Illustrated Pattern Design
Basic ways of repetition 1
A course by Ana Sanfelippo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Basic ways of repetition 1
Overview
“To understand a pattern the easiest thing is to identify and build a rapport square. But you can also see other basic forms of repetition that I find interesting to work, from a circular and fan module.”
In this video lesson Ana Sanfelippo addresses the topic: Basic ways of repetition 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Pattern Design. Learn to tell stories using your own hand-drawn patterns and print them on different surfaces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Basic forms of repetition In this lesson, we're going to work with rapports. Rapports are the minimum unit of repetition. We'll also work with the most basic forms. We'll start with a square, then we'll work on other forms that interest me, a circle shape and a fan shape, and even though they are basic forms, they achieve very diverse results. Let's see how they look. Let's start by putting together our first module, which will be square. The modules could have any format but this is an easy way to start. We're going to use 30 by 30. We'll work with a resolution of 450, to have slightly mor...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Pattern Design
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Digital Illustration, Gouache Painting, Pattern Design, Printing, Traditional illustration

Ana Sanfelippo
A course by Ana Sanfelippo
Ana Sanfelippo is an Argentine illustrator and graphic designer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She went from being a student to a teacher there, where she spent 14 years teaching illustration and typography.
Ana specializes in children's illustration, her main products being books and pattern designs. She collaborates with brands for whom the illustration is applied to the product as the main protagonist, such as Birchbox, La Maraña, Amazónica, and Papelirea.
She started more than ten years ago in the professional field of editorial illustration, where she first started working with patterns to create book covers. Since then, pattern design has become the place of perfect harmony between her two passions: illustration and design.
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