This was so helpful, I started at university and was a week late due to having covid. So I was behind and I didn't want to have to sit through 2 hours worth of a recorded lecture just to do what you did in 12 minutes. Our assignment was to of course to make a pattern so this has been a life saver
Greetings, I would like to add something to this because although this was a magnificent tutorial, I had some difficulties having the pattern show up on my actual swatches- every time I would drag it, it would not show there. I would like to add that this process will not work if the items you have in your pattern are are not embed it. In other words, If you are bringing in a file from a different artboard, make sure you embed that one and expanded. I had a hard time figuring out why it wouldn't work. Thank you very much for this wonderful and helpful tutorial. I hope this serves for help to some people.
Thanks for starting from the beginning and even mentioning the document size. So many people on here just go right into what to do and dont even say the most important part which is what size to make my document lol
Thank you!! I'm an absolute newbie to pattern design and had some issues at first. But after going back and carefully following every single step this worked out great for me.
PERFECT! Simplest tutorial for patterns! I appreciate the "no-cutting" as it deemed very difficult to edit the vectors. That bounding box is also genius. Thank you so much for this.
@@livlauryn It is like the create clipping mask function. You can do either of the 2 to achieve the same result. I said it was perfect for when you dont want to work woth a clipping mask layer. 3 years after, I now prefer the clipping mask over the crop using pathfinder. It is less destructive.
@@PoisonousRakun Hi, thank you for responding but I mean I tried following the instructions but it didn't work. I'm new to illustrator so I don't know either method, nor do I know how to use a clipping mask in anything but photoshop.
@@livlauryn It works like this. Group your elements. Add a shape that serves as your mask layer... place it on top of the grouped layer. Select both the shape and the group. Select Pathfinder on the Window dropdown menu. Click crop. So anything outside the shape will be cropped out. Anything inside will stay.
I confess I have watched many many tutorials that "explain" this in another ways to try pattern, but it never works, just with this explanation I could do it perfectly..thank you so much Cris!!
Ah this worked like a charm, so easy! I've tried making seamless patterns many times but they never quite worked properly, this time however everything turned out great! Thanks so much for the tutorial I love it 🙌
HIIII! I am an artist who's only just begun to learn Illustrator to digitize my doodles! Your tutorial's are absolutely the best for a newbie like me. Please, please, please make more Illustrator tutorials so that I can make my own designs!
This video is great! I was using Photoshop and it took forever. Alot of trial and error and it was hard to get it perfect. This is a time saver. Thanks.
Thank you so much! I tried another tutorial which wasn't working for me, yours did, and it has editing functionality to boot which is always a plus! Thanks again!
Very amazing...I am in lockdown and was trying to learn to learn more about illustrator and you have helped me a lot...going to recomend it to my friends....Thank you so much...It would be very helpful for my career.
Wow very talented! Thanks for this video! Could you please also teach how did you draw the pots or the patterns before making them seamlessly repeat. Thanks
Elan Creative Co thank you so much! 💟 I'm new to this software and hence trying to learn from scratch. Personally, I love creating such pieces and patterns, just learning how to. Thanks again. So much love!
Thank you for tNice tutorials! I've been trying to figure the software out on my own for a wNice tutorialle, and it's horribly confusing. TNice tutorials is the only guide video
This is the best demo in how to create seamless patterns I ever watched! One question - what is the reason or logic for expanding the fill and stroke? What advantage does that give you? Many thanks!
Thank you for such clear and simple instructions. I have been doing these steps in layers and having a crazy difficult time! Sometimes it would work and others it wouldn't. You have saved me time and frustration! Now I can have fun!
Draw your whole form on one artboard, then copy it and divide it in quarters. Rearrange the quarters on their opposing sides and it will create a seamless pattern
Hey, thank you for such a great tutorial! I have struggled with many before and yours is the first that actually works for me. I do have a question I hope you can help with, I am struggling to use the pathfinder as I my pattern is composed of an imported sketch from procreate so it doesn't have any paths. Is there an alternative method to crop the pattern when using imagery opposed to paths? Thank you!
