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Sketch Book to Surface Pattern Graphic Design: Vectorize & Make a Pattern with Adobe Illustrator

teacher avatar Anne Larkina, Graphic Designer, Adobe Max Speaker

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Learn to Vectorize, Colorize and 'Patternize' your Hand Drawn Sketches

      0:31

    • 2.

      How to Find the Exercise files and Keyboard Shortcuts

      0:23

    • 3.

      Drawing the insects Tips and Ideas

      1:51

    • 4.

      Get Your Drawings into Digital Format by Scanning

      4:03

    • 5.

      Using your Phone to get Drawings into Digital Format and Editing in Photoshop

      2:09

    • 6.

      Setting up your Illustrator Workspace

      5:48

    • 7.

      Extra Settings Toolbar and Zoom

      1:44

    • 8.

      Vectorizing your Artwork with Image Trace

      4:14

    • 9.

      Using Illustrator Tools to Clean Up Your Artwork

      10:30

    • 10.

      Finding and Customizing Color Schemes

      7:37

    • 11.

      Using the Live Paint Bucket Tool to Colorize the Vector Designs

      4:52

    • 12.

      Troubleshooting a Live Paint Problem

      1:30

    • 13.

      Making and Modifying Your Pattern (for Illustrator CC and Newer)

      3:30

    • 14.

      Modifying Your Design and Pattern so it Shows Well on a Dark Background

      3:27

    • 15.

      Making and Modifying Your Pattern (for Illustrator CS6 and older)

      7:51

    • 16.

      Troubleshooting and fixing a problem in the pattern

      0:49

    • 17.

      Adding a dark background version CS6 and older

      2:06

    • 18.

      Scaling Your Pattern

      1:13

    • 19.

      Setting Up a File via Printing Specs and Exporting

      1:38

    • 20.

      Create files for use on the web

      1:34

    • 21.

      Create Your Project

      0:22

    • 22.

      22 What's Next

      0:12

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About This Class

Want to create beautiful surface pattern designs starting with doodles and sketches from your sketchbook? Learn how with this class that incorporates both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (and your sketches, of course)!

Hello graphic designers, artists, and creatives! Join me as I share my Illustrator design process from simple sketches and doodles to a beautiful surface pattern design. You’ll learn how to:

• Set up your workspace and move around your artboard quickly and easily
• Scan or photograph your work with tips for the best results
• Introduce color from an existing color palette, and edit the colors to work for your designs
• Incorporate keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow

By the end of the class, you’ll know how to navigate Illustrator and take advantage of its powerful features so you can create your own surface pattern projects.

Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries.

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Anne Larkina

Graphic Designer, Adobe Max Speaker

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Anne Larkina is a graphic designer with a passion for design and training. Her goal is to help those who want to get started with a career in graphic design, so along with teaching on Skillshare, she also has a Youtube channel with graphic design tips and tutorials. 

Anne was a session speaker at Adobe Max in October 2017 and was invited to speak and show her design process at a 3-day Adobe Live event in November 2017. She also speaks at a local Adobe group a few times a year.

She has worked with many of the world's leading brands as a freelance graphic designer. Clients include:

Follow Anne at:

Twitter: @how2graphdesign

Facebook: facebook.com/GraphicDesignHowTo/

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1. Learn to Vectorize, Colorize and 'Patternize' your Hand Drawn Sketches: Hi, I'm Anne Bracker, and I'm a graphic designer and illustrator. You might know me from my YouTube channel where I teach short little graphic design tutorials. Or maybe my Facebook groups where we kind of go over any problems that you might be having in Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign today in this class, I'm going to show you how to take drawings from your sketchbook, vectorize them, and then color them and make a surface pattern design that you could even put on fabric or something like that. All right, let's jump into the class. 2. How to Find the Exercise files and Keyboard Shortcuts: Now first I wanted to show you where the exercise files are. If you scroll down underneath the video, you can see right here these four tabs here under projects and resources, you'll be able to see the resources are exercise files right here. Now they won't look like this because this is actually one of my other videos. But you'll have everything you need right here under the Resources folder. 3. Drawing the insects Tips and Ideas: All right, now the first step is to actually make your drawings. You'll want to use black ink on white paper because that's really high contrast. And you'll want to have areas that you leave white because we can add color to those later. I'm going to draw a five or six large insects and then a few smaller ones, maybe some ants. Now I have my scan in the exercise files so you can take a look at those if you need something to look at. And you can also find pictures of real insects to draw from. Of course, you don't need to draw insects. Anything is okay. Whatever you decide to draw, I would just keep the level of detail about the same as what I have here. If your drawings or to detail, there'll be hard to color. And if they're not detailed enough, they might lack visual interests. I like my designs to have a lot of enclosed whitespaces and that way I can color those later easily. I like to repeat the styles and designs in each insect because it makes them seem more cohesive. Like I said, it makes them look like they go together. As I'm drawing. I don't try to make the drawings to perfect. I want the two sides to look the same usually, but they don't have to be identical. In fact, I like the way they are imperfect because I think it adds character to the illustration. If your hand is a little shaky, that's just fine. Or if the two sides don't match up, that's okay too. If you made a really big mistake, it's totally okay because we can still fix that in Illustrator. And if you decide you really just don't like one of the insects to scratch it out and make a different one. I've got a lot of larger bugs here and then some smaller, less detailed bugs here. And these two ants will actually only be one color in the pattern. All right, so now we have to get these into digital format. 4. Get Your Drawings into Digital Format by Scanning: There are two ways to get your drawings into digital format that I'm gonna go over with you today. First is with a scanner, and I realized that not everyone has a scanner. I'm also going to show you how to do it with a phone. So first, the scanner. All right. Now this scanner is an HP desk jet 2554 and I'm just going to open it and place my sketchbook in there. Maybe I'll try this way. It's best to hold it down, kind of put something heavy on it so that you get a better scan. Okay, and I'm gonna hit over here to Photoshop. And don't worry if you don't have Photoshop, I'll show you another way to do this, but Photoshop will automatically recognize your scanner and you can just come up here to File Import and images from device. This might look a little bit different, but it'll probably be right under Import. So it'll be one of the options here. I'm going to choose images from device, and here's my HP desk at scanner. I've clicked on that and my scanner will automatically do an overview scan. Now I'm going to select all with Command a or Control a. Most scanners will give you the option to just pick a part of the canvas that you want to use. So when I hit Command a or Control a that selects the entire canvas, and I'm just going to pull these in. So I only get the piece that I want, which is right here. If you mess up and make another box, you should be able to just hit delete and delete that one. And then click on the other box again and pull in the size like this. Now I want this to be black and white, 300 DPI, and I want the format to be JPEG. And now I'll go ahead and scan. It automatically brings it up in Photoshop. I'm gonna go ahead and rotate this. So I'll go to image, image rotation 90 degrees counterclockwise. Okay, So this is looking really good. Now there's a possibility that your scan has light leak and what that does, it brings a lot of like kind of grays and blacks on the edges. If that happens to you, rescan and hold the top of the scanner down so that no other light gets in. Now I wanted to show you one way to clean this up a little bit if it doesn't come out this clean. And that's to hit Command L or Control L on your PC. And that brings up levels. You can also get here by going to image adjustments and levels right here. Now the way I like to use levels when I'm scanning a black and white drawing is, I pull this one in a little bit and you can see that Black getting a little bit darker. So I'm going to just pull it in until it looks pretty dark, that looks fine. Now if I pull this slider over, it actually increases the amount of white. And this is good for getting rid of gray areas. I don't really need to do this as you can see, if I pull too far, it washes out my nice darks and I don't want that. So I'm gonna leave this right over here. And that looks fine. So I'll say, Okay, now I'm going to save this as a JPEG. So I'll come up here to File Save as. And I'm just going to put this on my desktop. If you want a quick way to get to that on Mac, all you have to do is push Shift Command D. On a PC that's going to probably be over here on the side under your favorites. So I'm just going to drop this on my desktop of course, you can also make a folder if you want to keep everything nice and organized. Okay, So I'm just gonna say save for JPEG options. I always put the quality at 12, we'll say, okay, now if you don't have Photoshop, that's still okay. You can still use a scanner. All you have to do is find the software that came with your scanner. For my scanner is called HPE easy scan. I'm not going to show how that works, but basically it'll just scan and save it. They're usually not too many adjustments that you can make, but that's still okay as long as you don't have a lot of light leak, it should still look good as a black and white image. 5. Using your Phone to get Drawings into Digital Format and Editing in Photoshop: In this time I'm going to use a phone. When you do this, do you want to have good lighting? So a bright setting for sure. Want to hold your camera parallel to the table just as flat as you can make it. I usually include all my drawings in one picture. But you might notice that when you take one picture, you get a little distortion with the drawings on the sides. So you can also zoom in on sections of the drawings to avoid this. What you'll end up with our pictures like these, the scans are going to be a little better because they don't have the shadows over here to deal with, but these will also work just fine. So don't worry about it. Now if you'd have Photoshop, you can also bring these into Photoshop and clean them up. And it's the same process as cleaning up the scan. So I'm just going to quickly show you what I mean. I'll go ahead and pull this JPEG onto my Photoshop icon. Now I'm going to crop it so it'll hit C on my keyboard and that'll bring me to the crop tool right over here. Then I can just pull this down, get right on the edge and pull this up like this. We can also bring the size into if we need to, then all you need to do is hit Enter or Return. Now we have a cropped image. The next step is to open your levels. You can do that with Command L or Control L. You can also go to Image Adjustments and then it's under here. So it'll be the same process. We'll pull this slider over a little bit to get our blacks to be a little more black. Then I'm going to pull this slider over here over to get our whites even more white. And it would be nice if we could get this texture out of here completely. But sometimes you'll still have a little bit like this right down here. This will be fine. We'll say, okay, now if you don't have Photoshop, it might be a little more challenging to get these vectorized in Illustrator, but it's still should be fine. This just makes it a little easier. Now I'll go to File, Save As, and I'm going to put this on my desktop too. So I'm going to call this one scan phone. And I'll make sure the format is JPEG and I'll