Description
Hey there! Have you seen all the cool vector Illustration that’s being enhanced with texture? Have you always hankered to create these in Adobe Illustrator? Did you attempt, but struggled to make it work? Texture can be a really simple way of adding additional interest to your design, whether it be an illustration or a pattern. One of the simplest ways of adding texture to your surface pattern designs is by using vectorized patterns you create from scratch. This new course, Textural Repeating Background Pattern in Illustrator, focuses on the creation of the textures with the end goal being the use of these in other repeating patterns, though they can be used for any application. Creating layered surface pattern designs can give you that edge to make you really stand out in the crowd. As a designer, knowing how to create both raster and vector (Photoshop and Illustrator) textural patterns is a real asset. This course focuses on vector (for raster-based, check out my other course, Textural Floral Pattern Design which focuses on raster or bitmap textures created in Photoshop).
In this class, I will show you how texture adds interest and a tactile quality to what might otherwise be a flat color. We will begin some of the work for a few of the patterns in Photoshop. This sets up preparation of the images to be converted to vectors in Illustrator. Alternately, we will create some from scratch, right in Illustrator. We will work with full color textures and one color textures, as well as creation of dot patterns and more.
Once we have created a few textures, we will apply them to existing patterns to see what we can come up with. We will then experiment with color and will even dive into use of the Recolour Tool to experiment with our newly created patterns. Your head will be spinning like mine was by the end of the class. Take this one hour class for a full mind work-out! There is no exercise better, especially if you have been stuck!
Upon completion of your textures, you can go through all your existing artworks and give them a new lease on life with these techniques. You can use companies like Spoonflower or Print on Demand sites to showcase or to create custom products. Or check out my recent course called Passion to Profits where we use the Adobe Design-to Print-Extension and publish straight to Zazzle. Wouldn’t it be fun and satisfying to create and sell products with your design on them?
You may have taken courses on pattern design before, but it is guaranteed that there are new measures and methods to be learned every day. If you’ve taken other Deloresart classes, this is just a natural progression in your development towards full proficiency in all manner of design work.
As far as prerequisite skills, I would recommend some knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator with the goal of wanting to learn additional techniques. In class, we’ll talk about both the design and technical aspects of creating a pattern. I will demonstrate them at a reasonable pace so that it will be easy to follow along. This course is for all levels; I recommend being acquainted with Illustrator to a certain degree. I suggest Illustrator for this class, as that is what is being featured here, but any other vector software is suitable, so long as it has the same functionality. Remember, you can adjust speed of the playback in particularly difficult areas.
The key concepts I will include are:
sourcing textures in the environment around you using pencil rubbings and photographs
processing your raster images in Photoshop and finishing in Illustrator to create vectors
applying your texture to backgrounds behind repeat patterns in Illustrator
applying your texture to foreground items in Illustrator patterns and Illustrations
tips to perfecting your patterns and experimenting with color
methods to deal with computer processing limitations and software issues
This course has a huge line-up of ideas for you no matter at what stage you are in your design career, and it can help you whether your focus is illustration or pattern design. Join me and learn an abundance of things you may never have considered before! You can be applying this practical knowledge in your design practice tomorrow. Creating a textural pattern can be done relatively quickly with this short but information-filled class. I’m ready to get going. How about you?
Intro
In this class, I will give you an overview for how texture adds interest and a tactile quality to what might otherwise be a flat color. We will start some patterns in Photoshop, for preparation to be converted to vectors in Illustrator, and we will create some from scratch, right in Illustrator. We will work with full color textures and one color textures, as well as the creation of polka dot patterns and more.
Lesson 1: Overview, Examples and End Goals
In this lesson, I will explain the goals for the class and I will share examples of my work. We will discuss the main techniques we will be using in this class.
Lesson 2: Adobe Exchange and Libraries
For this lesson, I will introduce you to Adobe Exchange as means to finding existing free background vector patterns. Looking at these patterns will give you an idea of what to shoot for. I will explain organization using Adobe Libraries within Illustrator and we will take a close-up look at a vector pattern.
Lesson 3: Pencil Rubbings and Textural Photo Patterns
I will demonstrate the creation of two different bitmap-based patterns in this lesson. We will begin with adjusting settings such as levels in Photoshop. We will then take the corrected files into Illustrator and do the image tracing to create the vectors. I will explain settings in the Image Trace palette and other factors which must be considered when designing patterns in this way. We will do several edits so you see the complete process.
Lesson 4: Pattern Made with Marker Lines
We continue using the same techniques to prepare our bitmap image to be converted to a vector. This time we will not use grayscale, but rather black and white. Once the pattern in traced in Illustrator, we do a bunch of adjustments to make the tile seamless.
Lesson 5: Textural Dot Patterns
Simple dots can be a very effective texture when used in you design. In this lesson, I will show you a quick technique for creating textural dot patterns. In later lessons I will thoroughly explain how to change the color of existing patterns.
Lesson 6: Color Photo Pattern Preparation
We begin the process of creating a terrazzo style pattern using a color photo. This lesson mainly uses Photoshop for preparation to vectorize in Illustrator. This is a quick and viable way to create a coordinating color scheme.
Lesson 7: Color Photo Pattern Finishing
This lesson will cover the completion of the terrazzo pattern in Illustrator. We will cover testing and perfecting the pattern and working with a specific color scheme. Use of the Transform Again filter is covered in detail in this lesson.
Lesson 8: Adding Backgrounds to Existing Patterns
This is the lesson where we will be testing the use of the background textures we have created. There are plenty of alternatives to explore. We will talk about scale, color, the Recolour Tool and much more. You will learn more about managing and applying the patterns in as efficient a way as possible.
Lesson 9: The Project and Mockup Examples
In this lesson, we will experiment with mock-ups and discuss methods of re-coloring patterns. I give you a few more ideas and tips and tricks. I will summarize the class in this lesson and explain the class project.
Outro and Wrap-Up
Thanks so much for being here! Hope to see you in many other classes!
Concepts covered:
Concepts covered include but are not limited to Photoshop image touch-up, Photoshop filters, Illustrator pattern making, Illustrator filters, techniques for enhancing textural art, expand and expand appearance, simplify, keyboard shortcut reinforcement, the Recolor Tool in Illustrator, pattern repeat types, copy, paste, paste in place, the pathfinder palette, paste in front, paste in back, layering, the layers palette, correcting textures, adding detail to illustrator line art, and much more!
You will get the bonus of…
approx. one hour of direction from an instructor who has been in the graphic design business and also certified in education for over 30 years
awareness of multiple approaches to resolve each design challenge
handouts explaining key concepts
a list of helpful online sites to further your education
À qui ce cours s’adresse-t-il ?
Surface Pattern Designers looking to add to their competence and proficiency in vector-based techniques
Additional skills for designers in taught in a step-by-step manner
Students looking for fundamentals of pattern repeats
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