Seamless Scallop Patterns in Procreate: Beginner-Friendly Surface Design Class

1. Class Introduction: Hi, everybody. Welcome to this class on how to create seamless scallop patterns in Procreate. My name is R Hari. I'm a digital artist. In this class, you'll be learning step by step how to create a seamless pattern, how to create templates required to create them. We'll go kind of starting from brainstorming and sketching your ideas to creating a final output and even go through a few bonus lessons onto how to create a seamless brush or how to use position, scale, and colors to create or repurpose your main design into multiple variations. This class is designed with beginners keeping in mind, so it's very easy step by step process. You need not worry, even if you don't have any experience on kind of digital illustration. Everything you need in this class is just an iPad, just an Apple pencil and an iPad. And any iPad version is fine until unless the Procreate version is working. In terms of the class project, what you're expected to do is create a seamless scallop pattern, which you can use it for digital prints or even to be printed on and print on demand websites and merchandises. I'm so excited to share everything I know about creating scallop seamless patterns in Procreate. I'll meet you in the class section below. 2. Understanding Seamless Patterns: How Pattern Tiles Work: Welcome to the first lesson. In this lesson, we'll talk about how a seamless pattern functions in the first place or what is a seamless style. So on the screen, what you see, this is actually called a seamless style, okay? And how it functions is because the top and the bottom part should be similar. In a similar fashion, then the right and the left part should be similar. See that here we have taken a square canvas, but it is the best or the ideal way to create a seamless pattern. But in this class, we'll see even in the coming lessons that how to create a seamless pattern with different types of your canvas sizes and shapes, right? But to start off with, we'll start off with square to design entire pattern. So to test this particular seamless pattern or the pattern tile, we duplicate this layer. We'll just kind of run through as quickly, but the entire idea of this lesson is for you to understand what is the pattern tile and what is a seamless patterns, how does it function, right? So we have duplicated this layer, we'll select both or we can duplicate it four times, select all the four and reduce the size by half. So in my case, the entire canvas size is thousand by 1,000, so I'll make it 500 by 500, right? There's one tip, which is when you're kind of resizing things in your canvas, ensure that you don't tap on the screen once you want to come out of the tool. Because what would happen is there'll be a slight movement of pixels in your particular canvas for the design. So to come out of this stool, you can either press the layers icon or the tap the actions mark. In this case, we'll go for the layers. Don't tap it twice, and you can come out out of it, or select any one layer and move the particular layer towards the right, ensure the snapping is on. Ensure the magnetics and snapping are always on. Now, move it towards your right. You will see the half flower becomes a full flower in the center, right? In a similar fashion, we'll move one more layer to the bottom. Ensure it snaps right on place. S, this is a line where it's supposed to be meeting the two pattern tiles, but it doesn't appear to be so because it's seamless in nature. We'll complete the other aspect also. Other layer, we'll move it diagonally and ensure it snaps in the right place, right? So you can see that the pattern tile borders are not visible. This entire pattern tile became seamless in nature. We can always multiply it in multiple ways now. We can combine all the four layers, again, duplicate it. We can repeat the same thing for N number of times. I'm just rushing through in this lesson, but we'll kind of dig deep into these aspects step by step in the lessons below. Fine. So if you see here, there is no line separating both these pattern tiles. That's the orall idea. Even if you combine both these things duplicator and place it just underneath to complete the canvas, you'll see that the entire single tile, your ideal single tile which you design was only this part. Right? But here you won't be able to see it because everything is seamless and there is no very hard edges for you to identify. That's the overall idea of a seamless pattern and the pattern tile. So in the next lesson, we will actually create a custom actions template and create a guide to design scallop patterns. 3. Building Your Procreate Template for Seamless Design: So in this lesson, we'll start off with creating a custom actions template and creating a outer sketch onto how a scallop needs to be there as a template again, right? So to kind of start off with tap the plus icon on the top right hand corner. Go to the new Canvas. Now it's ideal, as I mentioned in the previous lesson that we go with the square shape because it's easy for us to start off with. But for seamless patterns, it's ideal. But again, you can create multiple sizes of different shapes. For that, we will look at that particular aspect in the bonus section in our class. But here we'll go with square aspect. Again, for the square, you need to have at least 100 layers. That's kind of kind of actually convenient amount for you to work with. So in this case, we'll go by thousand by 1,000. You will see the number of layers automatically changes, right? If you increase the canvas size, and the layers will reduce based on your RAM. So if you have an iPad pro or iPad with a bigger RAM, then you can go with a bigger canvas size. But ideally, minimum is something which I always mention is thousand by thousand. When it comes to DPI, 300 is better because if in case you would want to print your designs out in the future, then 300 DPI will keep your kind of intricate designs intact. And the maximum layers you can't change it, it depends on the canvas size. In terms of the color profile here, to start off with, we can go with RGB because mostly we'll be focusing on kind of digital medium and publish it on the screens. But if in case you're going to print it out in the future, CMYK is the best option. But here we'll start off with RGB, but if in case you want to change the template or the file or the pattern file to CMYK, you can always do so using Photoshop or even in Procreate. Right. Once you're done, you can tap the check mark. You got the canvas right now. So we'll fill this up with a dark color. In this case, we'll take gray, track and drop it on the canvas. We'll go at it step by step. This is a process of creating the custom actions template, right? Now, reduce the size by half. Remember the canvas size is 1,000 by 1,000 so we'll reduce it by half, which is 500 by 500. Again, to come out, you can tap the same actions menu or the layers. Now, using two fingers, swipe the layer to the right, so it becomes Alpha lock, right? And then tap the image of the particular layer and tap Select. You will see that every single corner other than the square is being shaded, which means that the top left hand corner square is being selected, right? Now in