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1. Introduction to the Class: Hello and welcome to my class where we are going
to be learning how to illustrate a seamless
repeating foliage pattern using our ipads
and Adobe Fresco. I've designed this
class for people who are wanting to learn
how to use Adobe Fresco. Who want to venture into the world of creating
seamless repeating patterns. And if you just want to get a little bit creative
and try something new, this class is suitable
for beginners. And what I'm going to do
is I'm going to walk you through the creation
of a seamless, repeating pattern
just like this one. But don't worry if you don't
know Adobe Fresco yet. Because at every step of the way I'm going to
teach you and introduce you to a new tool that you
can master in adobe fresco. And at the end of it, you're
going to have a beautiful, seamless pattern that you
can use just for fun. Or you can start
venturing into creating seamless pattern tiles for you to sell on sites
like Red Bubble. Or you might want
to create digital papers to sell on Etsy. Or you might want could be a seamless pattern that you use in your
branding for your business. There are so many different uses of seamless repeating pattern. And it is absolutely my
privilege to be able to teach you the
foundations of both illustrating in
adobe fresco as well as making your pattern
seamless and repeating. Here's what we're going
to learn in this class. Firstly, we're going
to find inspiration. What better place to find
inspiration than in nature, especially when we're
creating a natural pattern. We're going to look
at how to figure out what motifs to
include in our pattern. Then we're going to
bring it back to our ipad and I'm
going to teach you how to illustrate using
different tools in Adobe fresco. So that at each step
you're going to become comfortable
with using each tool. The beauty of this
pattern is it's going to be a lot of repeating motifs. You are really going
to be able to master the tools that you're
using in adobe fresco. Then I'm going to teach
you how to rearrange your motifs and position them so that they become
a repeating pattern. We're going to start by creating
these in a single color, because as we go, I'm going to teach
you different ways that you can actually
recolor your artwork. It's an important skill
to have because what if you create something and you're not happy
with the colors, you need to know
how to change it. But we're also going
to explore some of the textured brushes as well as the live water color
and oils brushes. Then I'm going to
walk you through how to prepare your
pattern so that it becomes seamless and
infinitely repeating. And at the end of the class, I want you to share your
pattern work with me. So that's your project
for this class. By day I run a business where I am a branding
and graphic designer. I design for other people, but in my spare time you
can find me ipad in hand, drawing seamless
repeating patterns. Just for me, it is a
beautiful, seething hobby. I think it's lovely
creative therapy. So it is a real privilege
for me to bring that into your world a little
bit so that you can enjoy creating seamless
patterns as well. But it would bring me so
much joy if you could share the patterns that
you create from this class in the class project, I would love to see them. And also, even if you
would like some guidance, I can provide some feedback
for you on your patterns. If you're ready to illustrate
a beautiful, seamless, repeating foliage
pattern with me, go and grab your
ipad and let's go.
2. Finding Inspiration: What I find really
helpful when illustrating a seamless pattern is to find something
that inspires you. It can be quite
difficult to illustrate anything or design anything
without some inspiration, because some people
are lucky enough to be able to create something
just from imagination. But I find that
it's a lot easier. And you're able to really extend your creative
legs, so to speak, If you are creating
from inspiration, when we're creating something, whether it's floral or foliage, or something based on animals. If you're creating a
pattern like that, the best thing to do is
find some photos or go out, go to your local park, into your local nature reserve, take your ipad with you, do some sketches so you can have a look at the different shapes, the different forms structure. Even just one plant to the next can have a different leaf shape. All the different leaf
shapes are going to give a completely different
aesthetic to your pattern. I guess you can do
is you can go out, you can take your
ipad and you can do some sketches of different leaf patterns,
different leaf shapes. Just see how many you
can sketch on one page, You might find that there's
one over the other that, that you would really like
to bring to your pattern. That's one way you
can find inspiration. Another way you can
take your ipad or your phone camera and
just go for another walk. You can even just do this in your garden where you just take pictures of an individual
leaf or an individual branch. Just take different photos
and you can bring them into adobe fresco later so that you can
start tracing them. That's your task
for this lesson, is to just go out and
find some inspiration, take some photos,
do some sketches. Just find and explore all the different
shapes that you can find in leaves in nature.
3. Setup Your Canvas: All right, now that we've
got some inspiration for the foliage or the leaves that we want to use
in our pattern, Now it's time to
head to the ipad. If you haven't already
downloaded Adobe Fresco, you're going to want to do that. It is actually free
from the app store, but we're going to go
into Adobe Fresco. First thing I want to do
is teach you how to set up the right sized art board for your seamless
repeating pattern. Okay? You're going to have a few different sizes like
preset default sizes, but what we're going to
do is I'm going to show you how to create
your own custom size. Okay, where it hit says
here, start a new document. If you're not
seeing this screen, just click on the left
hand side menu onto Home. Click on Home and have a look where it says
Start a New Document. And you're just going to
click Custom Size here. Okay. It's also going
to bring you up a lot of different your re sizes. It's going to have some
saved digital print sizes. They're all just common
sizes that you might use. But we're going to
create a custom size one over here on the right hand side where
it says New Document. You want to ensure
that next to unit, you've got pixels set. You've got inches, centimeters, millimeters. We want pixels. Okay. Click on the W for
width, H for height. Your width. We must ensure that our patent
tile is squared. For this tutorial, we
want to create it at 3,000 pixels by 3,000 pixels. Okay, so enter that in. That's going to give us
a nice square art board. Orientation. Doesn't matter
because we're square. We want to click down
here to print size. Okay. By default it's going
to set us probably 272 PPI, which is pixels per inch. Ensure that PPI is selected, not PPCM pixels per
centimeter PPI. And let's set this 2300. Now I have found
that for most uses, this size is ideal
for a patent tile. Because we can use it for
things like print on demand, we can use it for
creating digital papers. But it's not so huge
that it's going to take up a lot of room on our ipads or on our computers
and that sort of thing. Back, leave it set to white. For now, we can always hide the background if you
want a transparent background, but for now let's
leave it white. Okay, now create this document. If you plan on doing a
lot of patterns like me, just quick save this
size and then it will end up landing in
your saved section. Okay, but for now, let's
create our document. All right, now we have our art board where
we can zoom in and out. We've got our square
artboard here, used Adobe Fresco before. I'm just going to give you a quick little rundown
of what you can see. Okay. On the right hand side
down here, this is one menu. You've got your top menu, and then you've got your left menu. All right, The left
hand side menu is going to be your brushes. You've got three different
types of brushes, which we'll go through shortly. You've got your eraser, move, lasso tool, pate brush,
tool shapes, text. We're not going to go
through all of them, but I'm going to take you
through most of them. Along the top here you've
got a few different options. This is where you're going
to edit the artboard size, so your settings, you save settings forward
and back, okay. So if you make some mistakes, you're going to want to
get to know this, okay? But you've got your
backspace and your redo, and the name of your file, okay? And on the right hand side, these are the menus that are
associated with your layers. Okay, You're going to have a lot of layers
with your artwork today. You will get familiar with a few of the tools in this
particular menu. But don't stress if
you're coming into this program and
you're a little bit overwhelmed with all
the tools, don't worry, I'm going to walk you
through them step by step, Introducing a new
tool at each stage, so you're going to be
really comfortable learning each of the tools. Okay, so it might seem a little bit daunting now
with all the menus, especially if you've never
used Adobe Fresco before. If you have used Adobe Fresco, you'll be familiar
with the layout. But for now, I would really
like to start drawing. So let's get stuck into drawing some of
our leaf patterns.
