A Beginners Guide: Create A Repeat Pattern In Affinity

How to Create a Seamless Repeat Pattern Using Hand-Drawn Elements in Affinity Photo & Designer

What you'll learn

How to edit your drawings in Affinity Photo

Place your drawings into a seamless repeat pattern in Affinity Designer

How to use your own drawings/elements to create a textured background

How to test your pattern and upload it onto a Print on Demand site

Requirements

In this project you will develop your editing skills and eye for spacing within patterns. How to technically place your elements to create a repeat pattern. You will also learn how to take advantage of layering and adding unique effects to your design. Once you have learnt the method of creating a seamless repeat pattern through Affinity Designer, you will then go onto to creating more patterns. You will also learn how to test your repeat using two different method which can be used for Print on Demand sites. You will need: Affinity Designer , Affinity Photo , A Notebook , 3-5 Hand-drawn Elements (eg. floral drawings) and A Scanner

Description

In this lesson you will learn how to create a seamless pattern using your own hand-drawn elements in Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. This engaging class will challenge you in creating textured patterns that will stand out from other patterns. You will be able to see how easy it is to create something beautiful in a few simple steps. In this class I will also encourage you to start your own Spoonflower shop, to enter the challenges so that your work can be exposed to others.Why Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo?If you are a new designer or even an expert you will be saving a lot of money. There is a lifetime cost of £50 (depending on the deals), which is better than paying a monthly subscription of £20-£40 for the Adobe suite. Affinity can save files as a PSD which works in the Adobe suite which is what you will need if you want to license your designs. If you have learnt how to use the Adobe suite already Affinity is very similar and you will learn in no time!What is a Seamless Pattern?A seamless pattern is a pattern that repeats continuously, through this repeat you will not be able to see the start or the finish of the pattern (the seam). I will show you how to do this in this class.In this class you will learn…1. How to edit your drawings in Affinity Photo2. Place your drawings into a seamless repeat pattern in Affinity Designer3. How to use your own drawings/elements to create a textured background4. How to test your pattern and upload it onto a Print on Demand site.Join my class, be inspired, be challenged.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Scanning an Editing your Hand-drawn Elements/Drawings

Lecture 2 Scanning and Editing your Hand-drawn Elements

Section 3: Creating a Seamless Repeat Pattern with your Hand-drawn Elements/drawings

Lecture 3 Creating a Seamless Repeat Pattern with your element/drawings

Section 4: How to Create a Textured Background Using your Hand-Drawn Element/Drawings

Lecture 4 Create a Textured Background Using your Elements/Drawings

Section 5: How to Test your Repeat Pattern in a POD Site

Lecture 5 How to Test your Repeat Pattern in a POD Site

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