Quick iPad Patterns: Make Looping Seamless Repeat Patterns in Procreate

1. Class Introduction: [No Speech] 2. How to Make Interconnected Looping Repeat Pattern: Let's get started by creating a new Canvas. Tap on plus, and then new Canvas. Like always, I will do 4,000 by 3,000 and it create. For this pattern, I will turn on the drawing guide, and you can add it the opacity, density, thickness, size. I'm going to do something like that, and then hit done. In terms of brush, I like to pick something that is relatively solid for this particular pattern. For this particular pattern, it's helpful for us to understand what is the mechanics of a repeating tile. Basically, when we look at a repeating tile, the left edge has to match perfectly with the right and the bottom have to match perfectly with the top. So with that in mind, we're going to do some marking before we start drawing. I am going to mark roughly over here. That is going to be the entry point of a particular squiggly line. I know that if it enters or exit from the left, it has to match with the right, and I'm going to do a similar marking right here. And then you can mark as many dots as you want. The point is that it has to match the top one. If you have one at the top, you have to have a bottom one on the same line. I'm going to stick with this. This will just serve as a visual guidance. I'm going to turn the opacity down to maybe 50%, so you can see it on screen as well. Then we can start drawing. Let's create a new layer, and then move this new layer under our reference layer so that the reference layer is always visible. If you want, you can also change the blend mode so that you can always see it, even if the color is very similar. I have mine set as multiply at the moment. And from here, I am going to draw my squiggly. Now we're ready to draw. You can make it squiggle as much as you want, something like that. Then. Now we have our rough sketch. I'm going to make sure the left edge perfectly meet with the right, not just roughly. I'm going to create a new duplicate and to shift our pattern to the a bit and shift the other one to the right until the edges snap. You know that we have worked on roughly have our lines exiting or entering at the same entry point, but it's not perfect. We're going to make sure the transition goes well in this step. Merge it down and then you can use the eraser tool to erase as much as you need to connect these two lines. Then the other one seems to be working a lot better. I only need to erase part of it. We're going to do the same for the top and the bottom. Create a duplicate and then move it down and move the other one up. It's crucial that we have the snapping turned down so that our movements are perfectly constrained to one axis. Then we can merge these two layers down. We actually can delete our reference layer. We don't need to remember the entry points anymore. This seems to be working well. Okay. By moving them left and right and top and down, we also have exposed some opportunities of gaps. I'm just going to draw a line across so that we don't have this awkward space. Perfect. Now we know that our left perfectly meet with our right and top perfectly meet with the bottom. If you want to be fancy, you can turn on the alphck, which is using two fingers to swipe right. This will lock the transparent pixels. If you were to use a darker color to draw some shadows, let's go with something super grainy, like that, if you were to draw some shadows, you will not draw outside of the edge. This will create some level of dimension between these lines that makes it more like almost more three D. Notice that we have some step born edge sticking out. Let me just smooth it back in. Much better. Then you can go into the motif to add some more shadows. And I'm going to continue to use the same method to move my shape around without losing the perfect matchiness. The point is to expose the transition connection points so that I can work on the shadows. Seems like we're good for now, and there's one missing here. So I would need to create a duplicate to move it to the left and to move it to the right until it snaps. Then I can merge my layers down. When you move things around, you might see new gaps that needs to be filled. At that point, you can just use your double finger to unlock the alpha lock to draw on a new layer. In this case, I've used a new color and you can totally do that by adding more accent into the canvas. Just make it more fun. It's entirely up to you. Just remember, if anything touches the left, you have to use the same method to make sure the right matches as well. Now we have a wavely squiggly pattern. 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 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.