4. Drawing with Vector Brush: Okay, so the one
good thing about leaf patterns is
they are so varied, there's so many shapes in
nature, it's just incredible. So what we're going
to start doing is I'm going to teach you the
vector brush, okay? So you've got a
few brushes here, we've got a few brushes here, And the top three that we're
going to be working with, you're going to have
your pixel brushes, you're going to have
your live brushes, and you're going to have
your vector brushes. I'm going to first introduce
you to this vector brush. First of all, if you ever want to delve into
vector patterns, and you're using Adobe Fresco, you're going to want to get to know this brush
really, really well. But I love it because
the vector side of it, it produces such
beautiful, clean lines. And it's much easier to recolor them if you want to create
vector patterns later on. It's a good way to start. But I also want to teach you the different types of brushes. Now what I want you to do is
select your vector brush. Now in this menu, you've got all your different types
of vector brushes. Feel free to explore
those in your own time, just testing out the different
brushes that you can get. I'm not going to teach you in here how to create
your own brushes. It's a bit beyond scope
of this particular class. So we're just going to explore just the simple
basic round brush. Okay, select your round brush, okay, click the icon
to come out of it. Now I want to introduce
a little menu here. This is going to be your
best friend in terms of shaping your brushes and letting it do what
you want it to do. Okay, First of all,
I'll go through each of the different options. This is your recolor brush. If you tap on that black icon or the icon color will change depending on what
color you're using. But you can see here that we can change the
color of our brush, we can also the
hue of our brush, and we can change the
saturation of our brush. Now, I tend to always start
designing my patterns in black and gray
because I'd like to choose my colors later.
That's entirely up to you. If you know which colors you
want to use and you want to you want to start illustrating in
color perfectly fine. Okay, That's your method. I've got my method. All right. If you want to follow
along the way that I do it, then we're
going to start. Just choose one
color to start with. Doesn't have to be black,
doesn't have to be gray. Just choose one
color to start with. For me, I'm going to start in black because it's going to give you a nice good contrast
for this tutorial as well. The next option here, yours, will be set to
probably something different. This is the size of your brush. If I go to a large size and
test it, that's a large line. If we go to a smaller, you can see that it adjusts
the size of your brush. For this tutorial, I'm going to recommend a size 5-10 okay? I tend to go about 7.5
That's going to give us a nice line to create fine
lines with our brush now. But you might find a
different size will be better for you if you need
to adjust it as you go. Be my guest. This tutorial, we're not going to need
these two settings. We'll introduce them
in a later class. But for now I'm just
going to clear my lines. I'm set to black 7.5 is
the size of my brush. Now let's get stuck into
drawing some leaves. Okay, This is a
nice simple brush where we can just
draw on our upboard. If you make a mistake, take two fingers and double tap your screen if
you went too far, three fingers a screen. Okay, Two fingers. Don't double tap the screen. Just single tap
screen, that redo. Okay. It's a very
handy short cut when you're illustrating. All right, So let's go ahead
and draw some leaf shapes. Okay? Zooming a little bit on your artboard at about 90% You can see how
far I'm zoomed in. Up here, I'm at about
90% I would like to start leaf shapes. Okay, I'd like to
start with the stem. Can you just drawing some
simple leaf shapes now? This is the leaf shape that
I'm using for this tutorial. I want you to copy me
if you would like to. But if you want to create your own leaf shape,
go right ahead. This is your creative time where you get to do
things your way. I'm going to draw a couple of different leaf shapes just to illustrate how versatile
our natural world is. For this tutorial, we are going to focus on
just having one leaf shape, but for now we're
just practicing using the vector brush and just exploring different shapes with our leaves. All right, so you can see
that different stems, different leaf shapes,
different placements. I'm going to give you
a completely different aesthetic with your leaf shape. So we've got a few there we
can create, you have a fur. The other thing that you can
play around with as well is lines in your shape. Because it changes
it up, isn't it? The other thing you can do as well is if you're
creating your leaf shape, if you would like them to be an outline creates
one aesthetic. But if you come over here
to your paint bucket tool, click on that, you can fill them in and it creates a
whole different aesthetic. I would like for you to
just spend some time just sketch, sketch some leaves. You might even want to go,
let's go with a Monstera. Okay, I'm not happy
with that one. Let's go backwards
with our Monstera. If you create an outline
that looks like a bum, okay, color it in. Now let me introduce
you to the eraser tool. All right, the eraser
tool, select it. Just like with our vector brush, we can change the size of it. We can create a cute little mostert down a little bit. As you can see, different leaves produce different shapes. You can just sketch away. Practice using in vector brush.
