Creating geometric patterns the starting point is the perfect circle followed by
secondary circles of different sizes, interlaced together and connected the
intersections with straight lines. They are based on repetition of a single
motif and it with the help of grid of squares, hexagons or triangles are
designed in a way to fit all together in a perfect sequence. So let's go ahead and
lay down the foundation using these different geometric shapes and create
one. So we are going to start off by creating a circle with six intersecting
lines and the easiest way to do this is by using the Polar Grid tool so go to
the Line Segment tool, click and hold till you get this fly-out menu,
all the way down and select the Polar Grid tool, double click on that to
bring up the Polar Grid tool Options. So first we get the Width and Height
followed by these concentric dividers. These concentric dividers are the number
of circles that will be on the Polar Grid or in other words the Rings and after
that we got the Radial Dividers which are the lines that will come up from the
center or in other words the spokes. So I'm just going to click OK and I'm going
to do this interactively so I'm going to click and drag and I want to show you
that before you release the mouse you can actually add consecutive dividers so
you can do this by using the up arrow key or if you want to remove these rings,
you can press the down arrow key if you want to add the spokes press, the right
arrow key and if you want to remove the spokes press the left
arrow key. OK just something to keep in mind I'm just going to delete that and
then I'm going to make sure that on the View menu you have the Smart Guides on,
it will help us tremendously align things around I'm going to hold down the
Alt key (Win) or the Option key (Mac) and I'm going to go where it says around the
center, right here. When I click once and get the options here, I'm going to go for
400 by 400 for Concentric dividers I'm going to go for 0 and for the spokes I'm
going to go for 12 because if you remember
earlier we want to have a circle with six intersecting lines so I'm just going
to click OK. Now if you want to make sure that this is centered which it is
you can actually go to the Align menu here where it says Align to Artboard and align
this Horizontally and Vertically and as you can see nothing moved because we did
a pretty good job. OK, so now let's go to creating more intersecting lines so
for that I'm going to use the Polygon tool I'm going to click once here and
I'm going to create a Hexagon. I want to have a radius of 200 just going to click
OK. Right now let's create more intersecting
lines, I'm going to click here again, let me lower this anchor and this time I'm
going to go for a triangle so select the Rotate tool now make sure that the Pivot
point is right here in the middle. Right there it's going to snap this right
there and then click and drag and it's going to snap right there. OK all right
now back to the Polygon tool I'm going to click and drag this time and create a
interactively a triangle it's going to stop right there too and I think that's
all we need for intersecting lines. OK, so go to the Layers here, Shift select
all these paths, we're going to go for Opacity down to 40% and then we're going
to lock all these paths then I'm going to use the Pen tool, I'm going to click
once with this anchor and then right here which says intersect I'm going to
click and drag then I'm going to hold down the Shift key and I'm going to stop
till I see this path. OK, release and then just click once here now before you
change the tool just hold down the CTRL (Win) key or the Cmd key on the Mac to
deselect, release the mouse to continue using the same tool, the pen tool click
on the anchor here once and then click where it says intersect click and drag hold down
the Shift key as you do till you see again the path like so. Release and then
let's close the path you're going to see this circle right next to the Pen
tool, that means closed path and just click once, there we go. OK, let's give
it a color now I don't want to have a Fill, I just want to have a Stroke so let's
get rid of the Fill, only have the Stroke which is OK which is red. Select
that and then let's double click on the Rotate tool, let's have the preview on,
I'm going to go for 60 degrees but we need to have a copy. For that click once
then select the same on the first path here, double click, we're going to go for
minus 60 degrees then of course another copy and here's the pattern. It's coming
along here now I'm going to click and drag and do this New layer icon and
duplicate this, I'm going to lock this guy here, this group, double click to
Rename this, that will be Pattern, Enter/ Return and then from this group here I
don't have this group, OK, no need for that, Delete that, I don't need also these
triangles, Delete those two then select all of this pattern here. Alt + Shift (Win),
Option + Shift (Mac), size is down...
Select that, go to Object menu, Pattern and Make. OK, All right
zoom in here. So what do I need to do, well first I'm going to give a pattern
name that will be Geometric pattern.
Let's say it's Geometric Pattern 1 then we got the Tile Type, Grid, Break
by Row, Break by Column, I'm going to go for Hex by Row and then I'm going to
check where it says, Size Tile to Art because I want to have control over the
Horizontal spacing and the Vertical spacing so place the mouse right here
and use your Up arrow keys or the Down arrow keys to change these numbers, OK.
I'm going to go for the same, (-1) here and for Vertical spacing I'm going to up this till it lines like that.
OK, I'm going to leave the Overlap as it is Copies is OK from me, for the default 5 by 5, you can certainly change those and I'm going to
click done OK. Double double click the Zoom tool to
Zoom 100%, let's lock this guy here, the pattern, let's make that invisible, create
a New layer here and let's select the Rectangle tool here I'm going to click
and drag, create one and we're going to Fill this with color, Red is OK, go to the
Swatches and here's the pattern we created, Geometric Pattern 1. Click once
to Fill this, OK. See it looks pretty good, now in the event that you want to edit
this you can just double click, well I need to zoom in a bit here, select the
Hexagon this one and what I want to do is I'm going to go for the Stroke, the
weight of the Stroke going to go for is 0.5, there we go. OK, I'm going to click
done now you can see this already worked. Zoom out and here is a pattern.
Geometric patterns play a big role in creative projects and since they are based on
connecting intersections between circles and lines all you have to do is to
create your own shapes and follow similar techniques. This conclude this
lecture and thank you for watching 3rd element training tutorials.