Quick iPad Patterns: Create A Simple Seamless Repeat Patterns with Procreate

1. Class Introduction: Oh. 2. Drawing Simple Motifs: Let's get started by creating a new Canvas. It the plus sign and then new Canvas. I'm going to do 4,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels with the DPI being 300. That should be big enough to give us good application on various surfaces if you decide to print your patterns. Go ahead and hit Create. While we're inside the Canvas, I am going to turn on the drawing guide. Then you can addit it to a different color, opacity, thickness, and great size. I'm going to hit done. This helps me to have a visual reference of where things are. For our aggie pattern, I'm going to change the background color because we don't want to see white on white. Maybe something purple, is blue like that, and then hit done, actually hit the layers panel, and then we're ready to draw. I'm going to pick a white off white color for the egg white and just start drawing some organic shapes and then just drop in the color. For this purpose, I would not use a brush that has too many textural details because that would make the color drop a little bit less efficient. You might have to color in certain areas even if you change the threshold. If this is new to you, just pick a smooth brush and follow along. Now we have three eggs and while I'm at it, I will draw some yk as well. I'll keep up with the organic shape. So these are not perfect circles. 3. Making A Repeat Pattern Tile: So what makes the surface pattern tile unique? When we look at a repeating tile, you will notice that the left edge meets the right edge perfectly, and the top edge meets the bottom edge perfectly. That's our goal for our agg pattern here. I'm going to create a guide layer to help us with this purpose. I'll just pick a random color and then just drop it. Then I'm going to hit this to lower the pacity. I will create a duplicate of the solid, the semi transparent layer and a duplicate of our aggie as well. Eventually, I also want to move this up in between the solid layer. Now we have two pairs. Each pair has a solid layer as well as our motif. I'm going to grab the top two layers by swiping right on both, hit the selection tool. Make sure you have the snapping and the magnetics turned down. We're going to move it to the left. It doesn't have to snap right in the middle, then we're going to select the bottom pair and move it to the right. You notice that if you have the snapping turned on, you should be able to feel the snapping when the sides meet. Then I'm going to delete the guide layer and merge the motifs. With the help of the guide layer, it helps us to shift our motifs horizontally at a distance that equals to the width of our canvas. Now we have our left edge perfectly matches with the right, and also this step expose the gaps in the middle that we can fill in with more organic shapes. I'm going to draw a smaller one here. And I'm going to hit the ribbons tool and maybe move this egg a little bit lower. So we have more even gaps between the eggs. Okay. And then I'm going to go back to the color. To add some yolks to our group. There you go. Now we're ready to shift the top and the bottom at a distance of the height of the Canvas. I'm going to create semi solid layer first and then duplicate the motifs and the solid layer. Select the top pair to move it down, and then select the second pair to move it up. And then we can delete our guide layer and merge the motifs altogether. Now we have opportunities to work on our motifs in the middle. Obviously, this one is cut off, so I'm going to finish this edge to round it up. Also. Let's see. Maybe I want to move this guy. Actually, instead of moving it up, I'm going to expand this omelet a little bit. The gaps looks more even. Now it seems like this part is really empty. I'm going to move this egg down a bit. What I will do is to select the left part of this egg and the right part simultaneously. I'm going to just go ahead and make a big, one key loop, and I will have to be careful not to touch other eggs and then hit the selection tool to move it down. The reason why I like to do that is because we still like our left edge to matches with our right. When we move them simultaneously at the same pace, we're able to achieve that. And then you can spend some time to figure out the space. The basic gist is that whenever you change anything on the left, you want to match it with the right by using the guide layer. Same with the top and bottom. At this point, I have all my motifs touch all four edges of my Canvas. If that's the case for you, you don't have to use the guide layers anymore when you move. I'll show you a quick example. This is my motif layer and I'm going to duplicate it and move the top one to the left. I do still have my snapping turned on and then move the bottom to the right. You can still feel the snap when the two edges meet and from here, I am going to merge down my layers. For a space like this, I'm just going to fill it up with just teeny bits and pieces. It's not too unbalanced. Same here. I'm just going to go around and fill it up. If you want, you can grab a texture brush to sprinkle some pepper. In fact, I'm going to do that. I will pick out a darker color that resembles the pepper, and I will use one of my gentle speckles bruh for the pepper. I'm just going to go a Well, this looks a little too spicy. Maybe something that is more spe. Let's try this. Okay, better. All right. Here is our pattern. I hope you have enjoyed this process and go make something fun. 4. Test Your Patterns: In this video, I want to show you how to quickly test your pattern tiles and save the preview right on your iPad. First, you want to take a screenshot of this, and then go to your photos app, either Lum press the URL or Lum press this QR code, which will take you to the default browser. If you have the P created open, you want to put it right next to your browser. I have all my motifs compressed into one layer, and I'm just going to drag and drop here, right on the browser, and you can adjust the scale here. If you like what you're seeing, you can also download your preview right on your iPad. Just tap on this button, and you should be able to either download or print by hitting this share button. Don't forget to bookmark this page, so you can come back to it whenever you're ready to test a new pattern.