High there in this video we're going to make this rather hypnotic repeating pattern and Adobe Illustrator
will get some more advanced features in this video.
Also do things like this where we get it to kind of map around.
That's meant to be a pocket guy.
Terrible.
OK.
And but this is well where we can pull it and really kind of Wolper it right.
We'll show you how to do that now in Illustrator.
All right.
So first up open up patents.
I k there in your exercise files.
Now you don't have to these are just some shapes we're going to use as an example you can totally use
your own you can't use these particular ones for any other work because they are stuck library images
made by the handsome Robert Philip spelt.
If I like.
P K so you can go to stock dot dot dot com and buy those if you want to use them.
And what we're going to do is going to select the mon's kind of move them off to the edge and we're
going to build our very first kind of repeating tile like guess or the beginning there was going to
kind of make some sort of some sort of thing.
Playing with laya order and just getting started.
Now my advice always is to NOT IT'S BEEN TOO LONG kind of doing it here is to jump straight into the
pencil case because you find that things just look different once they're actually getting repeated.
So get started here get some sort of thing going OK and once you really select them all and you go to
this thing here a window this is the most insignificant name that most awesome tools called Pen options.
OK.
Never click it but this option this thing opens and doesn't look like it's usable.
Look on this option say make pen.
It will need one to get going.
It says it's put a swatch in my swatches pen over here you can kind of see a tiny version of it here
my switches panel.
So now is the pen making time we're going to give our name.
We're going to call and we're trying.
OK.
Couple of things before we that playing around with sizes of weights and things is that I don't like
it when it dims these extra copies just turn that off.
I like to see it in actual fact.
And the other things will turn off and on is we'll leave the Tiley edge on and we'll turn the size tile
to art off move with art on.
Just follow me.
I'll explain it when we get out of here.
Why we want to do all these things.
OK so turn all those on off to match mine.
And now we're going to play around with this.
The important part.
You know which of these kind of like ways is no more right a wrong way.
I end up always using Hick's though Higgs by rote we'll call them gives me the basic kind of feel for
what it doesn't matter.
Just find something that works for you.
OK I'm going to stop boy Hick's by column.
Now what I want to do is decide kind of these two things I can do and say I want it to come in tighter.
It's easy to use this tool here that Peten tile tool.
Click on that.
And then I grab one of the corners.
Hold shift K and just kind of shrink it down so that it's a kind of resizes and gets in tighter again.
OK up to you you're going to undo it like that but that's the way to do it.
And what I'm going to do is just kind of start rearranging the stuff to kind of start maybe looking
better.
OK.
I start feeling this get better.
You can play around with size and scale just like you're working in Illustrator.
OK.
Now you can also bring other new pots and you don't have to kind of really decide at the beginning.
Let's say I want to do it.
It's kind of weird right.
Click on done to kind of get out of here.
And a couple of things happen as I will go.
And these things here and the pen that is kind of like these guys are useless now and are useless but
we don't need them anymore.
Let's say we draw something else and we draw an ellipse and we draw.
I steal the colors from this and in a couple of them and just steal the colors.
Pretty exciting then Nice work.
I mean I copy them.
OK.
And they are useless now again.
And what I'm going to do.
I'm going to jump back into this watch and you just double click it over here in the switches panel
and it comes back to life you're in sound kind of like a no man's land and you go.
Now I can pacemen.
I could have actually just drawn them in here couldn't I.
I guess I'm doing this.
Why.
Because I just want to fill in this I'm just some no man's land gets here.
OK then I just want to kind of put in.
You can play with the lay order.
You can have that one.
So once you're happy with everything there's a couple of things we need to do is play dumb.
Let's apply it now because it doesn't exist anywhere.
We're going to go with the rectangle to grab a nice big rectangle to cover the background and click
them.
Mine by default has filled it.
Yours might not.
You might click on this as well.
You might be like yours might be filled with say white and you might click on the swatch to fill it
and you go fill it in this little time it's actually filled the stroke.
It was a tiny pattern on the outside to make sure the fill here has no stroke.
OK.
Sorry the stroke has no stroke.
And fill this guy can probably do it have hidden and it's just easier to come fill in stroke stroke.
All right so those options I kind of talked about earlier.
Let's discuss those and what they mean.
One of the options that say is resized to tile out it just means that when I resized this k it resizes
comes along for the ride.
A few have that tect it would try and stay the right size and that's fine.
You might be a reason why you want that but it doesn't really matter.
You can do it afterwards.
Let's have a little look at that say Is this kind of two uses let's say this is a repeating pattern
and say you're a fashion designer and that you want to resize something down say you're making a pockets
or an insert something small but you don't want the patent to resize because it can't cause that the
it's the fabric pattern and that's done.
You can't resize it right.
And so what you can do is you can turn it on and off by going to a window and going to transform.
And in here there's some sneaky options in there big I mean you k and it's this group here.
So by default it's on both means.
When I transform the object which is the rectangle it transforms the pen as well.
But you can say actually I want to transform when I'm transforming just the object came and when I scale
it down you can see it just scales the object not the pen.
So that might be useful for you and the trouble with that is that it's on forever.
You've got to make sure just turn it off I go in and turn it off again because yeah causes later on
get a headache like what's going on.
So I turn it back on.
The other one is transform object Peten only say I wanted to resize the pattern but not the box.
OK.
This doesn't do what you expect it does both again.
It's well they kind of mean is that you have to transform the pattern early.
You have to use this little box here.
So the height and width here that say I want to divide it by two can and a click into the box.
You can see I've divided the high and the width by two.
The object hasn't changed just the pattern.
Make sure was well when you doing that that is linked case what is the height and width together.
Say it with rotation and he might do 20.
