Create Quatrefoil And Ogee Patterns In Affinity Designer

Learn to design intricate repeating patterns on your iPad

What you'll learn

Learn how to create seamless repeating patterns on your iPad

Learn how to use Affinity Designer on your iPad

Learn how to create quatrefoil repeat patterns in Affinity Designer on your iPad

Learn how to create ogee repeat patterns in Affinity Designer on your iPad

Requirements

This is more of an intermediate course as my goal is to highlight how to build these complex shapes in the app and not the entire design process from concept to final repeat pattern. So, some pattern designing experience will be helpful, but I will still walk you through the steps to get your pattern created even if you have not created patterns in the past.

All you need to take this class is an iPad, and Apple Pencil with the following apps installed: Affinity Designer

Description

Class DescriptionHello everyone welcome to my latest class. I’m Jen Lezan and I’ll be the one guiding you through this creative course. I’m a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and educator based out of the midwest and I run Bella + Sophia Creative studio.  I really enjoy sharing my knowledge online as I think it’s an accessible way to learn new skills.For this class, I wanted to add to my growing library of surface pattern design related courses. I wanted share my process for creating quatrefoil and ogee style surface pattern repeats using Affinity designer. I really enjoy creating pattern repeats on my iPad as I find it is a very convenient work flow that allows me to work on the go with minimal tools.What the class is aboutIn this class, I will walk you through my process on how to make a quatrefoil and ogee style seamless repeating patterns using affinity designer. Before we jump into the design process though, I will share some of the historical relevance of these patterns for inspiration and highlight their evolution and use over the years.A few of the skills students will learnSo, what are some the skills you will learn in this class? You will learn how to build a quatrefoil pattern and ogee pattern in Affinity designer. I will show you how to utilize the shape tools, pen tools and pencil tools to create simple and complex shapes in the vector program. Then, I will show you how I build my repeats with a live preview.This is more of an intermediate course as my goal is to highlight how to build these complex shapes in the app and not the entire design process from concept to final repeat pattern. If you are looking to learn the basics of Affinity Designer and how to design a repeat pattern from concept, to sketch to inking and final color repeat, I suggest taking my Surface Pattern Design Intensive course for beginners: Learn How to Create Surface Pattern Designs on the iPad with Affinity Photo + Affinity Designer.This course is designed to give you all the technical skills you need to start designing quatrefoil and ogee patterns using the Affinity designer vector app on the ipad, but it doesn’t go into as much detail as the surface pattern design intensive course. It will get you comfortable with the tools and studios in the app as well as familiarize you with some of the layer effects, geometry functions and shape options.Make sure to check out the class resources for a resource guide on surface pattern design and inspiration for design concepts.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Section 2: Course Project + Tools

Lecture 2 Course Project + Tools

Section 3: The History of Ogee + Quatrefoil Patterns

Lecture 3 The History of Ogee + Quatrefoil Patterns

Section 4: Setting up Your Artboard

Lecture 4 Setting up Your Artboard

Section 5: Creating Quatrefoil Shapes Part 1

Lecture 5 Creating Quatrefoil Shapes Part 1

Section 6: Creating Quatrefoil Shapes Part 2

Lecture 6 Creating Quatrefoil Shapes Part 2

Section 7: Creating Quatrefoil Shapes Part 3

Lecture 7 Creating Quatrefoil Shapes Part 3

Section 8: Setting Up Your Live Preview

Lecture 8 Setting Up Your Live Preview

Section 9: Creating the Quatrefoil Repeat pt. 1

Lecture 9 Creating the Quatrefoil Repeat pt. 1

Section 10: Creating the Quatrefoil Repeat pt. 1 + Exporting

Lecture 10 Creating the Quatrefoil Repeat pt. 1 + Exporting

Section 11: Creating the Ogee Shape

Lecture 11 Creating the Ogee Shape

Section 12: Creating the Ogee Repeat

Lecture 12 Creating the Ogee Repeat

Section 13: Exporting the Ogee Repeat + Testing

Lecture 13 Exporting the Ogee Repeat + Testing

Section 14: Course Outro

Lecture 14 Course Outro

Intermediate level surface pattern designers or anyone interested in learning how to create patterns using their iPad.