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Repeat Patterns in Adobe Illustrator: Create a Pattern Collection By Using Only One Flower!

teacher avatar Sanna Jonsson, Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:56

    • 2.

      Material

      2:24

    • 3.

      Let's Illustrate!

      11:09

    • 4.

      Prep for Illustrator

      0:56

    • 5.

      The Hand-Drawn

      14:27

    • 6.

      Scans & Photos

      11:44

    • 7.

      A Pattern Collection

      4:00

    • 8.

      Hero Design

      7:53

    • 9.

      Secondary Designs

      10:05

    • 10.

      Blender Designs

      6:29

    • 11.

      Project + Thank You!

      0:54

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Welcome to this new class of mine! Here I show you how to create an entire pattern collection with the help of just ONE flower (you heard me right!). This is a great creative exercise that can help you find new expressions, broaden your style and repertoire or help you get of a creative rut. This is also the class for you if you're interested in creating collections and want to get started!

I tend to do this exercise whenever I feel like I'm stuck or drawing the same thing over and over, to get new ideas and more variation in my designs.

In this class I will show you several ways to illustrate and work with one motif, how to digitize that work and how to build cohesive patterns that works together as a collection.

I will be working in Adobe Illustrator in this class so you need to be comfortable working in that program. If you're new to Illustrator I recommend that you take another class to learn the basics before you dive into this one!

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This class will cover:

  • Several ways to draw and illustrate one motif
  • How to turn your illustrations into vectors in Adobe Illustrator
  • The basics of a pattern collection
  • How to create hero, secondary and blender prints
  • Two ways of building patterns in Illustrator
    + much more!

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Sanna Jonsson

Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator

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I'm Sanna Jonsson, the creator and designer of Isoletto Design. I started creating patterns about ten years ago and haven't stopped since. I spend a lot of my time hanging over my drawing table or frenetically clicking the hours away in Illustrator. I highly believe that anyone can draw/paint/create whatever and love the playfulness that comes from just letting go of demands for perfection and just DO. But to able to, well, DO that - you sometimes need a little help to get started, and that's why I love Skillshare so much.

Let's connect on Instagram! The life of an artist can be a little lonely sometimes but the community of creative souls and entrepreneurs on Instagram is warm and welcoming, let's be friends! :)

 

