This week I learned to make seamless repeating patterns in Illustrator. It is so fun! We set up our swatches for the repeating patterns on an artboard on the left side of the window. For making stripes, gingham, and plaid, my swatch board looked like this:
Then on the right side of the screen I have a 12x12 area to test out my patterns to see how they'd look.
The blue stripes above make this gingham pattern.
The green and yellow plaid swatch above make this plaid pattern. I rotated the pattern 45 degrees.
Then in other video lessons this week, we created polka dot swatch patterns.
The 12x12 test of one of my above polka dot patterns.
It has been totally fascinating and a great learning experience to learn to create these smaller pattern swatches and see how they'd tile together and make up bigger patterns. I'm loving the class so far and learning lots of neat stuffs!
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Christine, love your patterns! I especially love the dot pattern page that you made. That turned out super cool. I was always interested in taking an illustrator class just to learn more about what illustrator is about. However, I do not own illustrator nor do I plan on designing stuff so I figured it wasn't a program that I would use much. I'm glad you are enjoying your class.
ReplyDeleteHey Christine! Love your patterns. :) I'm in the Laura Coyle's class too and it is so much fun!!! :)
ReplyDeleteSo very cool! Love both patterns..can't wait to see what else you design.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool NEW thing to do! Looks like you are learning some fun stuff :)
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the polka dots.
ReplyDeleteWay cool papers Christine!!!! Getting the pattern repeat to look right is something I've never managed to crack ... maybe I should check out the class you're taking!!!
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