Quick iPad Patterns: Create Tossed Seamless Repeat Patterns with Procreate

1. Class Introduction: [No Speech] 2. Drawing Basic Elements: For the first step, I'm going to create a new Canvas, so it plus and new Canvas. I'm going to go with 4,000 by 3,000 with the DPI being 300. If you have taken any of my pattern classes before, you know that I like to use the drawing guide, and you can add it yours by playing with the sliders at the bottom of the screen. For this time, I am going to make it thick, but maybe very opaque. T. And you can hit done when you're done setting it up. Now we're ready to go. I'm going to start with some simple circles. I'm just going to draw a circle. Without lifting my pen, I want to hold one finger on screen. This will snap my shape into a perfect circle, and I will create a new layer. Actually, I'm going to go ahead and duplicate this layer and then just move it aside. And I can play with the blending mode if I want. For example, something like this. But the problem with the blending mode is that when you merge it down, it's going to bounce back to the original color. In this case, it's fine because all I need is to have some contrast between the overlapped area and the outside. I'm just going to color it a different color. And this is all I need. Then I'm going to change the background color to something else. The screen seems nice. Then I'll just repeat the creation process for these two overlapping circles around the canvas. Again, you want to hold one finger on screen to drop in the color and then duplicate that layer, move it aside, and you can change the blending mode, and then you can merge. The overlapped area seems fine in color. It's a little more subtle, which is fine with me. If you want to switch up the colors, you can go to adjustment and hue, saturation and brightness, and you can play with different colors. Well, actually, I do change my mind now because this blue seems really nice. I'm going to make this blue a bit smaller and then rotate it a little bit. That looks like they're floating like atoms floating in the air. I think I'm going to have another pair and that would be it. I'm going to draw another circle and then color it. If you want to add texture inside your shapes, you can just on the thumbnail, turn on the alpha lock. Choose a different color. Maybe a white color would be interesting. Let's see. Okay. I am happy with what I have, so I am going to go ahead and merge everybody into one layer. Right now we're ready to turn this into a repeating pattern. 3. How to Make a Seamless Repeat Pattern: What makes the repeating pattern tile so special? The key point is that we want the left edge of our repeating tile to match perfectly with the right and the top to match perfectly with the bottom. We can do that by creating a guide layer. I'm going to choose contrasting color, and then just turn the opacity down a bit. So we can still see what's underneath it, and then we want to duplicate the solid layer as well as the motif layer. And then we want to move the motif layer up in between the solid. We have a solid motif, solid and motif. I'm going to grab the top two layer by swiping right and then hit the selection tool. From here, we do want to turn on the magnetics and snapping. I'm going to just move it to the left to whatever distance you decide to stop. And then grab the bottom two layer to move it to the right until you see the overlapping edge just disappears. It will snap when the two edges meet. This will ensure what I did was to delete the guide layer to expose our motifs. The shifting allows us to connect the left with right, and also at the same time, expose the gap in between. In case we should add any motif in between. Since we're doing circles, I'm just going to draw a circle here. And then maybe add some additional scribbles. There you go. Then we're going to do the same thing to match the top part with the bottom part. We want to create solid layer, lower the opacity, and then duplicate that layer and duplicate our motif layer and then move it up. Grab the top two pair. We want to move it down, and then grab the bottom pair and move it up. And then we can delete our guide layer. This allows us to expose the gaps that's not accessible to us before, but also connects the top and the bottom. You see this little pink ball is cut in third or maybe a quarter, but these two perfectly matches when we put them together. I'm just going to merge down and turn off the palc and then create maybe one last ball over here just to make the space more balanced. Before we know it, we have a repeating pattern. Our left side perfectly matches with the right and our top perfectly matches with the bottom. You can export this tile by hitting this wrench icon and then share and then choose the format. I hope you have enjoyed this learning process, and go ahead and check out my other pattern classes and make something new today. 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.