And because I've got that option tacked on just the pattern that's only applying to that case going
to get back to both.
Another thing you might do is at the beginning we didn't put a background color Willington like the
keys to the white of the page fill the gap.
Again you can see here there's now space behind it.
OK.
The Grays coming through.
Now I find is that a coloring it before you get into it.
All you need to do is grab this and put the full color of pink and put it behind it and add that when
you create your tile.
OK.
That will add a background color to it.
I find it's easier.
Probably probably.
And I'd like to have a separate box separately.
OK.
To kind of show the stock color all the color behind it doesn't really matter I guess.
All right.
Other thing I want to do is let's have a little look at our shift.
OK.
And to my iPod to hold down the key drag out option key on the mic to get in your iPod.
If you know the Apple tools that what I'd like to do now is first of all I want to get rid of the pink
direct ground.
Goodbye.
And I want to kind of start distorting this panel let's say that you are doing it for a mock up of your
patent on something or say you are a designer fashion designer and you want to kind of move it around
the shape of a model.
OK so let's look at both kind of a couple of ways of doing that.
And one of the easy ways is that say you just wanted to store this go to it.
Sorry.
Object go to envelope distort.
And we're going to.
And one of the easy ones is make with what Casey if you've got to kind of really simple shape.
It's going to stress your machine out a little bit.
You can see it's kind of warped this way.
If one of the shapes is going to work for you gay flags in waves and things like that then you can just
use this option OK and you can see it's kind of destroying the world destroying it's kind of singeing
your pattern.
If that doesn't work for you let's say you want to really control what it does.
It's the two ways I can use my courage to.
OK so I'm going to create say a pocket and I'm going to draw make sure Phil is not Alpen that's going
to freak us out.
So it doesn't really matter what color this is a double click for a corner sequence for a curve to look
for a corner.
What we'll do.
But look once for a curve to click on and click on it click once for a curve
go wasn't so well got ugly looking pocket and this really bad feeling had the idea and you can do a
couple of things.
Let's look at two options so shift shift to zero OK to get my iPod to make another duplicate.
So the first option is you might get away with this is slick that the two objects and you pocket needs
to be at the front cases like both of them go to object go to envelope distort and there's an option
that says make the top object.
It just kind of tries to jam it in there.
Again a bit stressful.
And that might be enough for you.
You just let the sheep do the work.
And that could be quite cool and say you want a bit more control what you might do is select on the
background shape.
And we're going to go to an object we're going to go to object envelope distort and this one that says
make with mesh.
OK this is like full custom came through three it the more mesh you have the more detail you can control.
But it's a little fiddly.
Ok so like a great image looks ridiculous.
So I'm going to play it first again quite a hardcore Peten.
OK if yours is even more like you and your machine is old it's going to take a while.
All right.
Next thing I want to do is I want to bring Whateley I can send him to the back and that's really fast
if I try and bring the patent to the front.
It's been they just doing it.
OK.
What I want to do is actually just load the capacity of this don't lower the city of the pattern before
you make it mesh.
OK.
It's really hard to turn the penalty back up it's easy this way.
OK so I just want to turn it down for a little bit while I play around with it and use the white arrow
tool when I'm working with the mesh.
OK and what I might do to get started is going to slick these three points now it's really hard because
I picked a blue blue kind of pocket and I've got a blue kind of textile.
And there's also blue on this.
Last was a little bit hard.
You'll have to work it out.
So I selected just the three guys.
OK.
Four people.
OK.
A dragon and little bit and give it a second.
Can you can see it's kind of getting scrunched over the side.
They'll do the same for this side.
So this is just giving you the kind of customized shape you can kind of see what's happening.
I can drag it out here.
It's going to drag it in here and there's just a lot of fiddling around now to kind of push it the you
know the way you want the fabric to fall and it's going to be a lot of and about so it's grabbed just
this one point and I drag it in.
What's the fix here.
And and I zoom in you can see it you've got these little handles that control it as well.
Hopefully.
OK.
I'm going to drag them around.
Is this guy taking a little bit of time now.
Are machines pretty hard core and it's still taking a lot of time.
So we're kind of doing two things that are really kind of extreme.
One is the pattern and the other is using an envelope mesh code so I'm not going to spend too much more
time.
But there's a lot of just grabbing these good points.
Maybe the mesh is too complex.
I put three by three.
Maybe if you're doing this now try just to buy two.
Mike if you had just enough control to be able to you know that's going to really distort it.
Breaking it but say if you want a bit of a pinched fabric where you're measuring.
You know you've got kind of like stock images and you want to match the kind of role and folds of the
fabric you can stop pushing this around when you're done with a black error have a selected go up to
the capacity and crank it back up.
And the last thing we're going to do is send the back
again I should've brought the shape to the front for some reason Kingham make sure he gets cropped in
case and now with them both is selected.
We're going to hit command 7 on a Mac or control 7 on a PC and it just kind of sticks it in the shape.
And that's my favorite thing.
All right one last thing you might do is let's say that you're actually designing this and you want
to change the colors that are used in here.
OK a nice way to do it.
Like I've got it selected go to it go to it it colors and we did this properly in an early to tural
who's going to be the short version here.
OK so recolor at work ok and jumped to the it.
OK link all the colors and then you can kind of drag this around in and out.
Kind of expands them richer and Coola K and you can see it in the back in the back.
And then I'm changing the colors making them terrible correct in case he might have some color options
once you've got it in here or maybe just some huge changes or you get the fabric and you're like man
it's not quite reflected well in my design or my.
I just it.
And if you want to go into more recoloring notwork I go that in a full tutorial or rights that is patent's.
Hope you learn something new and tip.
All right let's get on to the next video.