Quick iPad Patterns: Make Floral Seamless Repeat Patterns in Procreate

1. Class Introduction: So 2. Creative Process | Making a Repeating Tile: Let's make a new Canvas first. So I'm going to tap on the plus sign and then new Canvas. I'll go with 4,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels so that you know it doesn't have to be a square. Create, and I will turn on my drawing guide by toggling, and then you can edit your drawing guide to change the color, opacity, thickness, and all that fun stuff. And once you're happy, hit done. So I will just go ahead and draw roughly a circle. But without lifting my pen and also add a second finger on screen, in that way, you tell Procreate that you want to create a perfect circle. So I'm just going to drop the color. Like that. For the next step, I'm going to borrow the boundary of the canvas to help me cut this shape. So I'm going to tap on the arrow sign and make sure I have my snapping and magnetics turned down. So I'm going to carefully move this guy left first, and you feel the snap when the circle is cut right in half. And I will do the same thing by moving it down. Like that. Now, when you tap on Canvas or tap on the arrow icon, you know that we have a perfect quarter here. Now I'm going to use this quarter to make compound shapes. I'm going to make it a little bit smaller first and then make a copy. Left swipe and duplicate. Then when I tap on the arrow sign, I can flip this one horizontally. And then I'm just going to move it until the edges touch. So that is our first part. And then I will make another duplicate and then flip it the other way. I know this one is going to stack right under the first one. And similarly, you can go ahead and make another duplicate and then just flip it horizontally and then snap it right there. Sometimes there might be super tiny gaps in between. If that's the case, you can just select the bottom two, like what I did over here, and then tap on the arrow icon to move it up. It's hard to move incrementally. The trick is to use your finger to gently tap. And it will move one pixel at a time. So now the gap is closed. So now we're ready to merge these four layers into one. There you go. That is the first part of our shape. And for the next part, I'm just going to create a circle sitting right on top. So I'm just going to draw a circle and don't leave my pin, and then add another finger on screen. And color drop it. I'm going to rearrange the order, as well. So this little circle sits under instead of above. Okay. This is good. I am going to turn my canvas around and then turn my motif around as well. So I'm going to rotate my shape until it sits upright. I just noticed that the motif that I created is much smaller than a canvas. Instead of enlarging this motif, I am going to crop my canvas because I don't want pixelation. So maybe something like that because we have another motif sitting right under, so I'm just going to hit done. And now we have a much smaller canvas. Still, notice that it's not square because it doesn't have to be square. As long as your canvas, your repeating tile is rectangle, you're fine. So I am going to group this to motif and then just position it right in the middle and then maybe move it up a bit to make some space for another shape. I'm going to draw. There you go. And I will create a new layer and then pick this. You can draw anything that fits under. I'm going to try with something that is super easy to draw and doesn't require a lot of precision. For the next step, I'm going to add something in between. Because this is a repeating tile, we want to make sure the left edge has to perfectly match with the right. We're going to do that by moving our motifs horizontally to expose the entirety of the gap so we can draw based on that. I'm going to merge all these layers by pinching all of them and give myself a solid layer, but only with half of the opacity. So I can use this solid layer as a guide. I'm going to duplicate the solid as well as the motif. So now I have two pairs. I'm going to move one of the motifs in between the solid. So I want to select the solid and the first motif, and then turn on the snapping and the magnetics to move it to the left. It doesn't have to stop right in the middle. Actually, I'm going to make it really obvious so that you know that it doesn't have to stop in the middle. And I'm going to select the second pair and move it to the right. As long as the edges snap, you should be able to see the edge. And then I'm going to delete my guide layer. So what we just did allows us to see the gap in between. So I'm just going to merge the two layers and then draw something in between. I'm going to stay simple today just to draw a little tiny circle. So draw a circle and then don't lift your pin, tap another finger, collar drop. And at this point, I'm just going to free hand select the tiny circle in the middle and then just move it up. So now we know that our left edge perfectly meet with our right, and maybe I want to connect these two as well. So I'm just going to connect these and make sure it looks seamless. Clean up the edge if you need to. At this point, we know that the left edge perfectly meet with the right. If you want to move something up and down, make sure you select both the left and the right edge when you move it up, something like this. For the next step, I'm going to show you quickly how to make the top edge matches with the bottom. I'm just going to create a new layer and color drop it, make it half transparent, and then duplicate both layers. For clarity, I'm going to change the order so that you know they work in pairs. Have the snapping turned on and move the second down. Make sure it snaps right in the middle. And from there, you can delete your guide layers and then merge the two. Okay. So here's our scallop. I'm going to cheat a little bit by creating a duplicit. So what I did is to use the freehand selection and copy and paste. From there, you can see we have a separate layer from pasted from the selection, and I will color it differently so we can tell that they are not the same. There you go. And then I can just move this layer up and down. The cheating part is that I know this part already has the left edge meet with the right, so I don't have to do all the work to shift it again. And then from there, maybe I'll just stay here. So our pink scallop has a border at the bottom, and then I am going to merge these two. Technically, you can pinch, but it's always really slippery. Obviously, worked this time, but you can also tap and then hit merge down. All right, we got ourselves repeating tile. 3. How To 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 Lom press the URL or um press this QR code, which will take you to the default browser. If you have the Procreator 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.