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1. Intro: Hi there and welcome to this class, where I will show you how to create a pattern collection with the help of just one flower. This is a really great creative exercise that can help you find new expressions, broaden your style or repertoire. Or just to help you get out of a creative rut. My name is Sanna, and I am a Swedish surface designer. I run a small design studio called the Isoletto Design, where I create prints and patterns for clients all over the world. My main industry though, is fabric. And when you're designing for fabric, you sometimes need to create collections. And if that's something you're interested in doing, this is a really great start. I tend to do this exercise whenever I feel stuck or like I am drawing the same thing over and over again, which tend to happen sometimes. I find that it's a really great method to get new ideas and to get more variety in my work. During this class, I will show you several ways to illustrate and work with this one motive, how to digitize that work, and how to build a cohesive pattern collection in Illustrator. I will be working in Adobe Illustrator during the class. So you need to be comfortable working and navigating in that program. If you're not, though, I would recommend that you take a class to learn the basics of Illustrator before you dive into this one. With that said, let's get started! 2. Material: So this is the material I'm going to use in this class. If you don't have everything I'm using, a scanner for instance, that's totally okay. Just use what you got and be creative with that. One mandatory thing though, is your flower. I'm using this carnation flower, but you can use any flower you like here. I recommend choosing one with some variety in it though. And by that I mean one with leaves, different sizes of the flowers, maybe some buds. The more variety of flower has, the more options you will have to play around with in your patterns later on. I'm going to use a bunch of different techniques to illustrate my flower. This will give me a lot of different motives, even if it's the same flower I'm working with. And that will come in handy when I'm creating my collection later on. The paper I'm using is just simple white printing paper. Then I'm going to draw the flower with a fine liner. I use a size 03, but you can use any size you want here. I'm also going to use a thicker felt-tip pen. I have one with a fine tip and a broader one. Then I have some black watercolor and a brush. You can use any kind of paint you like here. Acrylic, gouache, but makes sure to choose a black one. And that goes for your pencils as well. It will make it so much easier for you to digitize them later on. I'm also going to take some photos of my flower. And for that, I'm going to use the camera on my phone. You can use a better camera if you want. But the one on your phone is more than enough for this. Lastly, I'm using a scanner to scan my flower. I have a Canon Pixma TS5051. But any old scanner will do for this project if you want to use one. Nothing fancy needed here. Alright, let's start illustrating our flower and see what we come up with. 3. Let's Illustrate!: Okay, Let's start working on our flower. The first thing I'm going to do is to take some pictures of it. I'm starting with this part because I want to have a fresh and undamaged flower in my photos. When I'm done with all of the other steps, this little guy might not look as pretty as this anymore. So that's why I'm taking the pictures first. I want a white background in my photos. It will make it easier to digitize the image later on. So I'm just placing the flower on a white paper like this. I'm placing the flower, so it looks nice. So I can see all of it or most of it at least. And then I take a couple of pictures. Okay, I think that's enough. Next, I will draw my flower using a couple of techniques. I will draw with a pen and paper. But you can do this part on your iPad if you prefer. It's really up to you. First, I'm going to draw the flower pretty thoroughly with my fine liner. Whenever I'm drawing something by freehand, I always start by looking at the shape of the object and working with, is it square, round or oval, or the leaves as big as the flowers? In this case, the flower looks kind of like a long tooth. And the flower and the body are sort of the same size. I will draw the flower parts separately. Flowers, buds, leaves, stems, and then assembling them in Illustrator later on. I almost always work like this because then I can create several different flowers by reusing the same parts. If you have taken some of my previous classes, you might recognize this technique. I will show you later on how I do it. This won't be an exact image of the flower, but that's totally okay. It's your own personal style that kind of takes form here. Your unique expression that pours out of the pencil when you try to depict something. Everyone has their own way of drawing. And I think that's something to really cherish, to be proud of. A little tip, if you're feeling insecure about drawing by freehand, is to simplify the motif you're working with. Do fewer leaves, bigger, or rougher shapes, draw bigger, and sort of more naive than you think you should. Here, for example, I can see that the stem has this stripy structure and I'm drawing them pretty big and simplified. They don't look exactly like they do on the flower, but they are there. And that's totally fine. I'm not drawing as many petals as the flower has either. But I think it will look pretty nice anyway. Then I will continue to draw until I have a couple of different looking flowers, some buds, some leaves, and a couple