Simple & Perfect Half-Drop Patterns: in Procreate

1. Intro : You struggle with creating repeat patterns. Maybe you've heard the terms full drop or half drop repeat patterns, but you don't know exactly what that means. In today's lesson. We're gonna go over all of that and more. I've included some great resources for you to use and download for this class today. I've also made it really simple. You don't have to draw anything. That's right. I really want you to master the technique using the snapping and magnetics tool to flip your canvas. So I've created a beautiful line of botanical line stamps for you to use today. Believe me, it's so easy, you'll be making patterns from the comfort of your sofa. Just like me, over and over and over Number. Here's what we'll go over in class today. You'll learn the difference between half-drop and full drop repeat patterns. Create a half-drop repeat pattern Canvas. Complete your design and flip it using snapping and magnetics to check your pattern. And learn about a few print on-demand sites in case you choose to start purchasing or selling your designs. So get your iPad and your Apple pencil ready. And we'll get started. I'm Katie from perch handmade. 2. What are Half-Drop Patterns?: Half drop repeat patterns. What are they? Maybe you've heard the term, but you're not quite sure what that means. There are two main types of repeat patterns. First, you have a straight repeat pattern. Repeats vertical and horizontal lines. Sometimes you'll hear this called a full drop repeat pattern. Next you'll have your half-drop. That's what we're learning about today. Half-drop works equally on the vertical. Then on the horizontal. It goes over and down along the diagonal. Let me show you real quick. Can you see in this one, I know it's a lot of flowers, but if you match them, it makes a square. These patterns are moving in a square around the page. Now let's look at a more complicated picture or pattern. If you see this flower, it also moves down the page equally, but it staggers itself over and down on the vertical line. This is a half drop repeat pattern. Take a few minutes to look at the following slides and ask yourself, these three. Can I see how it repeats? Is it full or half? Repeat. Is the pattern visible or is it harder to see and more camouflaged? Let me show you how we can use just one stamp to make a half drop repeat pattern. I'm going to use one of the botanical stamps from the collection of stamps that I've gifted to you in this class. And show you how. Let's go for the cosmo and just need one big one here, right? So here it is. And I've already set this up a little bit. So let me show you what we can do here. Here's our stamp that we just placed. And if I go in here, I've already moved it for you. Um, because I don't want to show you the whole technique right now. But if we reveal underneath, I've flipped it, so it's moving down the page. Now this doesn't look much like a repeat pattern yet. But if we go into the next one, I can show you after careful maneuvers, how it repeats on the page. We go the first one and then we go down and over and on the vertical, see, it's even on the horizontal line, It's staggered. I've included my Pinterest board that has so many beautiful repeat patterns for you to peruse. Fun. Checking them out and looking them over. See if you can see repeats happening. And see if you can tell if it's a half-drop or a full drop repeat pattern. In the next lesson, I'll go over how to download the resources that I've organized just for you for this lesson. So meet me over there. Okay. 3. Free Resources : Since this is a beginner course on half drop repeat patterns, I've decided to make it really easy on you and added, made a line of botanical stamps for you to use. I've also created a beautiful color palette directly from the plants that I use to make these stamps. You'll also get the Canvas guides to get you started. I really want you to understand the process of turning your pattern into a repeat and using the save and load techniques rather than trying to get a design down on the page. It's not to say that these stamps aren't beautiful because they are. But I just want them to be super easy for you to make and get started with. To get the downloads, click on the project resources, link on your page, and make sure to save these files, uh, to your hard drive so that they're there for safekeeping. When you're ready, open them up on your iPad and they should pop right into your procreate app. If you're having trouble with some of the JPEG files, saved them into your file or into your photos before sending them off to Procreate. I've created the stamps so that you can use the color palettes that I've provided. Or you can leave them as a solid color of your choice. If you do decide to color them in, my favorite is using the reference tool and dragging and dropping the color. So set the reference on your, on your pattern and then go to into the Pattern layer below. You can drag and drop into the section. If it bleeds over, then bring your threshold down and it will fill in. If you notice that you have any other places that need to be maybe erased or fill it in a little bit. You can do that really easily. It's such an easy way to create these patterns. In the next lesson, we'll learn how to set up this canvas and prepare you to start creating your half drop repeat patterns. 