Get comfortable with it. Get comfortable with the erasor. Get comfortable with
your shortcuts. 2.3 fingertaps, just see what leaves that
you want to produce. Now, previously I mentioned for you to go out into nature, do sketch of leaves that you see or taking some photos
of what you see. I want to show you
how you can bring those photos into adobe
fresco so that you can use them to trace and to use them as inspiration actually within
your artboard. Okay. So what I'm going to do here
is I would like to start afresh and completely
refresh my artboard. What I'm going to do is
I'm going to come over here and this is where we start learning about how to manipulate
your layers. All right? You may or may not see
your layers down here. If you can't see them, come up to the top
here and click the layers icon and that
will show your layers. You'll see all of your
artwork on the one layer. What I'd like for
you to do is to tap it so that you can see all of these new options
for your layer. And I'm just going
to clear the layer. I don't want anything
on it, so I'm going to clear it. Okay. The next thing I want to
do is we want to bring in some photos into our artboard. Come over to the
left hand side menu. You can see I'm a bit shaky. You can see the
image icon there. What we want to do
is click that and we just want to Quick Photos, that's going to
access our photos where you can see I've got
a few photos here of kids, but also of some leaves
that I have taken. What I'm going to do is
let's choose this one. This is actually a tomato
plant of all things, but it had a really,
really unique shape. I'm going to work on that one for this particular
section of the tutorial. Once you have placed your image, if you see the circles
in the corners, you can re size. What I want you to
do is just resize it to roughly the
size. I can see that. That's going to, if I trace
this main leaf shape, it's not going to take
up too much of my board. You can always resize
your motifs, no problem. All right, if you want
to move the artboard, you can just tap
and hold to drag. Let's just pop it in the
center when you're ready. Once it's positioned and
resized, just click done. That'll take you out
of the transform menu. Now I want you to take note
here on the right hand side, you've got now three
different layers. The first one is your
white background layer. The second one is the
layer that we were using before when we were practicing
with our vector brushes. And the third layer
is our image layer. What we want to do is we
want to make sure that we are not actually
drawing on our image. I want you to
create a new layer, which just to the
right hand side here, you've got a square with a plus button that
creates a new layer, new, blank, fresh layer,
for you to work with. I would recommend positioning
it above your image, But just coming back to
your image layer now, it's a good idea just to reduce the opacity of the transparency. Increase the transparency
a little bit. Just so that when
you draw over it, you can still see your lines, but you can also see the image. What we're going
to do is click on your image layer and come up to, you can see this like
a slider setting here. Just tap on that. This is brought up the
properties of the layer. You can see opacity. Just click on the circle, just drag it down. And you can see that the opacity of my image is going down. If we bring it down for me, around 30 is enough where
I can still see the shape, but I will still be able to
see my drawing on top of it. Okay, let's close that menu. Okay, now just remember, tap on your new layer so that you're not drawing
on your image layer. Come back over and select
your nectar brush. Okay, The setting should
still be the same. Now let's zoom in and let's
just tracing our image. What I'm going to do
is I'm just going to start with my stem. All right? And so now I'm just going to start roughly tracing my leaves. If you're not happy,
two fingertap is going to erase what
you've just done. Okay? So we're just tracing. You don't have to
trace everything, just take the elements
that you like. What I'm going to do
up here is I'm just going to start drawing in, you can see that the lines or the varigations
in the leaf. I'm just going to
copy some of them. This is how you take
inspiration from a photo. You can do the same
thing if you did some sketching
earlier and you can import that into your
document. There we go. Now, once you've finished that, you can tap on your image layer, see the eye here, that will toggle the
visibility of this layer. We haven't deleted it, we
just can't see it anymore. It's not going to affect when we're going to
create our pattern.
5. Setup a Diamond Guide: All right, so by now you've had quite a bit of
experience drawing with your vector brush and just experimenting with
different leaf shapes. So now let's start with our actual motifs that we're going to be using
within our pattern. First thing we want
to do is just want to draw a guide that's going to help us stick within the bounds of the seamless
repeating pattern. Okay, so we want
to start afresh. Now, if you want to keep this first motif
that you have drawn, then by all means
leave that one. But I will not be
using this motif. I'm going to be doing a
different pattern for this one. So what I'm going to do
is just tap on the layer. I'm just going to delete it. I'm also going to
delete this layer. Let's start nice and cleanly. Okay, I'm going to
draw the first layer. I'm going to create a
new layer for my guide. What I'm going to do is
I'm going to show you a technique using
the fill bucket. Okay, so tap on the fill bucket, make sure your
layer is selected. And just tap says how would
you like to fill this layer? I want to fill it in vector. Okay, now this is going to make sense as we
go through the tutorial. Just bear with me.
Okay, what we have essentially now is
a vector square. Come over to the transform. This is activated.
The transform menu. I'm just going to zoom out
a little bit to show you. We've got our square, hour circles to
resize our square. You've also got another
one here for rotate. What we want to do is we just
want to tap that hold and rotate to the right. You want it to hit
45 degrees exactly. If we're going to the left, we want it at -45
degrees exactly. All right, it's
important that we get that right to 45 degrees. Let's position it in the center. And we just want to
resize it until it snaps to the edge of
our artboard, right? All right, so this guide that
we have created is going to really help us when we are
making our pattern seamless. But what we're going to do for
now is we're just going to come to the opacity,
the layer properties. And adjust the
opacity right down so we can just see our
square, our diamond. Now we've got our layer set, so we're going to actually start designing or illustrating
our pattern. Now we've got our guide here, let's just leave it
there and create a new pattern, a new layer, sorry, so that we can start illustrating and
popping our motifs in.