of stems. Good. Okay, I think that will do. Next, I'm going to draw the flower really quick and sloppy with the same black fine liner and on the same white paper. The trick here is to work pretty fast. Not to think too much and just go with it. I'm drawing the flower parts separately here too, as I did before. A little trick to get that sloppy look if you're not used to drawing like this, is to not let the pencil leave the paper. Just draw everything in one uninterrupted line, And I promise you, you will end up with some interesting shapes. Something like that. Now I will do the same thing, but with my felt-tip pen. Pens like this have a tendency to bleed a little. So it's good to draw on double papers here. I'm starting with the broader tip. And then I'm just going to work fast and sloppy as I did before. When you're working like this, you might end up with some really weird looking motives. But that's totally okay. Remember, this is an experiment. You don't have to use all or any of these motives in the end, if you don't want to. Just allow yourself to have fun and go with the pencils flow. I'm going to switch to the finer tip of the pen. And this time, I think I will try to draw a little slower. This is a pretty thick pen, so I'm simplifying the flower a lot here. Otherwise, I would just end up with a big black blob, I think. Yeah, that's it. Now I will do some painting with my watercolor. Removing this. As you can see, it bled through a bit. So I needed that extra paper. I think I'm going to portrait the flower from above using this technique. I want to capture the overall shape of it and maybe use that shape in the background on my patterns or maybe as part of a blender pattern. So I'm just painting pretty roughly some flower shaped blobs. I'm just painting the petals here. But you can of course, work with any part of the flower you want. Anything you might find interesting. Alright, I think that will do. I'm actually going to draw this shape with my fine liner to, I think I think it would look pretty neat to combine the painted flower with a line drawing in the same shape. So I'm just doodling out a couple of quick flowers like this too. Okay. Lastly, I'm going to use my scanner to scan the flower. This is my scanner. It's a Canon Pixma TS 5051. But as I said before, you can use any scanner for this. And here I'm just taking my flower, separating the stems the bit, pressing down the lid and hitting scan. I'm scanning in black and white. I think that will be a pretty cool effect. You can experiment here to try and pick the flower part of it and see how it looks. Change the position of the flower and scan again. Or you can even press it really flat before you scan and see what you end up with. Next up, we're going to get our work into Illustrator. 4. Prep for Illustrator: So here are all the illustrations I've made. And now I can either scan them or take a photo of them so I can digitize the motives in Illustrator. I'm going to photograph them with my phone, just placing them flat and making sure I get all of the motives in the picture. And then I just snap some photos. And that's it. Now it's time to continue working in Illustrator. 5. The Hand-Drawn: So now I want to open my drawings in Illustrator. I am creating a new document. I'm choosing the A4 size, but you can choose which size you want here. It doesn't really matter. And I'm naming my file "Floral Patterns" choosing RGB color mode, and 300 PPI, hit Create. The first thing I almost always do is to hide my art board. I do that by going to View and Hide Artboards, since I'm not going to use it. Now, I want to open my drawings so I can work on them. I go to File and Place, locate wherever I've saved my image of what I drew. Here they are. I'm going to start with my thoroughly drawn fine liner one, selecting it, hit in place, and then I just click anywhere to place it on my workspace. Now, I'm going to use the Image Trace tool in Illustrator. I have it here in the properties panel. If you don't have it open, you'll find it under Window and Properties. Here are some options called Quick Actions. And there's the Image Trace tool. I click on it and choose "Black and white logo" to get a clean black and white colored image. I hit Expand and Ungroup. I'm selecting the background and hit Delete, since I won't be using that. Deleting this little black noise as well. Next, I want to group everything that belongs together, as apart. As you can see now, the bits and pieces are loose and I want to be able to handle them as a whole. So with the Lasso tool, I'm selecting the part and hitting Control + G to group it. Alright. Now I have the flowers, the buds, and stems and leaves here. What I want to do next is to give every part a different color. So it's easier for me to recolor them later on. Here under the swatches panel, illustrator has given me some default colors. But I want to use my own palette, which you can do too, if you want to. Just go to the Resources page here on Skillshare to download it. If you don't have this panel open, you can find it under Window and Swatches. To load my color palette into the swatches panel, I click on the button here in the left corner, choose other library and locate my palette wherever I've saved it. There it is. Hit open. And then it appears in this window. To load it into the swatches panel. I just click on the little folder here and it pops up over here. To select the parts I want to re-color. I'm using the direct selection tool. Just clicking on all of them with the alt key pressed down. I'm starting with all of the petals. I want to make these dark blue, I think. Then I select these little guys down here. Make sure I got all of them. And