Quick iPad Patterns: Create Organic Seamless Repeat Patterns with Procreate

1. Class Introduction: [No Speech] 2. Drawing the Simple Motifs: Here we are inside Procreate. Let's get started by creating our Canvas. Hit plus and new Canvas. I'm going to go with 4,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels with the DPI being 300. It doesn't have to be square. As long as it's a rectangle, you should be fine. Then once we're in, I'd like to turn on the drawing guide, which will give us horizontal and vertical reference. I'm going to turn it on, and you can also add it your drawing guide. You can change opacity, thickness, great size, as well as the color. You can just drag on slide. I'm going to hit done. Now I have some reference on my canvas. I'm going to pick a color that is nice and bright and a brush that I like to use. I'll go with this textured brush tip from my calligraphy brush set. The reason is that it will give me a nice solid line without losing the textures. You can pick whatever you want. I like to draw. I feel like I have a tendency to tilt upwards as I draw. So if I were to draw a straight line, I will tilt my canvas instead because we have the grade line, so I can still know where the level is. I'm going to draw a short squiggle. What I mean by short is that my squiggles head and tail will not touch the edge of the canvas. I just do this. And I will stop short just right before. I'll explain why later. Similarly, I'm going to do another one just right underneath it. 3. Making The Repeating Tile: The secret of seamless repeating pattern is that the left edge matches perfectly with the right and the top matches perfectly with the bottom edge. We're going to do that in our next steps. Over here, you can see we have our squiggles in one layer. I'm going to create another one on top and then just drag and drop the color to color the canvas. The exact color doesn't really matter, but I do want to turn down the opacity so that I can still see what's underneath it. This layer is more or less of a guide. I'll show you in a second. For the next step, I'm going to duplicate both layers, and I will move the motif just right in between the solid. If you look at your layers panel, you should have a solid layer motif, solid, and another motif. We're going to select both of the top layers and then move them to the side. Tap on this arrow icon. And make sure you have the snapping turned down. I have both of my magnetics as well as snapping turned down. I'm just going to use my fingers to move it to the left and then select the bottom two and then move it to the right. You should feel a snap when the two edges touch. So I'm going to delete these two solid layers because we don't need them anymore and they have finished their job. And then we want to merge these two layers to take care of the gap. Basically, what we have done so far is to shift the whole motif to the left, but by the exact size of the width of your canvas. So now I'm ready to bridge the gap between the two. I still have the right brush. I'm just going to finish the loop, connect the left to the right. If you feel like your angles are weird, you can erase it and then draw again to smooth it out. Same thing here. This is good enough. Maybe a little bit too sharp here. I'm just going to finish the curve a little more smoother. There you go. Now we know our left tile exactly to the right. So the edges match. Now we're going to use the same method to take care of the top and the bottom. Duplicate the motif, and then create a solid layer, lower the opacity, duplicate duplicate the solid layer, and then move one of the motif in between the two solids. Then we want to select the top two layers. Typo selection, and then just move up. The bottom two layers and move down. Now we can delete our solids. Technically, we know that the left edge matches with the right, the top matches with the bottom, and we can change whatever that is in the middle. I'm going to scooch up this squiggle line just a little bit because the gap between this one and the one above seems a little bit larger, selected, and move it up. Because the left edge and the right edge are moving at the same pace. I'm not too worried about the edges won't match. Then maybe I will select this role and then move it down, just a tiny bit. There you go. I want to make sure the movement is exactly vertical. Now we have a repeating pattern of the motif. 4. Adding Background and Texture: If you want to be fancy, you can add a nice background color. At this point, if you want, you can turn off the drawing guide. I'm just going to turn it off, so you can see it without the grid. You can even add some sprinkles in between. Maybe I'll go with this nice blue, and I'll choose something that is very subtle. From the gentle speckles. There you go. It's really, really subtle. If I zoom in, you can see the particle size is really small. If you're adding on another layer that has really big motif, and you want to go through the same process to make sure it's repeating left to right and top to down. But because of my particles are really small for the gentle speckles, I don't worry about a tiny one get cut in half by the border. For the next s, we want to share it either as a JPEG or as a PNG. And now, you got yourself a pattern. 5. 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.