6. Draw Your Pattern Motifs: On our new layer.
Come back over to your vector brush and make sure it's the right color
and size for you. We're going to zoom in,
and what I want you to do is start placing or drawing your illustrations
inside this guide. Okay, make sure you're
not spilling over, but you don't have to draw them right up against the edge. Okay, just start zooming in and start drawing
your illustrations. Don't feel that they have
to be absolutely perfect, just remember to
have fun with it. One thing that I want to
share with you now is I'm going to fill in my leaves. I've just gone and use
the paint bucket tool. I'm just filling in each shape. Now one thing that you'll notice here is that my motif is really big. I don't
want it that big. I'm going to select the
layer that it's on. I'm going to come over here
to the transform tool. If you need to re size
your motif, your leaf, then just come into
the transform tool and adjust the size of it. Okay? All right. I'm going to now create
my second motif. One thing that you can do is you can draw each motif
on a different layer, and that makes it easier for
you to move around later. I'm going to come
and create another layer for my next motif. And I'm going to zoom back
in and start drawing. Drawing is it's all right to make mistakes. Because the beauty is, we are doing this digitally. We can erase our mistakes. A long time ago when you
do patterns on paper, it was a lot less
margin for error. We're very blessed to have digital technology to help
us do our patterns now. Okay, So as you can see, I'm loosely filling my diamond coming right up to the edge. I'm not coming right
up to the edge that I'll explain why later, but I'm probably
just going to pop. Okay, I'm just going to probably one more
here in the corner. Now with your motif, we've got a lot
of branches here. But one thing that you
might want to do as well, one thing that I'm
going to do with my design is we'll have space. Space, that's not
enough to put a branch, but we can fill it
with individual. Because with a seamless
repeating pattern, often there will be times where you'll have space that you
don't want to be there, but we need consistency
in a seamless pattern. Otherwise, if you have inconsistencies that does tend to show up in a repeat pattern, what we're going to do
is we're just going to fill the spaces equally. The keys with patterns
is consistency. If you have a lot of space
between your motifs, make sure there's
consistency, a lot of space. If you don't have
a lot of space, make sure that each of your motifs are consistently
tight together. What I'm going to do here is
I'm going to fill some of these spaces with
individual leaves. Whoops, They're going to be, you can do the same leaf or
you can do similar leaves. Now, as you can see
with this part, I've got a random dot
there that I don't want. So I'm just going to
use my razor tool. You got to find, going to find the layer that
it's on. There we go. Okay, I'll come
back to my layer, come back to my vector brush and I'm just going
to equally fill the spaces with my leaves. Okay, at this point, it does not need to be perfect. You've got plenty
of opportunities to improve your design. Whoops, as we go. Okay, what's happened here? Let me explain what's
happened here. I've gone to paint, brush my motif, but it's
filled in the whole screen. What's happened here
is there's going to be a gap somewhere
in my leaf. You just need to
explore your leaf. Fill the gap, then you'll be able to fill your
leaf as well. All right? Okay, so what we've got now we have our guide that has been
filled with our motifs. Okay, but we're not on the edge. We will fix that later.
7. Recolour with Vector Brush: Okay, now in this video, I want to show you how to recolor your motifs
using the vector brush. Okay, for now I
would like to merge all of my layers onto
one. You can do the same. If you would prefer to work
with your layers separately, then that is perfectly fine too. To merge our layers, what we're going to do
is we're going to come over here into the layers panel. If your layers aren't showing, you can just click the layers
button, the layers icon. What we're going to do is
we're just going to select one layer and give it a tap. And you'll see an option here
that says select multiple, then tap all of your layers, all of your motif layers. We don't want to merge
with our guide layer. Make sure that is not selected. Then what we can do
is if you tap these, you won't be able
to access the menu again because you're
in the Select option. But what you can do is
come here to the ellipses menu and then we're just
going to merge Selected. What we've got now is all of our motifs are on
the same layer. You can move, you
can re size if you like A, a little bit smaller. Okay, and then click done. We've still got our guide layer separate because we're not going to keep that in
our final design. We do not want that
merging with our motifs. But we've got our motifs here and it is still in
a vector layer. What I want to show
you now is how to recolor your motifs
in the vector layer. What we want to do is we want to come over to the
left hand side. We want to come over to
our paint bucket tool. All we need to do is choose
the color that we would like. Let's go for a nice green. What you'll see down here, and I'll just point this out, do you remember the photo
that we brought in, this palette here
is actually pulling colors from the photo
that we imported in here. If you want to use that photo for color inspiration as well, that's a really good hint here. But what I'd like to
do is I'm a bit fond of like the mint color. I'm going to choose that color. Once I've selected my
color in the paint brush, all we need to do
is come through and tap the areas that
we want to recolor. If you have your motifs
on separate layers, you're going to have to select the layer before you color it. Otherwise it will color
the background like that. If you would like to say if you would like each motif to be a different
color, you can do that too. One thing you need to
be aware of though, is if you have any bold, contrasting colors, they will stick out in
a repeating pattern. Say if I had, all of my motifs
were all the same color, but I decided to go with a dark green for this
motif over here. Because there's such
a big contrast. This leaf here would stick
out in the repeating pattern. And it would be noticeable
that it's repeating. What we want to do is we want to have a nice even spread of color with minimal contrast
in a pattern like this. All right? But if
you wanted to leave your pattern with this
full block color, then you can actually skip
the next couple of lessons. I'd encourage you to
do the lessons anyway, because I'm going to
teach you how to recolor using your pixel brushes and
using your live brushes, and it's pretty fun to learn. I'd encourage you to follow through with the next ones too.