click Save, and I want 12 quality. So we'll say, okay. 6. Setting up your Illustrator Workspace: All right, Now I'm going to show you how to set your workspace up in Illustrator. And this is something you might want to do if you want your workspace to match mine, but it's really not that necessary, especially if you're pretty comfortable with Illustrator. If you don't think you need it, just skip it. All right, let's go ahead and open Illustrator. We'll come over here to create new. Then I'm going to choose Print, then letter. And we'll come over here to create so that we can get the same starting point. I'll come up here to Window and then workspace, and then we'll choose Essentials Classic. Then go ahead and come up to Window Workspace again, and then Reset Essentials Classic. Now your workspace should look a lot like mine, except it might be the dark settings. If you want to use the light setting like me, you can come out to Illustrator preferences. And then General, if you're on a Windows system, this will probably be under Edit, Edit Preferences. Now I'll come down here to the user interface and here's your brightness. I know a lot of people like the dark setting and that's totally fine. There's no difference. This is just my preference and now we'll come down and press. Okay. Now we all have a similar look for our Illustrator interface. I'm going to show you how to customize this. You can get to the panels, you need a little easier. These tools over here on your toolbar. I like to pull these out so that they sit right here. It gives me a little extra space at the bottom. So to do that, you just grab the top right up here and then just pull this up here is your control panel. Now if you're not seeing your control panel for some reason, you'll want to come up here to Window control right here. And all of these panels over here are also available in window. First of all, open this little fly out. So I'm gonna click these two little arrows to expand the panel's. First you'll see color and color guide, and I like these right up here in the upper right. I'm going to click in this blank area over here to just pull this out like this. Then I'll click on this hob and set it right up there. You can see when you hover over different parts that you'll get some blue areas. And that shows you that it's going to snap in between those places. We went to come up here to the very top, you'll see you get a rectangle around everything. But if you move up a little higher, you'll get just a line. Then when we see that line will just release and that way it'll snap up to the upper right. Okay, next, I also want my swatches to be over here. I'm going to click in the blank area, pull it out. Then I'll click on this hop here, hover under color until I get the blue bar and then just release. For this next set the stroke gradient and transparency. I actually went transparency to be separate. I'm going to click right on the word and pull this one out and that'll separate it from its little group. Then I'll get right on the top and pull it right underneath swatches like this. I want my art boards to be right underneath transparency. I need to pull it out of this group so I'll get right on the word itself and they're just click and drag. Come up here to the top and hover right underneath transparency, underneath art boards. I like a line and Pathfinder. I'm going to come up here to Window and I can choose any one of those. I'm going to choose a line right here. It'll open this little group that has all three of them in it. I want that whole group underneath art board. So I'll come up here to the very top. I'll click and then hover until I get the line and release. Now, I don't use properties are libraries very much. I'm going to get in this area of the group and just pull it out. And then I'll just click on the X to get rid of these. If you want to bring them back, you can, of course, just go to Window and find them here. Properties is right here. Okay, so the right side of our panel is all set up the way I want. Now, I'm going to work on the left side. I like my character and paragraph to be up here, so I'm going to go to Window. And then these are a little hidden. You'll have to go to type and then you can just choose character or paragraph. And it'll open that set. I'll click up here on the very top, and then I'll hover at the top of this column. Stroke is already exactly where I want it so that it's perfect. And then I'm going to open my links. I'll go to Window and links. And these, I'll put it right underneath my stroke. Next, I want to separate my appearance and graphic styles. I'll go ahead and click on graphic styles and pull it out. And then I'm just going to put it right above the appearance. Now I have layers and Asset Export down here, and I don't want either one of those to be in the column. I'll click here and just drag it out, and then I'll click the little X. Now I do use layers sometimes, but not that often. When I need those, I just hit F7 on my keyboard and it brings them up and then I can hit F7 to toggle them off. My Illustrator setup is exactly how I want it. So now I need to save my workspace. We'll go to Window workspace, and I'll choose a new workspace. I'll call my new workspace a. Now I already have a workspace named a. I'm just going to override it by hitting okay. Now as you're working, you might accidentally pull some things out like this. You might be moving things around. And when that happens, it's hard to remember where they were. And that's why workspaces are so great. To reset everything, we can just come up to Window Workspace and then choose our workspace. Then we can go back to workspace and reset our workspace. And I'll put everything exactly back where it was. 7. Extra Settings Toolbar and Zoom: Okay, I wanted to go over some things that might confuse you if you're not used to working with Illustrator in the same way that I do. First is the advanced tools. And to get to these, you can come down here to the bottom of your toolbar to these three little dots. Click that and then come up to this little fly out up here in the upper right-hand corner. Then click that and choose Advanced. If you have basic selected, you'll see a lot fewer tools over here. So go ahead and choose Advanced. You can also find this right over here under Window toolbars and then advanced right here. There are two ways to get to that, but we definitely want all of our tools to show. The other thing is the Zoom settings. When I hit Z on my keyboard, the way I like to zoom is to draw a box around whatever I want to see better. Let's say it's this right here. That'll fill my screen that. But the normal way that everyone else likes to Zoom is with the animated zoom. To get to that you can hit Command K or control K on your keyboard, and that'll bring up your preferences. Another way to get to that as go to Illustrator preferences on a Mac or edit. And it'll be, I think down here somewhere on a PC. Once you're in preferences, you can come down here to performance. And you can see that animated zoom on my system has been unchecked. If you want your Illustrator to act like mine, you can also uncheck yours. But if you'd like the animated zoom, you can check it. So here's what the difference is. If I'm on my zoom tool and I want to see maybe the letter C a little better. I click on the sea and zoom in by dragging to the right, or I drag to the left to zoom out. 8. Vectorizing your Artwork with Image Trace: The next step is to get our digital drawings into Adobe Illustrator. To do that, I'm going to go to file place, and then I'm going to go to my desktop where I saved my scans. Now I have a few different ones out here on a Mac. I can preview these by just hitting the space bar. So I have this one, I've got this one. This one, and this one which I scan and cleaned up in Photoshop. I'm going to go ahead and choose the scan phone one because it has some shadows in it and I wanted to show you how to deal with those in Adobe Illustrator. So I'm going to choose that one and place. And then I'm just going to click once. This will place our file at its full size. So it is really big and that's a good thing that'll help Illustrator vectorize it. So once I release, my mouse is still selected and you can tell that by the blue boundary. Let's come up here to Image Trace that is under window. So just go to Window control right here. That's your control panel. And I'm just going to hit Image Trace once. It's going to give us a warning about it being a really large image. And do We went to continue? And we do so I'll say, Okay. And now Illustrator is working to figure out what parts are black and white. And they actually did a really good job of getting rid of those shadows. Now I'm going to come up here to this little button on the same control panel. It's called the image trace panel. I'm going to click that. And this gives us image trace options. The one we want to look at now is the threshold. If I move this over to the right, it'll redo itself and it grabs