this option, there's something called save and load, right? Tap that save and load and add the plus mark. Okay, so kind of kind of the whole selection one is the top left hand corner square. Now you can come out of the selection. Now move the square towards the right, ensure the snapping and magnetics are on. Again, we'll repeat the same thing, select the layer, select, save and load, and tap it for selection two, which means the top left hand corner is selection one. Top right hand corner is selection two. We'll continue the same for the selection three and four, which is bottom right and bottom left. Okay, so come out again, move the square to the bottom right. Again, tap the layers icon, select, save and load and add one more selection, which is selection three. We'll do the same for the fourth selection. Move the square towards your left, ensure the snapping and magnetics are on. Select, save and load, and selection four. Okay. Now you have four selections, which has been saved up in the back end of your Procreate with four different corners of your canvas. Now we don't need this particular square now, so we will delete it off. So the customs axring or the background template is ready for us in this particular canvas. Now we'll create a template or a background for our scallop patterns. How do we do that? Is you can choose the monoline brush, which is under the kind of calligraphy, kind of, actually the whole brush set. Create a circle, ensure the layer is on It need not be a perfect circle, just a rough circle. And don't lift your Apple pencil, hold it, so it becomes almost a circle. Now using the other finger tap on the screen or on the canvas, you will see it becomes an exact circle, and extend it as big as you can. And then leave both the hands at once. To just cross check, you can see here it comes as a circle. You can change it to ellipse if you want to, but in this case, we'll go with circle. Okay. Now move. Now kind of tap the actions icon and extend it or fit it to the canvas. You'll see our circle, which is exactly around is fit for the entire canvas. We'll fill this up with the same color. Once you drop it, stay there and try to decrease or increase the threshold, to its maximum, okay? And then once this is done, you have a dark circle in the center. Duplicate this layer, and one layer, move it to the bottom corner. Bottom left hand corner. Yes, once that is done, duplicate that particular small arc, tap the actions icon, flip it horizontally, and move it towards the bottom, right hand corner. And now combine both these arcs. You will see a small bottom half of the scallop pattern, right? So in this case, what we need is the circle. Right? We have the semicircle which is already there, and we have this particular shape from this layer which is there, okay? This one, this layer. So we need to remove this aspect from the circle. Okay? So how do we do that? First, we have to select the arch shaped shapes. Then we'll go to the circle layer and then erase it from there. So how do you do? Again, the same function using two fingers, swipe from the left towards the right in that layer, which has the shape and then select it by tapping the layer. Once this part is selected, go to the circle layer, tap eraser, ensure its largest size, and start erasing it. You might not see it exactly, but if you decrease the opacity, you'll exactly see what it is all about. Once that is done, you can delete the top layer and you will see this scallop shape ready for us as a template. If needed, you can reduce the opacity of it. Again, this is just a template on which you can draw so that you don't cross the borders of a scallop design. Just to test the seamlessness of this particular shape, you can duplicate it and you can use one which is on the top. Okay? Uh, to duplicate it once more, select both, reduce the size by half. Select one of those, move it to the right. Again, combine both, duplicate it, move it to the bottom. Yes. So you will see that it creates let's let's say, kind of a positive and the negative scallops seamlessly. So that's the overall idea for us. So in this lesson, we have learned how to create a custom actions template and create a background shape for our scallop on which we can brainstorm and sketch our idea. The next lesson, we will start with brainstorming the idea for our scallop, and then we will ink it together. 4. Sketching & Brainstorming Your Scallop Pattern Ideas: Now, welcome to Lesson three, where we'll be, uh, brainstorming few ideas and trying to sketch out a particular design and then see and test the template which we've already done in the previous lesson and see the seamlessness of it. Okay? So first, you can open the template which you've already created. You can choose a pencil or a brush. Uh, you can either go for the whole the kind of sketching section, there is actually six P pencil which you can choose, or you can choose a pencil which is just underneath it. Both are default brushes which are available in Procreate so everybody will have it. In my case, I'll go with the pencil. Ensure I choose a new layer. In my case, I'll go with black. Yeah, this is good enough for brainstorming. So before we sketch out or even tap our pencil on the iPad, I'll just describe two different distinct types of styles which we can create in scallop designs. Okay? One is open design, the other one is closed design. Okay? What are the difference first? Okay, let's say this is our outer background or outline of a scallop pattern. Let's say you have a pattern, which exactly resembles in a way the particular outline. Okay? There is an exact semicircle out there, and there is actually even lines underneath here. Okay. And by looking at individual piece, you can clearly see that it's a part of a scallop patterns. Okay. Then it is called a closed scallop patterns. Okay? In other case, let's say there is a particular pattern. Let's say floral in this case, Okay? So we have a central bead, we have a beautiful single main petal and then we have secondary petals. Let's say we have small kind of tertiary petal. We have a very slight kind of bud underneath. Okay, so this is pattern, which we have creates a kind of design. In this case, if you see if you remove the backdrop, you won't know it's a part of a scallop pattern, right? But, for example, if you duplicate it multiple times and, you know, arrange it in a particular way, how scallops are usually arranged, okay? For example, yeah. Right? If you look at this, if you combine multiple pieces of this, then only look like a scallop patterns. But if you just remove the entire thing and just see one single tile, it won't resemble like a scallop pattern, without the template. But if you see the closed pattern, okay, immediately, it kind of resembles a scallop pattern. That's the overall idea between a closed pattern and open scallop pat. Okay? So in this case, we'll start off with brainstorming session now. So we have seen about the difference between the open and the closed pattern, and there are in terms of the position of the scallop pattern, there are two major components, okay? The first one is the internal component. What you're designing here in this area which we have sketched. Okay? And the second area is external component, this particular area. Right? The main