Creating Patterns Using Watercolor
A course by Lola San Román Marshall , Watercolor Painter and Textile Designer
Learn how to create patterns and compositions that bring your designs to life
When painting with watercolors, experimenting and going with the flow of your paintbrush is essential to achieving interesting and unique results. Painter and textile artist Lola San Román specializes in painting textile patterns that exude harmony and fluidity, through compositions filled with rhythm and delightful rapports.
Lola has been creating textile patterns for the fashion industry for over fifteen years, working with brands like Mango, El Corte Inglés, and Vera Wang. In this course, she shows you how composition is key when creating professional wallpaper or textile patterns that stand out. Learn how to develop your own style and shapes into your patterns and finish the course with all the tricks and techniques to create your first professional pattern collection.
What will you learn in this online course?
13 lessons & 8 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (272)
- 5,155 students
- 13 lessons (2h 9m)
- 8 additional resources (3 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software & tools for this course
Adobe PhotoshopWhat is this course's project?
Create a pattern for textile, paper, or wallpaper using watercolors, basing your design on scale, and full and empty color concepts.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
For all those who want to learn about composition (in drawing, illustration, or watercolor techniques) and how to create repetitions.
Requirements and materials
You need to know how to use the basic functions on Adobe Photoshop and the eagerness to learn from a new perspective.
As for materials, you will need basic tools such as different types of paper, paintbrushes, watercolors, scissors, and cardboard.
Reviews
Lola San Román Marshall
A course by Lola San Román Marshall
Lola San Román is a painter and textile designer with over fifteen years of experience in using watercolor to create textile designs.
She is passionate about repetitions that are created through patterns and the harmony found using rhythm, repetition, and the equidistance of elements.
She designs textile patterns for clients in the fashion and home interior industry such as Inditex, Mango, El Corte Inglés, and Vera Wang.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Who I am
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Influences
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What will we do in the course?
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U2
Before creating: The Preparation
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Job material
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The inspiration mood board
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Working mood board
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U3
Creation
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Fundamental concepts about watercolors
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Composition
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Illustration of our forms
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U4
We transfer it to computer
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Scan and clean
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Create repeat 1
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Create repeat 2
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Preparing the file for stamping
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FP
Final project
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Creating Patterns Using Watercolor
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FAQs
You’ll learn how to create original textile prints using watercolor techniques, from the creative process and composition to digitizing, cleaning, and preparing files for professional printing.
This is an intermediate-level course, perfect for those with basic watercolor or design skills who want to take their textile printing to the next level.
You’ll need watercolor paper, brushes, watercolors (brands like Dr. Martens or others), a mixing palette, and access to Photoshop for the digital part.
You’ll discover strategies for building portfolios, showcasing your work at trade shows like Premier Vision, and reaching out to brands to sell your prints professionally.
The course covers composition rules, balancing positive and negative space, creating visual movement, scale, and repetition to craft harmonious and eye-catching patterns.
Yes, it explores how to collaborate with other designers, share knowledge, and develop joint projects to boost creativity and career opportunities.
You’ll learn scanning, cleaning, and cropping illustrations in Photoshop, managing layers, and preparing print-ready files.
Adobe Photoshop
Excellent course! Practical and inspiring!
Fatal.
Nadie contesta a mis dudas, sólo una IA que no se entera.
No se enfoca bien lo que pinta la profesora, cuesta de verlo.
Tampoco explica detalles necesarios.
Una decepción de curso.
NO. NO lo recomendaría, para nada.
Amei as aulas, bem objetivas e claras. Recomendo.
The English voiceover on this is terrible. A lot of the time it makes no sense and uses so many different ai generated voices that it is impossible to follow
The course was useful and informative, and I would recommend it. However, the audio narration was extremely poor in quality: different voices were used, the tone of voice kept changing, and there was a vibrating echo. This made it difficult to follow.