4. Canvas Set-Up: Now that you're beginning to understand the fundamentals of what makes a pattern either a full drop or half drop repeat pattern. You've downloaded your free resources, you're ready to start tackling and your canvas. I've included the guide for you to download directly into your procreate app. But I believe it's really important that you understand how the Canvas is set up so that you can create it on your own later on, Let's begin by creating a new canvas, 3,000 by 3,000 pixels. And the DPI is set at 301st. We're going to set up the pattern group. You'll need a minimum of three layers. The bottom layer will be your background layer. Then you'll need a couple of layers above that called your pattern. I'm just going to duplicate that. Let's slide this to the right. So they're all blue and then hit Group, and we'll rename this group. A group. It can have as many layers as you want. But this is a great starting point to begin with. If you need to always duplicate an empty layer and keep going, sometimes you'll find that you accidentally forgot to duplicate an empty layer. So say this one is drawn on. You can always just duplicate it and then clear. Next we'll add two more layers, which will be our guides, group those and rename them guides. I'm also going to rename this one, guide, one. And guide to close that group and add one more layer above it. This next layer will fill with one color. It doesn't matter which one because we won't be using it later on. But it's being used to help build out your first guide set. We also want to make sure the guides and the pattern group layers are closed. Because when we're snapping these into place, it works better with closed layers below them. Using the Move tool, Let's make sure our snapping and magnetics are turned on and your distance and velocity are all the way turned up. We're going to begin by dragging from the bottom corner up to this center. Now we're going to click on this layers button and using two fingers will hold down this layer. That brings up your selection tool. And now we have to make sure it's set to freehand and color fill or anything else is turned off. But that's set there, will hit save and load. It will make a selection one. Now we'll turn off, will refill the screen, hit our move tool again. And from the opposite top corner, we're going to slide down. And we'll have the bottom corner filled. We'll go back to our layers, select it with the two finger touch, and hit selection. Again for selection to. The next part, we're going to take our tool and we're gonna fill just half the page so we don't have to hit any of the loose box, but we just take it and slide it over to the right to fill up that side of the page is the first two are on this side, left side, right. And then we hit the layers tool. We select it with the two fingers touch and add our selection three. This is what we're going to get for our guides for the first one. The next thing you wanna do is pull those guides over from the Canvas that should have just downloaded already into your procreate app. The perch half-drop, repeat master copy. What you can do is just take those open, open that up, take guide one, and just hold onto guide one. If it's locked, you might have to unlock. And you just take it and hold it till it hovers and you can start to move it without letting go. Hit Gallery with your other finger. Continued to not let it go and drop. It. Decided to do its own thing, but I dropped it in as guide one. And I'm going to do that again with Guide to, let's see if we can do this a little more clearly, right? So take guide to hover, hit Gallery. It's your artwork that you're working on and drop it in. So seamlessly that time, but it worked out. Alright. So I don't have my guides and then I don't know if you noticed, but I also have in case you're left-handed or right-handed, we can drag those in as well because later on you will see from where you can drop them. And it's nice to have it based on if you're right or left-handed. So I'm going to add those into my guides as well. You're just trying to get it to go to the bottom of the page or bottom of your group layer. You can just hover right on the group layer name and it'll drop it to the bottom. And not working as well today. But here we go. Now we've got it in, so we have all of our guides. I'm going to turn those off because I don't need those now, although let me show you Here's guide one, right? So we did the layers. I'll bring the opacity down. You can see that was save and load number three, we didn't save and load one. Save and load to save and load three. All right, I'm