1 00:00:01.00 --> 00:00:04.09 - In my 30 years of talking to digital artists and designers 2 00:00:04.09 --> 00:00:08.04 there's one topic that comes up over and over again, 3 00:00:08.04 --> 00:00:10.02 regardless of discipline. 4 00:00:10.02 --> 00:00:12.05 The topic that seems to bind us all 5 00:00:12.05 --> 00:00:14.08 from one generation to the next. 6 00:00:14.08 --> 00:00:17.01 The topic that, even when we're mad at each other, 7 00:00:17.01 --> 00:00:20.08 we can agree this thing is cool, is patterns. 8 00:00:20.08 --> 00:00:22.07 Maybe you thought I was gonna say logos 9 00:00:22.07 --> 00:00:24.07 and we'll come to that soon enough. 10 00:00:24.07 --> 00:00:27.02 But I really believe it's patterns. 11 00:00:27.02 --> 00:00:31.06 Backgrounds, fabric design, maps, research, mathematics, 12 00:00:31.06 --> 00:00:35.06 gothic, Victorian, Op art, skull, love, 13 00:00:35.06 --> 00:00:38.04 undersea, nature, flower, lace. 14 00:00:38.04 --> 00:00:41.07 There's no search term that will not turn up a pattern. 15 00:00:41.07 --> 00:00:43.04 I think I mean that literally. 16 00:00:43.04 --> 00:00:45.05 I just searched for the word pattern 17 00:00:45.05 --> 00:00:47.06 and I got more than a billion hits. 18 00:00:47.06 --> 00:00:50.07 That's almost as many as when I search for the word weather. 19 00:00:50.07 --> 00:00:53.04 I mean for God's sake the almighty weather, 20 00:00:53.04 --> 00:00:57.01 which I just misspelled in my mind so okay, I get that. 21 00:00:57.01 --> 00:00:59.02 The old H instead of the A. 22 00:00:59.02 --> 00:01:02.00 See, even spelling has patterns. 23 00:01:02.00 --> 00:01:03.09 But still patterns are huge. 24 00:01:03.09 --> 00:01:05.03 Vast beyond measure. 25 00:01:05.03 --> 00:01:07.02 Hypothetically infinite. 26 00:01:07.02 --> 00:01:09.04 And to bring it back down to earth size, 27 00:01:09.04 --> 00:01:11.09 it all starts with a single tile. 28 00:01:11.09 --> 00:01:15.03 Now a tile is a unit that repeats over and over. 29 00:01:15.03 --> 00:01:17.04 Like the tiles on a kitchen floor. 30 00:01:17.04 --> 00:01:20.02 A tile can be rectangular or hexagonal 31 00:01:20.02 --> 00:01:21.09 and depending on how you create it 32 00:01:21.09 --> 00:01:24.05 the tile may repeat with intentional edges 33 00:01:24.05 --> 00:01:26.08 or so seamlessly that you can't tell 34 00:01:26.08 --> 00:01:29.04 where one tile blends into the next. 35 00:01:29.04 --> 00:01:31.03 Which is where the one gets lost 36 00:01:31.03 --> 00:01:32.09 in the space of its neighbors 37 00:01:32.09 --> 00:01:36.09 and the sense of the grand pattern begins to emerge. 38 00:01:36.09 --> 00:01:39.08 A pattern may be expressed as a fill or a stroke, 39 00:01:39.08 --> 00:01:41.02 in which case it repeats within 40 00:01:41.02 --> 00:01:43.03 the physical boundaries of either. 41 00:01:43.03 --> 00:01:46.04 But then there's this other thing, the pattern brush. 42 00:01:46.04 --> 00:01:49.05 This guy allows you to repeat a series of tile patterns 43 00:01:49.05 --> 00:01:51.09 along the length of a path outline. 44 00:01:51.09 --> 00:01:54.03 One tile determines the appearance of the brush 45 00:01:54.03 --> 00:01:57.01 along a segment and around a smooth point. 46 00:01:57.01 --> 00:01:59.02 You can create additional corner tiles 47 00:01:59.02 --> 00:02:03.00 that appear at corner points as well as start and end tiles 48 00:02:03.00 --> 00:02:06.02 that appear at the end points of an open path. 49 00:02:06.02 --> 00:02:09.05 Which makes pattern brushes perfect for creating frames. 50 00:02:09.05 --> 00:02:12.03 Plus, you can assign them in the freeform path outlines 51 00:02:12.03 --> 00:02:14.03 and even letter forms. 52 00:02:14.03 --> 00:02:16.07 Simply put, there is nothing you can't do 53 00:02:16.07 --> 00:02:18.08 with a good pattern in Illustrator. 54 00:02:18.08 --> 00:02:21.03 Well, except maybe predict the weather, 55 00:02:21.03 --> 00:02:24.08 as you're about to discover, in this very chapter.