hello hello i am back with a graphic design video if you've watched my like most recent studio vlogs
you'll see that i want to do more videos like this where i sit down in a proper little setup
and i do graphic design work on my ipad or my laptop or i share my thoughts feelings and
knowledge that knowledge that i do have anyway so yeah i i hope you like this setup it's taken me a
while to get to this it's very strange filming in a new location obviously i've moved house since
last time i filmed a video like this so i hope you like it let me know if there's anything you want
me to change anyway i'm going to stop rambling we are going to make a seamless pattern design
in adobe illustrator i believe i've done something like this before i'm not sure whether it was
procreate or illustrator either way i'll leave any similar videos linked in the description
and yeah we're going to just jump straight into it so let's head over to the laptop
so i have adobe illustrator open and you can see i have two different artboards so on the left i have
some inspiration images along with a color palette across the bottom and then on the right that's
where we're going to create some ideas and then i'll probably create a few art boards as we move
forward but as you can see i'm going for this sort of i believe it's called memphis style
um but something a little bit more simple a lot of memphis patterns can be quite busy more like
this one in the bottom left whereas i quite like the idea of this one up here something
simple there's like what five different shapes in there and they've just been rotated
and it repeats so that's the plan first up i need to make all the different shapes i'm
actually going to pretty much mirror the shapes in this maybe add in a few variations and we'll just
we'll just see how it goes we're just doing a design with me so uh i thought i'd ease
myself in on these new videos okay so first up let's make some shapes so we'll go square
circle that's not a
circle circle what else have we got a triangle
top tip if you want to make a triangle so this is a polygon tool if you press
the down arrow on your keyboard you'll get to a triangle if you press up it'll add more sides
i feel like that's a very useful tip that i wish i'd known sooner
okay so we've got some shapes i'm thinking i might add some more as we go forward but i'm
going to try and keep it simple that's the aim of this i tend to over complicate things and i strive
for perfection which i can never reach what even is perfect what defines that so one of my mantras
for this year is to like curb my perfectionism because i'm a bit ocd about that firstly i want
them to have no fill i think i want up the width of their lines and do i want the corners rounded
no we'll leave it like that then what i'm gonna do is similar to these two at the top i'll just
zoom in so you can see they've like got colors in the background of like the exact same shapes
so i'm gonna i'm basically gonna duplicate the shapes and make them like full colors behind
i don't know if that makes sense but we'll see don't know if it'll look good but we'll see
it's all about experimentation here and i'm sure if you've watched my channel for a while
you will know that i don't claim to be an expert i just like sharing what i do and hopefully along
the way you can learn something too if you are enjoying this video don't forget to click the
subscribe button and join my little creative family so we're going to pick up these colors
i found this color palette on adobe color it's free to use as well and because i have an adobe
subscription i can automatically like sync it to my software so i basically just press
download and it's already in my illustrative like software which is obviously great
how many shapes six shapes and only five colors because obviously we're not going to include the
black maybe let's add a green should we see if we can pick up this green from in here that's quite
cool i'm thinking maybe switch these two round so maybe do that one no actually i like the yellow
this is my perfectionism this is me just tweaking things for the sake of it maybe this blue that
could work and then obviously we want all these in the background we'll send them to the back
i guess that's it for the elements i actually might add some dots as we go further like
forward because i like these here on this one down here just dots you know with no colors
in the background i think that looks quite cool so we'll see we'll see how busy it looks
so now i've got my shapes i'm going to just move them across here so they're on the side
so one thing when i'm making a seamless pattern i need to make note of how big the artboard is
so this artboard is 15 centimeters by 15 centimeters so just remember that number make
sure it's like a nice solid number nothing too complicated if you want any more in-depth tutorial
of this let me know and i will do it um for the purpose of this video i'm just going to design
and throw in a few tips as we go so let me know if you'd like a tutorial version of it
right i'm going to group these together so what i'm going to do now they're grouped i'm just
going to move them onto the artboard so i'm going to do it like this keep them quite nicely spread
and i am going to duplicate a couple of them so i don't just want one cross and i don't just want
one triangle you know and maybe i could change the colors between them that'd be quite fun
let's in fact let me show you how this would look as a pattern so what i'm gonna do is take the m
tool which is the rectangle tool and i'm going to create a square that's 15 by 15. remember
that number the size of the artboard and i'm going to align that perfectly above the artboard
get rid of its stroke and then all i do is highlight all of that with that invisible shape
on top drag it into the swatch panel and then in the swatch panel is now a pattern so if i zoom out
and if we press that you'll see that the pattern is now repeating so obviously in this we only have
six but it's mirroring itself in like a tiled form you can change how it mirrors and stuff
but for now we're just going to leave it quite simple so what i want to do is just because
that one is very odd i've not placed them or anything i'm going to just move things around
so let's try that so this still i still have this like invisible square on top the 15 by 15
one i'm gonna drag this over into there again and just zoom out and see what that looks like
so there we go that's what that looks like right now obviously it doesn't have a white background
we can add that in so i actually like that that's quite cool my instinct is to move this triangle
to the right a little bit because there is quite a gap here maybe nudge these around there's two
ways of me doing this i could either nudge it in here literally just move them around sort of
guesstimate where they need to go highlight them all drag it out do that um but there is actually
a way of doing it within this artboard itself so if you double click this now we have the pattern
itself so these are a load of pattern options again i'll do a tutorial on this if you want me to
and we'll go in more detail but i am going to i'm going to show tile edge so this
square here in the middle with the blue rectangle around it that is what it's working from that's
the part that it's moving and you'll see if i move one element in it it's moving all of them