let's make them light blue. And the rest of them can be white. For the leaves here, I'm just going to select all of them. And under the Properties panel, I click on the button called re-color. And here I can see the leaves, colors. They're black and white. I want to recolor the white insides, not the black outer strokes. So I'm clicking there to activate the color and there to add it so I can change it. Then I just click on my color palette. And Illustrator turns, turns the white into a random color from that palette. This beige works fine. So I click Okay. And I'm doing the same thing with the little leaves. I don't want them to be the same color as the big ones. So I'm clicking on the button here. That gives me a new color from the palette. I don't want them to be dark blue as the Petals either. So I hit that random button again. Brown is fine. Here. Illustrator asks me if I wanted to save the changes to my swatch group, but just hit no here. And then the same thing for the stems. Maybe that one. But let's make it a little darker. I think. Yeah. Okay. Now my flower parts are colored. And what I want to do next is to build a couple of flowers with this part. So I'm going to duplicate all of them. So I get more options to work with. I'm selecting all of my flowers, duplicating them and flipping them horizontally. The same thing with the leaves and the stems. Now I'm just going to build a couple of flowers using these parts. Yeah, that looks good. Now I'm going to do the exact same thing with my sloppy drawn flowers. I locate the image, placed it into Illustrator. Going to Properties and Image Trace, shooting black and white logo. Here, I want to tweak my vectors a bit. So I'm clicking on this little button here to open the Image Trace panel. You can also open it by going to Window and Image Trace. And here we have a lot of options for your tracing that you can play around with. I'm going to start by clicking the ignore white box here. So I just get the black lines vectorized. I don't need the background. Actually. I'm just going for the outer lines here. I'm going to zoom in to see how it looks. I can drag the handles to change these settings a bit to see what happens. Reduce or increase the amount of paths. For example, just have a try and find a result you think looks interesting here. I think I like it like this. Yeah. Then I go back to the properties panel, hit Expand and Ungroup. And then I'm going to build some flowers in the same way as I did before. I'm going to give the parts a new color to Beijing. Or maybe brown. Maybe a dark brown. Here. If you open the Color Guide, you have it under Window and Color Guide. Don't have it open. Here you can find a different shades and tints of the color you have selected. Choose the dark brown here. I think I will make all of these parts the same color, actually selecting them. And with the eyedropper tool, I make them all this dark brown color. Okay. Now I'm going to build some flowers. Something like that. Now I have two kinds of flowers. I am moving on to the ones I drew with the felt-tip pen, doing the same procedure to them. Alright? As you can see now, I have four groups of flowers with pretty different look and feel. Lastly, I'm going to image trace the watercolor motives. Okay, that's all of the motives I drew. I'm going to save my document here so I don't lose anything. So here's all of my hand-drawn and painted flowers. Next up, I'm going to trace the scans and the photos I took. 6. Scans & Photos: I'm going to locate the files with the scans and the photos of the flower. I think I'll start with the scans sexually. I scan the flower in black and white. And as you can see, I got a pretty cool effect. I'm using image trace and black and white logo here too. You can experiment and try another setting here if you want. But I will go with black and white logo. Again. I'm opening the Advanced Settings and just pulling these handles a bit to see what I get. Until I find a look. I'm happy with. When I'm done. I go back to properties and hit Expand and ungroup. Deleting all of these scrappy bits. And grouping the flowers one-by-one. I'm going to look at the other scans to to see if I might want to use those as well. Maybe that one. As you can see here, the flower to look a little different. I added a small one there that I liked. I'm going to trace this GAN in the same way as the previous one. Here, I have a black line that's attached to my flowers. And to remove it, I'm using the eraser tool. I select the object and then I just go over it with the eraser to release my flowers. Then I group them as before. I will change the colors too. So I select all of them and go to re-color. I want to change both the black and the white hair. So I make sure that they are both activated here. And then I choose some colors from my palette. As you can see, I got some colored areas between the flowers here that I don't want. So I'm going in there with the direct selection tool and deleting those. So that's the scan flowers. I'm saving the document here as well. Now I'm moving on to the photos. I think I'll go for that one. As you can see, I have a lot more colors in this image than the scan one. And should I go for black and white logo here again? I get a pretty simple looking motive. This could definitely work, but I think I want more details than this. So I hit Control Z to undo the tracing. Then I go back to image trace and choose to trace with colors. I go for the one with 16 colors to see what happens. That looks pretty cool. I'm opening the Advanced Settings and here I can change the amount of colors I want. I'm just seeing how it looks when I increase or decrease the amount here. I want my flower to