Quick iPad Patterns: Create Grid Seamless Repeat Patterns with Procreate

1. Class Introduction: [No Speech] 2. How to Make a Repeating Pattern with Decorative Grids: Going to get started by creating a new Canvas. It this plus sign and then create a new Canvas. I'm going to do 4,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels and with the DPI being 300 and it create. The first thing I'm going to do is to turn on the drawing guide. This will give me a grid system to keep my reference in mind, and you can change the opacity, thickness, grid size, as well as the grid colors. Maybe I'll go with this this time and then make it a bit thicker. And from here, we can start drawing. I'm going to pick bright blue color from here, and then choose a nice liner from one of my brush packs. Probably this guy. I'll show you what it looks like. It's pretty agaty, and I like the texture. So we're going to just draw some grid. I'm not thinking too hard about even an odd. I know this is 4,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels. But if my grid turns out to be a little odd, that's okay because that's part of the pattern. So I'm just drawing something roughly. If you want to keep everything perfectly straight, you want to hold it, and then procreate will snap it into a straight line. If you want it to be level, you want to hold another finger on screen, and then you can rotate it on the predefined increments. But I like the organic login feel for this, so I'm just going to keep on drawing. This one is a little too much. I want the beginning and the end to roughly end at the same line. Maybe there's a bit of shift in the middle. I think I'm going to select these three and then to give it more space. And then just to move it to the right a little bit. Not too much. There we go. I want to create another layer for the horizontal lines. This is not exact science, so you have a lot of freedom. For the next step, I'm going to merge these two layers. Now, because I have motif that touches the edges, so I do not need a guide layer, which I used previously. For this one, I'm just going to create a duplicate and then make sure I have the snapping turned on as well as the magnetics. I'm just going to move it to the left. It doesn't have to snap exactly halfway. As long as the two edges touch at the end, you should be fine. Now you can see the two edges touch right over here because it actually looks pretty off except the first one. What I'm going to do now is to erase it just enough so that I can organically reconnect these two lines. I'm going to just do this and this guy. Maybe I want to. If you have the brush selected and long press your eraser icon, it will turn the eraser shape into the exact shape of your brush. This will help you to preserve the visual consistency. Now we know the left and the right perfectly match, and we're going to perform the same task for the top and the bottom. Select one of the duplicate, move it down and select the other to move it up until you feel the snap. And then I'm going to merge these two layers, merge down, and then deal with whatever that didn't work. I increase the size of my eraser. Oh, this actually magically looks fine. So maybe I guess only have to work with two. Go. All right. This one looks a little bit criticar. Just let me touch it up and maybe raise this guy a little bit. So now we have a pattern that perfectly connect left to right and top to down. I'm going to start coloring the grid. And this one. You know that this one is cut off by the horizontal line here. The other half is the other one quarter is up here. You want to make that connection. And I'm going to do this one as well. This one is also cut up by the vertical line, so I will do this. This whole pattern is not exactly the checkerboard pattern. So I'm okay with it not being completely perfectly alternating. For the next step, I'm going to use the white color or maybe a different. Let's try this yellow. I'll just draw some super simple flower here. Super one key. And maybe do another one here. And then drop off the color. Though now we want to group this into one group and make a duplicate. In case that we want to change color or rearrange it or rotate the flowers separately. Later, we can. But for now, I am going to flatten this layer because I want to add another motif right here in the corner. I want to use the same trick to move then to shift the pattern somewhere so that this entire area is exposed instead of being cut up. I'm just going to move it left and right, first, you feel the snap and you stop. And we want to merge down. And then we want to move it up until the border shows, and then we want to move it down. The cut off grid is exposed here. We can merge and create a new layer to draw our motif. Maybe I'll draw some leaves. I'm using a brush here. Something that is not too complicated. There you go. And then, actually, I'm going to change the yellow to something else. Maybe some off white color pinkish white for the background. And maybe I want to color the flowers the same color as the background. I just find all the occurrences on the Canvas and color them because you're confident that this little tile already repeat left to right and top to bottom, so we don't have to do any additional work. This itself is a repeating pattern. And when we put it on products, it looks like this. All right, thanks for creating this with me. This is fun. I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. 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.