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1. Introduction to Making Pixel Perfect Triangle Patterns in Adobe Illustrator: Hello and welcome to
this class on creating pixel perfect triangle
patterns in Adobe Illustrator. My name's Helen Bradley and
I'm a Skillshare top teacher. I have over 260 courses
here on Skillshare and over 160,000 student
enrollments. In this class, we'll
look at how to make perfect triangle repeating
patterns in Adobe Illustrator. The triangles themselves
are really tricky to line up and triangle
patterns run the risk of gaping holes in them
everywhere something doesn't line up with
pixel perfect accuracy. I'll show you my method for making irregular
triangle patterns that are perfectly accurate
and which line up exactly. Now this is a fun and
interesting process and not hard to achieve
when you know how to do it. By the time you've
finished this course, you'll have a triangle
pattern made and ready to use and some new Illustrator
knowledge and skills too. Without further ado,
let's get started making pixel perfect triangle
patterns in Adobe Illustrator.
2. Pt 1 - Understand the Problem to Solve: Before we get started actually making our triangle pattern, let's have a look and see
what the problem really is. I've got some triangles here
as a starting point for a pattern that's just going
to nosedive into disaster. What I want is a
pattern where there are not obvious horizontal
and vertical lines, so I've started off
with triangles, none of which have strong
horizontal or vertical lines. I'm going to choose
Object, Pattern, Make. Now everything at this point was lined up so there
are no gaps here. But trying to get this
piece to line up with this piece is going to be
fraught with difficulty. First of all, I wanted to
tighten them up a little bit. But you can see already that we've got problems
with gaps here. If I go to the direct
selection tool so that I can select the corner
of this triangle, what I need to do is to line
it up with this over here, and I need to line
up this with here. I'm going to work on
individual corners and try and get my
triangle to behave. But of course, as soon as I get one triangle halfway to perfect and that's far
from perfect right now, this triangle needs
to work as well. There's this big gap in
here that we need to fill. These aren't lined up over here, and so we're going
to be dragging things around and hoping against hope that we're going
to end up with no spaces. This is the problem that I'm so saying is going to happen
with this pattern, is things are going to
look almost lined up, but there's going to be a gap. That's just not good for a
pattern that you want to use on spoonflower or
something you want to sell. You want things to
be pixel perfect, and you also don't
want to be in here faxing around with trying
to get things to line up. My solution is a totally
different approach, and it's all to do
with setting things up perfectly in the first
place to make it really easy to create a
design that doesn't have any strong horizontal or
vertical lines in it. That's what we're going to do. We're going to create pixel
perfect triangle patterns. If you'd like triangle
patterns without tears because there won't
be any spaces there, so you won't have
to deal with those, and it's going to
be quite easy to do once you understand
the process.
3. Pt 2 - Make and Align the Triangles: The pattern that we're
going to end up with here is going to be made in the pattern make
tool in Illustrator. It can be used on sites like Spoonflower and any site that requires the
actual pattern swatch. Of course, you could also
fill a document with it, so you could use it on sites
like Society6 for example. To start off with, we're going to make the
shapes for the pattern. For this, we're going
to need a document. I'm going to start here
with "Create New". I'm just going to
create a document that's 1,000 pixels square. We're going to start
out making a square, and I'm going to make
a square that is about 500 by 500 pixels. I want it to be a square, and I do want it to
be a known size. I'm going to move it
up into the document. I'm going to remove
the fill from it so it just has a stroke. I'm also going to
make sure that I locate it in a position
on the screen where it is actually in a whole
number of pixels. I'm going to do that by going
to the transform panel. You can get to it up here, or you can go to window and
then transform. Here it is. What I want to do is to
make sure that this square here is located ideally in
the middle of the document, because that's going to make registering things
around it just so much easier because
we're going to anchor our triangles
to its edge, and if it's in an
exact position, pixel accuracy, just going to make life a little
bit more easy. I'm happy with that,
it's positioned in the middle of this square here, is right in the middle
of the document. Its x and y positions
of 500,500, that's really good news. I'm going to the last pallet, mine has disappeared
from my panel here. I'm just pressing
F7 to get to it. You can, of course, choose
Window and then Layers. This is my rectangle here,
I'm going to lock it down. I don't want it to move, it will be there to
be used as a guide, but it's not going to move. We're going to start by
creating some triangles. I'm just going to use
the pen tool for this. I'm going to click
on the Pen tool, I'm going to click
in this corner. I'm looking to pick up
this anchor points. When the little tool
tip says anchor, then I know I'm good to go. Then I'm going to come
down to about here and go back up to around about
halfway across this shape, but doesn't matter
if I'm not exact. Then I'm going back
to the beginning, because I want to
create closed shapes. Now, I'm going to fill this
with a color right now. It has black as a fill,
but I'm going to go and use some of the swatches
that I've got here. I'm going to make
every single one of my triangles a different color. If you want them to be
just a range of colors, say two or three colors,
then do that later on, right now it's easier if we can see everything really clearly. Now we're going to just
click away from the shape. I just press the pen tool there, so I'm just going to undo that. Go back to the selection tool, click away from the shape,
go back to the pen tool and start again
with another shape. You don't want to start
on this triangle or else you're going to add
something to it. You're going to start
away from the triangle. I'm going to start
here just picking up the edge of the square. Click over here on
the anchor point, which is the point
of that triangle, go back up here to this
anchor point and down. Once I'm there, I'm
going to change the color fill of this triangle. Press V for the selection tool that will really
help you to learn these tool shortcuts in this process if you're not
already familiar with them. V for the selection tool
and P for the pen tool, for going back to the pen tool. Again, start well away
from that anchor point, this middle point here,
although we're going to use this point to join
everything up. I'm coming back down here, back down here, V for
the selection tool, pick up a different color,
click away from the shape, and then pay for the pen tool. Then we'll do another triangle. This one, I'm going
to start about here in about the
middle of the shape, doesn't have to be exact, then I come across
here to this point, down to this point
and backup here. Again, V for the selection tool, pick up another color,
click away from it, pay for the pen tool and go back and create more triangles. This one is going to
fill in this area, so I'm going to start
on the edge because I've locked down that rectangle, I won't be picking
up the rectangle. Click over here, click here, pick up a color, click away, pay for the Pen tool
and start again. I'm just going to continue doing this and
make my triangles. Once I've made them
we'll come back and make sure that
everything is pixel perfect and set up
so that we can use the pattern make tool to
make our pattern from it. This triangle, I want it to start in the corner over here,
but I can't get it there because I will be picking
up another triangle. I'm just using the
direct selection tool here to click on the corner of this triangle and
move it into position. I didn't start it
in that position, but I can move it
into that position. Press the letter V to go to
the selection tool and again, fill this with a color. It is going to be difficult once you get towards the end to be able to start a triangle
not picking up another one. Just get as close as you
can then come back in with the direct selection tool and just move it into position. Don't worry if you
can't get it in the exact position
because we're going to deal with that later on. Now I've got my
triangles all creative, even though they're not
very well lined up. What I'm going to do next is
go into the outline view. That's view and then outline
and I'm going to zoom in because that's going
to help us make sure that everything
is in position, and of course it's not
in position right now, but that's just fine. We would come in here
even if we thought we got everything in position
because we probably haven't. I'm going to go down here into this bottom corner first of all and just check things out. I'm going to select
the anchor point here and you can get to that using either the
direct selection tool or the Lasso tool. The Lasso tool is
going to help you later on to get
everything lined up, and it's going to be
a really helpful tool to know how to use. I'm just going to drop
this into this corner. As soon as you can't
see two lines, you know that you've
got everything pretty right in the right place. But you will want to
zoom in really close to these to make sure that you've
got everything perfect. Because anything
that is not perfect is going to cause
problems later on. Here I'm going to go
to the Lasso Tool, Lasso around everything
that is at this point. There's going to be points
of various triangles here. What I'm going to do is I'm
going to choose "Object" and then "Path", and then "Average". I'm going to click on both. What that's going to do is if this point were not
in the same position, they are now going to be
in the same position, it averages out their position. We're going to continue to use that tool a little
bit throughout here. Everything is
looking fine there, let's just zoom back out. There's a big problem
in the middle here. Again with the Lasso tool,
let's just click away. We've got nothing selected, let's go in here and select
all these anchor points here. Again, object, path
and we're going to average them and we're
going to choose both here. That's just snap
them into position. It's a really handy, little process to understand
and be able to achieve. Let's just check
everything down here. You really will want
to be going in and out of here to make sure that
things are lined up. These look really good, but I'm going to double-check
them by Lassoing around and selecting all
these anchor points, Object, Path, Average,
and just click both. That just assures
me that they're in the exact right position. Let's go here and come back
in here with the Lasso tool, and again, Object,
Path, Average, Both. Right now everything
is nicely lined up, but the problem is
going to be when we come to make a
repeating pattern from it, because we don't want our
pattern to be based on a box. What I'm hoping to do
later on is to move these shapes in here using
this anchor point or the set of anchor points
here to dip them in and then pull these up here so
they would make the pattern. It's going to be a
bit more evident once we get into the
pattern make tool, but there's a couple of things
we need to do before then. What we need to do
is to make sure that these anchor points here and these anchor points here are in exactly the same position. I'm going to select
over all of these. Hold the Shift key and
select over all of these. This set and this set
are now all selected. I'm going to choose Object, Path, and average,
but don't do both, because if you do
both, they're all going to jump into
the center here. What we want to do
is we want to align them in the same
vertical alignment. We're going to do vertical
and we'll click, "Okay". They've moved slightly horizontally because
they needed to, but it means that this point and this point are on the
exact same vertical. We're going to
double-check that that hasn't upset the positioning, that they're still touching
this line which they are. Let's go down here
and make sure they're still touching the
line which they are. Now we're going to do the
same on the side here, this anchor point, or the two anchor points that
are here, hold the Shift key, Lasso around here, and this set here all need
to be on the same, in this case,
horizontal alignment. Object, Path, average, select "Horizontal"
and click "Okay". If you select the wrong one and you select vertical
when you should have selected horizontal and
things go really haywire, just undo it and
start over again, it's really pretty simple. Let's have a look.
These anchor points here are in the same
horizontal alignment, these are in the same
vertical alignment. These here and here is in the same vertical
alignment because they are pegged to the outside of this
square or this rectangle. These two are in
the same alignment. These are in the same alignment. Everything is nicely lined up. That's a really good basis for going into the
pattern make tool. I'm going to choose View
and then GPU preview. I go back to seeing my document. I'm going again to
the last palette now, I'm going to the
very bottom here, which is where my rectangle is. I'm just going to hide
it because I don't need to see it any longer. Everything right now
is pixel perfect. If we zoom in here, we're not going to see any
whitespace around these lines because everything is lining up perfectly and that's
really critical. Until you've got that
happening like this, your pattern is
not going to work. At this point, I would save this because you don't want
things to go haywire. I'm just going to take
a minute and save it, and we'll come back
and use a pattern make tool to make our pattern.
4. Pt 3 - Make the Triangle Pattern: With our document saved
and our triangles created and everything
lined up perfectly, we're going to select
over all our triangles. Before I go to the
pattern make tool, I'm going to view and I'm going
to choose Hide Artboards. Just makes a cleaner
area to work in. I'm going to choose Object
and then Pattern, Make. I'll click "Okay". Now, this is going to be a
simple grid pattern that's pretty important. You can see it's 500
pixels by 500 pixels. I like to try and make my
patterns regular sizes, if at all possible. So nice even numbers and nice round numbers
like 500 by 500, that's a really good
sides for my pattern. It's unlikely to have
fracture lines in it. I'm going to click on "Show Tile Edge" because I
want to see which of the elements that
are actually in my pattern and that's
these in here. Anything else is not going
to affect the pattern, so we can just move this dialogue out of
the way and focus on creating something a
bit more interesting than a box-based pattern. We're going back to
our lasso tool and I'm going to lasso these
anchor points up here. Now, I'm not anchoring the ones up here because I
can't get to them. That's how the pattern
make tool works. You can only select things that actually make up
the base pattern, there's one set of
everything that makes up the base pattern
and the other bits around the edge
you can't select. I've selected these
anchor points here, and I'm going to
hold the Shift key, I'm going to select
these down here as well. These and these are selected, and if you're familiar with
working with patterns, you know that ultimately
these are going to be joined together in a
repeating pattern. So whatever we do with this lot, we also want to
do with this lot. I'm going to use the Transform, Move option because it's a
really stable option to use. Object, Transform,
and then Move. Now I'm going to zero
everything out because this dialogue usually comes with stuff in it and it's like, oh, my goodness, things went haywire just from the start. But just zero everything
out and that's fine. Now, what I want to do is
to move this point up, and when this point goes
up, so does this one. I need the vertical and I need
to decrease the vertical. Then I can move it horizontally
if I want to as well. I can look at some
horizontal movement, just something to get a
more interesting pattern. Now, I may decide
that I didn't really want to move it up and I
want to move it down again. Well, this dialogue is really
nice because it lets us have a look at things as we're actually
making our pattern. I actually like
that result better. I'm going to click "Okay". Now we've got part of
the pattern dealt with. We've broken this
horizontal line here because these triangles
dip across that line, they dip across it here. Now we're just going
to handle over here. Again, I'm going back
to my lasso tool. I'm going to lasso this
set of anchor points here. There's a couple there,
hold the Shift key, lasso these just
making sure that we only get these anchor
points on the edge, nothing else, and we're
going to move those; Object, Transform, Move. Again, this dialogue is
pre-populated with nonsense, so just zero it out. What we want to do
is we obviously want to move
horizontally because we want to break this
strong vertical line. I'm going to go
horizontally in a negative or a
positive direction. I can decide which I want to do. I'm thinking I'm
going to push this over a bit in this direction, and we can change the
vertical as well. I can pull them down
or I can push them up. I'm thinking I'm going to
pull them down because I have a plan for some other things in just a minute.
I'll click "Okay". We've dealt with the
shapes that cross this vertical line
across the tile edge, and that's really
important to do. But at this point now we can also deal with
these shapes here. I'm going to use the lasso tool again and just lasso
around these points. I'm going back to
Object, Transform, Move. I use this because it
just seems to be really, really stable when you're dealing with a lot
of anchor points. It just doesn't mean
that I'm likely to pull something and leave a whole lot of other
things behind. I'm just going to change
the vertical on this, and I'm going to push it up. These are things that we
can do inside this dialogue provided we select all the
anchor points at a point. I'm just going to
click "Okay" there, and I'm thinking I
might also select these and do
something with those; Object, Transform, Move. Again, zeroing everything out, let's see about moving
this down a bit. Think about what you
want to do there. Click "Okay", and I'm going for the set in the middle now. Again, move those. I can move 10 pixels
at a time if I hold the Shift key as I use the
