Learn To Design A Half Drop And Rectangle Full Drop Repeat

Designing a Half Drop and Rectangle Full Drop Repeat in Affinity Designer on your iPad

What you'll learn

Learn how to make surface pattern designs using the Affinity Designer iPad app

Learn how to create a full drop rectangle seamless pattern repeat

Learn how to create a half drop seamless pattern repeat

Learn how to use the Affinity Designer iPad app

Requirements

This is a beginner friendly course - no prior experience is needed. This course is designed to give you all the technical skills you need to start designing the full drop in rectangle format and the half drop repeat using the Affinity designer iPad app

Description

Class DescriptionHello everyone welcome to my latest class. If this your first class with me, welcome! I am Jen Veguilla-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. This month, I wanted to build off of last month’s class and keep exploring our creative skills in Surface Pattern Design. Last month we worked on learning how to build 4 different repeat styles in Affinity Designer for the desktop. This month, we are going to learn some similar concepts, but how to do them in the Affinity Designer app on the iPad. I wanted to share this process on the iPad as the interface is quite a bit different than the desktop interface. I know how important it is for those of you who work on the go to be able to utilize the iPad in your work process and it always helps to keep things streamlined if you can work in the same software, but in different environments like desktop vs. iPad.If this is your first foray into my classes relating to surface pattern design or your first time building patterns on the iPad, I highly suggest you check out my previous surface pattern design intensive course. In that course I show you the basics of surface pattern design and building repeats on the iPad. In today’s class, though — we will take that process a little further and explore how to create 2 of the most common surface pattern repeats - the Full Drop repeat but with a twist as we will be creating it in a rectangle format rather than square, and a Half Drop repeat.Expanding on the types of patterns you can create helps to add visual interest to your patterns. Choosing the right pattern repeat for your design will depend on what sort of look and feel you are after. But, the wonderful thing is you can keep experimenting with your repeat layouts until you get the result that you are after.What the class is aboutIn this class, I will walk you through my process on how to make 2 of the most common surface pattern designs in Affinity Designer on your iPad. This course will help you understand the process using the interface on the iPad app. The 2 repeats we will review are: the full drop in rectangle format and the half drop repeat. We will work on designing these patterns and creating a seamless repeat using illustrated motifs. We will also touch on some helpful tips to help establish creating strong repeats.This course is designed to give you all the technical skills you need to start designing the full drop in rectangle format and the half drop repeat using the Affinity designer iPad app. Keep in mind though, it doesn’t go into as much detail as the surface pattern design intensive course I mentioned earlier. This class will get you comfortable building a repeat pattern template, as well as help you learn more about the tools and studios in the iPad app as well as familiarize you with some of the layer effects, geometry functions and transform options that will aid in building a repeating pattern in Affinity Designer right on your iPadWe won’t be going through the entire process of surface pattern design from concept drawing to final pattern, though. Instead we will be focusing on understanding the mechanics behind and constructing each of these pattern repeats. If you want to learn the very basics of surface pattern design using your iPad, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, feel free to check out my Surface Pattern Design intensive course for beginners: Learn How to Create Surface Pattern Designs on the iPad with Affinity Photo + Affinity DesignerMake sure to check out the class resources for your project template and a helpful resource guide on surface pattern design.Tools neededAll you need to take this class is an iPad, an apple pencil or stylus the Affinity Designer iPad app installed.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Section 2: Tools + Class Project

Lecture 2 Tools + Class Project

Section 3: Tips for Designing Strong Repeats

Lecture 3 Tips for Designing Strong Repeats

Section 4: Setting up Your File in Affinity Designer

Lecture 4 Setting up Your File in Affinity Designer

Section 5: Setting up the Live Preview

Lecture 5 Setting up the Live Preview

Section 6: Importing Motif Elements

Lecture 6 Importing Motif Elements

Section 7: Creating the Full Drop

Lecture 7 Creating the Full Drop

Section 8: Testing the File - Full Drop

Lecture 8 Testing the File - Full Drop

Section 9: The Half Drop Tile Set Up

Lecture 9 The Half Drop Tile Set Up

Section 10: Building the Half Drop

Lecture 10 Building the Half Drop

Section 11: Testing the Half Drop Repeat

Lecture 11 Testing the Half Drop Repeat

Section 12: Class Project Template

Lecture 12 Class Project Template

Section 13: Course Outro

Lecture 13 Course Outro

This class is for anyone looking to get comfortable building a repeat pattern template, as well as help those interested in learning more about the tools and studios in the iPad app.