idea the main reason why we are dividing such is because, uh, it'll determine if it's a closed or open scallop pattern. That's the overall idea. Okay? So we'll start off with designing. Um, in this case, we'll have a semi open and a semi closed where instead of a line, we'll have a series of mini vertical lines. So in a way it gives a border visually. But if you see in reality, it's actually an open border, right? Perfect. So we'll start off at sketching, um, and one more thing, you can switch on the drawing assist. Now how do you do this? Go to the uh, actige menu and then go to Canvas. There's something called drawing guide. Okay? The third in the list, switch it on and then edit the drawing guide. For the last option, there's something called symmetry, right? Go to symmetry options, sure there is vertical symmetry on. Okay? And once you're okay with it, you can increase or decrease the thickness of the guide. You always keep it to around 60-70. That's good enough. And opacity also you can increase or reduce it. Again, even that I keep it around around 60 to 70, so that's good enough. In terms of the drawing guide, also, you can change the color of it. Okay. Sometimes if you're drawing it in a kind of black canvas or a black template, it's better to go with the lighter colors. In this case, since we have the white, uh, canvas and the gray colored template, we'll go with a black colored, grid line. Okay? Once everything is set, you can tap the tick mark on the top right hand corner. Now, what is the difference is, if you draw one section, automatically, the other section will be replicated. So you have to do only half the job, right? Perfect. So now we'll start off with sketching out our brainstorm pattern. So as we've discussed before, the outer exterior design, we'll have vertical lines like this. Then we can add on one. Actually, this looks good, right? This looks good. So what we could do is, uh, we can start off with a line. So in this case, there'll be a small block, which will be solid, okay? And then we can reduce the visual strength and then again, create a block. All right, so this looks good. Now we can create one more arch and might be a central small flower, not necessarily big. Yeah, this is good enough. It's not very big, though. Here, we can have a semicircular kind of concert ric, which goes down the line. Yeah. And here, Okay, so this particular arch, we can do it in a kind of alternative fashion. So on the top, there is darker patch, right. So here we'll have this patch as darker one, and the rest will have the vertical lines continuing, right? And we can have this entire circular pattern, like a beads or a beadwork continuing throughout the pattern. You can vary the thickness of it while we're doing the kind of the final sketch. But now this is good enough. I think we have to change this particular aspect. Again, this is a brainstorming session, so I would want you also to try out different aspects of this whole design. There is no one right thing for patterns. Okay, it depends on what are things you're taking inspiration from, right? So our outer exterior design is good enough. The internal part is good enough. We are working on the transitionary aspect of our own design. Can create one arch, can create one more arch. You can have dark circles like this instead of a hollow ones. Yeah, so this is good enough. If we want to also, we can have some flares here. We can work that out on the uh when we want to increase the textures and all those things, then we can enhance the overall design. But this is actually a basic first sketch which we have for our scallop pattern. Now, it's always better to test it if it works in a seamless fashion when you are brainstorming it itself. So for that, what you have to do is you go to the corners of this particular template, especially here, make a small mark. Okay. M right? So you can either do this. And this is the best option to do also because it'll be almost hidden and it won't be visible. So if you tap the move icon, the entire canvas should be selected, you can see that. But if it's not happening here if you see on the top, is a small block, so you need to draw something there, very small mark, which is hardly visible. That'll be good enough. Right? Perfect. So now what we do is we will kind of, like, hide the background template. We'll duplicate the sketch, ensure the main sketch is being renamed to original Sketch. Then we'll hide it or unsee it. Then we'll duplicate the ones which we already have copied. Again, how you have seen in a particular thing. Okay, so before that, we need to only duplicate it once, then hide the one which is in the bottom. The top one, what do you do with that is? You select that particular layer. Remember when we are doing the custom actions when we were doing this, go for save and load, selection one. When you do this, you will see automatically that the top left hand corner square is being faded out, and the other three squares are being graded out, which means that we are working now on the top left hand square. So once it is selected, go to the M option and then flip it horizontally once and then flip it vertically once. Right? Once you're done, you can tap the move icon and come out of the tool. I will continue the same with the other three selections also, go to the layers, select, save and load, selection two, now flip it vertically and horizontally. Same again, select, save and load, selection three. Move it first horizontally and then vertically. Again, for the last selection, save and load selection four, flip it horizontally first, and then vertically. Once this is done, flip the entire thing vertically once. This is our second layer of our pattern tile. So when you unhide the one which is already there, you will see this is our pattern tile, which we have to see if it works well when we are doing it in a seamless pattern. Always, I would say, duplicate both the layers, keep them separate because if in case you want to change any color, you can do so. Okay. And if possible, select both, kind of select one pair and group them and rename it as trial sketch. Once after that is done, move it just about the original sketch and hide it again. Now, these two layers which we already have, combine them both, duplicate it, select them, and then the typical seamless thing which we do, would have to do that now. Select the second layer, move it towards the right. You will see that there is no seamless line in between. If this particular drawing guide is disturbing you, then you can unhide it. Then combine them both, duplicate it, bring it to the bottom. This is our seamless pattern now, okay? Again duplicate it. We're trying with a second layer so that we can see on a longer or kind of larger perspective how it looks. This whole aspect of creating a seamless layer, we have already seen it, so I'm just kind of brushing it through. Yes. So this is our seamless pattern or a basic sketch which we have done, and we're testing it for seamless patterns. Okay? Now, this is a single colored layer, right. We'll actually even try out doing with two colors in this stage itself because we have to see how it functions when we are increasing the number of colors which we use. So we'll rename it as style one or color one. And hide it first. Then we'll