Pattern Design for Beginners: Create Your First Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

Learn how to design your own fabric from start to finish in an easy and fun way.

If you are a pattern design beginner and also Adobe Illustrator beginner, don't worry, this is a step by step guide and just the basic knowledge of the program will be enough. In case you're not a beginner, you might be interested to see the custom actions I create to speed up my workflow and how to use your sketches to draw elements without a drawing tablet.

In this class we'll:

• Talk about inspiration and choosing the main subject to illustrate
• Organize our mood board
• Use sketches to draw our elements (with or without a drawing tablet)
• Create custom actions in Adobe Illustrator that will help us work more efficiently
• Organize our pattern and prepare it for printing

• Introduction
• Your Project
• Mood Board
• Drawing - Introduction
• Drawing - With a Tablet
• Drawing - Without a Tablet
• Pattern Making - Part 1
• Pattern Making - Part 2
• Thank you