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Procreate Half Drop Seamless Repeats in Surface Pattern Design

teacher avatar Delores Naskrent, Creative Explorer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro to Half Drop Repeats in Procreate

      1:26

    • 2.

      Setting Up Initial Document

      2:56

    • 3.

      Simple Motifs Using Draw Assist

      6:24

    • 4.

      Setting Up the First Half

      5:44

    • 5.

      Repeating to Create Half Drop

      6:53

    • 6.

      Testing and Exporting the Swatch

      1:15

    • 7.

      Adjustments to Perfect the Pattern

      6:59

    • 8.

      Wrap Up with Mock Ups

      2:32

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About This Class

This course, Procreate Half Drop Seamless Repeats, is specific to a toss pattern with a half-drop repeat created in Procreate. I’ll show you my step by step process, from creating the easy-peasy motifs to creating the final repeat. I have kept this initial pattern simple, with no objects crossing over edges. I plan to follow up with a more advanced class. All the concepts can be used in any half drop repeat patterns you make down the line, and skills are transferable to any software that has similar functionality.

This class, Procreate Half Drop Seamless Repeats, will show you some of my pattern design methodology. In the class, I take you from start to finish in creating a full seamless half drop repeat pattern.

In this class I’ll walk you through:

  • my step-by-step method for making seamless patterns in Procreate
  • tips for creating a half-drop repeat in Procreate
  • tips for creating compositions for a varied and appealing pattern
  • my workflow for use of layers, grouping and other great features like snapping
  • adjusting patterns to perfect the flow and adding elements in the second iteration of the design
  • testing the pattern and looking at in in Photoshop

If you’re an aspiring pattern designer with a good basic knowledge of Procreate, you’ll be able to go through all the steps. This class will benefit anyone who wishes to simplify creation of seamless patterns and apply methods to improve efficiency.

The key concepts I will include:

  • half-drop repeats in Procreate
  • testing and perfecting half-drop repeats in Procrate
  • approaches you can take in your creative work

This is an ideal class for you, even if you are not sure what you will use the pattern for. You will output a finished swatch suitable for fabric design sites like Spoonflower, or it can be used for scrapbooking paper, custom web graphics, or whatever! Learning new Procreate workflows is always a win-win situation. I guarantee you will create something a full half-drop repeat, and it’s so much simple, once you get the hang of it!

Intro:

This short intro will give you an overview of the class.

Lesson 1: Setting Up Initial Document

In this lesson we will be setting up the initial document. I will show you all the steps necessary.

Lesson 2: Simple Motifs Using Draw Assist

In this lesson, we will create silhouette flower and heart motifs using Draw Assist on the layer. I will show you how to quickly add some shading and highlights to make our motifs more interesting.

Lesson 3: Setting Up the First Half

In this lesson, we will make use the simple motifs to lay out our initial pattern. We will avoid going over any edges, to keep it simple. We will change sizes and position and even alter the color on some motifs.

Lesson 4: Repeating to Create the Half Drop Repeat

In this lesson, we will continue to arrange the motifs. I will show you how to add do a test once we figure we have the arrangement the way we think will work. Then we will save out a good copy of the repeat to use as reference for the next lesson and I show you how to import a copy of the repeat into our reference pane.

Lesson 4: lnitial Layout Tips and Tricks

This is the lesson in which I teach you about creating the seamless tile. We are left with an obvious area that needs to be filled. I show you a bunch more adjustments for brushes as we work our way through this lesson.

Lesson 5: Testing and Adjusting the Swatch

In this lesson, we finalize the layout of the swatch and then start to do the testing and adjusting necessary for perfecting our pattern.

Lesson 6: Fill In Dots and Using the Mops

At this stage, we pull our layout together, and I will add the small details that make it work. I use the brushes as stamps to add fill-in dots to suggest additional flowers. We take a quick look at color adjustments and using the mop watercolor brush to bump up the colors in the big flowers. This is the last step before adding background details. This will show you just how versatile this technique can be and how valuable experimentation is in your development.

Lesson 6: Adjustments to Perfect the Pattern

Testing the pattern is the focus of this lesson as we work on finishing touches and export of the swatch. I explain the merits of the Photoshop program for raster-based repeat pattern creation.