more of the black. So our little ants down here are sick. Now, if I move it all the way over here to the left, it gives us more white. So some parts of the design kind of get a little thin. I liked what it did. It was right around a 130 and this looks really nice. I think this is a good threshold. I'm going to click this little carat next to Advanced. And then I'm going to choose Ignore White. This gets whereas the white background. Now if you've had a lot of shadows and you're seeing some shadowing down here and it's making it black. That's okay as long as this not touching any of your designs, I'll show you how to get rid of that in a minute. I'm going to close my Image Trace dialog box. You'll notice it's still selected. We'll choose Expand. These. Turned out really nice. I don't have a lot of extra stuff to clean up, but I want to show you what can happen if you don't have Photoshop, maybe you can't increase the contrast. So I'm going to insert another one. We'll go to File Place, and then I think I'll use this one. I'm going to place that. I'm just going to click once. I went to zoom out with Command minus or Control minus, we can see the whole thing. And then I'm just going to hit that Image Trace button again. And we'll get the same warning and say, okay, now you can see if I zoom in here, I'll hit Z on my keyboard, which will bring me to my zoom tool. And I'm just going to draw a box around this part. You can see some black parts up here, and we don't want that. Of course, I'm going to get my tracing result back. I wanted to choose Ignore White. I'll get out of image trace. I'm going to zoom out with Command minus or Control minus, and I'll go ahead and choose Expand right up here. Now you can see that that has become part of the image. I'm going to rotate this first. I'm going to hit R on my keyboard. That'll bring us to the rows hate tool, which is right over here. And then I'm just going to click and drag. I'll hold Shift to get it to snap into place. Okay, so we have our smaller bugs and then we have our larger bugs with the problem up here. At this point, let's go ahead and save our file. So come up here to File Save As I'm going to put this on my desktop, I'll call it insect pattern. In our format will be Adobe Illustrator. I'm going to click Save and then we'll just say, okay, now you might notice as the class goes on that my file is not actually named insect pattern. And that's because as I was recording, I actually forgot to save it. But of course it's best if you save often while you work. 9. Using Illustrator Tools to Clean Up Your Artwork: Now I'm going to show you how to clean these up. I'm gonna come over here to my group selection tool, which is underneath the direct selection tool. And I'm just going to draw a box around the piece that I don't want and then just delete it. If you click with your selection tool, you'll notice that all of the pieces are grouped together. We need to isolate each bug so that it can be moved around separately. So to do that, I'm gonna get back on my Group Selection Tool right here. And I'm going to draw a box around that first one. Now if your pieces are too close together and you accidentally select some other piece, you can also use your cue tool, hit Q on your keyboard to get there. And this is the Lasso tool that's right up here. And you can just draw around the one you want to isolate and that will just select it. That way. You don't have to worry about selecting something you don't want. Now to get this bug on its own. I'm gonna cut paste in front group and then hide it to get it out of the way. To do that, I'm gonna hit Command X, that's Control X on a PC. And that's cutting. We just cut it. It's not there anymore. But now we're going to pace it in front and put it exactly back where it was. To do that, I'm gonna hit Command F or Control F. Then we'll group it with Command G or Control G. And then we'll hide it with Command or Control three. Now this is just to get it out of the way so it makes it easier to select the other bugs will bring it back here in a minute. I'm going to zoom in by hitting Z on my keyboard, which brings me to this tool right over here. And I'm going to draw a box around our next three bugs. Then I'll get back on my group selection tool. I'm going to just draw a box around the next one. I'll Command X or Control X, which cuts command F or Control F to paste in front. Command G or Control G to group, and then Command three or Control three to hide. And I'll do this process with the rest of the bugs. I'm moving to each one with the hand tool. And to do that, you can just hit Spacebar and then click and drag your screen, which moves it around. Now with these down here, obviously they're just duplicates of the ones above. So I'm going to just select all of those with my group selection and then just delete them. Now there should be nothing left. I'm going to unhide everything. And to do that It's Option Command three or Alt Control three on a PC. You can also come up here to object and show all. I'm going to zoom in on this first one. So I'll hit Z to get to my zoom tool and draw a box around it. And I think this looks pretty good. I don't like this little nub that happened here. So I'm going to fix this by getting my group selection and just selecting the very edge of this. Now if you click in here, it's not going to work. But if you select the very edge of the thing you want, you should only be selecting this piece. If you click out here, you're going to get everything. Click off by clicking and empty area and click right on that edge. Now I'm going to hit in to get to my pencil tool That's right over here. The way the pencil tool works, if you're drawing along the edge of a line, you can redraw that line as long as you end up going along the edge of it again in the same direction. I'm going to start up here and I'm going to draw along it and redraw it, ending on the same path and going the same direction. That redraws our line right there. Now, you can see that my drawing isn't perfect and I actually like it that way. I think it adds character to it. I'm not going to fix everything, I'm just going to fix things that looked like a mistake. So I'm going to zoom in here. This little polka dot doesn't look quite right. So I'm going to use my a tool which is the Direct Selection Tool right up here. I mean, they get right on that point. When I do that, you'll see this little white dot with a blue dye inside. And you can tell also that I've selected only that point because these other points out here are white and this one is blue. But anyway that 1 is selected. And now I can click on this dot and drag it to round that point. And I'm gonna do the same thing right over here. I'm gonna click right on the point that I want to round. I'm gonna click that little white dot with the blue inside. And maybe this 12. There we go along of times when you image trace something, illustrator likes to put points in weird places in my opinion. So I'll go through and just kind of fix those. Let's see, I'm moving around in my hand tool, the space bar. Here's another one. That one looks like it needs to be fixed. Maybe that you'll notice that you don't get a white dot on some of them. You can see these two handles that are connected to that anchor point, and that means it's a smooth point. This only works if you're working with corner points. If you select a smooth point, you won't be able to have that rounded corner white dot here. In this case, I'm going to switch back to my end tool, the pencil tool, and just redraw that line like I showed you a moment ago. There we go. Everything on this one looks fine. I'll move on to the second one. Now I have this same problem happening here, but this one looks like it has three corner points. So I'm going to hit a on my keyboard. I'll select this one, hold down Shift and select the other two points. And they all have a white dot. But since I have all three of them selected, I can click on any white dot and pull all three in at the same time. That looks pretty good. And now I see a point here. This doesn't seem like it should have a point. Person. I'm gonna select this shape with the group selection tool. And I can see there's a point here. I'm going to hit P to get on my pen tool and then hit the minus symbol to get on my Delete Anchor Point tool. So that's p and then minus. And I can just click that and get rid of it. Now if it still seems weird, you can also adjust these handles. So I'm gonna hit a on my keyboard. I'll get right on that handle that showed up and I'm going to pull that. So it just looks a little more natural. Here's another anchor point that I think I want to delete. So I'm going to hit P minus and click on that one. Maybe that one too. Yeah, that looks better. Also, don't want this one down here. This part right here, it looks a little weird. So I'll go ahead and fix that first. I need to select this piece so I'm going to get back on my Group Selection Tool. Click right on the edge of that, and then switch over