Quick iPad Patterns: Create Tossed Seamless Repeat Patterns with Procreate

1. Class Introduction: [No Speech] 2. Drawing Motifs for Tossed Prints: Start with a new Canvas. Hit the plus sign and new Canvas. I'm going to do 4,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels with the DPI being 300 and hit Create. That should give us a brand new Canvas. I'm going to hit this run icon and then turn on the drawing guide. You can also add it your color, opacity, thickness, and the grid size if you want. I'm going to leave it as it is and then hit done. So Let's get started by drawing some of the motifs. Actually, I'm going to change the background color, so it doesn't look lonely and sad. I'm going to change it to something warm. Maybe this off white, peachy yellow. There you go. Now we're ready to draw. I picked this pink color with a brush that is slightly texture. I'm just going to draw a flower like this and the dragon drop. If you are seeing a lot of gaps in between your outline and the fill color, feel free to do this. But don't lift your pen, instead, slide to the right to fill in the gap. This is especially helpful when you create with a very texturized pen. Then maybe I'll go ahead and draw a different geometrical shape. Actually, I'm going to switch up the color. There you go. And maybe go with the green to draw some waves. Notice that all my motifs stay within the bounds. None of these touch the edges of our tiles. Notice that all of these motifs stay within the bounds. None of these touch the edges, which I'll explain later. Maybe add something yellow here. Okay. Thing zigzaggy. There you go. Maybe I want a white circle in the middle. It doesn't look too heavy on this part of the canvas. Select the color and draw a circle and just color drop it. The threshold is a little too big, so I'm just going to slide it to the left until it reaches the optimal threshold. 3. How to Make a Tossed Repeating Pattern: When you look at a repeating tile pattern, the left edge matches exactly with the right edge, and the top edge matches exactly with the bottom edge. When that is accomplished, a tile can infinitely repeat and you will not be able to tell where it begins. That is our job in this section. To be able to do that, I am going to create a guide layer first. I would just create a empty layer and then drop the color and turn this opacity to maybe half of it. Then I want to duplicate this semi transparent layer as well as our motif layer, and I want to sandwich one of the motif layer in between the two semi transparent layer. Now our layers are in two pairs. We have a solid layer motif layer, another solid and another motif. I'm going to swipe right for the top two layers and then type on the selection tool. And then I'll just use one finger to shift my tile to the left. Notice that I have the snapping turned on at the bottom left, as well as the magnetics. This helps me to move things horizontally and vertically. And then I want to grab the second pair and shift it to the right. It will snap until the two edges meet. That's when I want to stop. The guide layers have done their jobs. I'm just going to delete them. The action that we just did helps us to shift the pattern horizontally just enough so that we can work on the gaps that we have. Also at the same time, by shifting the exact distance of our canvas, the width of our canvas, we have made our left edge matches the right edge. Now we have a chance to work in the middle. I'm just going to draw on the same layer because these motifs are pretty simple. I'm going to draw one shape that is obviously cut off by the bottom edge. From here, I am going to shift my motifs up and down so that we can work on the gaps. I'm going to create a solid layer and turn down the transparency, duplicate this semi transparent layer as well as our current motif. Grab the top two layers, hit selection. Move it down. It doesn't have to snap right in the middle. You can if you want. But my goal is to expose the gap that I didn't get to work on earlier, and I will delete my guide layer and then merge these two sections. Seems like I do not have enough space as I thought I would. What I'm going to do is to use the ribbon icon and just draw around it using the free hand tool and then just tilt it a little bit. I have it grow in this way instead of vertically. I'm just going to start drawing to finish up this shape. If you want, you can also turn on the alpha c and then add shape within shapes. For example, if I want to add some texture inside this little shape right here. Because we have our motifs touch the top and the bottom and the left and the right. That is a sign that you don't have to use the guide layer anymore. I'm going to create just a duplicate of our motif to move it around. To see if I have any gaps that I want to work on. I'm just going to merge down here and then choose another color, maybe this darker green, and just add a little bit of accent. Now, we have a repeating pattern tile that connects seamlessly from left to right and from top to down. 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.