Lesson 7: Conclusion, Mockup and Next Steps

We will conclude everything in this lesson. I show you a couple of quick mock-ups with the pattern and we end with a chat about next steps.

Concepts covered:

Concepts covered include but are not limited to Procreate pattern design, layering, snapping and magnetics, Procreate guides, settings and adjustments, composition for half drop repeats, pattern design workflow best practices, Procreate pattern design testing, and much more.

You will get the bonus of…

  • 25 minutes of direction from an instructor who has been in graphic design business and education for over 40 years
  • knowledge of multiple ways to solve each design challenge

Meet Your Teacher

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Delores Naskrent

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Hello, I'm Delores. I'm excited to be here, teaching what I love! I was an art educator for 30 years, teaching graphic design, fine art, theatrical design and video production. My education took place at college and university, in Manitoba, Canada, and has been honed through decades of graphic design experience and my work as a professional artist, which I have done for over 40 years (eeek!). In the last 15 years I have been involved in art licensing with contracts from Russ, Artwall, Studio El, Patton, Trends, Metaverse, Evergreen and more.

My work ranges through acrylic paint, ink, marker, collage, pastels, pencil crayon, watercolour, and digital illustration and provides many ready paths of self-expression. Once complete, I use this art for pattern design, greeting cards,... See full profile

