. Remember that we're looking for the checkerboard behind
the layer preview. Because we were so organized in how we've set up
our layers here, re-coloring is going
to be super easy. I realize that there
are a number of different ways that
you can re-color artwork in Procreate, but I'm just going
to share with you my personal favorite
way to do it. Select the first layer
that you want to re-color and then pick the color that you want
to make that layer. I'm going to go with
this violet color. Come back to layers and
click on the layer and then click fill layer and that's it. It's that easy. Now, just go through and repeat this for the rest
of your layers. I think I'll change
my background next. I'm going to make it
this light cream color. Click on the layer
again and fill layer. I quite like that combo, but I'm going to change
my red to be, I think I'm going to go
with this green color. I'm going to really
embrace that '90s, 2000s throwback vibe that I'm seeing in the shops
everywhere at the moment. I'll select my green, come back to my layers,
select the layer, click it again and fill layer
and with the final one, I'm going to make
that green as well. Click and fill
layer. There you go. A totally different vibe
in less than a minute. I'm going to use the
same process again to test out and
duplicate the repeat. I'm sure you don't want to
hear me say it all again, so I'm just going to
go through the steps at real speed this time. Actually though, now that you've practiced the steps a few times, I'll show you a little
shortcut that I like to use to speed up the
process a little bit. You might like to use it too now that you've got the
hang of the process. Instead of moving each square
into place individually, I'd like to move to layers at once to speed up the
process a little bit. Instead of only
selecting the top layer, I'm going to swipe
to the right and select the top two
layers together. Click on the arrow
tool and drag them both to the right
until they snap. Now I have two layers on the
left and two on the right. Come back to the
layers panel and you need to select
alternating layers, either layer 1 and layer 3, or layer 2 and layer 4. This time, when you
click on the arrow tool, it should show a bounding box all the way around
the top like this. Drag that down until it snaps
into place at the bottom. There you've got the exact
same result as before, but just a bit faster than
moving each layer separately. We're all done, there's
your second colorway. Feel free to export this
image and upload it to the project gallery along with your image from the last lesson. I'd really love to see
a side-by-side of how the different colorways affect
the vibe of your pattern.
12. Thank You: There you have it, you've made it to
the end of class. You've got your
templates all set up, you've mastered the process, and you've created your very own repeating Scala patterns. I really hope that you
enjoyed the process, and that you're beginning to
see the creative potential, and addictive fun to be had
creating Scala patterns. If you have any questions about anything we covered today, please feel free to reach out on the class discussion board. I'm only a message away, and I'd really love
to be able to help. If you enjoyed this class, it would mean so much
to me if you could take a moment to
leave a quick review. Reviews really help other
students to find the class, and I'd also really like to make sure that I'm improving
on all my future classes. Please remember to upload your final pattern to
the project gallery, I really would love
to see your work. If you decide to upload your
pattern to social media, please feel free to tag me @chelseajaycreative or use the hashtag
learnwithchelseajay. I'd love to be able
to share your work. Thank you so much for taking
this class with me today, I hope to see you next time.
Chelsea Jay, Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator
