Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing
How to create a pattern 1
A course by Giulia Tosi , Designer and Artisan
About the video: How to create a pattern 1
Overview
“Now we will work on our digitized drawing and we will transform it into an infinitely replicable pattern that we can print on the most varied materials.”
In this video lesson Giulia Tosi addresses the topic: How to create a pattern 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing. Learn how to make a botanical pattern that captures your perspective of nature by drawing, painting, and duplicating illustrations in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to create a pattern In this lesson I will show you how to create, from your drawing, an infinitely replicable pattern. We always have our file open, the "MANDARINI" file. First, I always suggest modifying the size slightly. Let's see, however, the actual size of the file. We select Command + Option + I for the size of the image. It is very large and has a low resolution. Let's keep the proportions, you see there is a chain here, so if i go to change the width, the height is also automatically re-proportioned. First we turn up the pixels, we have a resolution of 72 pixels per inch. Let's...”
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Course summary for: Creating Botanical Patterns from a Drawing
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Botanical Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration

Giulia Tosi
A course by Giulia Tosi
Giulia Tosi is a designer and artisan from Verona, Italy. She is founder of the brand Insunsit, which means "nowhere" in the Mantuan dialect. Her style is characterized by the freedom to not choose any one fixed path. Giulia works with a range of materials and her creations are constantly evolving.
After studying History of Art at university, she spent some years working as a bookseller and developing her personal project on the side. She went on to travel around Italy, selling her creations at various markets before opening her online shop and setting herself up in a shared studio in Verona. It is here that she currently works, exhibits her pieces, and receives visitors.
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