For the class project, you’re going to create a pattern tile in Adobe Illustrator using newly illustrated motifs, via sketching traditionally and digitizing your sketches, by drawing or building motifs within Illustrator itself, or a little of both.

Please feel free to share as many process sketches and screencaps as you'd like, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask them in the 'Discussions' section.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Download a Wacom driver for Mac or PC here (Downloadable PDF instructions included under Resources)
Print & Pattern
Pattern Observer
They Draw
Pattern Curator color palettes

RECOMMENDED SKILLSHARE COURSES

Building Awesome Pattern Tiles in Adobe Photoshop by Dylan Mierzwinski
Pattern Design For Painters (A Photoshop Class for Traditional Artists) by Bari Ackerman
Gouache in Adobe Illustrator: How to Successfully Vectorize Your Paint by Yours Truly
Watercolor for Surface Pattern Design: Working with Adobe Illustrator & Master Color with the Recolor Artwork Tool in Adobe Illustrator by Bonnie Christine
Pattern Collections and Portfolios: Dos, Don'ts, and Myths by Yours Truly

RECOMMENDED BOOKS & MAGAZINES

Steal Like an Artist, Keep Going, and Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
All of the Print & Pattern books. My favorites are... Print & Pattern Nature and Print and Pattern Geometric
Uppercase Magazine

Caroline Cabral

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