Botanical Pattern Design: Floral patterns in Illustrator

Name: Botanical Pattern Design: Floral patterns in Illustrator
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Learn to digitize your analog drawings and turn them into a pattern in Adobe Illustrator

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Created byCatalina Navarrete

Last updated 9/2021

English

What you'll learn

Create patterns in Adobe illustrator
How to convert analog drawing to digital
Create color palette in Adobe Illustrator
How to recolor your patterns

Course content

5 sections • 13 lectures • 57m total length

Introduction1:52
Materials1:00

Drawing your floral doodles and basics of Adobe Illustrator5:51
We will draw floral doodle that in this case each of these doodles is one motif. The motifs are the starting point of any pattern are the single element that will be repeated.
Basic tools Adobe Illustrator5:16
I will show you some basic illustrator tools and shortcuts that I will be using through the course.
If your are familiarize with illustrator you can skip this lesson.

ADOBE CAPTURE and CAMSCANNER2:48
I am going to show you how to get your floral doodles into illustrator. Then you can choose which tool is better for you.
LIVE TRACE vs ADOBE CAPTURE4:56
You will learn how to place your capture file into illustrator to see how your doodles were automatically vectorized and how to place your scan image and convert it into vectors.
We will see the difference and you can check which process you prefer
PEN vs BRUSH in Adobe Illustrator4:50
You will learn how to vectorize your image with Brush and Pen in Adobe Illustrator

Using Pattern Tool in Adobe Illustrator5:10
We will start making our pattern. In this lesson, I will show you how to use the pattern tool into illustrator to make a seamless pattern.
Color Your Pattern I3:33
I will show you how to scale your pattern to appreciate better all your work and the firts step to color your artwork.
Create Your Color Palette3:40
I will show you three different options to get your color palette.
- Adobe Color (website)
- Adobe Capture (app)
- Manual in Adobe illustrator
Color Your Pattern II3:42
we will start recoloring with the recolor artwork tool in Adobe Illustrator.

Draw new Motifs4:46
Now it is time for you to create a new pattern. For our project, we will create a pattern that will have a new drawing in it. For this pattern I will create only two flowers more We will use some elements from the last exercise as a complement for this one.
Turn Your Motifs into an Incredible Pattern10:14
We are almost finishing this class! In this last lesson we will finish our project, I will show you another way to arrange your pattern. You can choose if you want to repeat the last way to make a pattern or this one that you will learn here. Feel free to create an amazing and personal pattern.

Thanks for watching this class :D

Requirements

All level students interested in create a digital pattern

Description

FLORAL PATTERN DESIGN IN ILLUSTRATOR

If you want to create your own botanical repeating patterns. This class is for you. The idea is to bring your handmade botanical drawings to life intro a pattern.

As I always tell you everyone in life have different ways to approach tasks depend on the abilities or ways to think and learn for that reason, I will teach you different ways to approach a pattern design in illustrator.

We will start this class drawing our own botanical line drawing design. (If you want to go deep in drawing your flowers you can check my Skillshare class [Achieve A Botanical Line Drawing Illustration],
We will take those illustrations and check different ways to Ways to get your artwork into Adobe Illustrator and convert it to a vector.
I will explain different kind of patterns and the way to make your own patterns and the variety of compositions you can make.
At the end we will check how to make a unique color palette to bring life to your pattern
FInally you will learn how to export your pattern for digital or printing purpose.
Assigment Time: You will draw some floral illustrations and make all the process to convert it into a digital illustration and then in Adobe illustrator create a amazing composition that finally will convert in a Pattern Design. The idea is to create a variation of color from the same pattern. Th ebest part is that you can use digital or even print it out.

I hope you enjoy this class!

Who this course is for:

Beginner Illustrator interested in learn how to create patterns

Botanical Pattern Design: Floral patterns in Illustrator

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 3min

Drawing your motifs2 lectures • 11min

How to digitalize your motifs3 lectures • 13min

Create a Pattern in Adobe Illustrator4 lectures • 16min

Class Assigment - Create Your Pattern2 lectures • 15min

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