8. Create a Layer Mask: In this lesson, I'm going to introduce you to
the pixel brush. So what we're going to do
is we're going to recolor our motifs in the pixel brush. But first we're going
to create a layer mask, and I'll show you
why in a moment. Coming back to our motif layer, what we want to do is we
want to create a layer mask. What that's going to
do is it's going to hide all of the areas
that are white. All right, all areas around
where we've actually drawn how to do that is. What we're going to do is we are going to
tap on the layer, make sure it's selected, and then we are going
to mask layer contents. Okay, so you can see we
now have this pinky color, pinky red color that's indicating to us which
areas are masked. You'll notice that everywhere that you have drawn a motif, you can see is in
your original color and everywhere around it is red. Basically what happens
is if you were to color in there with a pixel
brush or a live brush, it would only color
within your motif zones. When you're using the pixel
brushes and the live brushes, you don't have to worry about falling outside of the line. You can recolor without
worrying about it. And that is super
helpful when using specifically your live
brushes that tend to, especially the water color
where they tend to spread. Okay, in the layers panel, you'll see that in the thumbnail surrounded by red and everything
inside of it is white. We just want to swipe to the
right to reveal the layer. You can see that the layer
mask is still there. But what we want to do now is duplicate this layer
and I'll tell you why. This is going to be our guide. Just hide this
layer for a second. The top layer come back
to the bottom layer. We're just going to reduce
the layer opaqitynjee. We can just see it. Then come back to our top layer, release the visibility
so you can see it again. What we're going to do
is we're just going to clear the layer to remove any
of the color that we have. You'll notice that we
still have our clip, our clipping mask there. All right, what's
going to happen? We're going to come over
here to our pixel brush, which is already selected. Let's just, before we
add any pixel brushes, just select the layer, come down and convert
to pixel layer. Because what would happen if we miss that step and we come
over to our pixel brush? We start drawing, you'll notice that it just created
a new pixel layer. It's not our layer mask, You'll notice that
it is coloring outside of the layer mask. We're going to tap backwards and make sure that we convert
this to a pixel layer. All right, so now and let me zoom in to show
you what happens here when I color in
with the pixel brush. It's only coloring
within the guide. Okay.
9. Recolour with Pixel Brush: What you're going
to do now is come over and select the colors
that you'd like to use. I'm going to go with
something different. Let's play with pink. Let's play with a bit of pink. Okay, when you come
into your pixel brush, you've got so many options. I want you to just go through
and just choose something. It looks really effective if you choose something with
a bit of texture. Let's go into dry media. You've got soft chalk, rough pencil, it's
very dry media. Rough pencil, that's what
we were in painting. You might have some
scrapy brushes there, each one having
different textures. Well, no one's pretty cool,
let's stick with that one. What we're going to do is
we're just going to color in. You can see that pressure
makes it darker, your pen is pressure sensitive. Play around filling your motifs
with different textures, different amount, and it gives
it such beautiful texture. The other thing you can do is incorporate a new color into it. All right, let's look at, let's bring some blue into it. The other thing I want to
talk to you about with the pixel brushes is
when it's introducing a, basically a new idea that we didn't have
in the vector brush. We've got our color,
we've got our size. In doing this work, you want to create quite a large size. If it's too small, it's going to be a bit too rough. Not
great for this effect. Choose quite a nice brush size. Then what we can do as well
is this next option is flow. That is the amount of, the amount of media
you're placing in there. It's almost like the opaquity. If you slide it right
down, quite low, you're going to have to cover it more because it's not
going to be quite as dark. That might be the effect
that you're looking for. You can add differences
in color to your motifs. This is why we have a
guide because I nearly forgot that brush that leaf. All right, if you
increase the flow, you can see it's going
to be a lot harsher. All right? So play around
with the settings to create the effect that you
want for your pattern. This is your pattern,
your creative time. I want you to have fun with it. All right, so if we've gone
through and we've added the texture then the
color to our leaves. Okay, I'm going to go back
and I'm just going to add a little bit more pink into
some of these areas. This one here is missing
out a little bit. Okay, make sure I haven't
missed any leaves. All right. Now, once you've
finished recoloring, just come back to
your guide layer. Just hide it because it'll
drop in opaquity a little bit. You'll just notice between that it just a little bit
darker and lighter. That's because I'm showing
the guide layer underneath.
10. Recolour with Live Brush: So now we've explored how we can recolor our motifs
with the pixel brush. This time I'm going to introduce
you to the live brushes. Now, adobe fresco is quite
unique in that it has the live brushes that behave
almost like live paint. Okay, so what we're going
to do is we're going to clear this layer and we're going to play around
with the live brushes. What I'd like for you
to do with this one, just switch your
guide layer back on. But what I want you to do, I want you to duplicate
this layer because you may love what you've created here and you may want
to keep that later. Okay, so we're
going to duplicate the layer and then just hide
the bottom one. All right. So that means that the
artwork that you've done with the pixel
brush is still there if you want to
work with that one, but you still have the chance to play around with
the live brushes. Now that you've got a duplicate, we want to just open up the menu and we just want
to clear it again. Now what you can
see is we have got the pixel layer here that
we can play around with, but we've also still
got our guides beneath that we can work on. Now I'm going to introduce
you to the live brush, which is the brush with the water droplet.