have at least a couple of different colors. So we get some depth. That might work. Hitting expand and ungroup. Then I go and delete all of the background of my flower, since I won't be using that. Here, I got a section that sort of connects these two flowers. And I want to separate them. So I'm using the eraser tool again. To do that. I select the part. I want to change, decreasing the size of the eraser a bit. And then I just remove this bigger part. Deleting this part too. Yeah, that looks good. I think. As you can see, this object has a lot of anchor points. It's very blue. And what you can do in this phase is to simplify it so that your document won't be so heavy to work with. To do that, I make sure my object is selected. And then I go to object path and simplify. To see better what you're doing. It's good to hide the anchor points here. And you can do that by hitting Control H. Then go to object path and simplify. Illustrator is simplifies your object per default by a certain amount of percent. But you can change that by clicking on these three little dots to access the simplify options. Here you can see my object first was 2300 points, and now after illustrator has simplified it, it's 1700 points, so it's much lighter. Here. You can drag this handle to see how much you can simplify or object and still be happy with the look of it. I think I can get pretty low here actually. When I'm done, I'm hitting okay. To show the selection marks again, I'm hitting Control H. Again. I think I want to reduce this part a bit too actually. So I'm using the eraser tool again in the same way as I did with the previous part. Yeah, that's better. I'm going to trace one of the other photos as well in the exact same way as the first one. Like that. Now I have two pretty similar looking flowers. What I can do here is to make them a little bit different by separating this little flower here. So I get more options to work with. To do that, I'm just selecting it. And then I use the eraser tool again to separate the two. Then I need to first ungroup them. And after that, I group the little flower and the bigger one separately. Lastly, I'm going to re-color these flowers to some colors in my palette. I'm selecting them and using the recolor tool for that. Something like that, maybe hitting, Okay. I think I want this blue one to be the same color as this one actually. So I'm selecting the two of them and going back to the re-color tool. By clicking this little magnifying glass, I can locate the colors on the flowers. As you can see, the color I'm clicking on gets highlighted. I want to make this dark blue petals brown instead. So I'm dragging the brown color into the little blue box here. Then I want the blue stem to be the same color as this one. It's that beige one. Dragging it into the light blue. Same thing with the lighter blue. I want to turn that into the lighter beige. Sometimes when you have a lighter color, you want to locate, it can be quite hard to see. And in that case, you can try and temporarily change the color of it here, make sure the color you want to find is selected. Then change it. And yeah, it's that one. To change it back, you just drag the color in the bigger box into the smaller one. It's that color maybe that I want. Yeah, that's it. Okay. Now I have my photo flowers, my scan flowers, and all other hand drawn and painted ones here. These are the motives that I will build my pattern collection width. And that's what we're going to do next. 7. A Pattern Collection: Now it's time to create the pattern collection. But before we dive into that, I thought I would talk a little bit about what a pattern collection actually is. A collection usually consists of three types of patterns that cohesively goes together. It can be pretty different looking prints, but that's still goes together and connects through color, style and theme. There are three types of patterns that you usually find in a collection. And they are hero designs, secondary designs, and blender designs. Here redesign is the main attraction of the collection. It's the pattern that usually has the most motives and colors and the one that really catches your eye when you look at the entire collection. It's usually the most detailed and complex design of the model. Then we have these secondary designs. These are usually a little less complex than the hero designs, where the fewer motives and colors, but still eye-catching and strong on their own. For these types of patterns. I like to reuse motives from the hero designs, but present them in a different way by making them super big, or arrange the motives in different geometrical shapes, for example. Lastly, we have the blender designs. The blender patterns are usually very simple designs. Often there's just one motive repeated in different ways. And these kind of patterns usually have few colors and speaks rather quietly. Think of them as supporters to the other two types of designs. They are usually classic pattern designs like dots or stripes, Often small scaled to make the impression calmer. If you would make a quilt, for instance. This is a great pattern to use for backgrounds or bindings. Then, when all of these types of patterns are put together, you can see that we get a cohesive mix with prints that support each other, even though they look pretty different. Here's an example of one of my collections. The two to the left, our hero prints. As you can see, they have a lot of color and detail and kind of stands out when you look at all of them. The two smaller ones are the secondary prints. And they are a little less complex, but yet works pretty good on their own. And the one to the right is a blender print with the small flowers that almost looks like little dots. And that one is a great supporter to the other breeds. Here's another example of a collection of mine. The two to the left, our hero prints. The two in the middle are secondary. And the three ones to the right, our blender prints. Now I'm going to build a collection with the flowers that I drew. Before I start building a pattern collection. After I have created all the motives, I won't. I almost always do a rough sketch like this of all of the designs I want to include in my collection. It saves me so much time and hassle when I'm building my patterns. And it's really great to have a blueprint to go back to and work with so that I can get the result that I want. So now let's start building some patterns. 