go to the trial sketch which we had. Select the one. You can select one of the other layers, Alpha locket pitches using both fingers, swipe it towards the right. Now, choose the color. Since we already have red in the center, we can have something with the green. So it becomes complimentary in nature. Select the color and then go to the layer again and tab fill. Okay, so our outer scallop pattern has been changed in terms of the color, right? Now combine both these things. To combine shortcut is just to pinch both these layers, right? Now duplicate it again, select both the layers. Reduce the size by half, select one layer, and move it to the right. Again, select both, duplicate Can you see a difference? So basically one line is red, the other line is green. Again, the other line is red, the other line is green. That's how we have created our seamless pattern now here. Duplicate it again, select both, reduce the size by half. Select one of those layers, move it to the right. Combine them both, duplicate it, and place them right underneath. Now we have two layers right now or two styles or two colors which we have created. Color two, right? So if you see we have created one which is fully red in nature or red in color, and the other one is red and green. Okay? In this case, yes, there are two horizontal strips of red and green, but we can also alternate it in multiple ways. But this is just to test it how the entire pattern works. Okay? So in the next lesson, we'll create a final sketch out of this brainstorm idea, and then we'll dig deep into adding on more colors. 5. Design Variations: Two Creative Scallop Styles to Explore: So as a bonus lesson after the brainstorming session, I'm going to give you a few ideas for our exterior and interior designs so that you can have a browse through the entire video now, and then you can even sketch out your own ideas, right? So this is a basic pattern or basic template. You can see I've already created multiple. These are for interiors. This is for an exterior, this completely organic shape, which we can use for scallop also. Again, these things are not kind of traditional scallop patterns, but we are trying to find you things and bring in other aspect into the scallop or fish patterns. It's actually internal design. This is like, people who love buildings, architecture, and history. They might even like this more. This is like an arch. So the number of things you can try out. It just needs to have this, um, shape, like an arch, not necessarily an exact semicircle. All right. So this was a small bonus video which I wanted to put in so that you can see that multiple designs can be done. It's not necessary that you need to follow the entire semicircle, if you kind of sketch it out and if you're able to arrange it in a particular way, which will be looking at into which will be looking at into the coming lessons, you'll be able to see that we are easily able to arrange things in a particular way, which resembles a scallop patterns. 6. Linework, Coloring & Applying the Seamless Template: Okay, so welcome to this lesson where we'll be kind of inking the sketch which we have done in the previous lesson. So we'll start off with this. I want you to open the template which we already have and this sketch which we have done in the previous lesson. Now, create a new layer on top of your sketch. If you need to, you can even reduce opacity of your original sketch. Now, ensure the drawing guide is on or the drawing assist is on in that layer where you're drawing the sketch, or you're trying to create a final sketch. Okay? You can choose a black color, um, for your brush. So if you're not able to find exact black, you can just double tap on any bottom left hand corner of the color wheel. So it naturally goes to the darkest shade of black there. Right? Once you've done this, you can just kind of test it out if the symmetry is working out. Ensure the brush is monoline. In this case, it's pencil, so we'll move back to calligraphy and monoline, reduce the size. Yes, it's working. Just for your reference, it's better if you switch on the drawing guide. So it's visible where the exact kind of symmetry line or mirror line is, okay. So we'll start off the center. Again, just for your reference, it's actually a sketching, but we need not completely copy what we have done in the brainstorming session, okay? We can slightly change based on how your ideas kind of improvise eventually. We can actually darken this particular outline a bit more. You see that I don't use a bigger sized brush because it becomes monotonous. So in this shape, if you see the bottom half is thicker and the top part is thinner. And if I use a brush which is of a thicker size, I won't be able to get that variation. We'll start with the petals now. This looks good. Yeah, this looks good. Again, we can increase certain aspects. So in this case, I'm going to increase the thickness of the petals top part like this, this and this so that we can see a variation in the design itself. You can fill this whole thing. Yeah, good. I can see that there's a bit of line weight difference, which gives more interest to the design. It's also good enough. Perfect. Now, we can continue the same thing with other aspects also. We can complete the semicircular aspects here first. Now we'll go with the semicircular arch. Okay. I don't want to increase the thickness of this particular arch because I don't want it to be a focus point. I want the flow to be a focus point and the outer exterior design. So this particular arch in the center is just a transitionary area, right? So I can increase the dots so that we can just tap and get dot here. Instead of redrawing the entire thing. We'll reduce the size now. We'll actually start off with these petals or in a way, pebbles. Again, one advantage we will have as a new B or in a way, doing it with a pen is we'll have the slight imperfections. So if you see here, you know, this particular aspect, yes, we can use the eraser and erase it off. But it's good because what will happen is if you're doing it in software which is extremely vectorized and every single imperfection of yours is being corrected automatically. I look too perfect, right? So in this case, we won't have that problem. So it's good if you are doing slight mistakes in terms of your pen strokes, that's totally fine. If the line weights are not consistent, that's fine. Don't try to overcomplicate your design because when we create a seamless pattern out of it, one thing which shines is the rhythm, not necessarily the line weights of a single individual element. How the entire design flows with its counterpart is what is more important than that slight line weight difference which you identify when you zoom in at least 100 X, right? We complete out blocks like this. Yeah, perfect. So I'll increase the brush size to do these vertical lines. Compared to brainstorming session, I'm doing it a bit thicker because in a way, I want to lean this whole design towards more of a closed scallop pattern rather than open scallop patterns. So the boundaries are bit set and clear, right? So once this is done, as I mentioned, if you want to test the seamless nature of it, you need to create or, uh, kind of bring it in into the customs action template. So for that, we need