The second one down. Okay, Open up your menu
and what you'll see is you've got water color
and oil Pt. All right. I'll start with the oil pint. Choose the round for now. Actually, you can
probably choose anyone. I'm just going to go with
the round one for now. Okay, then I want to
bring up our menu. What I want to do is, again, I would like a
reasonably large brush to play around with, with flow. Let's keep it about
halfway for now. Okay, now you'll
notice that there is an extra setting
here, paint mix. The unique thing about the
live brushes is it's a way that we can digitally
play with the effects of wet paint and how they
merge and mix together. All right, with the paint mix, let's keep it somewhere
in the region of probably half to 34 full. You can play around with these settings to get
different effects. And that's how we're
going to learn how to use these brushes, basically. If we're going to
leave it there, let's choose a different
color. Do we want to go? I want to use some nice
contrasting colors to show you the mix here. I'm going to start
with the green. I'll just move my
menu out of the way. Let's zoom in so I can show you what's going
to happen here. All right, if we color in using our live brush for
purposes of demonstration, I just reduce the
size of it and I'm going to come through
with a dark blue. Watch what happens
when I start mixing. It's like I'm using real paints. If I come over here,
I'm painting in blue. But as soon as we
introduce a new color, it's going to start
blending if you want. Blending effects, awesome
brush to do this. Likewise, let's change to a, bring the pink in here
and blend our colors. How cool is that? You can create some really
beautiful effects. But just bear in mind here
if you've ever worked with like acrylic paints and
you've done paint mixing, there are color
combinations that adds not going to
come out nicely. If we were to add, if I was to say do a pink smear and then
go straight to a green, guess what color that's going
to mix into? Yoki Brown. Okay, the rules of mixing paints are going
to apply here as well. Now I'm going to show
you the water color. If you are choosing
a watercolor brush, we're going to
have another play. Let's just go with
the water color soft, watercolor wash soft. You've got more
options here as well. Let's go back to our
blue and pink brush. Size is the same. We want quite a
decent size brush around about 100 would be good. Okay, so we've got flow. Now this represents basically if you think about
live painting, you're going to get
different effects depending on how much paint you load onto your brush and how much water you
load onto your brush. Okay, so these menu options
are roughly the same. The flow represents how much paint you've
got on your brush, let's leave it about halfway. And then your water
flow represents how much water you've
got on your brush. And obviously,
with water colors, the more water we have, the lighter our colors are going to be and the more
they're going to spread. Okay, let me demonstrate. If I have zero water flow, let's start applying
some water color. Basically, it's quite
dry at the moment. If I keep adding paint
just like water color, the more layers you have, the darker it's going to get. Okay. And watch what happens when I introduce a
higher water flow. It's going to start blending
just like real water color. Let's introduce some over
here and watch what happens. The beauty of this using
this though is that it, it will stay wet until
you dry it. All right. What I'm going to do is
I'm going to add some of that pink in opens
is it's blending, It's live water color, cool. Okay, You might get to a stage where you've added
a lot of color, but you want it
to stop blending. Okay, let me show you
how to dry your layer. All right, So once you've
brought these together, you want them to stop blending? Click on your layer. Dry layer. Okay, It has stopped
it in its tracks. Essentially, this
layer is now dry. However, if I was to
reintroduce more color, just like when you add
more water to your brush, it does start activating
the water color again. If I bring some more
color over to this, it's going to start
blending again. But you'll have those
artifacts here where it's wet paint has approached on dry
watercolor paint and it creates those effects. You may love that texture. You may incorporate that as your motifs as
part of your design. And that's a okay, because
remember this is your pattern. Basically what we want
to do here is just explore adding color
to your motifs. You may want to do
different colors for all of your motifs. Just
play around with it. What I'm going to do is
I'm going to restart. It's going to click on my layer and I'm going to
clear the layer, but you'll see that I
still have my layer mask. What I'm going to
do is I'm going to stick with the
blues and purples, but I'm going to come down
to like a more muted color. I love pastels. That's what I'm
going to stick with. Okay, I've chosen my color. I'm going to make
my brush bigger. I'm just going to start
coloring in my motives. As you can see, I'm
actually being, there's no finesse here, there's no perfection here. We don't need perfection. But we do want to ensure that A, we want to ensure
that all of the, we want to ensure that
all areas are covered. Because if I was to
hide my guide layer, you can see that they're
not really full leaves. It's okay to have a few gaps, but we just want to
make sure that we're covering everywhere with color. Okay, You'll probably
build on this, especially if you're using
the water color brush. There's going to be a lot of building because we
can always add color. It's a little bit harder
to take color away. Feel free to jump back and forth between, between your colors. I'm just going to
come back to blue. Add a bit more blue in here. You can see I love the
effect that this has. It's just like got
gentle gradients and a beautiful
mix of color here. If you want to add a third
color in being my guest, I'm going to go with
a little bit of teal. I think that will
probably look nice, just touches of teal to
just add that color. I am pretty happy with that now. I'm going to leave
that as is that you go ahead and just continue having
fun with the live brushes. You can go back to
your pixel brush if you prefer, and
add that texture. That way you can go back to the vector brush or you can play around with
the water color brush. As I said, this is your pattern and we're going to
do it your way.
11. Arrange Your Pattern: All right, so we have
reached a point where we have our motifs in the
center of artboard. And we've got them colored
beautifully in either vector. We might have them
in the pixel brush with some texture or we might have it in the live
brush oils or water color. But basically what we have
is within our diamond guide, we've got the base
of our pattern. What I'm going to
show you now is how we can start rearranging and preparing our pattern tile so that it becomes seamless. Okay, what we're doing
in this part here, we've got our layer. I would encourage you
to make a copy and hide it. Duplicate layer. And hide the layer that
you want to just store. I'm going to move
them down below my guide layer just to
keep them out of the way. The reason I do this
is because if we make a mistake or we accident
and delete a layout, something like that, at least we've got it there
to come back to. What I'm going to do is
I'm just going to delete. I'll actually hide
my guide layer. We can always clean
these layers up later. But basically what we have here, we have our motif layer, our pattern design layer, and then we've got
our guide layer. At this point, we want
to start preparing our pattern tile so that it
can be infinitely repeated. What's going to happen here
is we're going to create some duplicates of this
arrangement of motifs. And we're going to duplicate and move them into each four corner. What that's going to do
is it's going to prep the edges so that they can
seamlessly repeat that. The designs you have over
in this corner here are going to seamlessly merge with
the design on this corner. The same with each other corner. The design you have on the bottom edge will also
appear in the top edge. Okay, the way to
do that for now, let's hide our diamond guide. We want to create a
new layer that is going to help us when
moving our guide. Okay, what we need to do, there's a couple of
ways we can do this. We need to activate all
four corners of this layer. What you can do? Do
not do this brush, because the vector brush will continue out of the bounds
of the actual artboard, but the live brush and the
vector brush will not. The live brush and
the pixel brush will not just come back
to the pixel brush, just choose any of them. Any pixel brush,
what we want to do is we've created a new layer. Just draw in the corner in all four corners that basically once
we move the group, it will activate
the four corners. That's really important
because if you notice, when I select the transform tool for my motifs, when I move it, when I go to move it, it's not going to move the motifs equally
across the art board. That's why we've got to
activate all four corners. One way you can do that is by drawing on the
corners of a new layer. Alternatively, we can fill a layer with a vector square
that then becomes our guide. All right, now please do not merger corner layer with your motifs because we are
not going to keep them, we don't want them
interfering with our design. But what we are
going to do is we're going to group these
