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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!