Level: Intermediate

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1. Intro to Half Drop Repeats in Procreate: Hi guys and welcome. My name is Dolores nascar engine. I'm coming to you from sunny, Manitoba, Canada. Sunny and warm. What a beautiful day out there today. I'm bringing you this class well ahead of Mother's Day. Because I think this is something you could easily use for a Mother's Day Project. What we're gonna be doing is learning to create a half drop repeat in Procreate. And that's something that I really haven't seen anywhere. It definitely took me a little bit of time to figure out all the ins and outs of making this work in Procreate. There's definitely some challenges. And one of the biggest ones is not being able to really fully preview your pattern as you go. But I think I've got a workaround that'll help us to protect the pattern. I really think the final result is more than worth it. I've kept this pattern quite simple. I haven't got anything overlapping on the edges. I plan to do a follow-up class to this in a few weeks. I hope that you will attend that class as well to make sure that you find out about it when it's going to be posted. Make sure you hit that following button up there. I also encourage you to go to my website and Azure named my mailing list there. You'll get a freebie right away. And that way also you'll be informed of any of the classes that I'm gonna start posting there. Are you ready to get into it? Alright, let's get started. 2. Setting Up Initial Document: Less than one here we're gonna be taking a look at setting up that document. Let's get right to it. Alright, so I felt my document open here, and it looks completely different than I ever do for setting up a pattern. Usually I have a ten by ten document, but this document is ten by 20. I'll show you how to set that up. You go into your gallery here, hit that plus sign, photo, a new canvas size. You wanted to switch this to inches. It's easier than working with pixel dimensions I find. So here I'm gonna put 20 for the width, and I'm going to put ten for the height. And that's all there is to it. Now you can see here, take note that the DPI is 300 and It's going to allow us a maximum of 33 layers. And that's important. You'll notice that that is an issue as we work our way through this project. I've tried to keep it as simple as possible, but when we get to the point where it is an issue, I will definitely explain how to deal with it. So here's our document. Ready to go. First thing I want to do is go into the Canvas here, turn on the Drawing Guide, and then go into edit it. And what we want to do is bring this to its full size. That will divide it into four if it doesn't look like this, chances are it's because you don't have your options set here to quadrant, which is what you want. You can make your guidelines a little bit thicker. You might want to make the moral panic. I have it on black right now. You can put it on whatever color you like working with. Hit the done button and then here you go, You're ready to get started. I'm going to go into the document that I've already got kinda set up here so you can kind of see what it is that we're working with. So this was a test that I had done and I've got it here just to help me rearrange some of the elements. Basically, we're doing such a super simple pattern because there's enough to take in as it is with doing this half-drop repeat. I've also made sure that I have nothing actually over the edges for this In class. I will be doing a more advanced class in the future, where we'll do a regular pattern repeat that will have items over the edges. But I wanted to keep this one super simple just so that we could easily get through it and learn just the basics of how a half drop repeat works. Now as far as drawing the motifs, you can draw whatever you'd like. I did some really quick and easy ones. Basically, I use one heart that I created and then filled it differently. I might have done too hard. It's this one looks a little bit different, and then just a single quick flower to create those, I changed my drawing guide temporarily. So let's go back to the document that is blank. We'll go into the next lesson to draw the rest of the motifs. 3. Simple Motifs Using Draw Assist: Hi guys, welcome to lesson two. Lesson two here we're gonna be using Draw Assist to help us create some really simple motifs to use in our pattern. Let's get to it. I'm going to go into the drawing guide here and I'm going to temporarily change it to vertical and hit done. Now what we can do is draw those simple motifs. Let's, I'm gonna stick with the heart. You could do, like I said, wherever you'd like. But with this symmetry, I can just draw on 1.5 and it's going to repeat it on the other half. I'm gonna be also showing you how to create a flower and we're going to use a radial symmetry for that particular one. But I've got just a regular Posca marker here. So that is a mono line brush. You can use whatever you'd like. As far as brushes, you don't have to make them solid if you wanted to just save some time. I would also suggest that you go into the settings on that brush, makes sure your streamline is set quite high. And that's going to give you a really nice smooth line. So you want to start right? Somehow lost my color there and I want to start right on that center line and draw my heart and then fill it. So that's the basics for the first motif. So we can slide that over. I'm going to temporarily turn off my snapping and magnetics. Let's put that one out of the way for a second. I'm going to just hide it and then I'll make a new layer. And on that layer, I'm gonna do something a little bit different with the symmetry. So I'm gonna go back into edit the Drawing Guide. And instead of just vertical, I'm gonna do radial symmetry. This is going to make it easier for us to draw a little flower. So what I'm going to hit Done and here, same marker. I'm just going to make sure first of all, that your layer has the Drawing Assist turned on. You'll know it's turned on because it has the word assisted there. And here we can make our petals. Now make sure you're actually touching that line when you start and that's more than acceptable. I mean, you can be really picky here if you want and just really