two layers together. We're not going to merge them, we're going to group them. All right, there's a couple
ways you can do that. Is if you tap and hold, drag it down, it will merge
those two layers together. Alternatively, you can
select your layer, select multiple, select the
layers you want to group. And then click the folder icon
that groups them for you. Your next step is to make four additional
copies of the same layer. All right, so to do that, tap on your group
duplicate layer group. And do that four times. Okay, now you'll have five
copies of the same layer. Then what we want to do is
start doing our movement. Select one layer. Come over
to the transform menu. It's important here to pay attention to the
snapping guides. All right, select
one of your layers. Drag it up to the top
right hand corner. You'll notice, can you see
that blue line when I snap? Bottom left hand corner,
close to the middle. It might be the center
along the horizontal axis, or it might be center
on the vertical axis. What we need to do, and this is important, is we need to snap it so that the left corner
is in the center. You can see that it snaps there. Very important. Okay, now
this is a pixel layer. Once you click Done, it's going to delete or clear everything outside
of our art board. We need to make
sure that it is in the perfect central position
before we click done. Before we move on to
a different layer. We want to repeat that
process with every new layer. Now, I'm just going to
drag this to the top left, making sure that it
snaps to the center. Move to the next layer, bring it to the bottom left, ensuring that the
top right corner is snapping in the center. You'll notice the little
green smudge guides that I did in the corner are now going
to be the center as well. Okay, snapping it
into the center. All right, what we have is we have our original
motif in the center. We've got the edges of our
motif in the four corners. It's okay if you see the square, the gaps in the middle. Don't worry about those, because we're going
to be cleaning them up in the next step. But what you can do
now is click Done. And you'll notice that it will, outside of the bounds of your
artboard or your canvas. Okay, It's going to
give you an error, a notice just so that you can
go, oh, what have I done? But it's okay to crop it. Remember you've always
got a copy that you can duplicate again. Click continue. Now what you've got
here is you've got the beginnings of
your patent tile. Okay, let's go through and group all of our
layers together. Group them, don't
merge them yet, because I want to
tap into that group. If you ever want to see the individual layers in
a group, double tap it. Now we can see all of our layers we want
to go in and we just need to delete our guides. The green guides
that we drew before. Yeah, A little bit of
a painstaking process, but totally worth it, because it does make creating
your seamless pattern a lot easier, deleting each layer. Now what you're left with is your beautiful motifs arranged in the start of a patent tile. Okay, now we can go ahead
and we can merge our layers. Let's just duplicate to create a copy and
then we'll hide it. All right, at each
step of the way, if we make a mistake
or want to go backwards a step, that's okay. Now what is we've got
our hidden layers. We've got our motif
pattern layer, and then we've still
got our guide layer. That one, I think
that's a spare layer. This is our guide layer. You can see the
triangle at this point. It's probably evident to you now why we chose to put
a guide layer in there so that we
don't have we've got minimal clean up time in
terms of fixing the edges.
12. Clean up the seams: Okay, now we have the beautiful foundations
of our patent tile. Now what we want to do
is we want to start cleaning up those
scenes or the gaps that we can see that were originally on the edges
of our diamond guide. What we're going to do
now is we're going to start including motifs
in this area here. There's a couple ways
that we can do that now. First of all, we can
start from scratch, We can add a new layer and
start drawing motifs in there, just like we did
in the beginning. If you want to add motifs here, you can go ahead and draw
them into the gaps like that. Okay, now for the
interests of time, I'm going to show
you another way. I'm just going to
delete that layer. What we're going to do
is I'm going to show you how you can duplicate sections of your motif
so that you don't need to recreate the colors or
recreate the patterns, because this way may
work better for you. What we're going to
do is we're going to select our layer. What I'm going to
do is I'm going to choose this leaf right here. And I'm going to
use the lasso tool. What that does is it allows me to just draw around the motif. I can select around that. Once we've selected around that, if you just hit the
transform tool, you can move what
you've just selected. Okay, ignoring any
transparencies, what I'm going to do
is I'm just going to slightly resize that. I'm going to rotate it and I'm just going to move it here. Okay, click done when
you've finished. Now that's moving
one of your motifs. But what happens if
you want to duplicate? All right, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to come back, I'm going to lasso
around my motif. Then I'm going to come over here and I'm going to
duplicate selection. Now when I move it, I've got my motif selection
is on a new layer. What I can do is I can move it to a different
part of my pattern. I can rotate it
to fit the space. Now, one thing you
need to be careful of is do not go over the
edge at this point. Because if I was to
leave that there, these parts of my pattern will not show up
down the bottom. And we need it to make sure that at this point you stay
away from the edge, you do not spill over. Okay, If I want to
place it there, but I've got a leaf in the way I can move that leaf,
that's no problem. But one thing I want
to do is create different directions in
my leaves Coming up here, you'll see the mirror. So I can flip it or mirror it. I'm going to do that
and rotate this way. Maybe even flip it to. Okay, so that I'm positioning
motif quite nicely there. Okay, so we click done. But now I just want to move this leaf here that's
on a different layer. When you duplicated
your selection, you created a new layer. Come back to our original layer. Let's lasso this leaf. Let's just move it over here. Remember that with
creating patterns, we want consistency in our gaps. If you have large
areas of white space, we want to make sure that that's consistently large
areas of white space. If you have your motifs
quite tight together, we want to make sure that it's quite tight together everywhere because any inconsistencies are going to show up in
our repeating pattern. What we're going to
do now is basically see these areas of
white space and we're going to fill them with our
motifs and our patterns. Okay, so at this point I have
filled in most of my gaps, but what I want to do
is repeat the process that we have just gone through
in creating our pattern. This is not essential, but it does help
you make sure that your pattern doesn't have any
gaps that you're missing. What I'm going to do is because that process has created a
lot of new extra layers, what I'm going to do
is merge them all down onto that one layer. Okay, Then I'm going
to create a new layer. Come in with my pixel brush. And I just want to
activate all the corners again to create my guide. Okay, and we're going to
duplicate that layer, merge those into a group. And then we're going
to duplicate it again another four times duplicate. We'll have five copies
of the same layer. And let's move them all
into the corners again. All right, so we're
going to start with the top right hand corner. Remember your guides,
you can see them. We need to make
sure that they are the corner perfectly
snapping into the middle. Okay, go down. We're going to do top left. Doesn't matter which
order you do this in, as long as they're all
snapping correctly, the most important thing is
that, is that they snap. Okay. Now, I actually did
make a mistake with this one. We didn't need the
fifth layer continue. Okay. So I'm just going
to hide that for now. What I want to do is
I want to get rid of my corner activation layers. It's super helpful if
you do them in a bright, bold color because then it's
easier to find them later. Okay. Okay. Then we want
to group select multiple. We want to merge them. Once we've deleted
our corner layers, we can then merge them into the one. The reason we did that. Now this step wasn't essential. But what it does do
is it just points out whether you've got any gaps that you missed in the previous step. I can see here, got a bit of
space that I can fill here, bit of space here, maybe here. I'm going to just repeat
that process that I've just done just to fill in
those little spots there. Now looking at my pattern there, there's no obvious gaps
to me that I can see. There's quite a consistent
spacing between the motifs. I'm really happy with
that where it is. At the moment, what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to make sure that I've got all of my
motifs on the same layer. I'm going to select multiple. I'm just going to
merge the layers. So we're not grouping
them, we're merging them. So what you have now is a
seamless repeating patent tile. All of your hard work
is just about paid off. But what we want to do now is we want to test our seamless, repeating pattern to
make sure that there are no obvious seams or mistakes where we have
created the edges.