8. Hero Design: Now I'm going to start building my collection. I'm starting with my hero design. Here's my sketch. And I'm building this pattern directly on my workspace, not in the pattern tool, since it's kinder to my computer and it makes me work a little bit faster. Working with a lot of motives like I will in this pattern can make the pattern tool pretty slow. But you can of course, create your patterns there instead if you want to. It's up to you really. I'm going to start by creating the background of my pattern. By making a square 400 millimeters wide and tall. It's fine, I think. Yeah, that could work. You want to make it big enough so that you can fit most of your motives in it. Then I'm locking my background by hitting Control too. So I don't accidentally move it or change it or something. And now I'm going to fill my square with the motives I got. I'm making a copy of all of my motives first, just selecting them and dragging them to the side. And before I released them, I press down the Alt key to make a copy. Now, I will create my hero design. I always start by filling the upper edge with motives than the left side. And then I feel in the middle. Alright, let's do this. Oh, that's right. Since my background lies in the foreground, I need to move it to the back before I begin. I'm unlocking it by going to Object, Unlock All. And then right-click, arrange to back. Then I lock it again with control too. And now you can just play around with your motives. Try to arrange them in different ways. Send them to the phone or backwards. Try to make them bigger or smaller. Maybe flip them horizontally. Just try to have fun here and create something that speaks to your creative heart. I want this pattern to be quite busy and filled with a lot of motives. As in my sketch. Something like that. Maybe when I have a field, the upper edge, I'm selecting all of the motives that falls over the edge, go to Transform and Move. Moving them 400 millimeters vertically, which is the size of my square. Hit Copy. Then I continue to fill in the left side. When I'm done there too, I copy everything that falls over the edge again. But here I copy it horizontally instead. And here I can see that I got some overlapping objects. So I think I will have to move things a bit. I might delete that one. I think this one needs to move. So I'm selecting both of them. Then moving them until it looks better. Yeah, something like that. I need to copy this one to the other side too, since it crosses the edge now. So I type in minus 400 in the horizontal box, since I want to move it backwards to the left and copy. Then I'm feeling in the middle where the rest of the motives. Yeah, that looks good. I think. I'm going to create a swatch and see how the pattern looks. First I need to unlock my background under Object, Unlock All. Then with the background selected and make a copy of it by hitting Control C, and then paste that copy in the very back by hitting Control B. I make sure the background copy, it has no stroke and no fill. Otherwise, illustrator won't create a repeat pattern of it. Then I select all of it. Oh, there's a little something. Let's delete that. I select all of my objects and then I drag it into the swatches panel. Then I can create a shape and fill it with my pattern to see how it looks. I'm zooming out on the pattern a bit. I think it looks pretty good. Maybe a little bit empty here. It's this area on the repeat. So I'm going to add something there. Maybe that one. Yeah, that looks better. I think. I'm selecting everything again, dragging it into the swatches panel. And let's see how it looks now. It looks better. I feel pretty happy with the hero print as it is now. So I'm going to move on to the secondary prints. 9. Secondary Designs: So these are the sketches for the secondary designs I'm making. I'm starting with this brown one. And I will build it in the same way as I did with the hero print directly on my workspace. I'm creating a brown background. The same measurements as the hero print, 400 by 400. And here I want to work with my sloppy drawing, florals. I think I'm duplicating them. Flipping them horizontally. So I have more options to work with. I'm going with this as well. Doing the same with them. I'm sending my background to the very back and locking it. I think I need to make these a little lighter so I can see them against the background. Maybe something like this. Even lighter. I think. If you double-click on the color box here, you get into the color picking mode. And here you can either type in the values you want or you can drag around to find a new color. Down here is your original color, and up here you can see your new one. That will do, I think. Then I'm going to feel my square with motives. I'm changing the colors of these two. I think I want them to be the same color as these flowers. So I'm selecting both of them and go to re-color. Here. I drag the color I want into the little