Advanced Techniques in Surface Pattern Design

Now that your comfortable using Adobe Illustrator, it’s time to tackle the more advanced techniques we can use to build complex, beautiful repeating patterns. In this course, we’ll quickly cover the basics of building repeating patterns, and progress to more skillful pattern techniques like how to build geometric, diagonal, layered, textured and lined repeats.

This course is for you if:

You’ve been bitten by the ‘pattern bug’ (you’re obsessed with patterns)!

You’ve tried to deconstruct a pattern in your mind that you’ve seen out ‘in the wild’.

You’ve ever gotten that annoying error “patterns cannot contain anything painted with a pattern”.

You think geometric patterns must require some advanced knowledge of calculus.

If a keyboard shortcut has ever literally, changed your life.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

In this course, we’ll be focusing on more complex ways to construct patterns. We’ll start with the basics and quickly progress to advanced pattern building skills.

The basics of sketching, scanning, vectorizing and coloring your motifs

A refresh on how to build simple repeating patterns

How to make diagonal pattern repeats

How to make geometric pattern repeats

How to make layered pattern repeats

How to add texture to your patterns

How to make lined pattern repeats

Time saving keyboard shortcuts

This course is designed to give you all the technical and creative skills you need to start designing beautifully colored complex patterns TODAY! My hope is that it will leave you feeling motivated and inspired to follow your own creative dreams!

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

All you’ll need for this course is Adobe Illustrator! This class is taught in Adobe Illustrator CC, though any version of Illustrator should work!