Ever wanted to be able to use your gorgeous hand painted textures in your surface patterns, but thought there was no easy way to make them seamless? Or maybe you’ve tried doing it in Photoshop and were never quite happy with the results? What if I told you, you could transform them in to seamless tiles with just one click of a mouse?

In this class, you’ll learn how to make gorgeously textured seamless patterns from your own paintings or drawings, which you will be able to use as seamless backgrounds for your surface pattern designs.

Adding a textured background can make a great finishing touch that really makes your design look polished and professional and hand made textures are very much on trend right now.

I’ll be using a painted texture as an example, but this technique is perfect for making seamless backgrounds from all sorts of different mediums such as crayon, collages, pastel, and even photographs. Basically, as long as you can scan or photograph a texture, then you can make it seamless!

This is an intermediate class for students who are familiar with the very basics of pattern design and are already using photoshop. It is also a great class for experienced designers as the skills you will learn have a much wider range of applications and could be used for much more than just backgrounds, for example, making a seamless textures to apply to your motifs using different blend modes or applying textures over shapes to create paper cut style designs.

To follow along with this class, you will need some basic painting or drawing materials (no need for anything fancy or special, just use whatever you have!) a scanner and a computer with Photoshop and Gimp 2.10 installed (instruction on this are in the class).

As well as teaching you how to create your seamless tiles, I’m also going to teach you my shortcuts for checking the seams on pattern as well as how to resize and export tiles without getting that dreaded gap down the seams, and how to use a backgrounds in pattern tiles with different dimensions, so there are lots of tips and shortcuts you’ll pick up on the way to speed up your workflow.

After taking this class you’ll be able to create beautiful hand drawn or painted textures that fit perfectly with the rest of the motifs in your pattern and won’t have to use boring flat backgrounds ever again!

I can’t wait to see you in class!

-Bekki xo

Find more of my Skillshare classes here.

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Effie White

Freelance Art Director

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