going to turn those off again to keep those clear. Not opacity backup, I'm going to drag and drop again. So now we're gonna go and work through setting up our second guide set. It doesn't look anything different, but we're going to just go to the other side of the page. So we're going to slide up from the bottom left corner up towards the center. And hit the layers. Move tool or sorry, the selection to touch and hit selection for tool. Top left corner. Bring to the center. We're going to slide this one over the left side of the page. So now you have all your selections. You got seven loads, 123456, and you have your guides setup. So you can see how they fill in the different areas. Now I'm going to just delete this layer because I don't need it anymore. Now, you have your guides and you see your selections are all set up. You're all set to go. So in a minute, we will get to using our saving mode and it will start flipping our artwork. And yep, You heard that right? We're going to be doing some flipping in in this class today. Get your jumping shoes on and get ready. Okay. Take a minute. I have a quick stretch. Have a cup of tea, whatever you've got that you want to take a break with. Because when we get back, we're going to hunker down and really start working on building out your pattern. Meet me back here and five-minutes. Okay. See you. 5. Create Your Design: Did you get that break? Did you get your cup of tea? Great. You've set up your canvases. So let's jump right into creating our repeat pattern. Alright. We're going to begin by duplicating our master copy. So slide it to the left, hit duplicate, and immediately go in to change the name. I always just do the three dots because later on you're going to want to change it, but you don't know what you're creating it, so you'll have a name for it later, right? So open that new one. Never work on the master copy. Although I did just show you how to create the canvas if you accidentally use your master copy. But it's easiest just to duplicate that master coffee and get going on a new canvas. Let's begin by turning off our guides. I'm going to open this one, the colored brush tracker. Because if you need to remember which colors do you use later on, you can drop them into the little dots. And that'll keep track later on so you know which brushes you used. It's a little bit easier with the stamps to know which ones you're using, but you can put in the size. And if you like a size that's bigger, you can type in what percentage that is at. I'm going to turn that off and let's open up our pattern group. First things first, you have to drop in a background color. That way later on when you're flipping, it uses the whole screen. I'm going to just start with a white background. So it doesn't look like I've done anything, but if I turn my background off, that layer is spilled and now we can start picking stamps to use. So open up your botanical stamps that should have been loaded right into your brush library. Sometimes with your colors, pallets when they get loaded in the load all the way to the bottom. So if you want that at the top, you can just hold onto it and get it to hover and with the other finger slide it up. But I've already done that on mine, so I don't need to do that. Now I'm ready to choose an outline color. I'm going to start with black and pick a stamp that I'm ready to put down onto the page. One thing I like to do is use a different stamp on each layer. I can use. I can use the same stamp in different sizes or however I want to do it on each layer. But that way later on, it's easy for me to understand where to find that. You also don't want it to go over the edge of the page. So do the two finger tap if you need to, to get back to center. And I made that really big, but that's okay because I can change that later. I can I'm going to change the size of that one. You can always size down without it changing the quality. But you can never size up. I'm going to put a few on the page. And I like to scatter them so they're in different sizes and different areas going in different directions. Another thing you can do is hit the selection tool on free hand and circle one of them and then flip it and rotate it. So it's got a different, it's not looking exactly the same. Open the new layer and choose a new pattern. I'm going to go with this ficus leaf. It's okay to go over different patterns because they're on different layers. You can always change that later, but it helps your pattern to kind of have freedom to it to just move around the page and I'm sorry, it has what does that even mean? The freedom to move around the page. Now what it does is it allows you to kind of overlap it and make it a little more camouflaged. Remember, if it goes over the edge, erase it with the two fingers to undo that action and move it over a little bit. When you're snapping tools on, you can get all the way to the edge and it'll, you'll see that yellow line pop in. Let's see if we can see it. Can kinda tell that it's