perfect your flour. And there you've got your two motifs. So now let's go back to the guide before we forget and go back to our vertical symmetry. And then remember what we're doing is only working on this 1.5. So I'm going to reduce the size of my initial flower here and reduce the size of my heart. So before I do any of the repeating, I'm going to do my coloring and shading on each of these two motifs. So we're on the heart right now. I've been using this palette here, and I'm gonna suggest you just use a soft airbrush so that's in your regular procreate. There are brushes for the soft air brush here, and you can set it fairly large. And I'm gonna go with one of the lighter versions of the color. And I'm also going to put the alpha lock on here. So I'm going to go nice and large. And what I'm doing here is I'm just lightly airbrushing. Let's kind of a little flaw there on my heart. I'm not sure when that happened. Just bear with me as I fixed that up. It doesn't have to be perfect because for me this is just a test, but like I said, you can go through and you don't add some highlighting the I don't know what's wrong with that hurts. So it appears I had a ghosted image of a heart here. So I'm going to erase again against a curve like this can be tricky, but because this is a brush that I'm using, I can still do that trick of holding when I get to the end of the line to get a nice smooth curve with my eraser. And I'm gonna make it a little bit smaller. And I'm going to grab now the sort of mid tone, I guess, of that color and then kind of brushing on a little bit of that as well. And I'm working from light in this corner, too dark at the bottom here. So now we can go to a much darker. And I'm basically not even painting on the heart itself. I'm kind of on the outside edge here to get that sort of a dark edge, not gonna go into almost pure white. And I'm gonna do the same thing on this side. That gives us a really nice three-dimensional looking heart. We can do the same thing with the flower here. Make sure you've got it protected with an Alpha Lock. And let's start with the dark on this side versus this time. And then we're going to kind of a medium tone in the middle. And I'm putting almost no pressure on my brush. I'm just letting it kind of the weight of my stylist. The cover is enough to give me that amount of difference. I'm gonna go to a medium tone here. Now I'm really just working in this area. And then let's go really light. I mean, you could go to pure white because you're not really putting any pressure on. But I think that just makes your motifs a little bit more interesting. Perhaps that one's a little bit light. So I'm going to go back in with a little bit. Make sure you're on the right layer when you do that. Okay, so we've got our two motifs. Let's make some duplicates of this. So we'll put them both in a group. Swipe to the right, hit Group, and then let's swipe to the left this time hit Duplicate. Now we have a few and one-by-one, we can resize them and slightly recolor them. So right now I'm on free form. I want to switch to uniform and I'm gonna go to hue and saturation and then just maybe brighten this one, slightly change the saturation. And same with this one here. Going to resize it first. What I'm trying to do is have a variety here of different shapes and sizes to help me fill out my pattern. Here, I'm going to also slightly change it, brighten it ever so slightly change the hue and change the saturation. So we've got that set. Now we can work with this one, same deal. So we've got three different sizes of the heart. And we can do the same thing with the flower hats, make a small one. We're probably going to duplicate a few of these. And what I want to do now is just put these all in the same group. So I'm going to slide those two in, slide those two in, and then I can delete that group and delete this group. All right, Now we've got all of our motifs drawn, and it's time to start doing some simple arrange it. In the next lesson. I'll see you there. 4. Setting Up the First Half: Guys, welcome to lesson three. Less than three here we're gonna be setting up the first half of our pattern. Let's get to it. All right, now we've got all of our motifs drawn, and it's time to start doing some simple arranging, maybe duplicating some of these elements in order to fill out the space. So just like any other pattern design, we're all about, arranging this in a pleasing way. So I'm trying to think of ways to do that. I'm going to do some flowers or some of the heart's kind of tilted in order to help out. Let's duplicate this one. I think that's a good size to repeat. Oops, repeat elsewhere. So let's alternate the way they are rotated. A little bit. Too many hearts in a row here, I'm sure, but it'll all come together. I'm sure in the end, I'm always trying to vary the sizes now because I have reduced that down. I don't want to size it up again, but it's perfectly fine to reduce it some more. This one I'll duplicate as well. Maybe I'll try that one up here. This might be a good opportunity or time for naming things like that might make it easier. But for now I'm just turning them off and on in order to figure out which one they are to move. And I know I definitely don't want those two big hearts together, so I'm going to move one. I think probably the bigger pieces are more important at first to arrange because everything else can kinda work to fill up the space. And remember, because this is going to be a drop, half-drop repeat, this part will not be directly across from itself on the next half of the swatch that we're producing here, it's going to end up being dropped down. I have, so it'll end up being here. So I definitely don't want that one to be straight across. So I'm going to actually put that one there and that's going to help overall in meat arranging this pattern. And I find that the most frustrating thing about Procreate half-drop repeats is that really for any of the repeats in general and procreate, is that you're not seeing a preview of the overall pattern as you're working. That's why I generally, when I'm at this stage, I will be generally for my actual practice, be working with Photoshop or Illustrator. It would've helped to have had these different colors in a way so I could