box. Maybe make these a little darker. Here. I think I want to change the flower a bit. I would want flower reaching out this way too. So I'm copying the right one here. Moving it. Yeah. I like that. Maybe something like that. I'm unlocking my background, making a copy of it and pasting it in the background, making sure it has no stroke or no fill and dragging all of it into the swatches panel. I'm creating a shape and filling it with the pattern. Zoom out to see how it looks. I might want to move that one a bit, make it a little bigger. Delete that copy, and make a new one. Move that a little bit too. Let's try that. Yeah, better. I think I'm happy with this print. Now. I'm moving on to the next secondary print with this flower bouquet motive. Let's see which flower I want to use for that. I think this one to create a bouquet like shape of a single flower like this. You can use the rotation tool. Just select the flower, press R for rotation, and then move the little marker where the object will be rotated around to somewhere down here on the stem. Then I will hold down the Shift key, rotate the flower to the right, and Illustrator will rotate it exactly 45 degrees in that direction. Before I let go, I press down the Alt key to make a copy of my flower. And now we can press control D to repeat our latest action. And then illustrator will make a new copy, another 45 degrees away. And if you keep on pressing Control D, you will end up with a circle like shape, like this. Pretty cool. Grouping. All of this. I will do the same with a couple of more flowers to see how it looks. Pressing R for rotation, placing the rotation mark there, holding down the Shift key and rotate it. And before I let go, I press the Alt key and then Control D until I have a circle. Let's make one more. Now. I have three floral circles here. And I'm going to build this pattern in the pattern tool. Actually, I'm selecting all of them. Then go to Object, Pattern and Make. Here you see the pattern options panel. You can give your pattern a name. And here you choose a tile type. That's the way you want your motive to repeat. I'm going for brick by column. You can change the brick offset here. Half offset is fine for me. Here. You can change the size of the pattern tile. I'm just going to adjust my motives a little bit until I think it looks good. Yeah, that will do. I think I'm hitting Done. And now my new pattern has popped up here. Right now. It has no background color. As you can see, it's transparent. I want to give it a color, so I double-click on the background box to access it and give it a light blue color. Then I have to paste a transparent background to it, like I did with my other patterns. Control C and Control V to paste. No stroke or fill. Drag it back to swatches. And there it is. I think it looks good. Now I'm going to do my blender patterns. 10. Blender Designs: These are the three blenders I'm going to make. I'm starting with this one with the tiny flower groups. And for that I think I will use the scan flowers. I'm choosing a couple of them, selecting them. And then I go to the pattern tool. I'm making them quite small. I think. Going for the brick by column and half offset again. Then I just placed them in a nice even way that we'll do. I think I'm hitting done. I want to give it a background color too. Double-click on it. Give it a color, maybe. That one. Pasting transparent copy in the back. And let's see how it looks. Pretty good. I'm going to try change the colors a bit. Yeah, that will do. Next. I'm doing this one with the single flower. I'm using these to create that print. Making this a little bigger. Those three will do it. I think. Selecting them. Going back to the pattern tool. And for this, I will use the hex by column to repeat the flowers in a hexagon shape. Tweak them a bit like that. Hitting down and give it a background color. I think I will switch colors, actually, make the background light instead of dark. Yes, that's it. Lastly, I am creating this striping looking design. And for that, I'm going to use some of the leaves. Actually. I'm going to use the leaves from these flowers. I'm selecting them and hit Ungroup to access the leaves. Then I choose a couple of them to build the pattern. Taking a part of a motive like this is a great way to create blender patterns. It automatically connects the patterns, even though you might not see that it is leave or whatever you're using. This we'll do, I think like before I create the pattern in the pattern tool and re-color it when I'm done. And that's the last pattern. Now, let's have a look at how they all come out together. Here it is, the final pattern collection created with the help of just one flower. As you can see, it looks quite cohesive. Although the prints are pretty different. I have changed the colors a bit. Remove the black outlines on some of the patterns and change the scale on some. By adding more color wastes to the same patterns or creating them in other scales, you can increase the number of prints in your collection. If you don't want to make new ones. The options are endless, really. 11. Project + Thank You!: Thank you so much for watching this class! I hope you feel really inspired to try new expressions and to play around and have fun with your work. The class project for this course is to create a pattern or a pattern collection if you want to and use some other methods I've shown you in this class. Upload an image of your pattern or your collection on the class project site. And if you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out to me and I will do my very best to help you. Okay. That's it. Thank you again for watching and until next time. Take care!