yellow right here. And it also hasn't actually gone over the edge of the page. There's just a couple of pixels there, but it makes it nice if you want to move that or keep it really close. I'm going to move this one into the corner completely. Alright, now I'm gonna go to, remember, I'm going to have an empty pattern layer. I'm going to duplicate it and add. Let's try. Now. Let's just do one more 0. And I've added some fillers, which is really nice. If you just want to add a little extra to your page. And you need to fill in some of the space, but I don't think I'm quite there yet. I kinda like these branches as well. And these I might do in a color. Let's choose a color for that. Because it just adds a little more interests to your page. Sometimes these get a little crazy and, or the control, but that's all right. Go in, use the selection tool and go around and move it a little bit to where I want it to be a little bit better. Now I know we're not going to do this on a different layer, but it's all kinda the same aesthetics, right? Branches. It's got the same look that I'm going for. So to move this up and over here, I believe area that's feeling a little empty. I can change where things go on the page as well. And which layers. So say I want this on the bottom. I can do that. And then you can see the other designs above. I probably will move some of these around and it's all a matter of just kinda fiddling with things and making it work. While you're before you start flipping. You're gonna do that even more. And once you do start flipping. But it's good to see before you've gone over these edges before you've started flipping your pattern. Another thing I like to do, if I want to use some of these, again, I'll duplicate it and pull it out of my pattern group and then turn it off. And that way when I go to flip, it won't it won't be a part of the flip process. When you're happy with the beginning of the design and you think you're ready to move things beyond these edges. This is when we're going to do our first set of flipping. That's right. Get those jumping shoes on. But not really. Okay. We're going to begin by closing down your pattern group. And we're going to toggle on the first guide with your pattern group selected. It should be blue. If you hit the selection tool and if that doesn't work, just make sure guilt go to a like a not a group layer and make sure your it's set to free hand. And if you're using color fill or anything, that's, that's turned off. It just always have to be on freehand. And these buttons below have to be empty. They not colored. So you can kinda see here save and load one, save and load two, and then save and load three. So what we're gonna do is hit the heart. Go down to selection tool. Selection number one. And I don't know if you can see, but there are the lines across except for in the save and load. That's perfect. So then, then we'll hit our move tool and see they're both, they're selected. And the move tool is ready and you'll hit flip horizontal, flip vertical. And then you can hit your move tool again. And that deselects that area. Then we'll hit our selection tool again, save and load. Selection tool. And the Move tool, flip horizontal, flip vertical. And we'll do that one more time with selection three. We're going to turn the guide off and you can kinda see how things are over the edges, right? But you have a few pieces that are still inside the edges and that's perfect because those pieces that haven't moved beyond the edges, you can move around. So open up your pattern where it began. Find, let's start, let's start with this peony perhaps. And I'm going to turn these off so I could see it better. Hit that selection tool. And I'm going to turn them back on and see how it's it's still on that you'd still see it selected. That's great. So now I'm going to hit that move tool. I can change where I see this on the page. Perfect. We're gonna go to the branches and I'm gonna do the same thing. Let's see how this one is so close over here. I'm not loving it, so I'm gonna go around using the selection tool and freehand. I'm gonna move got into this kinda emptier space here. I'm going to flip it a little to rotate it. Just don't want it exactly as the other pieces are. I'm going to move this guy to. Sometimes if you need to, you can turn your snapping off and that way you're not snapping right back to the center because that could be a little annoying sometimes when you want it so close, but not exactly. They're just makes it harder to move. I do like to keep my snapping on though, especially for this process. You can also use this stamps that maybe we saved and move them around in the page to help fill. But actually, let's see. We're going to see they're lighter. It's okay. I can tell that those are the ones that I want to move around. So it's like this one I think I want to move somewhere. So make sure I'm on that layer. Use my selection to move it. Over here. They don't have to keep all of them. You can take