to mark the four corners. Slight mark is good enough. Yes. So there is actually an alternative to do this thing. What you could do is you can create a new layer, fill it up with a plain color, and group both these things and then implement the custom actions template. That also can be done, but that's an extra work which is not much of a difference, right? So that's why we are taking a shortcut like this by creating a small mark on four corners. Because that'll be highly invisible or negligible. Even if you're printing out on a larger scale, it'll be kind of mostly negligible because this is just a small pattern tile, which will be repeated throughout, right? So once we have this, we can hide the sketch which is behind or even we can even hide, um, the structure which we have of a scallop pattern. Now, duplicate this, rename the bottom layer as central. And rename the top layer as exterior. Now duplicate the exterior layer, hide the central layer. And hide the exterior layer one also. The reason is because we are having a copy of everything so that whatever we are working on, eventually we can bring them into the main copy. Now for the exterior layer which we have, in a similar fashion, how we have done for the brainstorming session, same like that, select the layer. Save and load, selection one, flip it horizontally and vertically. Right? We'll do the same thing for the others also. Save and load, selection two, flip it horizontally and vertically. Save and load, selection three, horizontal and vertical. And finally, for the bottom left hand square, selection four. Flipping it horizontally and vertically. Then flip the entire thing vertically once. Okay? This is the exterior tile. When we actually switch on the central tile, you will see the entire pattern which comes up out for us, right? We can duplicate it once again. We can duplicate the exterior also once again. Then combine one copy of both and keep it on the top, and then hide our copies, which we can keep it for the reserve, right? Now, we will test the final copy. We'll rename it as final copy. The final tile. Okay, we'll rename it. We can duplicate it, select both and test for seamless nature now, reduce it by half, and show it snaps on the place, select the other layer, move it to the right, combine both, duplicate the entire thing, and bring it to the bottom. We'll do it once again to see the overall picture. Duplicate it. Move it to the bottom. Now if you want, you can hide the drawing guide so that it's clearly visible. So this is our final pattern, the final sketch which we have after a brainstorming session. And if in case we need also, we can add more colors to this. Okay? We can add more colors, different colors to it, which we'll be looking at which you'll be looking at in the coming session or coming lesson. Okay? So once we have this kind of tested, you can zoom in and see if there is any issue in terms of the um, you know, how the pattern has been going in terms of the seamless nature of it. Once everything looks good for you then you can save the final tile, as your pattern tile which you have right now. Okay. So whatever we are playing eventually in terms of colors, in terms of position, in terms of size, everything we'll be working on the final pattern tile from this lesson. 7. Scaling Up: Creating Larger Pattern Layouts & Variations: To so in this lesson, since we already have built our pattern tile, we will try to repurpose it and create templates around it. Okay? So in this class, in this lesson specifically, we'll create templates to repurpose the main pattern tile which we already have designed. Okay, the final pattern tile which you can see on the screen. Okay? So how do we do this mainly with two things. One is by changing the size of the canvas, okay? So the entire shape of the tile changes and the pattern also visually changes. And the second aspect is bringing in multiplabilty, okay, in terms of the color styles. Okay? So both will look into it step by step. So this is the pattern tile which we already have right now. Yes. So I wanted to remove all the layers which you have apart from this one. Okay? Now, reduce the size by half for safety. Go to the Actions menu. There's something called crop and resize under Canvas, right? Go to that, tap it, then go to settings, then change the settings too. You'll be reducing one dimension by one third or one fourth in a way. Okay? So thousand by 750. Right? So canvas becomes almost like, uh, let's say, kind of stretched canvas. Okay. So with this particular pattern tile which we have, we will change the dimension, go to free form, and then snap it to the canvas which we have right now. Okay, so ensure it's covered in all the directions. It goes point to point. Once this is done, this is the second type. The first one is the square canvas which we have done, right, where the entire thing which were copied in seamless fashion and saw how the pattern would be. This is the second style. So duplicate it. Combine both, and now go to uniform, reduce the size by half. Then we have to kind of like we are kind of testing out the seamless nature of this, right? Again, duplicate it, bring it down. Duplicate it. Right? So if you see the pattern difference, how different the pattern is, there's a slight difference, right, in terms of the height of the pattern. Okay? If you want more, you can even reduce it by let's say 600. So it'll be like 1,000 pixels by 600 pixels in terms of the canvas size. Okay? Now we have seen a square canvas. Now we have seen thousand by s 50 canvas. Now we look at the vertical canvas. We'll duplicate. We will see just for you to show me this. Can you see a difference of both these things? The first one is being squished vertically. The second one is the original pattern. Okay, we'll duplicate this once again. We'll create a vertical pattern out of this. How do we do this? Remove all the layers except your main tile. Okay, once that is done, reduce the size by half. Now go to actions, go to crop and resize. Now you are changing the vertical dimensions, right? So you reduce the vertical by 600. 600 is very small, so we'll change it to 750. Okay, now resize that pattern tile which we have for this particular canvas. Ensure it's in free form mode. Okay, so this is a final pattern tile which we have right now. Okay? Once we have the pattern tile right now, either you can go to the square canvas once again, o or you can try the seamless nature in this itself. We'll try to do it in this itself, duplicate both. Select both, sorry, uniform, reduce the size by half, select one, move it to the right, merge both, duplicate them, and move them to the bottom. S, can you see a difference? This entire pattern seems like in terms of it's actually taller compared to other patterns which we have done, just because we have changed the canvas or the size or the pattern tile. Can you see the difference? So within a moment of time, we had one pattern tile, okay? So we have created one with the square canvas, and we have created a square canvas or square pattern tile. Then we have reduced the height of it and then created a horizontal nature, which you see in the first file. And then we have reduced the kind of vertical height, and then we had done something for the second pattern, right? So these are the