up and down arrow keys. If I just use the up
and down or left and right arrow keys by themselves, I'm just going to move
one pixel at a time. You can get very small moves as well as really large moves. I'm just going to click "Okay". Basically, this is my pattern. I'm going to turn
off the tile edge. I'm going to fill this at
9-by-9 and I'm going to zoom out so I can see
what I'm looking at. We can change the
colors later on. I'm less worried
about the colors. I'm more worried
about the pattern. I think these two colors, I'm going to change
the red and the gray, but we can see how
we feel later on. I'll click here on "Done". Now we have a pattern that is created from this base
set of triangles. It's obviously fully
editable and it's also a pattern that breaks out of
that very rectangular mold. It's a lot more
organic if you like, if you could call a
triangle pattern organic. Here we have it
filled in our shape, and of course we can go to
the Recolor Artwork dialogue, go to Advanced Options, and we can select and
adjust these colors. Now, we could select them here, but it's way more fun to
go to the edit option. Make sure that these are unlinked if you want to
change an individual color, and I'm thinking this red just needs to be toned
down a little bit. I'm also thinking that
the gray needs a bit of work and I'm wondering if
I can pick up the gray. I think this might be
it. Yeah, that's it. I'm just going to dial it back a little bit. Click "Okay". Of course, because we're
using the pattern make tool, that means that we've
got a second pattern, we've got the
original colored one, and then we've got this
newly colored one. Of course, we can also
change all the colors in the pattern by selecting
the pattern filled shape. Go back to the Recolor
Artwork dialogue, go back to Advanced
Options and edit. We want to make sure
that these are linked, so right now those
colors are linked, so moving one will
move all of them. We can move this around to
choose a different look or different base color
set for our pattern. The relationship between the
colors is being maintained, but we're moving it around
the color wheel to find something perhaps
more interesting and that we like better. If you find an individual
color that you don't like, make sure to unlink everything and then just move
that color around. Not liking the green at all. When you're happy with that, click "Okay", and of course, yet another pattern has been
added to the swatches panel, our original, the one where we toned down two
of those colors and this one with a totally
different color base.
5. Pt 4 - A Brief Summary of the Process: Before we finish up,
let's have a look at our starting shape
and just make a note of the things that are
going to be important if we want to make more patterns
like this in future. The first thing I think is important is to start
with a regular shape. I started with a square. You could make a rectangle. It doesn't matter. You're going to draw all your
triangles and just get them down because that's part of the process that you're
going to have to do anyway. Get your triangles down and
then work on aligning them. You're going to want
to make sure that anything that crosses this line here is at exactly
the same point as anything that
crosses this line here. So make sure that the
anchor points here and the anchor points here
line up perfectly. Detail up here. These up here need to line up
with these down here. What happens in the
middle doesn't matter. That's totally irrelevant. If you want it to be
pixel perfect, accurate, you're going to want to
choose View and Outline, and you're going to
want to work in here and just have a
look, and a really, really close look, to make sure that
everything is lined up perfectly because if it's
not lined up perfectly, there are going to be gaps, and triangle patterns
are notorious for gaps. What we want is something
that doesn't have gaps. We want to be able to zoom
into this pattern really, really closely and not
see any gaps at all, no bits of white coming through. It's tricky to do, but you now know the process, and the process involves being pixel accurate on
the starting shapes. Then when you work inside
the pattern make tool, anything you do over here, you want to duplicate
over here so it's just easier to select
everything here, shift, select everything here, and
then use something like the transform move tool to move them out of this
strict alignment. So you break up the line, so not everything looks
like it's started in a box. You'll see here
with this pattern, there are no strong
horizontal or vertical lines. Everything is really, really very irregular, and that was the design. That's the plan that we
came here to achieve.