13. Test Your Pattern: Okay, we're nearly
at the finish line. You're doing so so
well with this. I hope you're having
a lot of fun as well. The last step that we want to do is we actually want to test our pattern to make
sure that it is seamless on all four corners. So let me show you
how to do that. Okay, you've got your
patent tile here, we want to test it out. What we're going to do is we're going to create a new layer. And you'll be familiar
with what I'm doing here. Coming to my pixel brush, and I'm just going to
activate all four corners. You can do that again. However, there's another method that I prefer when doing this, because what's going to
happen at this point is if you have bright colors
in the corners, it might ruin the effect. Here's another method that
I'm going to show you. All right, I'm going
to delete that layer. I'm going to create a new layer, but I'm going to fill it with a background color that is complementary to
what I've used here. What I'm going to do is
I'm just going to choose, say I'll go with the purple, but I'm going to make it really light that it's actually going to enhance my pattern rather
than detract from it. Okay, I'm just going to tap, I'm going to fill my
layer with the vector. All right, then I'm
going to just move it underneath my pattern so you can see now what's happened when I move
my layer group. I've got my vector layer
which is going to activate all corners of my artboard without the big bright corners. Okay, let me show you how
we can test our pattern. All right. What we want to do, this will be familiar to you. We're just going to drag to group the pattern layer and then the background
color layer. Now if you want to leave that background layer,
they're perfectly fine. If it looks great that way,
let's leave it that way. But what we want to
do is we want to make three copies of the same layer
that we have four copies. Because when we test our layer, we want to see if they line up together seamlessly activate
your transform layer. Rather than moving
them to the corner, we actually want to
resize them so that they are a quarter of the
size of our artboard. All right, Start with
your first one and find your resize controls
down in the bottom corners. Okay. If you are starting with the bottom
right corner with me, let's and hold and drag it up so that it
snaps in the center. Can you see there how it's snapping to the
center and release? Now move to your next layer. Let's drag the bottom left
corner into the middle. Now what you can
see is you can see that your pattern
is side by side. It's seamless and repeating. Now let's go to our next layer. Keep going, this
is the best part. Bring the top right
corner down to the middle till it
snaps the final one. Bring the top left
into the middle. Click done. Now
you have got your beautiful, seamless,
repeating pattern. If you can imagine if you had a line through the middle and a line across the
horizontal middle, you would see that you
have four pattern tiles. See 1234, you've got your
four pattern tiles seamlessly next to each other. If we zoom in a little bit, what you can see
here as you can see a hair line line
there sometimes, but when you zoom in
it's not actually there. But what you can tell
is you can see that your pattern is seamlessly
joining at the corners. You can go through,
particularly if you plan on selling
your pattern somewhere. You want to make sure that your S are perfect and there's no hair
line in the middle. If you zoom right
in and you find there is actually
a hair line there, you're going to have to go
back to repeat the process. You'll have to go
back and repeat the process to ensure
there are no hair lines. Okay. But if this is just a project for
you to practice on, then it's not a problem. Okay, there you go. You have got a
beautiful, seamless, repeating pattern
that you can use to create digital
scrapbooking paper. You can turn them into
beautiful journal that covers. You can use them as your
business brand pattern. You can upload them to red bubble and buy awesome things with
your patterns on them. There are so many things that
you can do with patterns. You can also start
venturing into the world of licensing
your patterns so that they can appear on beautiful products that
are made around the world. How exciting is that? Thank
you so much for joining me.
14. Your Project and Final Thoughts: Hey, there we go. We've come to the end of this class by now. Hopefully you've got in
front of you a gorgeous, seamless, repeating pattern that you've illustrated yourself
using adobe fresco. Now please, I would love
to see the patterns that you have illustrated in adobe fresco from this class. Go ahead and head to
the project section. What I want you to
do is either take a screenshot of your
pattern or you can create a mock up photo of your patent
on a bedspread or a mug, or a mouse pat,
something like that, to bring it to life
and let you see that, Oh my God, this
pattern is gorgeous. So what I would love for you to do is head to the
project section, upload your pattern
so that I can see it. If you would like me to provide
feedback on your pattern, then let me know or just share your beautiful
pattern and I hope you enjoyed this process. I find it really,
really therapeutic. I'd love just drawing
seamless patterns. I could draw leaves for days. I'll tell you what most
of my patterns are based, are inspired by nature. They are floral patterns. But yes, I hope you have learned a lot of skills and you're now comfortable using adobe fresco to create your sales
repeating patterns. Thank you so much for
watching this class. I really, really appreciate
you drawing patterns with me. And hopefully you'll
see you again soon in another class. By
Michelle Marks, Graphic Designer