three tiles which we can do to repurpose a pattern tile in terms of the size and the canvas size. Okay? Now, what we'll be doing is we'll alter the colors. That's very important. So we'll go for the oganal file This is a final sketch. We'll remove the drawing sketch if in case we have, we'll keep the central original, which is very, very important. Now, what is the idea behind what we'll be doing for the colors? For example, we'll create a template out of it first and show the drawing guide is on. Yes. So now, duplicate this layer. Select both, reduce the size by half, select one, move it to the side. Again, duplicate it. Combine these both, duplicate it and bring it to the bottom. Now you will see this whole pattern is also seamless. You can copy these four and take it somewhere else. Okay? Understood. So what we'll be doing with this is imagine we have four different or five different designs of scallop patterns. Okay, so we'll be pasting one here. This is second design. One here, second design here, third, fourth, fifth. All right. And remember that we talked in the first lesson itself, how a seamless pattern functions. So the one which is on the left hand side should continue on the right hand side. So let's say we have, um, let's say design six here. So six will be here also. Okay, we have design seven. If it's in the corner, then it'll continue in all the corners. You have to remember that. So it's seven here, seven here and seven here. And if it's in the top, then it'll be in the bottom also. So let's say you have eight unique designs of scallop patterns, you can combine them into this one particular template. And when you make this particular tile seamless, you will see actually a tile which has variety in its own self compared to one single scallop pattern. Okay? So now we will do three variations of this, okay, using two colors and then four colors, and then more than that. Okay? So first, we'll go to the original tile, we'll duplicate. Okay. And we'll change the color. Like for that first, make sure it's kind of like the whole alpha lock is on. It's in the two fingers, wipe it towards the right. Then you can change the color. In this case, I'll go for green. Now, remember what I mentioned you that this half and this half are same, right? So if you color it here like this, All right. And if you don't color the top part, then what will happen is when you make it seamless, the bottom half will remain black. So you have to do that also. Okay, so this is one of the pattern tile. You know what happens if you duplicate this, right? So this one layer will be black, and the other layer will be cream. We'll try it out. We don't have to assume anything here. We'll try it out once again. Half, move it to the right, combine them both, duplicate it again, move it to the bottom. Right? Can you see this? So one line is black, other line is green, and it keeps on continuing in a similar fashion. Okay? Now, this is one particular style which I mentioned. And second one, let's assume we are creating that tile which we have. Okay. And we are creating multiple colors out of it. We're duplicating it. And then we'll alpha lock it and fill this with complete green. Next one, we'll fill this with complete, let's say, yellow, a darker shade of yellow in a And the third one, we will fill it up with pink. I'm choosing a random colors only for you to understand that we can create multiple variations of a single piece. If you have one pattern tile ready, then you can always repurpose it using the size of it, using the position of it, and using the colors of it, right? Again, duplicate the layer. Now here we'll have something in a bluish shade. Fill it up, right? So we have four colors ready right now, can remove the alpha log for everything, and we will try to arrange it in that particular template which we have in the bottom, right? So we'll reduce the size of all the um patterns by half. Now that is done. We'll try to arrange it now. Green color will be there where it is. Yellow will bring it to the side here. Pink will try to bring it to the bottom and green will duplicate it. We'll do eight colors, actually. We'll try out eight colors. That'll be a good trial, right? So again, we'll alpha lock it. We'll create light blue color for that. Fill layer. Now that's light blue. We'll bring it here in the center. That's good. What is remaining now? Dark blue is remaining. We'll bring it here. Perfect. Now we have five different colors of scallops. Now we need three more. Okay. Wear three more. One here in the sides, one in the top and bottom, and one for the corners. Okay? For the corns, we'll go with black. Okay? Do we have it right now, the black color main pal? Yeah. So we'll duplicate the blue, that's totally fine. We'll alpha lock it. We'll fill it up with black color. Remember for you to position that particular black colour scallop in four corners, you need four copies of it. So we'll duplicate it and create four copies. I'll select one. We'll move it to the bottom here. That's good. We'll select one more. No, we were planning for the corners, right? Okay, so we'll take it to the corner. Yes, one corner is done. This one we'll take it to this next corner. Perfect. The other corner is done. The top two corners are remaining. We'll complete that. Perfect. And the last corner, which is a top left hand corner, Perfect. Now we have two more designs required to combine the black completely. And then we'll duplicate the blue Alpha locket, which color is remaining right now in terms of the major shades. We can have um, maybe red, red is in there, so we'll have red there, fill it up, now move it and show you duplicate it because you need two copies, one for the top and one for the bottom. One for the bottom, and the other for the top. Perfect. That is done. And then for both the sides you need, right? So again, we'll duplicate it. We'll duplicate the blue, Alpha locket. What is the color which we can choose? I do something like gray, right? No, but the problem is the entire thing will look like almost like black and gray, right? So we'll choose something like pink has been chosen already. Red is there, green, there are two shades. Orange isn't there. We'll go for orange. Perfect. Go for orange, fill it up. Again, since we need it for the sides, again, create two copies. Then move it to the right. Then we'll do the same for the other side also. Perfect. Okay? The orange is not very vibrant, so we'll change the shade of it. We'll make it more brighter. Yeah, this would be good. Perfect. So we will hide the template which we had right at the bottom. Okay, we'll combine all the layers of this particular scallop style. All right. So we have nothing in the screen except the types of scallops which we have created just by changing the color. Have you seen the magic here. We changed the size of the scallop, kind of the whole pattern tile, and we created multiple designs. Here we are changing the color, and just we are doing the basic colors. Let's imagine you add you kind of add more integrities to the central scallop, which is here. Or you can add, let's say, different opacity styles to different scallops in this particular tile, and then you combine them in multiple ways, right? So first, we have to test this particular tile which we have created. So