Quick iPad Patterns: Make Scallop Seamless Repeat Patterns in Procreate

1. Class Introduction: [No Speech] 2. Drawing Basic Motifs: We will start with a new Canvas. I'm going to hit plus and then create a new Canvas. Your Canvas do not have to be square, so I'm going to go with 4,000 by 3,000 with the DPI being 300 and create. For this pattern, I'm going to turn on the drawing guide, which is hiding under this wrench icon, and then Canvas and drawing guide, and you can add it your drawing guide as you wish, I'm going to make this a bit bigger, and then just hit done. This will not be part of your final pattern. This is just a way to give you a reference. I'm going to change my background color to something warm, slightly warm, and then I will start drawing on a new layer. I'm going to pick a color that is good to get started and then find a brush that is pretty solid because I want a nice line across. When we create this part of motif, I want to be careful not to touch any of the sides. Then I'm going to close up the shape at the bottom. It's roughly level, but still pretty organic. I'm just going to drop this color and then start another one here. Maybe this yellow, roughly around the same size. You can use the quick shape to snap if you want your level to be completely angle. Then just drop the color, and then I will work on another one. Maybe this orange, brighter orange, almost like red. There you go. That's basics of our motif. If you want, you can add any motifs in between. Just to prove that your canvas doesn't have to be square. I'm actually going to hit this ranch icon and go to Canvas to crop my canvas even further. I'm going to bring down the distance between the top and the bottom. The Canvas is even more skinnier along the x direction. It done. That's our motif part. In the next lesson, we're going to talk about how to make this repeat. 3. Making A Repeating Tile: You haven't made a surface pattern tile before. The secret of it is to make the left edge, perfectly match with the right and make the top perfectly match with the bottom. It's hard for us to do it now because we don't really have both sides available. We're going to change that by shifting our pattern left or right to the exact distance of our size of our canvas. It might sounds complicated, but it's really easy to practice. We need to do is to create a new layer and color it with whatever color you have up there, and then change it to semi transparent. Then we want to duplicate this semi transparent layer as well as our motif, and then just sandwich our motif between the two solids. We have two pairs of solid and motif. Solid layer serves as a guide. I'm going to tap on this arrow icon and make sure I have the magnetics and snapping turned out. From there, we can start moving things. You want to right swape the first pair, and then tap on the arrow again to move it to the left. By the way, you don't have to stop right in the middle. As long as both edges match, you should be fine. Then we want to select the second pair. And then move it to the right. The key for this action is to make sure the solid layer meet perfectly in the middle. Then we don't need the guide layer anymore that you can delete it, and then you can even merge the two halves of motifs. The action we just did helps us to shift the motif horizontally to expose the gap we have between. I'm going to sample the green color and then just finish my drawing to bridge the gap. Maybe we can fit two right here. And then if you need, you can erase it. And then sample the second color. By shifting with the guide layer, we have made sure our current left and right has met. Now we're just focus on the gap in between. Right here. Notice that we have shift our pattern horizontally to make sure our edges match, but we haven't really dealt with it vertically. That is because this pattern is pretty unique. If we look at our pattern, the top and the bottom has already matched. That is because we don't really have any motifs that is being cut in half. But if you need to move any of the motif up and down, you can just use the ribbon tool and make sure you have the free hand and add to select any of the motif you want to move around. And be sure to select all the way to include both edges on the left and right, and then we can tap on the arrow tool to move it up and down. Right now, I still have the snapping and the magnetics turned down. I'm just going to move it up a little bit. Make sure you move along the edge. It doesn't shift left or right. There you go. Here's our pattern. 4. How To Test Your Patterns: In this video, I want to show you how to quickly test your pattern tiles and save their 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 create 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.