some of them out completely. Which is kinda nice as well. Like that big one. And I can kind of see the big one in here. I don't want that one at all. So what I'm gonna do is just turn off those layers so I can really see it. Make sure I'm getting it just right. And rather than getting rid of it completely, I'm going to put it on a different layer just in case you never want to get rid of things completely until the very end. So do the three fingers swipe for me and then I'm gonna hit Cut and Paste, and that's put it onto a new layer. I'm going to turn that off. I'm going to turn this up. And I'm going to also bring it into my pattern layer. We can turn it all back on. There we have the beginnings of a fun pattern. But we're not quite there yet. So let me show you let me also show you. So I've been moving this around the page and we have to go through the process of all the guides. So see how this one is flipped that way. So we want to get it back up, right? We're going to turn this guide off and this second guide number two on. And we're gonna go through the processes for 45.6. Hit the saving or the selection tool, save and load selection for. So something's going on and it's not letting me move it. I'm on the wrong layer. That's why thankfully, it didn't throw me fully out of it. So you can still see the Selection tool. So I hit the pattern. Now I'm going to hit the Move tool, and now we're ready to go. Hit flip, flip. There's one. Then when a selection tool again, selection five, Move tool flip horizontal, flip vertical. And one more time selection six, Move tool flip horizontal, flip vertical. So now we are fully ready to make this pattern happen. If you choose to. Actually you know what? We're not because now I have this funny big space. And maybe this is where I bring this bigger piece and I'm going to, I'm going to bring it down when it slide it around a little bit. Just fill up that space a bit. And I'm going to bring that into our pattern group. I'm just going to move it and pinch it right into that pattern group. That way we know that's all there. Okay, So this is where maybe maybe you use some of these filler assets as well. I'm going to go for a different greenery color. Something that's not too bright. Just make sure they don't go over the edges, right? You know what really, what I should be doing is going back through this process again of flipping. But I'm going to not do that and see what happens, right? And then to bring the pattern to the layer just above our background. And I'm also going to go into the spaces that have Arles, make sure it's on a hard airbrush and good good eraser tool. And just get rid of it from those spaces. I don't want that pattern in that area. I think we're mostly there. Another thing we could do is do the same thing for the branches. But I like seeing them in the pattern. So I'm going to keep it that way. What I am going to do now is select the entire pattern group. And going to also make sure all of my guides are turned off. And now we have so many pattern or layer and many layers within each group. So something that we definitely need to check is how many layers your iPad holds. If you have the big iPad Pro 12 inch, you're going to have so many layers. If it's a smaller iPad Pro, you're going to have on this side is about 55 layers. Right now, I'm working on just the iPad 8th generation, which only gives me about 25 layers. When you're getting ready to check your pattern for the repeat, you need at least five layers when you're creating your pattern, remember to use the simple trick I showed you to add a pop of color. Use the reference tool on the layer you want to fill in and drag and drop your color layer below your reference layer, like I showed you in lesson three, free resources. Take a look at the multitude of colorful creations you can create. Go experiment, and have fun. At this point, we're ready to move on to the next lesson. We're going to make our repeat pattern appeared before our eyes. It's magic. You'll see how, how it works and drops into place. If you've got, if you've got your design to a point where you're ready to do the repeat. Then let's move on. And you can always come back and tweak a few things after you see the bigger picture, which I probably will need to with the filler filler assets that I put in. But it's a good place to start and to check your pattern. 