PLEASE HELP! If I want to use my pattern in a new document, it is invisible in the Swatches panel. I have read that in order to do this, I have to embed images. I do not know how to do this exactly. In other words, I want all my patterns to always be visible in the swatches panel every time I open a new document. Please provide a step by step tutorial.
hi there i’m having trouble at the “expand appearance” stage. the function is greyed out i have started from the beguinning three times and each time hit a wall at this point
Hi there, Thank you for this tutorial. I was wondering what I should do if when I move the pattern to the Swatches panel and create it in the box step what should I do if I dont like the orientation? My pattern looks completely off and there are big spaces with nothing in them and then the same vector is underneath one another. I am probably doing something wrong on my end and I was just wondering if you could guide me in the right direction! Thanks, great tutorial!
Hi, Abbi! It's hard to tell without seeing the pattern. Did you use a bounding box (an empty rectangle behind all the other layers)? You can double click on the pattern and edit it using the pattern tool. It might be easier that way. You should watch this tutorial: th-cam.com/video/4oEe3CgDWu8/w-d-xo.html
This is soo great. Just a question. At the beginning says that you should start with a box same 3x3 inch. What happened if I used not a square like 11.5 and 8 inch? does it changes something or what is the difference when you do and see the all pattern? thanks
Hi there! thank you for this tutorial ✨ but I can't do the cropping with the pathfinder, I don't know why :') can you tell me what could be the problem? Thank youu
hi.. your tutorial is great.. but i have a problem when i want to crop the pattern and top backgrounnd, the pattern won't crop like that, but still out of artboard. how to solve this? thank you
Thanks... but why can’t we fill the color box itself ,why do we need to create any box to fill the background color. Can you please explain? That would be of great help
Im doing something wrong as my backdrop looks like separate squares when I test pattern. Elements repeat ok but the the background is not, what do I do wrong? I tried many times and pulling my hair out 😿
You need to make sure that you have an empty background/bonding box underneath the background. Both of them have to be the same size as your artboard and aligned to it.
Cristina / Elan Creative Co I did it yeeey😻 i put that bounding box at the bottom and then it worked, thank you so much, your tutorials are massive help ❤️
Wow, thank you so much for the tutorial! That was really helpful for me. I just installed Adobe Illustrator, and I am confused with so many tools it has. Oh oh I wanna ask you something. So where did you get the cactus picture? Did you draw it yourself? If yes, could you please tell me how to create it? Thank you!
Hi!! Thank you so much for the kind and detail step by step tutorial to make the pattern in illustrator. And I have a question, 6:03 to expend the fill stroke you do Object-Expend Appearance, but I am not sure why you did this step. The explanation was not clear to understand for me. Also, my case Object-Expend Appearance is always not activate doesn’t matter my vector image has stroke or not. Can you please tell me why?
problem solve. I did everything you said, but when I put it into the swatch I ended up with a border. I went through the layers but can't find the one that has it. Its not a little white line. One of the layers must have a border. But since I can't find it I can't fix it and will have to delete it and start over.
This was so helpful, I started at university and was a week late due to having covid. So I was behind and I didn't want to have to sit through 2 hours worth of a recorded lecture just to do what you did in 12 minutes. Our assignment was to of course to make a pattern so this has been a life saver
Greetings,
I would like to add something to this because although this was a magnificent tutorial, I had some difficulties having the pattern show up on my actual swatches- every time I would drag it, it would not show there.
I would like to add that this process will not work if the items you have in your pattern are are not embed it. In other words, If you are bringing in a file from a different artboard, make sure you embed that one and expanded. I had a hard time figuring out why it wouldn't work.
Thank you very much for this wonderful and helpful tutorial. I hope this serves for help to some people.
I still haven't finished it out and it's highly frustrating
ive already expand the files, and it still not working
Renzo, thank you very much for your comment, it helped me a lot :)
Also, clear out any grid lines before you drag to swatches panel
I embeded them all still not working I wanna cry
only trouble I'm having is, that I cant add this to my swatches. any tips ? I'd like to see it all laid out if possible!
When you think there is nothing else in illustrator that can impress you, jeeez! Great video.
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO! I've watched almost 10 videos on this subject, but yours is the most effective. You helped me to solve my problem!
This was the first time I was able to successfully make a pattern! Great tutorial! Thank you so much!
Whoever figured out the first seamless pattern was probably a genius.
