Quick iPad Patterns: Make Weaving Seamless Repeat Patterns in Procreate

1. Class Introduction: [No Speech] 2. How To Make Interconnected Repeat Pattern: Let's start by creating a new Canvas. Hit plus and the new Canvas. I will do 4,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels. No, it does not have to be a square and hit Create. For this pattern, I am going to turn on the drawing guide. So just hit the wrench icon drawing guide, and you can edit your drawing guide. I will make the grid size a little bit bigger. So this will not be part of your pattern. Eventually, when you export, this will just be a visual reference for you to know where things are. So I'm going to select a color and start drawing. My Canvas is four by three. That makes the math super easy. I know I am going to have four vertical ribbons and three horizontal ribbons. They don't have to be perfectly square. I just like the organic look and feel. I'm going to wow that is a little bit too organic. I'm just going to free hand drawing roughly vertical, not perfectly. And I will color in between so that I know where they are. I will move these guys just a teensy bit. I have the snapping turned on so that I can move perfectly horizontally. And then I will add another bar here. All right. From here, you can actually already start working to make sure the top edge meet with the bottom. This is a good time to talk about what makes a repeating pattern repeat. So the secretive repeating pattern is that the left edge perfectly meet with the right and the top perfectly meet with the bottom. So when you stack them next to each other, you cannot tell the seam. That's where the seamless come from. So I'm going to create a duplicate for this to work on the seams. I still have the snapping turned on and also the magnetics, so I will just use my finger to move it down. That's the first copy, and then I will move the second copy up until I feel the snap. Sometimes it might be hard to see because it snaps at multiple points. I'm going to be a little bit lazy and without creating the guide layer, if you follow my previous classes, I'm going to turn the blending mode of the first one into something that is super obvious, maybe this screen. So when I move the second layer up, I can tell where the boundary is. Keep going. Keep going, keep going. Boom. And then I'm going to turn the blending mode back to normal and then merge these two layers. Our next step, we're going to work on the jagged part. So when the two layers met, they don't really match. So we're going to smooth it out by using our eraser or the pen tool if you need to draw or the brush tool. If you want to have a bird's eye view, you want to turn on the canvas and then hit this reference, and you can even zoom out a bit, so you have a bird's eye view of what the pattern looks like. This will save you from having to zoom in and out constantly. Seems like this part would make more sense if I just fill in with a brush instead of erasing. Okay. Now, if we look at our canvas, our top edge meet perfectly with the bottom. We're going to repeat the same step for the other direction. If you want, you can use even a different color just for the fun of it. We want to fit in 3 bars here. Roughly about the same, but you can definitely vary in size. Just color drop it. If you follow my previous lessons, you know that I like to create a guide layer to move things around to make sure they move perfectly. But for this one, we don't really have to because our motif already touched the edge, so we don't really need the guide layer to make sure we move at the right distance. Before I move, actually, I'm going to use the freehand selection to move my second bar to the left a little bit. So now I'm going to create a duplicate of our green bars. I'm actually going to turn off the red ones because it's kind of distracting. I will move one of the copies up you can change the blending mode if you want, and I'm going to move the second one down. Perfect. Depending on the blending mode, what I used was color dodge, that kind of make them disappear. You can use hart light, which will still make the top one show. And once they meet, you can turn the blend mode to normal and then merge the top and bottom layer. Just like what we did for the first one, I am going to make sure the connection point is smooth. There you go. So now we know the top perfectly meet with the bottom, and then we can turn on the red one. From here, I am going to use the eraser tool to create the illusion of things weaving in and out. So I will select either the top or the bottom layer. In this case, I will select the bottom layer and then just grab my eraser tool to erase part of it. You can make it bigger to make the gap bigger. You can increase the erasers size if that's easier for you to work through it. So we just finish erasing this part. I'm going to skip this line to work on this part. And similarly, you can work diagonally as well to erase this part. And then we skip this one to go over here. All right. Once you finish erasing the bottom layer, I am actually going to sample the bottom layer color to recolor the top layer, too. So from there, we can erase the top layer. So I'm going to pick my eraser to work on that. For certain parts, you might have to color it in so it doesn't look too something missing. The brush I'm using comes from the liner brush from my brush set that is really nice for this kind of pattern. So if you get lost on, is it vertical or horizontal, you can look at the reference to figure out. Basically, if your neighbor is horizontal, then you want to be vertical. Okay, I think we're done. This is our weaving pattern. If we put it on a product, it looks like this. 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.