6. Repeating Your Canvas: Are you ready to see the magic happen? You've created your design. Now want to begin. You want to see how many layers you have left in your design, depending on which iPad you have, the large iPad Pro, the smaller iPad Pro, or the iPad 8th Generation Like I have. You need to know how many layers you have available. You can begin by hitting the wrench tool, hitting Canvas and Canvas information. If you go to layers, it'll tell you how many views and how many you have available. If you have more than six available, you can just continue on in your open layers above. If not, then you're going to want to open a new canvas at 3,000. Now that this is open, you'll go back to your original Canvas. Make sure all your guides are turned off. And hit the wrench tool. Hit the Add button and hit Copy Canvas. Go back to your new canvas and hit wrench tool and hit paste. If you're in your original canvas, you can just stay there and hit the same, do the same, hit Copy Canvas, and in a new layer, hit Paste. I can do that right now since I've already hit Copy Canvas, I can open a new layer and hit paste. Stick with a canvas that you want to duplicate your layers. And again, if it's the new Canvas with just the one layer that you're gonna duplicate or your old canvas that you're just going to duplicate onto. I'm going to stick with my original canvas. So I'm gonna go to this new layer and I'm going to duplicate it. So we have five copies available. I did one-to-many, but that's okay. You know what, I'm going to lock this bottom one and close it up. Then I have 123-451-2345. I can count. It's okay. Sometimes looking at things. I can't count, but I can count. Don't judge me anyway. So making sure your pattern layers and all your other layers below are turned off. And also making sure you're snapping and magnetics are turned all the way on. We're going to begin this process. One thing we can do is I'm actually going to move this guide layer up. I'm going to open my guides now and see how I'm going to toggle these off real quick. Just show you the guides. So you can have your left-handed guide set if you're left-handed or right-handed guide set, I am right-handed. So I'm gonna do the selection such as this. These, like I said, they're just guides to show you where you need to drop your layers into place. I'm going to open these backdrop. And since these are below this guide layer, that's okay. If the guide layers were below and open, it would make it a little more tricky. Sometimes, sometimes it doesn't, but sometimes it does. So it's always best to have as little layers pop open as possible for using your snapping and magnetics. So I'm going to start with this top layer and hit the Move tool. And I'm going to take from the bottom right corner and slide it to the center. So it's filling section one. It gets a little, a little difficult to see here because you can see the bigger pattern underneath and the smaller pattern starting to take shape. That's okay. Then I'm going to take the next layer down, hit the Move tool, and take from this section and slide down. My cat is trying to say hello to me if you can hear him in the background. So now I've filled this section and if you can see already, those pieces are snapping together. And even though they're two separate pieces, you can see they connect just perfectly. And that's our vertical, right? So now we're gonna work on the diagonal and see how you can kinda see section for section three and section five. Section 4.5 are just half pieces. Let me show you how we do this. So hit the third layer down, hit your Move Tool. And rather than taking from a corner, we're going to take from the left-hand side that blue dot and slide it over. So it says 1,500 here and it's filling section three. Now, the next layer down we're gonna do the exact same thing from the left side. Slide it over. It's going to be behind Section three, but then we're going to go in the center and slide it up. See how that just happened there. So now it's just half of it and it looks like half of it is off the page. That's okay. That pays piece that's off the page. Is it's going to disappear. We won't have that anymore as soon as you turn that to log off. Now we're gonna go to the bottom layer, see how you can see it's just like a half section. Now, the bottom layer That's going to be for your selection or your section five. The same thing, we're going to slide it over from the center or to the center, and then slide it down. The bottom half of the picture is going off the page and then hit Enter Move tool. So now we have all of our layers. I'm going to turn our guides off. And if you zoom in, you can see that actually, you know what, I'm going to turn our guides down. We want to turn it up, but I'm going to turn it down so we can see where they're connected. You can't see any overlap. There's no missing space, which is really great. They're all on different layers to start taking these off. Right? So what I'm gonna do it, turn that guide off again. I can close that guide up real quick. We're done using it. I'm going to lock it and I'm going to close it completely. We're done with that for now. But I am going to take this and pull it all together with that two fingers swipe. Did you see what I also did there? If it's small enough to two-finger swipe on your page and it fills the page. Four-fingered tap for me, gets rid of everything. So now you can see, see your patterns has happened. Let's, let's look at it. So we have the best one to see is this branch here and see how it comes down vertically. And it's even. But if you go over and down, It's on the