label them as blue heart or red flower. Keep that in mind if having it monochromatic like this is an issue for that reason for you, then of course, feel free to colorize this completely differently. You probably will anyways, I'm thinking that you're not going to want to do it exactly the same colors as I'm doing. The other thing that I'm trying to avoid doing is having anything lined up in a straight line. So I'm trying to vary the sizes as well so that I don't feel like I've bought all these flowers in a row and they're all identical. So this one, I'm going to pull in a little bit. Maybe working with two elements is a little bit difficult. So that's something that you might want to do differently than I'm doing here. You might want to introduce a third element. And I'm purposely leaving a lot of whitespace here because I think for myself and this particular pattern, I think that's what's going to look the best. I think possibly another thing I could do here is to change the color. So I'm gonna saturate and brighten that one so it doesn't look like I've got too much of a straight line happening here. And I want to alter this a little bit. I'm also going to move this large heart as close as I can to the edge and this one here as well. So I think I'm going to work with that for now. And I think in the next lesson what we'll do is work on creating that repeat. Now in order for that repeat to work, we're also going to need a square that will help us do the positioning. I'm going to choose an almost white color here, and I'm going to add a layer. I'm going to put that one at the bottom actually and fill it. I'm going to turn on my magnetics and snapping and I'm going to reduce that to be, I'm going to put on free form and reduced that to be exactly half size. Now I know it is because it just hit that yellow center line. That is our guide. And I think I'm going to just lighten it up just a touch. So I've gone on going into brightness here. But having that is going to help us with the positioning of our motifs are our R-squares to be in the drop. Night. Realize here I just cut off the bottom of my heart somehow. So I'm going to delete it, duplicate this one, and bring it down of my magnetics and snapping and position it. So I am not keeping the same angle as it was and I don't want it to be the same angle as that one. So this one ends up being pretty much straight up and down. The other thing I can think of here is that this heart could be space a little bit differently here. And we're ready to start working on the drop. I want to show you how to do that. And so we'll do that in the next lesson. 5. Repeating to Create Half Drop: Hi guys, welcome to lesson four. This is the lesson where we're going to really be setting up that half drop. Let's get to it. All right, this is where the fun truly begins. This is where we start to see our half-drop repeat. So we need to go back to the Canvas here. You didn't do so already. You might have already done this, but you need to go back to the drawing guide and set this up to be quadrant again, that gives us that center line, which is what's really important for our half-drop here. The other thing we need is three copies, and this is our first copy here, so I'm going to duplicate it. This is where you see, that's pretty easy. For the Yap. I already hit the magical 33 number there, but that's okay. I think I'm going to flatten this group. I don't want to flatten that initial group because I definitely want to have that to fall back on if I want to make changes to the arrangement. Here, I'm going to also duplicate it. And then these two are what are going to become our drop repeat. So we want to put on snapping here because that's going to help us to position those two additional repeats of our pattern. And let's just grab the first one and we're going to slide it over. And it's absolutely imperative that you get this lined up Perfect. So what I do is once I get it close, is I will enlarge so that I can see my center lines a little bit better. And then I'm going to pull, and I'm already on this line here, so I'm pulling straight down and I saw a flash of that yellow line there. So you've got to make sure that that's kind of that yellow, orange line that you see that flashes up when you have it perfectly aligned. Now before you touch anything here, click off so that you can go back. You can do the quick pinch to get it back to the size that will make it easier for us to deal with. And let's grab the other one there and we're going to do the same thing there. So I get it somewhat into position. Usually this one is a little bit easier to position in because it's got this to line up to. The biggest issue is usually some of the stuff in here that is sort of conflicting a little bit or are causing this to want to align to it. So that's why I go really big. And again, I can see my vertical yellow line now I'm just going to push up very slightly to get the other lines so you can see both of these are yellow there. You can let go, make sure you get out of the selection mode and believe it or not, we have set up our repeat here. So this is a drop. You can tell because this and this are not directly across from each other. If they were a grid, repeat, this would be right here, but it has dropped down. I can always see pretty much immediately what I consider errors as far as the placement of my motifs and so on. And that's what is the most frustrating thing about working in Procreate, is that you can't work with that or see this as you're creating your swatch here, your full half drop. But let's follow through here and do a little bit of a test because that's going to help us to do some of those corrections. So I'm gonna go into the gallery here. I'm gonna select that artwork and I'm going to duplicate it because I think I don't want to affect that one at all. I want to go in this one here and we're gonna do some adjustments that are going to help us to see the big picture. The first thing I want to do here is flattened this whole document. Remember I have that duplicates, so I know I still have those really important layers in that group, and I know I have that on the other document, so I know that here I can just select everything and group it, and then I can flatten my group. So now it's