Thanks for starting from the beginning and even mentioning the document size. So many people on here just go right into what to do and dont even say the most important part which is what size to make my document lol
Thank you!! I'm an absolute newbie to pattern design and had some issues at first. But after going back and carefully following every single step this worked out great for me.
Glad you like it :)
PERFECT! Simplest tutorial for patterns! I appreciate the "no-cutting" as it deemed very difficult to edit the vectors. That bounding box is also genius. Thank you so much for this.
I agree with the bounding box! Eliminates the clipping mask confusion!
I don't understand the 'bounding box' part. I followed all the steps but it didn't cut out anything from outside the bounding box? help
@@livlauryn It is like the create clipping mask function. You can do either of the 2 to achieve the same result. I said it was perfect for when you dont want to work woth a clipping mask layer. 3 years after, I now prefer the clipping mask over the crop using pathfinder. It is less destructive.
@@PoisonousRakun Hi, thank you for responding but I mean I tried following the instructions but it didn't work. I'm new to illustrator so I don't know either method, nor do I know how to use a clipping mask in anything but photoshop.
@@livlauryn It works like this. Group your elements. Add a shape that serves as your mask layer... place it on top of the grouped layer. Select both the shape and the group. Select Pathfinder on the Window dropdown menu. Click crop. So anything outside the shape will be cropped out. Anything inside will stay.
Best video to help make a repeating pattern without the dreader white line! Thank you!
This is the best pattern tutorial I've ever seen. Well done!
I confess I have watched many many tutorials that "explain" this in another ways to try pattern, but it never works, just with this explanation I could do it perfectly..thank you so much Cris!!
Thanks! I'm glad it helped :)
Ah this worked like a charm, so easy! I've tried making seamless patterns many times but they never quite worked properly, this time however everything turned out great! Thanks so much for the tutorial I love it 🙌
You explained this so well! I was able to do my own pattern just like I wanted. Thank you :)
Have always thought this was such a hard thing to do. Thank you so much! Great tutorial!
Your tutorial is the best one I have viewed to make the process very easy. Thank you.
This is a FABULOUS video. I'm having to creating scarf patterns and now I know exactly how to do it. Thank you.
HIIII! I am an artist who's only just begun to learn Illustrator to digitize my doodles! Your tutorial's are absolutely the best for a newbie like me. Please, please, please make more Illustrator tutorials so that I can make my own designs!
It's so pleasing. The setuping and mastering softs amazing.
I've successfully created my first patterns thanks to your videos!!! I'm super happy with it, thank you so much!!
I finally understand what embed means and figured out what I needed to do - thank you!!
This is the best instruction video I've seen on the subject and now I think I can do it too! Excellent instructor!
This video is great! I was using Photoshop and it took forever. Alot of trial and error and it was hard to get it perfect. This is a time saver. Thanks.
Thank you!! this is the only video that has helped me get my pattern to work properly
This is the perfect tutorial for creating pattern swatches from scratch in Illustrator. Thanks so much!
Thanks for explaining everything so thoroughly.
You are a wonderful teacher.. ❤
Thank you so much for this! You saved a fellow graphic designer today!
Thank you so much! I tried another tutorial which wasn't working for me, yours did, and it has editing functionality to boot which is always a plus! Thanks again!
You’ve gone thru the tutorial so patiently. Thank you
Articulate, clear and well thought through process in all your tutorials Christina. Excellent! Much Appreciated!
Once the pattern is used to fill an object, how to break the pattern into individual objects? Thanks anyway
I feel 10x more confident in soft soft, thanks!
BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Thank you, very productive 17mins of learning. TNice tutorials program is super intimidating from soone who doesn't even play an instrunt.
Wow great and simplest tutorial I have ever watched 👌thanks
This is an awesome tutorial! You're a great teacher and your explanations are super easy to follow. Thank you!
Thanks for the comment, Elise! I'm glad you like it.
Around time stamp 7:12 you said u usually save it so u can edit, what type of file do u save it as and what settings?
Very amazing...I am in lockdown and was trying to learn to learn more about illustrator and you have helped me a lot...going to recomend it to my friends....Thank you so much...It would be very helpful for my career.
make my first ever drum loop. I'm not and expert at soft yet but I have learnt a lot at producing and looking back at my journey, I just
Thanks for the lesson. Just brought soft soft
Wow very talented! Thanks for this video! Could you please also teach how did you draw the pots or the patterns before making them seamlessly repeat. Thanks
Thanks, Bijal! Most of these graphics are drawn by hand. I will show you soon how I make them.