to my pencil tool by hitting N on my keyboard. And I'll just draw along this edge and finish on the same path, going the same direction to redraw the line. Even though this one isn't too bad, I think I'll redraw it to. Now sometimes when I do this, it doesn't quite work. If I start out going one way on the path and then I go backwards or something like that, you're going to get something like this. So if that happens, just undo by hitting Command Z or Control Z and try again. Something like that. Down here you can see this doesn't look quite right. So I'm going to select that with my group selection tool. Just click right on the edge. And then I'm gonna get my smooth tool that's underneath my pencil tool. I can hit Shift S to get there and it's right here. Then I can just go over this line several times with my mouse and just smooth it out. The smooth tool works by just going over the line several times like that. I think this one is done. Now with this one, the legs are looking pretty strange, so I'm going to try to fix those. I'm going to get on my a tool or direct selection tool. Click right in here and bringing this in, then I'll click this point and see if I can grab that handle and move it so it's a little more natural working with the handles in Illustrator, they can be pretty challenging, but it's just a matter of practice. If you try one way and it's not looking good, just pull it down another way or bringing it closer to the anchor point to get different results. Don't forget, you can always hit Command Z or Control Z to undo the last thing you did. Alright, now I'm going to use the same tools that I just showed you to clean up the rest of these and I'll speed up the video so it won't take so long. When you use image trace to vectorize your designs, you will probably need to do some cleanup like this. There will probably be little mistakes you need to fix and parts that don't look quite right. Alright, so now that all our bugs are pretty cleaned up there looking nice, Let's go ahead and select all of them and then re-size them to fit on our art board. I'm going to use my selection tool. I'll just draw a box around all of them. And you should have this bounding box that comes up with these little handles on the sides. If you're not seeing this go to View and then show bounding box which will be right here. If you don't have it on, then you should see that bounding box show up. I'm going to hold shift. Shift will resize everything proportionately so you're not squeezing or stretching anything, Then I'm going to grab a corner and just bring it in so that everything fits on my art board. Then I'm gonna hit Command Z or Control 0. That'll put your art board right in the middle of your workspace. And these are a little small now I'm going to hold Shift, grab a corner and just make them a little bit bigger. Maybe we'll move these two down here. Okay, Let's go ahead and save our file with Command S or Control S. 10. Finding and Customizing Color Schemes: Now we're ready to add color. Now there are a few different places that I like to go to find color schemes. And one is right here in Adobe Illustrator. We can come over here to Swatches and then click on this fly out, go to Open Swatch Library. And these are a lot of different color schemes that can give you inspiration or you can use them as is, I'm willing to come down here to nature and do foliage and see what we get. We have a lot of different options here. So maybe these are like fall leaves here. And then you get into the greens of nature here. Now if you want to use one of these, all you have to do is just click on the little folder beside it. Let's try this one. And it'll add it to our swatches right over here. I'll pull that out so you can see it a little better. Now, I honestly don't use the ones that come preloaded in Illustrator because we had the Internet and we can find a whole lot of awesome color swatches out there. But I wanted you to know about them because they are an option. So I'm going to head over to Google Chrome. And I had two favorite places I like to go for color schemes. One is Adobe color. So I'm going to come down here to color.adobe.com, and it brings me here to a color wheel. Now this is a pretty cool place because you can come up with your own color schemes by just dragging these around what it's giving us right now, these five colors are analogous colors. But if we wanted to switch to something like monochromatic, we get only monochromatic colors. So you can just play around with these and come up with your own color scheme completely. But you can also go over here to explore and see color schemes that other people have made. Now by default, these are all going to include yellow For whatever reason, I think they're featuring yellow on the site right now. But we can search for other color schemes by just typing maybe like orange, blue, and green and see what it comes up with. So now we have a lot of different options with orange, blue, and green in them. I like to start out with one of these color schemes and then modify it. Now let's say I like this color scheme here. I can just download this as a JPEG or I can add it to my library here. I'm gonna click on it, and this will give us even more options. Now we can download as an ASE file which illustrator recognizes. So I'm gonna click on that one and it'll download into my Downloads folder. It should be in your downloads folder to unless you've changed where things should download when you download from the Internet. Now a lot of times you're not going to have access to an ASE file. You'll need to take a screenshot on a Mac that's Shift Control Command and the number four. Then I can just draw around the colors themselves that will make a copy of the colors. Then I can go back to Illustrator and just paste with Command V or Control V. If you're on a Windows machine for Windows ten and newer, press shift the Windows key and then all the options for screen grabs come up on the top of the screen. One of them is select a region. You can just draw around it. Once you're done, it'll copy it to the clipboard and then you can just paste it like we did with the Mac. Now you'll notice that this screenshot that we actually have some hex numbers down here. If we wanted to, we could double-click our color and just type in that hex code right here. I'll type in 77 V3 CC and then hit Tab and that'll bring up that color, I'll say, okay, and then I could add a new swatch right over here in my swatches panel like that. But a lot of times you won't have access to these colors. So if you don't, you can easily just image trace these and add them as a color group. And I'll show you how to do that. We'll come up here to Image Trace at the top. And I'm just going to choose six colors. It'll take a moment. Now, come up here to expand, and this will make everything vector. If we come over here to our swatches, I'm just going to click on the word and pull this out. Then I'll click this little folder at the bottom which says new color group. I'm gonna choose Selected Artwork, Convert Process to Global and includes swatches for tense. And I'll say, okay, here are all the colors that it grabbed out of this screenshot. Now we can modify these and use them to color our insects. That's how you can use a screenshot and get the colors into your swatches. Now I'm going to show you how to use the ASE file that we downloaded earlier. Alright, now I'm going to load that Swatch Library. I'll come over here to swatches, and I'll click on these little three lines up here. I'll choose Open Swatch Library and then other library down here at the bottom. Then I'll navigate to my downloads. On a Mac, that's Option Command L. On a PC, your downloads of probably be over here in your favorites on the left. Then I'll click on that color scheme we downloaded and open it. Then you can see all those colors come right here as a library, I'm going to click on the word swatches and drag it out so I can see it a little better. Now even though we brought this library and we need to get these colors into our swatches. So I can just click this and drag it in as a color group. And then I'll just close this. Reset my workspace by going to Window Workspace Reset a. The second website I like for searching for color palettes is Pinterest. So I'm going to go there now. Now if you don't have an account for Pinterest, you'll need to sign up for one. But once we're in here, we can search for color palettes in much the same way. I'm going to search for red, green, and yellow color palette. We get a lot of similar options. I'm really liking these muted ones over here. This is a good example where you would need to screenshot. So I'll click on that and then just make a screenshot of it. And then go through that same process. All right, so I'm back in Illustrator now and I'm ready to work with the ASE color swatches over here in my swatch palette. Now, I like these colors, but I want to make changes to them. First off, we need a really dark color to replace our black. So to do that, I'm gonna get on this blue. I'm just going to double-click it. I'm going to increase the amount of black. I'll just move these other sliders until I get a darker blue. That still shows as blue. Maybe more like a navy. This looks good. So I'll say, Okay, that's updated it in the swatches and the color group. My green is a little bright, so I'm gonna double-click that. And I'm just going to mute this down a little bit and adjust the colors to whatever I want. I'm gonna get a little more yellow into my green because it looks pretty close to that blue color. So I'll adjust that. By the way, I'm working in CMYK here, but you can also work in RGB or one of these other color spaces, we'll say, okay, I'm liking the orange. I think I'd rather have a yellow in here, so I'm gonna double-click on the red, pull this slider all the way to the yellow is a little bright. Maybe I can lighten it up some. I want it a little bit muted. There we go. We'll say, okay, now we have our five color color scheme and we're ready to color our drawings. 