diagonal and that's your half drop repeat pattern. You could tell a little bit that I probably need to fill in some of those spots with the background filler asset that I used. But it's a fun repeat pattern to begin with. Another thing you can do is turn that off and go down and change your background. I'm going to duplicate it. I'm going to turn it back on. And I'm going to fill my background with a different light color. And it changes the whole vibe of your pattern. You can do that again, I'm going to clear that. And I really like some of the dark color sometimes as well. Although now I see those fillers, they stand out. So that's something that I would like to change later on. Take a minute to really look your pattern and see all the repeats. Can you see the repeats? Are they camouflaged? Or maybe you're not trying to make yours. So camouflage, maybe like that first one I showed, you want it staggered and that's how you want to see your repeat happen. Just wait until you start creating more and more and more. You'll become so obsessed with making these patterns. You'll crank them out. 12345 and a night, believe me, I have sat there and I sat there on wet, cloudy, rainy, gross Northwest day. And I think I've made 15 in one day. Then you can keep changing them a little bit here and there and make a whole collection. But that's a different class coming up. I'll share with you some of my favorite sites for uploading these patterns. So meet me in that. 7. Adding Your Design to POD Sites : You have this repeat pattern. Now, what are you going to do with it? There are so many print-on-demand sites that it can really be overwhelming to know where to begin. Many sites will have you upload your designs and you'll get a small commission. There are also sites where you can upload your designs, where you set the commission and then you sell them on maybe your Squarespace site or Shopify, ETC. Any of those sites where you set the prices and mu make the full commission, except for what? Your carrier percentages take. Society six, red bubble in Spoonflower, all great places to start adding your designs. Society six and red bubble are places where you can look for items like water bottles and curtains, beddings. So much more to add your repeat pattern to. Spoonflower is strictly for wallpaper and fabric design. So you put them out there and you put it into their selection. And you can make fabric or wallpaper for yourself to use. You don't have to do the whole part where you're trying to sell it. If you don't want to, if you make a pattern and you want to make it for your own personal use, you just put it in there and you order it away. You don't have to do any of the other steps. If you do want to, if you do want to sell through their site, you're going to have to go through their steps and processes to make that happen. If you need to look into that or I want to learn about that, you can check that out in my other class about simple repeat patterns with procreate five sites like printf, full, Gooten, and print. If I allow you to upload your work and your designs and set the markups. That way you can sell and make a good commission on your own website or Etsy, or Shopify. All of these print on-demand companies automate the fulfillment process for you. And you don't have to lift a finger. Make sure to research which companies integrate best with your sales platform because they don't all match up seamlessly. Now, go make a design, make your patterns, and upload your designs for the class to see. You'll be able to see your patterns on the mock-ups that they provide. 8. BONUS: Adding Your Pattern to a Mockup: Hey, hey it's bonus time. I hope you had time to watch the series leading up to this. If not, scooch back a little bit and watch the rest Before moving on to this next section, you're going to need that repeat pattern to move into this next bonus. Also go back to your project resources. I've included one more mock up in there for you to use for this lesson. Because we're going to put our products onto mock up. You can get all of those for free on raw pixels.com That's where I like to get mine. Let's begin by uploading the file into the procreate app. Once you've downloaded it, find the file that you uploaded it to open up procreate and hit Import. I've downloaded mine into my mock ups that I call raw pixels. I'm going to download it right into procreate. That way I don't have to fiddle with cupping and pasting. It's just going to go right in here. First things first, we're going to add a new layer on top. I'm going to lock the layer below. Go to your pen guide and choose a hard airbrush and bring the size down. Then choose a color that's really bright. You want something that stands out. What we're going to do is just start on the layer. Since I locked this one, I would have tried to lock draw, it would have let me know on the layer above, we're going to draw above your mock up layer. Also, one more thing, set this to multiply. Just start drawing close to