always, as I tell you, duplicate the main layer. Don't work on the main layer, okay? So duplicate it and hide it. And then when you're working, use those layers to test the seamless nature. Beautiful, right? It feels like our entire palette is filled with colors. So beautiful, right? And it doesn't feel like there's some kind of repetition. It feels like it's been done organically. Again, we'll test it once again, duplicate it, reduce it by half. Select one layer, move it to the side, combine the both, duplicate it, and move it to the bottom. Perfect. This is this entire template. So you can see that o there's a kind of continuation. You can't see any line where the pattern has been cut, right? So this is our entire final. It's a bonus pattern which we have created. Okay? So the entire thing doesn't follow a certain template, but somehow it feels rhythmic just because we have created similar color styles of a same design. Okay. And if you want to add in more, uh, let's say, visual intrigue to it, can add some background color. Okay? You see that here, it's just a white background, right? But let's assume you have, let's say, a sandal color background, okay? And, yeah. Or if you add some kind of shade, Okay, going from one uh kind of side of a canvas to another, like a gradient. That'll be far more beautiful. Okay? If you add gauge and blur to it. Wow. Can you see this? If you just remove the background, it looks very bland, simple pattern. But if you switch on the background, it feels like there's a depth to the particular pattern, right? And this is just a background color. If you add in shadows or highlights in certain aspects of your design, then the pattern itself will enhance the overall picture of what you're trying to create. Perfect. So we have come to almost end of the class where you have learned how to first of all, how to create a pattern template and then brainstorm the idea and then kind of line the idea and create more colors out of it. Then in this lesson, we have created multiple templates, to be precise, exactly six by changing the size of the entire canvas or by changing the color of the individual paletteye. Okay. Now we have two more bonus lessons which we have for you. One is how to recreate multiple design styles using the palette unit tile. Okay? That will be looking in the first bonus. And in the second bonus, we'll be looking into how to create a pattern brush out of it. So that if in case you want to create this as a pattern brush which is completely seamless, you need not do it every single time. You can have a brush which has been created, and the entire background is done for you. I'll see you in the next lesson, which is bonus fill. 8. Advanced Bonus: Pattern Variations & Creating a Seamless Brush in Procreate: Okay, so welcome to the first bonus lesson of this class. So in this lesson, what we'll be doing is we'll be using the pattern tile which we have, which you can see on the screen and try to repurpose it just by positioning it in a different way. Okay? What I mean by saying that is, let's say you have a pattern tile right now. Okay, instead of placing just seamlessly in a similar fashion next to each other, you'll be placing one on top of each other, okay? Or you'll be placing in a circular pattern and create an interest around it. Okay, that's the overall idea. So we'll kind of look at it first. Okay? So first, template which you have. Again, as I mentioned, always in the previous lesson delete all the other let's say the original scratch or the basic template pattern which you had, everything. Just keep the main tile which you see on the screen. The main unit, I say, main unit, it is the one which is the base of everything which we are doing. These two needs to be having. Now, using the unit which you have, duplicate it first or duplicate multiple times and then reduce the size by half or even smaller if you want to. Yeah, here, the size is not the aspect. It's about the thought process of how you are positioning each pattern unit. Okay. Now select one, clip it vertically and move it down. You can see these two points merge in one point, right? That's actually a validation for you. If you need so also, if you don't want that much gap in between, you can reduce the size by moving it on top. Right? Once you have this, combine both these things, duplicate it. Move it to one corner. Ensure it's in the center. If it's snaps, it's good. Yeah. This is in the center now. We'll move it. We'll move actually one layer which you have duplicated to the side. Ensure it snaps, it's very important. Gain duplicate it. Move it to the side. An duplicate it, move it to the side. If it doesn't fit, that's fine. As of now, what you could do is you can delete it off, actually. You can delete it off. You can just have three. Okay, and try to resize it for the entire canvas. That's good enough, right? Sure again, it's in the center. So this is your seamless strip, which we call it us. Okay? When I say seamless strip, what does it mean? Let's say we duplicate it. And in this case, if we duplicate it, we'll be duplicating it and create only or kind of multiply it only in one direction like this. So you get a strip of a design. Okay? Not necessarily seamless in every single direction, but a strip of a design, okay? And we can actually add on certain things to it. What it does is, let's say you have a design right now like this, okay? Move it to the center. Now this is one strip design which we have. Now, how do we multiply multiple designs out of this? Again, duplicate the main unit which you had. Okay? Or you can just take the unit. Uh you just want one unit out of all these things, okay? So arrase everything. Just keep one unit. Sorry, I didn't switch off the drawing assist. Okay. Once that is done, move this new kind of unit which you had here. If you want, you can switch off the snapping. Okay. Duplicate it. Move it to the next panel like this, similar way. Right? You continue like this. If you don't want the last one, you can just erase it off. Okay, once you have two layers like this, combine these four, duplicate it once again and place it on top of this duplicate it once again, move it on top like this and erase the last one. Do you see we are just building up on one single design. That's it. We have one single base design, and we're just building it on top of it. Okay. And if you want, you can copy the same thing from the top and kind of bring it to the bottom also if it's required. If it's not, you find this design is good enough, you can just go with this, right? So this is the final design which we have. And, um, actually, you can even fill this up with some other design which you have, okay? Or you can bring in multiple colors to it. So this is one style of just positioning it in a different way. Okay? This is actually a strip style design. Now, what we will do we combine all these things to save it off. It looks beautiful, right? That's good. Now we will again duplicate the original one, reduce the size. Now we will arrange it in a circular way, okay? So we'll duplicate this. Flip it vertically, bring it to the down. Okay, once that is done, have a copy always, duplicate it. Flip it by 45 degree. This is almost like a mandala, but you have not designed a mandala. You have just designed one