11. Using the Live Paint Bucket Tool to Colorize the Vector Designs: First off, I want all of the black to be this darker blue. I'm going to select all with Command a or Control a. And now you'll see that you have a fill and no stroke. If you do have a stroke, just click on this and then click none because we don't want a stroke on these. Alright, so I'll just click on the blue. Now we have a nice blue as our darker color in our drawings. Now we want to get to our live paint bucket tool, and that is underneath this tool right here. You can also hit K to jump to it right under here. So k is either live paint, you'll see the three colors. Now, you'll notice that these three colors are this one, this one, and this one. If we hit our right and left arrows. So we can just scroll through these five colors as we're working. Now actually the way this works, we have to have something selected. I need to get back on my V tool, which is my selection tool, and then click the first insect that I want to color. I'm going to hit Z to zoom in here. And then I'll hit K to get back on my paintbrush tool. And I want to start out with yellow. The one that's selected is the one in the middle. So I want to hit my left arrow, so that will be in the middle. And then I'm just going to click here. Sometimes it won't fill the whole area, so you can just click into the other areas to fill that. Let's continue coloring him with the blue. I'm going to use my right arrow to get to my lighter blue color. Then I'm just going to select each of these pieces and fill them with the blue color. All right, next step, I think I'm going to make the body red. So I'm just going to click and he says these pieces. You'll notice I accidentally clicked the outline. So I'm going to undo with Command Z or Control Z. I had to hit it twice to go back to actions. So just be careful of that. But now that I look at this, it's a little bit boring with all that red in there. So I'm gonna make a new swatch. I'm clicked on the orange one. I want to make a lighter orange. I'm going to create new right down here. I'm going to move this one over just a little bit, so it's a lighter orange. Looks good. We'll say OK. You can see we've added a light orange swatch here. This is a global swatch. It's not something we really have to worry about, but global swatches just means that if you update this swatch in the future, it'll update all of that color in your whole document, which can be a really good thing. I'm on my paint bucket tool. I'm just going to alternate the colors on his body down here, maybe right here. That looks nice. I'll hit V to get back on my selection tool and select the second bug, then I'll hit K to get on my live paint. By the way, if you're not seeing the colors you want, you're probably on one of these up here. So just click on one of the ones in the Recolor group and it should update to have those. I'm gonna go ahead and get on that light blue again. I think I went this part of the body to be green. I'll do that. These parts orange and red. All right, the next one I'll hit V to select him to get back on my live paint bucket tool. And I think I want to do green alternating this. I'll do darker red for the alternate stripes. I'll choose light orange here. And then I think I want this little flower looking part to be yellow. That looks nice. I'll hit V to select him and then K to get back on my paint bucket tool. Make these little dots blue. Then his head can also be blue. I'm going to zoom out now. And the more I look at my drawings, the less I like this one, I think I'm just going to get rid of him completely. So I've selected him with my selection tool and I'm just going to hit Delete to get rid of them. I'll move this one over. I might make it a little bit smaller. As I looked at everything, I think I think I need more blue and yellow. So I'm gonna select him hit K. I'm going to go with light blue here and yellow. Let me zoom in a little bit. Then I think the darker orange in here. Alright, so everything is colored and ready to go for the pattern. Okay, Let's go ahead and save our file with Command S or Control S. 12. Troubleshooting a Live Paint Problem: Now I wanted to show you what can happen if one of your drawings has an opening where the color can kind of get out when you're trying to color it. So I'm going to copy him and I'm just going to quickly get this back to what it was before before we started coloring. Okay, so something that is a pretty common thing that can happen is having a piece like this where when you try to color it, live paint might give you some weird results. So if I give them my Live Paint and I click on my blue, Let's say I want to make this part blue. I click here. It doesn't know what to do because it's not a closed shape. To make it a closed shape, you'll need to select nothing. So just click out here, then get on your pen tool and finish that shape out like this. Then with your group selection tool, click in the area we want to combine with that hold shift and select that piece too. Then come down here to Pathfinder and choose the first shape mode, which is the unite. You'll see that it's combined it with that other piece. Now, if that doesn't work for you, you might need to expand again. If you've used your live paint tool. To do that, you can just go to object expand and then try it again. So I wanted to just kind of get ahead of that. I know that's a problem I used to have a lot, so I wanted to show you how to troubleshoot that. 13. Making and Modifying Your Pattern (for Illustrator CC and Newer): All right, now we have our insects. I'll color the way that we want them. Now it's time to make our pattern. Now I'm gonna show you two ways. One, if you have the most recent version of Illustrator, all the way back to, I think the original version of Illustrator CC. And then I'll show you a different way to do it if you have CS6 or earlier. First, I'll show you the ways to do it in the current version of Illustrator. All we have to do is select all as a begs like this with our selection tool, I'm gonna make these just a little bit smaller so we have some more space to work. And then I'm gonna come up here to object pattern and make. When we do this, a new pattern automatically gets added to our swatches panel. And here it is, right here. We'll say, okay, and now we have some pattern options. We can choose to tile them by grid or brick by brick, or Brick by Row, Brick by Column. We can do Hex by Column with the hex one. You might have them overlapping. So I'm going to choose brick by row right here. And with this still open, I'm going to zoom in by hitting Z on my keyboard. First, I'm gonna make my small insects even smaller. I think something maybe like this. And then making the ants a little smaller than that smallest bag, they're going to be pretty small. I went to him about the same size. I'm going to start rotating my bugs. This will give my pattern a more organic and whimsical look. I'll select my first one with the direct selection tool. I want to get just a little past the edge and rotate this bug a little bit. I'm going to move them around so I fill out the pattern a little better. The idea is to get the spacing between each insect to be about the same. Of course it doesn't have to be perfect. I think I need another ant up here. I'm holding Option or Alt to make a copy of that. Whatever changes you make, you need to keep them within this box. It's okay if it comes outside the box a little bit, you can see it'll overlap up here too. I'm going to make a copy of this one too. Maybe now we can move this down a little bit. This one over. When I zoom out, I can see the whole pattern at once. I see that maybe I need to move this bug down a little bit over. This looks pretty good. Then I'm gonna come up here to the top and just choose Done. This is updated our new pattern, which is in our swatches. Now I'm going to move off the art board. I'll make a big rectangle by hitting M to get to the rectangle