Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design

Overview

“In this second class, I will show you how to prepare the second stamp in Illustrator using the pattern creation tool.”

In this video lesson Marta Afonso addresses the topic: Elaboration of standards: grids 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design. Discover manual stamping techniques that bring fabrics to life and create an original digital collection of patterns.

Partial transcription of the video

“Creating Patterns: Grid Let's move on to stamp 2, and we'll use the pattern development tool on Illustrator to make a normal pattern, brick and half drop. Let's do this? Let's start by opening a new file, go to File, New, and let's create a file to Print. We choose the centimeters, and we make it 50 x 50, which gives us a good size to test our patterns. Let's drag the file to the canvas, stamp 2. This is the stamp we cleaned up on Photoshop. To use the pattern tool, we just select the image and we go to Object, Pattern, Make. A warning popped up. "Patterns cannot contain linked object(s). P...”

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Course summary for: Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design

• Level: Beginner
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• 3599 students
• 5 units
• 22 lessons (4h 48m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Fashion Design, Pattern Design, Printing, Textile Printing, Traditional illustration