6. Pt 5 - Additional Examples: One request which
I often get with my classes is to do
additional work. The example thought, I want to revisit the shape that
we were looking at in the very first video
when I sought to talk to you about how difficult was
to create triangle patterns. What I've done is I've
recreated these triangles, but in a grid, and this grid is
perfectly lined up. If we go to Outline View, you'll see that
we're not seeing any double lines in here. Always worthwhile
checking before you spend the time making a
pattern to make sure that you're starting with
things that are nice and square and where
everything is nicely lined up. I know that these
anchor points here and these are perfectly aligned. For our part, we'll choose
object pattern and then make. This as my pattern tile. You can see I've got show
tile edge turned on, so these are the four shapes that I'm making up my pattern. Well, we already know
that we can grab these anchor points
here and shift, drag on these anchor points
here to select them. I'm switching to the
direct selection tool. I can also do that by
pressing the letter A. I'm just going to move
these manually this time. Just have your wits about you so that if you see
something go wrong, just undo it and start over. I'm able to move
this anchor point, this point between the shapes, but I'm stuck with a lot
of vertical movement. I can't move it
off this vertical, so I can't put it on an angle. We're also facing with
this very simple design, how we can do something
about this area over here. Right now, there is no set of
points in the middle here, so if we wanted to
impact this at all and do something about
this triangle here, we would need to actually select the points at all four
corners of this tile edge. Let's see how we're
going to do that. We're going to select
over this one, hold Shift, select
over this one, and here, and here and all these four anchor points
control this area up here. I'm going to switch to my
direct selection tool. I'm just pressing the letter A. As you can see here, I'm now impacting that triangle. But again, I can't move
this line off the vertical, so just a heads up there because this design is so simple
as a starting point, we've got stuck with some
very strong verticals. I'm going to click
"Done" and we're going to revisit this shape here. What I could do is
double up on my shapes. I'm going to select
over these objects, going to make sure I have
the selection tool selected. I'm just going to drag down in a perfectly
vertical direction. I want to align these up. I'm going to double-check them because we're going to make
a pattern out of them, and we need to make
sure that they're aligned up before we do. Good. No double lines there. Back into GPU Preview. I am going to turn my art board off because I don't want to be confused by the artboard
behind my pattern. Now I've got something
that's a little bit more fluid because I've got
anchor points here and here that I can use to break up this really strong
vertical lines. I'm going to select
everything and choose object pattern and then make. This is my pattern
tile, same thing. Going to impact these, select these holding
the Shift key as I do, and I can move these. I'm breaking this very
strong horizontal line here. Now I'm going back to
the Lasso tool and let's Lasso this point and this point. Press the letter A, and now I can impact
that vertical line, I can break up that
vertical line. I just made a mistake there, I lost my anchor points, so I'm going to just
press Control Z to undo it so that I
don't get into a mess. Let's go back and select the points that are
actually impacting that. That's this set here
and this set over here. Again, move them around to break that really strong
vertical line. We still have the
same set of colors. We've just got them working a
little bit independently of each other by having two
sets of every color. We're able to break the
strong vertical lines. Still have a pattern,
but we've got two green triangles
that they are different shapes two
triangles that are pink, they're different shapes, two triangles that a yellow,
again, different shapes. We could take that one step further and duplicate
these across. This time I'm going to do something a little
bit different. I'm going to take this set, and I'm going to rotate them. I'm going to take this
set and rotate them. Now that's not the same as rotating the
whole collection, so just be aware
that that actually was something a little
bit different to that. I'm going to stick them
back together again. I'm going to check
in the preview to make sure I got that right. That's looking good
there, no sets of double lines there. We'll select over
these shapes and let's make a pattern from it. This time we've got three individual points in the middle of the design
that we can work on, as well as the corner points. I'm going to start
with the corner ones because they're a
little bit more fadely. Let's just get them done. I'm going to break that
strong vertical going back to the Lasso tool or pity about the Lasso tool is it doesn't
have a shortcut key, which is a bit of a nuisance. Let's move these out. Then we can work on these
up here and down here, just continually referencing
the things that are, in actual fact, bits