the edge. Pick up your brush every once in a while because if you do like a big area and make a mistake, then you're going to have to go back over that area and just follow along the edges. Keeping inside against that line, we might see some shadows. Sometimes you'll just have to pay attention to if those shadows are, say, this pillow or if they're part of the outside line. If they're part of the pillow, you want to go over that shadow line. If they are not, then you want to go on the inside of the shadow line. But this one I believe is on the pillow. I want to keep it that way. Skip ahead or stick with me, but I'm going to speed it up and get through this part and meet me when this is all finished. The outline is all finished. See how that got a little tricky there. I think that's right. Yes, that part was right. But then once I get into here, I don't I think we stay on this side of it gets a little tricky where your shadowing is, maybe this red that I used wasn't the best choice next to this. But that's okay. I'm making it work. If I'm getting into close, it's really because I don't have my reading glasses on. Can you do anything without your reading glasses? Are you at that point, are you at that stage? I am. This one I think actually goes back here. Sometimes it's hard to see on those edges. Just zoom in real close. Get those reading glasses on if you need them. We're so close, aren't we? No, it got half. We're only halfway there. I know. We're getting really close to the end here. No, I am. Yeah, there it is. All right, I've done all the edges and now I can hit a dragon drop, and now it's fully covered, fully in there. All right, we're going to do one layer above it and make that layer multiply. And then we're going to set a clipping mass to that layer. I'm also going to change this back to white and do the whole layer just white. Fill in my color graph all the way. All right, now I'm going to get my pattern layer. I'm going to go back to the gallery, find my pattern layer, and make sure I have my guides all turned off. I'm going to stick with the white, I believe. Let me see. Yeah, I'm going to stick with the white. I'm going to hit Copy Canvas and go back to the gallery. Open up this layer here. In this layer, click on our clipping mask layer. Hit Paste. You can see if I turned off the clipping mask. It's taking up the, it's taking up the whole thing there. Because it's step to multiply. That's why I'm seeing all the different areas covered. Okay, I'm going to put the clipping mask back on instantly. We have that pattern and you can see some of the shadows that are happening. Like to turn it down just a little bit, I can see those shadows a little bit more. It doesn't take away from the integrity of your print, but it helps to show those shadows which really help it to look more real. Right. Other thing you can do is I'm going to take the snapping and magnetics off. If you move it around, as long as it's outside of your clipping mask, you can bring the pattern size down, which I like, but don't go below it. You have to stay within your design. I like that. There you have it. You've got your own mock up that you've used for this class. Go to Raw Pixels and used the link to go to my board for mock ups. Download a few of those mock ups, usually finding a Jpeg. If you want to look for more with something that really has something that's white, that I want to see three different mock ups for one repeat pattern. Share that with a class posted on social media creating, HM, that's my hashtag. We can see what everybody is up to and what everybody's working on. Have fun perusing. Have fun making these mock ups. And we'll see you next time. 9. Thanks: I had fun teaching you this fairly simple technique to make half-drop repeat patterns. I know from now on, you'll be just like me and trying to see if you can see where the repeat is when maybe you're at the fabric store or even just at your favorite shop you go shopping for, for close. You can see the pattern on the clothes. And can you tell is it half-drop or is it a repeat pattern? I can't wait to see the lovely designs that you create. Looking back at this class, you've learned the difference between half-drop repeat patterns and full drop repeat patterns. You've created a half-drop repeat pattern Canvas. You've completed your design and flipped it using the snapping and magnetics to check your pattern. You've learned about a few print on-demand sites in case you choose to start purchasing or selling your design. I'd say that was a pretty successful day. If you want to learn how to make a full repeat pattern, take my class, simple repeats with procreate five. Remember to use that creating with pH M hashtag for social media and share your patterns with the class. I'm Katie from perch handmade. If you're interested in any of my other courses, go to perch handmade.com. You'll find my whole list there and a little bit more about what I do and teach and who I am. And come find me on Instagram. Bye for now.