all in one. There's nothing that can be moved at this point, but like I said, the backup document is there to help us. What I want to do here though, to really test this fully is to repeat this square in all four corners because that's gonna give us a huge repeat of our pattern the way it is right now. So I'm going to put the snapping on yet it's already on, was still on and I'm going to bring it into the one corner and I it just saw my yellow lines, so I know that that's all good. And I can go through now and repeat. So I've got two beside each other and now I can merge those two, duplicate it, and then bring that to the bottom half so that I've got a really good view of my pattern. Now, I think we need this sort of a bird's-eye view in order to fully understand how our pattern has laid out, I'm going to turn off the drawing guides temporarily and let's just take a really good look. The bottom line is it worked. It's there. It is a drop repeat. So we've got the half-drop. You can see here because this part here drops down by half every time you see the full repeat. If I was an art director here and I had this turned into me, I would be saying, well, these are some of the things you have to change. There's a gutter of whitespace kind of going in through here. Not sure if I really want this to be striping in the way that it is. So there's things like that that you could go in and change. That's what this document helps us do. So I'm going to save this out, hit Share, save it as a JPEG. I'm going to go into my Class Assets folder here, and I'm going to save it. I'm going to call this test just so that it's easy for me to find. I'm not sure how you do your organization, but you need to have a name on it that you're gonna recognize and you just need to put it in a place that you're gonna be able to find in a minute. So we've got that document that we could use now to refer to when we go in to do our corrections. Let's open up that other document and get ready. We're gonna go back into the gallery. That's our original document. We know we can toss away these two because we know that we're gonna make adjustments here. And what I want to do is the test here, save it as an image. Now it's gone into my photo library so that when I'm in Procreate and we want to bring in that example so that we can further look at this and decide what we want to do to fix up the problems that I noted. So I'm gonna go here to the canvas again. I'm going to hit reference right now is just showing this cannabis. And what we want to do is get that image. And I want to import it. It comes up here on the list. So there's our whole pattern. It's going to make an excellent reference for us as we start to make the adjustments that we want to do. So like I said, I want to kind of fix up that gutter of whitespace. And that's because I love too much space on both sides here. And I also want to figure out maybe a better arrangement for this big heart so that it doesn't appear to Stripe. I mean, it's not the worst thing. But I know I have a vision for what I want this pattern to look like. You're gonna feel the same way and you're going to want to go in and make changes. So I think we can do all of our alterations in the next lesson. I'll see you there. 6. Testing and Exporting the Swatch: Hi guys, welcome to lesson five, less than five here, and we're gonna be perfecting our pattern. I'm gonna show you some ways to make it as easy as possible. Let's get to it. Alright, so let's address some of those issues that we found in the first place. You may find that this is a little bit too big. You can make it smaller by grabbing the lower corner there. And I am going to make this a little bit bigger as I start dealing with the issues. So first things first, I want to deal with this positioning of this heart here. So I'm running out of screen space. I should've labeled these. I'm going to call it large part lower. And I probably won't ever need that again, but now I have it. Let's also turn off snapping and magnetics. So I was mistaken when I thought that I shouldn't position at right here. I think now I'm changing my mind and I am going to position it there after all. And then we're gonna work with some of these other shapes and motifs and move them around. These two together weren't super big of an issue, but I might as well. 7. Adjustments to Perfect the Pattern: Guys, welcome to lesson six. Less than six here we're gonna be making the final adjustment. I'm also going to explain how to export as a full pattern swatch. Let's get to it. Okay, so most sites that you're gonna find need to have a square swatch that's also useful for you in other programs. And when you're making your mock-ups, for example, what I wanted to do here is change this to be a full square that we'll do in the Canvas section. So we're gonna go to Crop and Resize. And here what we want to do is change the size. So you can do it a couple of different ways. So you can just use it is to pull it down to your, what you need is a 6 thousand by 6 thousand square here. So I am slowly approaching 6 thousand. And the hardest part about this is getting it to the exact measurement. I just did it. It doesn't always happen. Sometimes it's just too hard, but there it did work. The other way you could do it is to go in and in other settings here. And you can change the size physically put in the measurements here. So that's an alternative if you are having a hard time getting that to be perfectly 20 inches, a lot of times what I do is I'll hold my finger on my stylus as I'm approaching the number that I want. And it helps me to move a little bit slower to get it to the actual size that I'm looking for. So here now I'm going to duplicate this and I'm going to bring it down. And now we can see our full pattern. One of the things you want to do is make sure that you see that yellow line again. So you might want to enlarge, but make sure you're doing it on the part that's actually already placed there and then watch to be sure that you get your yellow lines. Sometimes I lift after I've done the first one and then the next one is a little bit easier to get in position because I'm not moving from side to side as well. There I had perfectly I can see the lines perfectly in both direction in yellow. What I'll