of the same point. Let's take this one up and
let's go to this one here. It's a point in the middle
of the pattern tile, so it doesn't need to be
selected with anything else. Actually move that
up a little bit and then let's come and
do this one here. Again, trying to get
rid of these verticals and horizontals as
much as we can. Everything looks a little bit
more erratic if you like. Come back in here and just
do a little bit of work on this one before we go back and
have a look at the design. I didn't get enough
of the pieces. You could say that
I was breaking up, so let's go and make sure
that we've got everything. In actual fact, these are two, so I missed the second part. As soon as you see white
appearing, you know, you're in trouble, just undo it and go back and start again. Let's call that good. I'll click "Done". Now let's go and have a look
and see what we've got. I've already got a shape
with a pattern in it. This is the original design. With just those four shapes, you can't get away from these really strong
vertical lines. Doubling up on our design, we're getting two of
each color triangle. Each of them is different, and we've got rid of those strong verticals
and horizontals. Here we've got a design where we used four sets of triangles, and we flipped them to get something a bit
more interesting. Now I'm totally not
liking this color scheme, but I also know there's some
really interesting stuff we can do with this pattern. I'm just going to
enlarge it a little bit. I'm also going to
shrink down the design. I'm going to turn off
transform objects, and I'm just going to scale
it down to about 60 percent. We get a few more of our
objects in our vision. I'm going to the recolor
artwork dialogue advanced options. Now I have a color scheme
here that I'm going to use, so I'm just going to apply
it by clicking on it. There are more colors in this color scheme than there are colors in the original pattern. If I click here on randomly, could change color order. I can change the color
order and see what happens. What I was finding when I was
working with this earlier is this strong whimsical
vertical lines, if you like, really show up when you've got
white and a pattern. I really like the fact that there's white in this pattern. I'm just going to click
"Okay" because I do want to save that pattern. I don't want to save changes
to the Swatches groups, so I'm just going
to say no to that. That is a pattern, but I'm going back into
the same dialogue, and I'm going to edit, but right now because
it's got white in it, you can see that white
can't be remapped. It's not actually being
remapped right now. I'm going to click there
and add a new color. Make sure there's an
arrowhead here on it because now we can continue
to work with white. Well, let's just go
back to Assign here. I'm going to start rotating
these around again. I found with these
triangle designs, the presence of white is
really a bonus for this. When you get the
white coming through, leaving these stronger
whimsical vertical lines, things look really interesting. S I'm going to save
that pattern as well. Here is the rather weirdly
colored starting point. But out of this, we've got a couple
of patterns that are just really, really nice. That's a tip for using the
recolor artwork dialogue. If you've got color
schemes that you like, you can just click
on a color scheme. Don't open it up,
that doesn't do anything but actually
clicking on the color scheme, or let's just make sure that
white can be remapped first. Let's click on the color scheme. That's applied to the design, and then you can just start
rotating the colors around. If there are colors
that you like, there's a chance that
you'll end up with a pattern design that
you like out of it. Every time we do that, we get a new pattern in the swatches panel
here in Illustrator. I thought it was just
interesting to revisit a simple starting point
and just say what you could do with
it with this tool.
7. Pixel Perfect Triangles - Project and Wrapup: We've now completed the video training
portion of this course, so it's over to you. Your project for this
class will be to create a repeating triangle
design using Adobe Illustrator and
putting the skills that you've learned in
this class to work. Post an image of your
completed pattern as your class project. I hope that you've enjoyed this course and that you've
learned things about Adobe Illustrator that you
were previously unaware of. Now, if you did enjoy this
course and when you see a prompt that asks if you would recommend this class to others, please, would you do
two things for me. Firstly, answer yes, that
you do recommend this class, and secondly, write even in just a few words
why you enjoyed it. Your recommendations help other
students to say that this is a course that they too
might enjoy and learn from. If you'd like to leave me
a comment, please do so. I read all your
comments and I look at and review all
your class project. If you see the follow
link on the screen, click it to be alerted when I release new classes
here on Skillshare. My name is Helen Bradley. Thank you so much
for joining me for this episode of Graphic
Design for Lunch, and I look forward
to seeing you in another class here
on Skillshare soon.
Helen Bradley, Graphic Design for Lunch™