so this yellow cross if i move it it's moving all the similar yellow crosses this yellow cross is a
different one so and you can see we can sort of align it within here this is something i didn't
know existed when i very first made patterns doing it like this makes it a lot easier maybe
not so in a more complex pattern like i create patterns for my friend's dog harness business and
they aren't quite as easily editable in this format but for something quite simple like
this i think it works quite well and i actually i think i want to make this with a white background
for now obviously we can change it um once i've made those tweaks by the way you press done and
it'll like overlay it if you press save or copy it it'll create a new version of it
just realize my camera wasn't recording so let's pretend that didn't happen
um can you tell i've not been back for a while you know you know you guys know me by now so
press done i want to create the white background so to do that i'm gonna create a square that's
15 by 15 again i want to make sure it's white fill which it is and i'm going to put it
directly underneath this so there we go a line underneath cool so then this time it still has
it has the white background on it it has the elements on it and it still has that invisible
square at the very top so i'm going to highlight it drag it over and then this time this when i
click it when i click this new swatch here on the right it'll have a background on it and you know
what i actually really like that i'm very happy with myself and i think i'm going to nudge this
circle up a little bit i'm going to do it this way you'll see that it's got the white background
like i wanted probably should have done at the beginning but you know there we go press done
and i mean technically we have a seamless pattern have i already completed the video possibly so but
i'm going to show you another way that i can do it as well so the other way of doing this is a little
more complex and in this case it's actually not really necessary because things aren't overlapping
but for things such as like the dog harness designs that i do for my friend they're very
complex and they have like big branches and they all like interlace so that's when you have to do
what i'm about to do when you want it to overlay i'm just going to move this up so i've got some
more room i would put this to the edge here uh let's put this to the edge so then it sort of
starts fitting together like a bit of a jigsaw piece so i mean the placements of these might
be a bit off but we can figure it out so these left hand bits here these ones i'm highlighting
they are like so far over the edge i need that to be mirrored exactly on the other side to do that
i am gonna click them both hold the shift key press copy and then i'm gonna paste it in front
which for me is command f it might be different depending what computer you have again i'll do
a tutorial if you want me to and then we press transform and either on the x or the y i get it
wrong every time i go to the very edge of that and type in plus 15. i actually press the right one
so now it's nudged them up the copies of them up exactly 15 centimeters which i now know is
the size of my artboard so that's overlaid enough same applies for like the top and the bottom so if
i move these up a little bit let's say these two are sort of overlaid again highlight them both
copy paste in front transform and this will be on the y this could be minus i think it is minus 15.
nope see this is all about experimentation telling you not an expert plus 15 and it jumps 15 down
when i did minus it basically jumped up and you can't see it because i'm zoomed in so there is
that now one of the main things is now if i make any changes i can't just nudge this to the right
because this one's not fastened to it it's not going to just automatically move
so what i need to do is either click them both or group them or whatever so they move in unison so
now i can move them to the right to the left up or down and because they are exactly 15 centimeters
apart they'll move around together so yeah that's just another way of doing it uh let me make this
into a pattern so you can sort of see how it looks this is not very well spaced out at all but you'll
get the idea if i highlight it's still got the invisible square on it drag into here and i'll
make a new pattern over here if i click that new swatch i did it wrong oh hang on okay let's carry
on we can do this why is it doing that i bet that invisible square isn't there so let's let's take
this as a learning lesson so let's have a look what's behind here we have the filled in square
right behind i'm going to copy paste in front and bring that right in front i'm just talking myself
through at this point online then get rid of the fill so it's invisible now we highlight drag
zoom out cross your fingers okay something's not going right here let's try a different method
so what i'm going to do i've got my invisible square as you can see directly above and
i'm actually gonna make a clipping mask so i'm gonna cookie cutter it out effectively
so command seven and it means that it's got rid of everything that's like overlaying it's
it might work it might not we will find out let's do this can you tell it's been a while since i've
done this so i've just made a new swatch dragged it in cross your fingers okay this is not what
the idea is uh size tile i've just fixed it so all i needed to do was size tile to art
rookie error so it was width knee spit 15 and height needs to be at 15. so all i needed to do
to fix the other one like this one that i didn't make a compound path for or a clipping mask sorry
all i needed to do was size tile 2r by 15 there we go and actually i've messed up look you can see
here this is not in alignment at all so obviously when i was showing you what not to do i did it so
let's just go back over here and quickly sort that out so i'm just going to release that clipping
mask because we didn't even need that i did think i was doing something wrong and what i'm going
to do is delete this copied one and just copy this back over so copy paste in front and then
plus 15. make sure i've still got my transparent rectangle i do and then drag this over into here
and in theory i figured it out let's see let's click this it needs adjusting that's
fine we know how to do it now size tile to r or just type in here 15 by 15. hooray
i've done it so this is my repeatable pattern and i've actually ended up showing you two ways
of doing it i really like this i could also add like the dots in the background or extra dots but
i mean for the purpose of this video i think this was a really good exercise like this one you see
it's got dots we could do that we could add more little fiddly twiddly elements into it but all in
all especially after i got a little bit confused i think i'm really happy with those so yeah i
hope you enjoyed this video i hope it was a nice easy way back into me doing graphic design videos
the plan moving forward is for me to do two videos a week so on tuesdays there will be
studio vlogs or just vlogs in general life vlogs whatever i feel like vlogging and on thursdays
like today i will be doing graphic design content whether that's a design with me like
this tutorial maybe a challenge logo redesign anything like that so yes i'm very excited
for my channel moving forward i hope you're looking forward to joining me and don't forget
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