Surface Pattern Design: Key Principles for Making Outstanding Patterns

Key Principles for Making Outstanding Patterns is a full-circle journey class that will take you from better understanding your work and improving it, to creating your pattern design, and finally getting it ready for clients.

In the first part of the class, I gathered all my experience as a pattern designer into a set of key principles that will guide you through your design process and help you better understand your work and improve it. I organized these principles into 3 main chapters, so we’ll cover: what makes a cohesive pattern, what makes a good repeat, and what makes a professional pattern design.

In the second part of the class, you’ll put all this into practice and create a pattern design that you’ll proudly place in your portfolio and license to clients. I’ll show you 2 ways of doing that, one is using only Procreate, and the second one using Procreate and Photoshop.

And not only that, but once you finish your pattern design, I’ll show you how to showcase it to potential clients and what kind of file you’ll be sending after you sign the licensing agreement.

I would recommend this class for intermediate or intermediate beginner levels. It is important that you have at least some experience in making patterns so that you can now take all that to the next level.

• Welcome
• Class Guide
• Project
• What Makes a Cohesive Pattern?
• What Makes a Good Repeat?
• What Makes a Professional Pattern?
• Pattern in Procreate
• P - Full Drop Custom Actions
• P - Pattern Sketch
• P - Final Pattern in Procreate
• Pattern in Procreate & Photoshop
• P&Ph - Pattern Elements in Procreate
• P&Ph - Final Pattern in Photoshop
• Promotion Ready Design
• Client Ready File
• Final Thoughts