This is gorgeous! Love your watercolors! Great color theme too! Did you design the leopard or got the design idea from someone else? Kinda like a template. I want to practice sketching stylized fav animals so I can use them like this. It's a matter of reducing them to basic forms. I use Affinity Designer. Thanks for sharing your elements designs and layout. The elements can be isolated and scanned in individually. Don't know which is more labor-intensive, that way or using the pen tool. 🌷🌷🌷
Thank you! I always draw animals from looking at photos - I think it's the best way to get the proportions right. I'm not familiar with affinity designer so I don't know how easy or difficult it is to use. I prefer painting my elements by hand and then scanning them - I've found that digital brushes can never really replicate the textures of real paint. It's a question of preference, but I think that both digital and analogue painting are labor intensive although in different ways.
i don't know if that is feasible, but i think you should use photoshop to cut the individual drawings by the click of a button rather than using spending ages using the pen tool.
Thank you so much. This video literally helped me through my art block. And I also just discovered that you are also from hong kong. I hope I can meet you and talk about art together one day.
Nice quick tutorial. Just wondering do you prefer to draw/paint your elements separately and then arrange a pattern digitally or draw/paint the pattern and then clean it up digitally? Which do you think is the best method for beginners? Would it be different if one was say a repeat pattern and the other an illustration? I usually draw illustrations with a background so if I was to make a repeat, I think it wouldnt work without needing to rearrange stuff.
I prefer to draw all the elements separately because that way is easier to clean and make adjustments. For beginners, I recommend you try many methods and use whichever suits you and your process better. There's not right or wrong :)
Thank you for this tutorial! This is something I really want to do. I do have a question… When you scan it in, what size do you scan it as? Do you keep it as a JPEG even if you’re adding them to certain products? I know that JPEGs can’t be resized larger without messing up quality so I was wondering if you turn them into vectors? When I do, they lose that watercolor look/texture so I’m not sure if I should be doing that. Thanks again for this, your work is beautiful! Just found you.
Hi Toria, I scan my images at 600 DPI as JPGs. If I don't have a specific product in mind, I usually make the patterns in Photoshop in A4 but have each image in a different layer. I don't turn my paintings into vectors because they lose a lot of the textures and details that I wanted to have in the first place. It'd be easier if you knew beforehand what kind of product you want to design for, so that you know the measurements and format and don't have to be guessing.
Such a beautiful pattern and a very educational tutorial! I feel inspiiiired 💓 Quick question, what other kinds of paint would you suggest for making patterns besides watercolor? Like, would you say acrylic is also good to use? :)
Thanks, I'm glad it was helpful. You could try painting with gouache, acrylics, ink, coloured pencils, etc. As long as you paint your icons separately you can use this technique :)
Great tutorial! Thanks a lot for showing your process nice and detailed!
really awesome.
Amazing tutorial. Please make more tutorials on surface pattern design techniques
Great tutorial! How to you go about creating a repeating pattern in photoshop (i.e. if you wan't to create fabric)?
Thank you for sharing this video!
One of the best tutorials I've seen on RUclips for this. Thank you!
You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful :)
I really liked this tutorial. Thanks for making it! Adorable pattern btw 😍
Love it. Thanks.
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial. I am trying to create patterns and you helped a lot.
Aww thank you so much for your lovely comment Ilana! I'm happy you found the tutorial useful :)
Very useful video ❤️
Awesome Tutorial. How are you making the images repeat like that at 2:44-2:50 ??
I copied each shape manually beforehand and then put them together in a folder.
This is gorgeous! Love your watercolors! Great color theme too! Did you design the leopard or got the design idea from someone else? Kinda like a template. I want to practice sketching stylized fav animals so I can use them like this. It's a matter of reducing them to basic forms.
I use Affinity Designer. Thanks for sharing your elements designs and layout. The elements can be isolated and scanned in individually. Don't know which is more labor-intensive, that way or using the pen tool. 🌷🌷🌷
Thank you! I always draw animals from looking at photos - I think it's the best way to get the proportions right.
I'm not familiar with affinity designer so I don't know how easy or difficult it is to use. I prefer painting my elements by hand and then scanning them - I've found that digital brushes can never really replicate the textures of real paint. It's a question of preference, but I think that both digital and analogue painting are labor intensive although in different ways.
This was very helpful. Thank you!!
Lauren K I’m glad it was helpful ❤️
i don't know if that is feasible, but i think you should use photoshop to cut the individual drawings by the click of a button rather than using spending ages using the pen tool.
Thank you so much. This video literally helped me through my art block. And I also just discovered that you are also from hong kong. I hope I can meet you and talk about art together one day.
Oh I'm so glad the tutorial helped you with your creative block!
Nice quick tutorial. Just wondering do you prefer to draw/paint your elements separately and then arrange a pattern digitally or draw/paint the pattern and then clean it up digitally? Which do you think is the best method for beginners? Would it be different if one was say a repeat pattern and the other an illustration? I usually draw illustrations with a background so if I was to make a repeat, I think it wouldnt work without needing to rearrange stuff.
I prefer to draw all the elements separately because that way is easier to clean and make adjustments. For beginners, I recommend you try many methods and use whichever suits you and your process better. There's not right or wrong :)
Thank you for this tutorial! This is something I really want to do. I do have a question… When you scan it in, what size do you scan it as? Do you keep it as a JPEG even if you’re adding them to certain products? I know that JPEGs can’t be resized larger without messing up quality so I was wondering if you turn them into vectors? When I do, they lose that watercolor look/texture so I’m not sure if I should be doing that. Thanks again for this, your work is beautiful! Just found you.
Hi Toria, I scan my images at 600 DPI as JPGs. If I don't have a specific product in mind, I usually make the patterns in Photoshop in A4 but have each image in a different layer. I don't turn my paintings into vectors because they lose a lot of the textures and details that I wanted to have in the first place.
It'd be easier if you knew beforehand what kind of product you want to design for, so that you know the measurements and format and don't have to be guessing.
Thank you for the tips, I really appreciate it!! I'm so excited to give it a go finally. :)
Such a beautiful pattern and a very educational tutorial! I feel inspiiiired 💓 Quick question, what other kinds of paint would you suggest for making patterns besides watercolor? Like, would you say acrylic is also good to use? :)
Thanks, I'm glad it was helpful. You could try painting with gouache, acrylics, ink, coloured pencils, etc. As long as you paint your icons separately you can use this technique :)
@@GinaMaldonado_ Markers too! 😊
But, this is not in an actual repeat. Which is fine if you're selling it to a customer will put it in a real repeat, but you can't print it this way.
Child ideas
Always this child voice? Huffff