single panel unit. And you can see position kind of actually just the positioning it in different ways. You're creating a seamless strip and you're creating even a circular mandala, right? So this is like a mandala design which you usually see online, and we can do it Procreate, but just because we have already designed one panel really well or one pattern tile really well can multiply it like this. Right? This is actually in the circular fashion. I can combine it and save it for later. Now, in terms of the brush, there's actually a second bonus, which we combined in the same bonus lesson. The second bonus is we are creating a seamless brush so that if in case you want to create a seamless pattern in future, the brush is already ready, so you don't have to import the image and create a seamless accordingly. You can just brush it out. How do you do this right now? First, ensure all the other layers are switched off. Go to the main central layer, which has both the first phase and the second phase of the panel. This is your complete panel, right? You need to have this. Now, Alpha locket, which is by two fingers, wipe it to the right and then select it. Okay. And then something called copy all. Okay? By three fingers, if you swipe down, you'll get that option, copy all. Once this is copied and is it in a dashboard. Now, go to the brush icon. Now, you can go to any regular brushes which you already have. I would always recommend go to the regular brush instead of starting something from the new because you might not know the many intricacies of the brushes, right? So to start off with, it's better. You take up something which is already existing. So go to the monorail brush, duplicated by swiping from right to left. Once you have it, tap that monoline two, which is your own trial brush. Okay? Now, go to the green, which is the fifth option, tap the green source, tap import. There's something called paste, paste it here. The entire thing is dark Okay, there's a small mistake from my side then. 1 second. Okay. So remove the Alpha lock. Now copy and paste it. Okay? Copy all. Now go for the monorail. Import, paste. Yes. So now we have this, right. If you use double tap and press it here, it'll be inverted. Okay? This is actually two types of brushes. One is, let's say, in a way, positive brush, and the other one is negative brush. We'll look into both of these things. Remember this aspect of double tapping when we're importing the green. Okay? In this case, we double tap, and the one which we have already drawn is in the black color. Okay? Now press tick mark. And then in terms of scale, you can work it out. So if you Yeah, if you go to Apple Pencil, go to Apple Pencil and reduce opacity to zero, ensure it is there and go to properties, and you can change the maximum size of it. Even the green, you can change the scale of it. All right? So right? So if you draw it like this, you will see the pattern coming up. Right? Now, if you go to green again, double tap it, then again, check mark. Now if you draw, you will see the actual pattern which we have, which is important for us, right? Ensure it's kind of texturized, not moving. That's very important. Again, as I mentioned, you can increase the scale or decrease the scale. Always recommend something 20-30, which is good enough. Properties, just to check everything is there, everything is right. Now, if you go to about the brush, you can change the name of the brush. Okay? So you can change the name. If in case you create your own, then you can even write your own name and kind of make a signature out there, right? Once that is done, let's check mark. Now go to a new layer, go for black in terms of brush and test it out. I see. So within a fraction of time, we have a complete seamless pattern just by a brush. Okay, because we have stored or we have actually feeded the green or the pattern tile which we have as a brush green, right? And you can do it from multiple colors if let's say you choose a maroon color, then you can just draw it out like this. You can reduce the brush size also. And if in case you feel that the whole grain scale is huge, then again, go to the brush, go to the monoline two, and go to the grain which you already had and reduce the scale of it. Okay? So you will see a change now. We'll create a new layer, and if you draw it out here, if you compare it with the previous one, Can you see a difference? It's actually a huge grain which we had previously, and now we have a smaller grain. So it's totally up to you. It's actually a trial and error aspect where you try out different sizes of the grains and see which works well for your design. But if in case you want to change, also, I've shown how to change it in the brush setting, so it's easy to do within a fraction of moment. 9. Class Project: So we have come to the end of this class where you have learned so many things. We'll first recap everything we have learned and we'll go into the class project section. Firstly, we have learned how a seamless pattern functions and how to create a custom actions template, and how to create a basic framework to create a scallop pattern. The following that, we created we actually went through the brainstorming session where we sketched out, uh, the entire scallop pattern. We have talked about open and closed scallop patterns also. And then we have implemented the template which we have created ourselves into the brainstorming sketch for the scallop pattern. And after that, we finalized our pattern, we inked it, and we created multiple templates, three templates with different sizes, one is square, horizontal and vertical, and then three different templates for different colors. Okay, two colors where one entire row is one color, the other row is other color and having eight colors in one single pattern. And then finally, as a bonus, we have learned two things. First is how to use kind of positioning to create multiple designs, like a strip seamless pattern or, let's say, pattern mandala. And then as a second bonus, we even learned how to create a seamless brush in procreate using the pattern tile design which we already design. So I hope you understand every single aspect and went through the entire lesson step by step. As part of class project, we'll be going through the same thing which we've already done. Okay? As you can see on the screen, we'll first brainstorm what we have learned on. You create your own design, not necessarily the one which we've already done. And then, second, you finalize the sketch and ink it in the black and white and create a pattern tile out of. And then the third, which is on the top right hand corner on the screen, you create a seamless pattern with that particular pattern tile. And then finally, which you should be posting in the kind of project section, is you create multiple colored kind of pattern tile like this so that it can be implemented and there's variety in the patterns. I hope you enjoyed the entire class, and I'll really appreciate you posting your final patterns in the downloadable or the project section. I'll be very happy to give my feedback or comments on that particular design and even your colleagues. And I'll meet you in the next class where we'll be talking about different kinds of surface patterns, specifically Chevron patterns.