tool right over here and then just clicking and dragging. I'm going to get into my appearance right over here. I'm gonna click that fill and then I'm going to choose that new pattern. This looks pretty nice. Now I think I'd like to put an off-white background in here. So to do that, I'm going to duplicate this fill by clicking it and dragging it onto the plus button down here. And then on the lower Phil, I think I'll start out with that yellow color. And then I'm going to add a new swatch. I'm just going to make this one really light cream color. I'm really liking the way this has turned out. I'm gonna go ahead and save my file with Command S or Control S. 14. Modifying Your Design and Pattern so it Shows Well on a Dark Background: Now let's say we wanted to make a pattern that goes on a dark background. Maybe we want our background to be the darker blue. If we put these insects onto a dark background, the ants will totally disappear and the feet and outlines of the others will disappear. So we need to modify our insects. So I'm gonna select these and then I'll hold Option or Alt and click and drag to make a copy, I'm going to hit M to get on my rectangle tool and just drag a background so I can see what I'm doing. And I'll make this one dark. I just chose the purple in my swatches. I'll send this to back with Shift Command and left bracket. That shift Control Left Bracket on PC. Or you can come up here to object, arrange and send to back. Now I'm going to lock this purple background by hitting Command or Control to that's right up here under Object Lock right here. Then I'm going to select all of these, and I'm going to copy with command C or control C, paste behind with Command V or Control B. So right now we have two copies of these insects. One right on top of the other one. But the one we have selected is the one underneath the one that's behind. I'm going to hit X on my keyboard, say bring the stroke to the front. You can also just click here. I'm going to choose our new swatch, that kind of cream color for my outline color. Then I'll get to my Stroke panel. And I'm going to increase this just a little bit and I'm going to double-click it so I hit all the options. You can just keep double-clicking the word and eventually you'll get to this screen. I went around the cap and the corner. Next I'm going to select each one of these and group them. And I'm hitting Command G or Control G to do that. What I'm doing now is grouping the two copies that are on top of each other. Now I can unlock my background and throw it away. So to do that, I'm going to hit Option Command to or Alt Control to, to unlock. You can also come up here to object unlock all. And then I'm just going to delete that. Now we can go through the same process. Instead of having the cream color back here, we'll have the darker blue. I'm just going to go ahead and come up here to object pattern make. I'm gonna change this to brick by row. Then we can start modifying. Now if you notice you have some parts that you don't need in the square, you can reduce the width right here in your pattern options. Let's make this 280. Then we can go ahead and continue. Then once we get the pattern to a place we like it, we can go with them. Now I can just come over here to the one I just created. I'll bring up my appearance panel. I'll click on this fill and I'm going to choose my new pattern. And I'll click on the other, fill the lower one. I'll exchange that with blue. So here's our result with this one. Now I can see that parts of this are a little too close together. So these are things I would want to modify. I just wanted to show you how you can add a light colored outline to put your pattern on a dark background. 15. Making and Modifying Your Pattern (for Illustrator CS6 and older): Now I'm going to show you another way to make a pattern and this is if you don't have a newer version of Illustrator, you also have a little bit more control here, in my opinion. So to do this, I'm going to hit M on my keyboard to get over to my rectangle tool. And then I'm going to hold shift to click and drag a perfect rectangle, and I'll hit D on my keyboard to give it a white fill and a black outline. Maybe I'll make it a little bit smaller actually. Now I'm going to hit V to select the first insect. And you'll notice this Live Paint group bounding box. So I want to get rid of those. First of all, I'm going to select everything and I'll go to object expand. We'll do object Fill and Stroke. That gets rid of the live paint group. I'm going to click on the first one and just drag it down here. Let it go off the edge of the rectangle a little. Now, you've probably noticed that your rectangle is in front of everything. So I'm gonna click on that and go to object, arrange and send to back. We're gonna zoom in here a little bit. I wanted to get just a little past the edge and rotate this bug a little bit. The way this pattern is going to work, we're going to have each insects go off the edge. It over here on this side of the square, will do that. They don't have to, but we really want to focus on this edge. I'm going to make my aunts a little bit smaller. Then we're going to position some insects along the bottom. We'll do that. I'm holding Alt or Option to make a copy. And I think it's nice if you need to make a duplicate of one of the shapes to change the colors in it. To do that, I'm going to zoom in on him and I'll hit K to get my Live Paint tool back. It will make these green and light blue. I will make this part yellow. And this part is the lighter orange. And I'll want to expand this. So I'll go to Object, Expand. Then I'll select everything. I'll hold Shift to deselect the background. I'm going to copy and paste in front with these insects. So Command C or Control C, and then Command F or Control F. And I'll group these command G or Control G. Now I need to find out the size of my rectangle. So I'm gonna select it. I'll come up here to transform. And you can see the width and height right here, which should be the same. I'm going to click in here and just hit Command a or Control a to select all. And then I'll copy it with Command C or Control C. Now I'll click on the top version of the insects, which are all grouped. And I'm going to hit V to get my selection tool and then hit Enter or Return to move these. Now in the horizontal area, I'm going to put that same number we got from the transform. So I just pasted that in it with Command V or Control V. And then vertically I want 0. I'll click in the distance even though this doesn't matter, but it helps us to preview this, make sure preview is checked. And we'll say, Okay, now you can see that these insects here have been copied in exactly the same place. So this part right here hits exactly here, and that's important for the pattern. Now I'm going to ungroup these with Shift Command G or Shift Control G. And I'll select these ones that don't cross and get rid of those. Now I'll do a similar process with these four that cross across the bottom. I'll select all of those. These select the background. And I'm gonna copy, paste in front with Command F or Control F. And then group was Command G or Control G. I'll select the box, come up here to the transform and get this number back. Copy that. Then I'll select the bugs, hit V, then Enter or Return. This time we're going to position them exactly the size of the box up here. So I'm gonna hit 0 for the horizontal, and then I'm going to paste in the number that we copied from up here, but I need to put a negative. Because if we put a positive, it moves it down here, but we need to move it up in a negative, makes it go up. We'll say, okay. Now we can see that we've got some problems with overlap here. So I'm going to select this piece. And this piece, you need to make sure to get both. Move those down a little bit. Then we can grab the next two bugs, move those over a little bit too, will need to fill in the rest of the blank area in the box with more insects. So I'll go ahead and do that. I noticed I didn't get this bug to copy up here, so I'll need to do that. I'll copy paste in front, get my height back, and then I'll hit V and Enter or Return. To put him at a negative 254. There we go. I'll need to ungroup these appear to move some of those Shift Command G or Shift Control G. Anytime you move one piece, if it's overlapping, you need to find the same piece and move it to this piece is overlapping, so I need another version over here. I'll go ahead and do that real quick. All right, now this is looking pretty nice. Maybe I'll need to move this one over a little bit. I'm just trying to get the spacing between them somewhat equal. It definitely doesn't have to be perfect, but it looks nicer in my opinion if you can get the spacing somewhat similar. Now these two, since we move these over, they've fallen off the edge so we don't need those. Finally to make the pattern. I'm going to make sure the rectangle is in the back. I'll go to object, arrange, send to back. And I also want to make sure