Explore Complex Repeat Patterns in Affinity Designer V2 on the iPad
Learn to Create Half Drop, Diamond, and Stripe Pattern Repeat Templates

INTRODUCTION

One of my favorite programs to work on the go with is Affinity Designer on my iPad. The program is a powerhouse of an app that works wonders for those of us who create surface pattern designs.. Affinity Designer is a dream to work in and if you haven’t heard, there was an update and Serif officially released version 2 of all three apps on the desktop and iPad. This month, in this class we will be exploring the updated Affinity Designer version 2 on the iPad, it’s interface and I will be sharing some of my tips and tricks that I find make the design process more streamlined. We will also explore ways to create different templates that will work for different pattern types to help elevate your skills on more complex pattern types such as: rectangle half drop, diamond and stripes.

Jen Introduced

Hello everyone, welcome to my latest class. If this is your first class with me, welcome! I am Jen Veguilla-Lezan and I’ll be the one guiding you through this creative course. I’m a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and educator based out of the midwest and I run Bella + Sophia Creative studio. If you want to learn more about me, you can find me online at:http://www.bellasophiacreative.com. You can also check out my YouTube channel: The Creative studio where you will get a behind the scenes view of the work I do as a creative freelancer and find a huge library of free tutorials catered to those of you interested in graphic design, programs like Affinity and procreate as well as art and illustration.

If this is your first foray into my classes relating to surface pattern design or your first time building patterns on the iPad, I highly suggest you check out some of my previous surface pattern design classes. I have a variety of beginner and more complex classes within my course library that walk you through surface pattern design and building repeats on the iPad. If you are interested in using traditional mediums in surface pattern design, check out my most recent class: Surface Pattern Design: Digitize Traditional Artwork in Affinity Photo V2. In today’s class, though — we will take the basic design process a little further and explore 3 complex pattern repeats - a half drop repeat, a diamond repeat and stripes.

Expanding on the types of patterns you can create helps to add visual interest to your patterns. Choosing the right pattern repeat for your design will depend on what sort of look and feel you are after. But, the wonderful thing is you can keep experimenting with your repeat layouts until you get the result that you are after.

What the class is about

In this class, I will walk you through my surface pattern design process. We will explore some of my favorite tips and tricks that help to streamline my design process. We will also go into detail on how to make some more complex pattern repeats in Affinity Designer on your iPad. This course will help you understand the process using the interface on the iPad app. The more complex repeats we will review are: the rectangle half drop repeat, diamond repeat and stripes. We will work on designing these patterns and creating a seamless repeat using illustrated motifs and creating templates to streamline the process using the symbols options in Affinity Designer 2.

What you will learn

This course is designed to give you all the technical skills you need to start designing these complex repeats. We will go over the updated interface in Affinity Designer V2, explore some of my most used tools and studios in the app, as well as help you learn more about the tools and studios in the iPad app, familiarize you with some of the layer effects, geometry functions and transform options that will aid in building a repeating pattern in Affinity Designer right on your iPad. Finally, I will help get you comfortable building a repeat pattern template using symbols that you can reuse to make your design process faster.

Things to Note

We won’t be going through the entire process of surface pattern design from concept drawing to final pattern, though. Instead we will be focusing on understanding the mechanics behind and constructing each of these pattern repeats. If you want to learn the very basics of surface pattern design using your iPad, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, feel free to check out my Surface Pattern Design intensive course for beginners: Learn How to Create Surface Pattern Designs on the iPad with Affinity Photo + Affinity Designer V1.

TOOLS NEEDED

All you need to take this class is an iPad, an apple pencil or stylus, some pre-made digital art and the Affinity Designer iPad app installed.

WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR

Artists and other creatives

Surface designers

Pattern designers

Graphic Designers

Illustrators

Anyone who wants to create seamless patterns

SKILL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

The class is geared towards more of an intermediate student who may have some basic experience creating patterns in the Affinity software. Knowing the software makes the process a bit easier if you are familiar with the interface, but since I do walk you through the process step by step and I am also reintroducing the interface due to the update, some beginners may be able to follow along.

HELPFUL LINKS

Pinterest

Spoonflower

Youtube Video on Mockups

AD 2 Exploration on Desktop Version

Sumana Borbora

Surface Pattern Designer | Illustrator

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