do now is I'll export it as a swatch. So I'm gonna go into, into my Actions menu here, hit Share and save it out as a JPEG. And that's what I'm gonna be using in Photoshop. I'm gonna save it to the same file that I have. This one I'll call final swatch. And now I'm ready to go into Photoshop to make my mock-ups. Before I import the swatch that we've been working on, I thought I'd show you a quick why I prefer to work in Photoshop when I'm doing a raster based pattern, the main reason is this. When you move something around here, you can see as it works its way around, you can see it on all of the repeats of your pattern when you bring in the swatch, it doesn't have all of this showing on the outside. I'm gonna show you how to do that, but this is what I love about it is that you can do alterations and see how they look in real time. So instead of saving out those little copies of our document and then opening them up in reference. And then trying to guess at how that's going to look. I can actually just see it as it's happening here. But if you don't have Photoshop, of course you can't do that. Of course, if you're doing a vector-based pattern, it's very easy to do in Illustrator. So back to working with Procreate. Let's open up that swatch. So I'm gonna go to where I've saved it. And that's on my iCloud Drive in my class assets to the half-drop folder and then to the swatch. Now this is one of the test patterns that I did. This one and this one are the ones that we were working on now this one is the one that I did on camera. Then I went and did a few little alterations and this is now my finished pattern. It doesn't matter. I can open either one. I'm going to open it up. You can see here that we can't do we can't move any of these around because they're on flattened onto the background layer. If I had imported a Photoshop version or PSD file of my swatch them when it was still in layers, I could be making the changes there. So I'll demonstrate that in a little bit. But really all we have to do now that we have this swatch here is go into our preview and add it because we know it is a perfectly seamless swatch that we created. I'm gonna hit okay here, gets added down here. And now I can go into one of my mockups. And this is one of my favorites. Actually, this is one I got from a class I did with cat koko flat. She had these as free downloads, so that class was really worth it to take. Anyways, we go into the smart object that has the pattern, and then I'm going to go into the adjustment layers here. I'm going to add pattern. I can choose the one that I want, latest one that I created. And here I can set the scale so I'm going to reduce it down, let's say 33% I'm gonna hit. Okay, this is fun because you can definitely experiment with the scale of the pattern once you hit Save and it goes through the process of saving, and we go back to our document, you're gonna see that pop in there. And there we have it finished patterns. So that's a good way to test. Now you can take a look at, see what kind of things would you change. Definitely, I would probably swap out this heart for this. So that instead of having two hearts in a row here and two flowers in a row, I would have that switched up. But it is frustrating working on it in procreate for that reason that you're not seeing that as you go along. Here, I've imported that half-drop repeat that we created in Procreate. And I just want to show you why. It's just so much more pleasant and easier to do in Photoshop here. So Photoshop now has what they call a pattern preview. If we find that right here under View pattern preview, and you'll see that as soon as I say okay to this, I see my entire pattern in the repeat. So the cool thing about that is that I can now grab and move any of the motifs. And I see how that relates to the whole design. So I mean, I know that there are financial restraints, reasons why people don't buy and use something like Photoshop. But if you are thinking of going into this kind of work professionally, I would strongly suggest that you check this out. If you don't want to spend the money on a Creative Cloud subscription, then I would suggest that you check out Affinity Designer. Now with Affinity Designer, it's not quite as simple as going in here and opening up the pattern preview it. It is really nice because you can still get this effect by using something called symbols. That's something that I'll teach you in an upcoming class. But I just wanted to just really quickly at the end here, show you why. I tend to go and work in Photoshop when I'm at this stage of the design process, sorry. Yeah, I guess that's it for this lesson and I will meet you in the wrap-up. See you there. 8. Wrap Up with Mock Ups: Guys, welcome to the Ralph up. It's always so satisfying to have a finished pattern at the end of an hour or two. This could be the beginning of a pattern collection or it could be used as a stand-alone to upload to sites like Spoonflower or society six, personally, I always like testing on a mock-up or tube. And when I'm doing that, I always try to show it on products that are really contrasting. For example, I'll do it on something like vetting or wallpaper. And then I'm gonna do it on an actual product like perhaps a key chain. Even test them out on things like pillows and Walmart. I really find that having a bit of variety with these mockups is what makes you really judge whether or not the pattern works. Now remember I mentioned that I'm gonna be doing a follow-up class to this. Follow-up will be with a much more complex pattern where we'll be going over some of the edges and so on. I want to show you how to work with that. It is a lot more time-consuming, so it'll be a longer class and that's going to be coming up soon. Make sure you hit the Follow button up there to be informed when that class is released. And of course, if you have a minute, leave me a review. And if you could even leave a little bit of an anecdote about what you liked about the class that certainly helps other people to choose. I know I read the reviews before I watch in class. I'd also like to encourage you to head on over to my website at the Lawrence aren't dot ca to put your name on the mailing list there. 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