this has no fill and no stroke. I'll get my fill in front and get rid of that. And get my stroke in front and get rid of that. Now I'm going to select everything and drag it right into my swatches. Here is the new swatch. Now, now let's test it. I'm going to hit M on my keyboard, so I get to my rectangle tool and I'm going to draw a big rectangle. I'll click on my fill over here and then I'm going to choose the swatch we just made. That is looking really nice. Now, I'll get in my appearance panel, you'll see a fill right here. That's the pattern swatch. And then I'm going to add a new fill. I'm going to click on the lower one, and now we'll add a solid behind it. So I'm just going to choose this yellow here. I'll zoom in. Yellow is pretty bright, so I'm gonna make a new swatch. And I'll just make it look more like a cream color by having a little bit more yellow than the cyan, magenta or black. This is looking good, I'll say, Okay. And now you can see we have a cream background for our pattern. Now if you want to edit this pattern, it's easy to do. You can just drag this pattern right out of your swatches onto your Canvas. This will give you the pattern that you started out with before you drag it into your swatches panel. Now it's all grouped, so we'll have to ungroup shift Command G or Control G. But then we can move things over or down and that kind of thing. And then once you're done, select everything again, hold Option or Alt on a PC and replace the pattern that you just made right over here by dragging it onto that same swatch. 16. Troubleshooting and fixing a problem in the pattern: It looks like this Aunt got chopped in half, so let's find out where that is and we can fix it. If I hit Command Y or Control Y, I can see there's an ant here that didn't get copied up here. So I can go through that same process. I'm going to hit Command Y or Control Y to get back. I'll just go ahead and do that. Copy, paste in front, get the width or height since they're the same, and copy that. And then hit V and Enter or Return to move that a negative number, we'll say, Okay, and then I'm gonna get rid of this little guy right here. Now when I select and drag it on top of the old swatch holding Option or Alt. It'll replace it. And now we don't have that problem anymore. I'm going to delete this top one because it doesn't have that little fixed aunt. 17. Adding a dark background version CS6 and older: Now let's say we want to add a dark background instead of a light cream colored one like this one. I'm going to use dark blue. But when I do that, the legs are insects and the little ants will be hidden. You won't be able to see them at all. So I went to add a white outline to my insects. To do that, I'm going to select everything. All these, select the box behind, and I'm going to copy with command C or control C, paste behind with Command B or control B. And then I'm just going to group these command G or Control G. Now I'm going to add a dark color back here, maybe this blue color. So I'll hit M on my keyboard to get to my rectangle tool. And I'm just going to draw a rectangle and then send it to the back. Okay, now we have two versions that are right on top of each other. We have this version. I'm gonna hide that one with Command E or Control three. Then we have this version which is behind. This is the one we want to add a stroke to. I'm going to click on the stroke right over here. We'll choose the new cream color we made. And I'll click on my stroke. If you're not seeing all these options, you can double-click the word stroke of u times and it should kinda toggle through the options. I'm going to increase the weight. That looks pretty good. Maybe something like that. And then I'm going to come up here to Object, Show All. And now we can see the one that was on top. So this is what our new pattern will look like. I'm going to click on this big rectangle and delete it. And then I'll select everything here and drag it in as a new swatch. Now we can apply it to this rectangle over here. Let's just make a new rectangle. I'm going to copy this one by holding Shift and Option or Alt. I'll click on this. I'll go to my appearance. We can see our Phil will want to change this to the new pattern we made. And then we want to change our background to the dark blue color. Now when we zoom in, we can see we have a completely different look for our pattern. 18. Scaling Your Pattern: Alright, now I want to show you how to scale a pattern. Now let us say you want these insects to be a little smaller. I'm going to select all with Command a or Control a and just delete. Then I'll hit Command 0 or Control Zero to center it in the space. I'm gonna get my rectangle tool and I'm going to select the swatch that we made. And I'll just draw a rectangle as big as I want. Now let's say I want these to be about half the size that they are. I can hit S to get to my scale tool, which is right over here, and then hit Enter or Return. And we'll make sure that transform patterns is checked. We'll say, okay, now we'll get back on my selection tool and I'll get on the corner and just drag those in, holding Shift to scale proportionally. So now you can see that the insects have reduced in size. Now if I want to make my rectangle bigger again, I can hit S to get to my Scale Tool, hit Enter or Return and uncheck transform patterns. We can resize the rectangle now without resizing the pattern. If you want to resize the pattern itself, you'll want to get in there and scale and choose Transform Patterns. That's the trick. Or if you don't, then you uncheck that. 19. Setting Up a File via Printing Specs and Exporting: Now let us talk a little bit about exporting. If you're willing to actually get your design printed on fabric, you'll want to get in touch with a printing company. You can set up your file the way that they need. So let's just say the company requests a twelv by 12 inch JPEG with a DPI of 150. To set that up, we can start a new file. So we'll go to File New. And then here we can change this to inches and we'll make it 12 by 12 CMYK and will create, I'm going to grab our rectangle from the other file, copy it, and paste it in. When you do that, you'll notice this swatch comes in right down here. Now I'm going to position this in the upper-right, extended all the way to the size of the art board. Now if your pattern is, are you sizing, you'll want to make sure that under scale, if you double-click that or hit Enter or Return, this transform patterns is unchecked and say, okay, make sure you also don't have a stroke. So I'm going to click on my Stroke and get rid of that. Now I can go to File, Export, Export As we'll choose JPEG down here. I'm going to choose Use Artboards. I'll call this insects. And then I'll export. I'll leave the color model as CMYK. And then for the resolution will want to put in a 150 PPI. Then we'll say, okay, now when we go and look at the file we exported, here it is right here. We have a twelv by 12 inch JPEG at 150 PPI, then we can just send this file to our printer. 20. Create files for use on the web: Let's say you just wanted to use your pattern digitally. Maybe a cover image on your Facebook page. Right now the Facebook cover photo size is 851 by 315 pixels. We'll come back here to Illustrator. We can go to File New. This time I'm going to use pixels and we'll change this to 851 by 315. Will create. Now will need to grab our rectangle with the pattern in it, copy it, and paste it into this document. And it doesn't have to be exactly the same size. In fact, I just let it hang off a little bit to make sure there's no white edge. Of course, if we wanted a cream background, we can add a new fill. Click on the lower one, choose a yellow color and maybe we'll just change this to the cream color we are using earlier or something similar. There we go. Since this is going to be for screen, we'll go to File Export, Export for Screens. Here's the export to location. I don't need a bleed, so I'm going to uncheck that. I can click on the folder icon to choose a different location. I'll put it right here on my desktop and we'll export art board. When we do this, we'll get a little folder that says one x and inside it will be our new Facebook cover photo. So then we can just upload that onto Facebook. Whenever you're exporting, you'll need to decide whether it's going to be for print or screens and then export accordingly. 21. Create Your Project: All right, Now there's one more step and that is to create your project. For the project, I'd like you to take a few of your own designs, your hand drawings, and then vectorize them, colorize them, and then make an awesome surface pattern design and upload it right here on Skillshare. I hope you've enjoyed this class as much as I have and I can't wait to see what you create. 22. 22 What's Next: Now if you're ready to level up your illustrator game, I do have a few beginner and intermediate level classes, so please take a look at those if you get a chance. All right, I'll see you in the next class. Thank you.