Blending Traditional & Digital Techniques In Pattern Making

Finish a Hand Drawn Pattern by Image Tracing in Illustrator, then testing the fit and colonizing

What you'll learn

Workflow to take hand-drawn patterns and finish them digitally

Image trace and finishing in Adobe Illustrator

Making edits to pen drawn motifs in Illustrator

Adjusting curves and repairing flaws

Requirements

Basic Illustrator skills are an asset

Clear instructions are given for digitization processes

Description

In this class Blending Traditional & Digital Approaches to Create Elegant Patterns course, I will show you how I took a traditional hand-inked pattern and brought it into the digital realm to create the pattern repeat and colorize it. This class is intended for students who have already learned some basic pattern making skills are seeking alternative methods to create more advanced patterns. The starting point is a hand inked pattern, so drawing and inking is essential and the hope is you have something in-hand to practice with. Having basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator is an asset and I will try to clearly explain all the steps as we proceed. The process can be intimidating at first, but using these techniques make it much easier.This course will arm you with all the knowledge necessary. This alternative pattern-making skillset is an ideal competence if you are fabric designer, illustrator or surface pattern designer, or simply a graphic designer on a mission to create a self-sustaining career. Many insights about designing will be shared and hopefully they can inspire you to take a look at your current pattern designs and have you planning many different projects in the future. I go through the entire process from start to finish.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Photoshop Steps for Prep

Lecture 2 Testing the Repeat in Photoshop

Lecture 3 Image Trace

Lecture 4 Making the Pattern Seamless

Lecture 5 Touchups and Last Minute Adjustments

Lecture 6 Testing the Fitting of the Pattern

Lecture 7 Color Experiments

Lecture 8 Mockups and Finishing

Students ready to take on surface pattern design workflow; pattern designers looking for alternate techniques,Students looking for the big picture on digitizing ink work