Illustrator Patterns.
Hi, I'm James and welcome to Pattern Designers.
I hope you're having a great day wherever you are in the world.
In this video I'm going to walk you through two methods on how to make Illustrator Patterns.
I'll be using Adobe Illustrator CC and be sure to stick around until the end to get
our free textile designer cheat sheet.
My equipment.
In this tutorial I'll be using a MacBook Pro 17 inch, a Wacom Intuos, and Adobe Illustrator.
Set up your art board.
Here are the elements we're going to use to make our pattern in Illustrator, but first
we're going to set up the art board.
So just press apple N for new and I'm going to choose a 1,000 pixels by 1,000 pixels and
in centimeters I think it's roughly 35 centimeters.
Yeah, so all this is good.
It's just a square, all this can stay the same and create.
And there we have our new art board.
Making your Illustrator Pattern design method one.
Okay, let's get started.
We've got our fresh art board and I'm just going to go to my elements.
Select them all, copy them and paste them into new art board.
Then I'm just going to outline them because they've got a brush effect on them, which
I need to outline.
Have a look, yeah, that's good.
And so method one for repeating.
I'm just going to reduce them.
So we've got a bit more.
There you are.
I'm just going to make it a one way repeat.
No actually, I'm going to make it a two way repeat so it's a bit more dynamic.
And then I'm going to select them all and go up to object and pattern and make.
Then this opens up this new window.
See how the spacings are pretty okay.
I'm just going to increase the width slightly, then I'm going to put something here.
What can I put there?
Put another orange dino there
and that's good.
So I'm just going to press done up here to get out of the pan.
And we're left with the original elements that we had.
I'm just going to shift those off the art board and zoom out slightly.
Make a box for this.
There we go, and in our swatches now, we should have a pattern which is our dinosaur pan.
Looks pretty fresh, I like it.
And if you want the background, it's really easy to just copy that square out and put
a background in whatever color you want.
So you want to make it green or blue.
See what it looks like red.
Red's pretty wild.
See what it looks like, I like that darker blue.
Looks sick.
So that's method one.
Making your Illustrator Pattern design method too.
So now method two, I'm going to delete method one, which is this.
And bring these bad boys back onto the art board as I've already started to arrange them.
So I'm going to use a box, which is going to be it, let's make it even, so 660, say
600 by 488.
Let's make it 5.
And then I'm going to send that to the back.
I'm going to start arranging it.
We've already got our spacing pretty well organized.
I'm just going to move these up.
So these ones, this top layer, I want to move them 600 down, so 600 height.
So copy, paste in front.
So paste them all in front.
So paste in front is the command F, then I plus 600 to move them down.
And then I'm going to delete that dino because he's in the way.
Next step is to organize this left hand side.
I'm just going to move these over.
So I'm going to copy these on the left hand side, so copy, command F in front.
And then on the X axis, we're going to plus 500, which moves them to the right hand side.
Now all I have to do is organize the interior.
The square is the repeat.
So if we copy and paste that, command C, command F in front.
Command shift bracket, it brings it to the front and I can select all and then command
7, and there we have our pattern.
So our pan is 600 by 500 pixels.
I can just go to the swatches and drag this in.
But what I might have to do, yeah.
If I double click into that pattern, I need to make it 500 by 600, because it's using
the outside of all the elements and there you have method two.
So here's method two.
This is method one, and this is method two.
The spacing's a bit different, but kind of pretty similar result.
Now I hope you found this Illustrator Pattern tutorial helpful.
The two methods I've covered are the ways I use Illustrator to produce patterns daily
for my job as a textile designer.
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