Adobe Illustrator is one of the most popular design application that is used in the Surface Pattern Design industry. Creating repeat patterns in Illustrator is pretty easy but designing a seamless repeat pattern that is aesthetically pleasing and saleable at the same time is what we need to focus on, and upgrading our technical skills is one of the most important steps towards it.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the third part of the series, "HOW TO TAKE A CREATIVE APPROACH TO PATTERNS".

If you are new to Pattern design, check out the First part, An Introduction to Surface Pattern Design

and if you want to learn Illustrator in detail, Check out the Second part, Learn Adobe Illustrator.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

In this class I will take you through the different steps in the Pattern design process:

Finding Inspiration and Choosing a theme
Creating the Moodboard and Color palette
Sketching Ideas using Traditional and Digital mediums
Drawing and Digitising Motifs
Creating a Repeat pattern using the Manual way
Creating a Repeat pattern using the Pattern Option Tool
Editing, Resizing, Saving and Exporting a Pattern as Swatch and Tile
Working with Colors in Illustartor
Creating Multiple Color variations with Recolor Artwork Tool
Generative Recolor
Designing Professional Mock ups using Adobe Photoshop and Photopea

A big shout out to my favourite professional mockup studio CREATSY (Creatsy.com) for offering this beautiful Fabric mock up to the students willing to create project for this class. You can download it from the resources.

This class is suitable for all skill levels, however you must be familiar with Adobe Illustrator basics to take this class.

By the end of this class you will be able to create simple to complex patterns in illustrator, master the recolor artwork feature and create professional mock ups for your designs.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Adobe Illustrator (begin a free trial here)
Adobe Express (Try now)
Adobe Color (Try now)
Adobe Photoshop (begin a free trial here)
Photopea online editor (Try now)
Creatsy free mock ups (Fabric Rolls)
Creatsy free mock ups (Mug in Hand)
A Wacom tablet (Check it out!)

DOWNLOAD THE CREATSY PREMIUM MOCKUP HERE :)

Start your Print on demand journey with:

Spoonflower

For useful resources and tools Check out this amazing site

Creativehowl by Jonas Welin

Surface Design News by Stacie Dale

This class will also work as a foundation for the Creative workflows series where I will be sharing Different workflows that I normally use to create seamless repeat patterns in Illustrator.

If this sounds like fun, Join me in this creative journey!!

Thank you !! ❤️

Sara Gilles

JW Marriott Marco Island

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