This was so helpful, I started at university and was a week late due to having covid. So I was behind and I didn't want to have to sit through 2 hours worth of a recorded lecture just to do what you did in 12 minutes. Our assignment was to of course to make a pattern so this has been a life saver
Greetings, I would like to add something to this because although this was a magnificent tutorial, I had some difficulties having the pattern show up on my actual swatches- every time I would drag it, it would not show there. I would like to add that this process will not work if the items you have in your pattern are are not embed it. In other words, If you are bringing in a file from a different artboard, make sure you embed that one and expanded. I had a hard time figuring out why it wouldn't work. Thank you very much for this wonderful and helpful tutorial. I hope this serves for help to some people.
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Thank you!! I'm an absolute newbie to pattern design and had some issues at first. But after going back and carefully following every single step this worked out great for me.
PERFECT! Simplest tutorial for patterns! I appreciate the "no-cutting" as it deemed very difficult to edit the vectors. That bounding box is also genius. Thank you so much for this.
@@livlauryn It is like the create clipping mask function. You can do either of the 2 to achieve the same result. I said it was perfect for when you dont want to work woth a clipping mask layer. 3 years after, I now prefer the clipping mask over the crop using pathfinder. It is less destructive.
@@PoisonousRakun Hi, thank you for responding but I mean I tried following the instructions but it didn't work. I'm new to illustrator so I don't know either method, nor do I know how to use a clipping mask in anything but photoshop.
@@livlauryn It works like this. Group your elements. Add a shape that serves as your mask layer... place it on top of the grouped layer. Select both the shape and the group. Select Pathfinder on the Window dropdown menu. Click crop. So anything outside the shape will be cropped out. Anything inside will stay.
Thanks for starting from the beginning and even mentioning the document size. So many people on here just go right into what to do and dont even say the most important part which is what size to make my document lol
Ah this worked like a charm, so easy! I've tried making seamless patterns many times but they never quite worked properly, this time however everything turned out great! Thanks so much for the tutorial I love it 🙌
I confess I have watched many many tutorials that "explain" this in another ways to try pattern, but it never works, just with this explanation I could do it perfectly..thank you so much Cris!!
HIIII! I am an artist who's only just begun to learn Illustrator to digitize my doodles! Your tutorial's are absolutely the best for a newbie like me. Please, please, please make more Illustrator tutorials so that I can make my own designs!
This video is great! I was using Photoshop and it took forever. Alot of trial and error and it was hard to get it perfect. This is a time saver. Thanks.
Thank you so much! I tried another tutorial which wasn't working for me, yours did, and it has editing functionality to boot which is always a plus! Thanks again!
Very amazing...I am in lockdown and was trying to learn to learn more about illustrator and you have helped me a lot...going to recomend it to my friends....Thank you so much...It would be very helpful for my career.
Thank you for tNice tutorials! I've been trying to figure the software out on my own for a wNice tutorialle, and it's horribly confusing. TNice tutorials is the only guide video
Wow very talented! Thanks for this video! Could you please also teach how did you draw the pots or the patterns before making them seamlessly repeat. Thanks
Elan Creative Co thank you so much! 💟 I'm new to this software and hence trying to learn from scratch. Personally, I love creating such pieces and patterns, just learning how to. Thanks again. So much love!
This is the best demo in how to create seamless patterns I ever watched! One question - what is the reason or logic for expanding the fill and stroke? What advantage does that give you? Many thanks!
