Watercolor Stripe Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to create a seamless repeating pattern of watercolor stripes. The designs uses a free download of vector watercolor brushes. You'll see how to pick the brushes to use and how to make a seamless repeating stripe pattern from them. If you are using Illustrator CC you will see how to use the Puppet Warp tool to help with the seamless repeat, if you are using another version of Illustrator I'll explain how to achieve the same effect using a different tool. You will simply follow the video relevant to your version of Illustrator. By the end of the course you will know how to make a organic seamless repeating pattern of stripes which look like they've been painted in watercolor. You will also have learned some valuable techniques for working in Illustrator every day.

• Watercolor Stripe Pattern in Illustrator - Introduction
• Pt 1 Get the Watercolor assets
• Pt 2 Set up the document
• Pt 3 Cut the stroke in half
• Pt 4 Creating an overlap with the Puppet Warp tool
• Pt 5 Creating an overlap with Envelope Warp
• Pt 6 Smooth the Overlap
• Pt 7 Add more stripes
• Pt 8 Double up the stripes and recolor your pattern