Elan Creative Co thank you so much! 💟 I'm new to this software and hence trying to learn from scratch. Personally, I love creating such pieces and patterns, just learning how to. Thanks again. So much love!
In love with Your voice and vibe..
Thank you for tNice tutorials! I've been trying to figure the software out on my own for a wNice tutorialle, and it's horribly confusing. TNice tutorials is the only guide video
Thank you so much. I will have to watch this again next time I want to practise. Very grateful for your help! x
This is the best demo in how to create seamless patterns I ever watched! One question - what is the reason or logic for expanding the fill and stroke? What advantage does that give you? Many thanks!
I took this as my second lesson on illustrator
very clear and helpful
Thank you very much
Thank you for such clear and simple instructions. I have been doing these steps in layers and having a crazy difficult time! Sometimes it would work and others it wouldn't. You have saved me time and frustration! Now I can have fun!
So easy and straight to the point! Thanks so much 🙏
Hi Christina! I am in love with your channel. You are so talented! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world. Greetings from Brazil.
Hey, Nicole! Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm so happy to hear that you like my tutorials :-)
wow what a thought amezing i love u from india..realy cristina is great
This all good, but how to create seamless pattern which consist from one whole form? Abstract waves or threads, for example.
Draw your whole form on one artboard, then copy it and divide it in quarters. Rearrange the quarters on their opposing sides and it will create a seamless pattern
what a hearty video for all beginners!
Really amazing and perfect tutorial for seamless pattern design great job
WOW! I didn't know you could make that!!! Big thanks
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This was great tutorial
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial.
I really like your explanations.
Hey, thank you for such a great tutorial! I have struggled with many before and yours is the first that actually works for me. I do have a question I hope you can help with, I am struggling to use the pathfinder as I my pattern is composed of an imported sketch from procreate so it doesn't have any paths. Is there an alternative method to crop the pattern when using imagery opposed to paths? Thank you!
Thank you for this tutorial, it was clear and so makes it easy to follow.
PLEASE HELP! If I want to use my pattern in a new document, it is invisible in the Swatches panel. I have read that in order to do this, I have to embed images. I do not know how to do this exactly.
In other words, I want all my patterns to always be visible in the swatches panel every time I open a new document.
Please provide a step by step tutorial.
This was EXACTLY what I needed, thank you so much for this great video! New Fan!!
GREAT TUTORIAL ! THANK YOU AND GREETING FROM POLAND : )
hi there i’m having trouble at the “expand appearance” stage. the function is greyed out i have started from the beguinning three times and each time hit a wall at this point
It is very much helpful for me..thank you so much
This was extremely helpful
You're welcome, Sundas! I'm glad to hear that :-)
Hi there,
Thank you for this tutorial. I was wondering what I should do if when I move the pattern to the Swatches panel and create it in the box step what should I do if I dont like the orientation? My pattern looks completely off and there are big spaces with nothing in them and then the same vector is underneath one another. I am probably doing something wrong on my end and I was just wondering if you could guide me in the right direction! Thanks, great tutorial!
Hi, Abbi! It's hard to tell without seeing the pattern. Did you use a bounding box (an empty rectangle behind all the other layers)? You can double click on the pattern and edit it using the pattern tool. It might be easier that way. You should watch this tutorial: th-cam.com/video/4oEe3CgDWu8/w-d-xo.html
i have exactly the same issue
Very helpful, and the bounding box was a nice trick too, thank you very much!
Thank you, Cristina! This video was very helpful.
thank you so much this was so easy and so much better than the pattern tool in my opinion !
This is soo great. Just a question. At the beginning says that you should start with a box same 3x3 inch. What happened if I used not a square like 11.5 and 8 inch? does it changes something or what is the difference when you do and see the all pattern? thanks
Great tutorial! I feel more confident in my ability to make great custom patterns. Thank you so much!
because in the intro for example I want to make an acoustic soft, but later I want to make a distortion or any other effects in that sa
hi Cristina - you made my day. It worked just perfectly, so glad to learn something new.
I'm so happy you like it, Kristina! Thanks for watching!
Hiya, why doesn't the Object Expand Appearance or Object Expand work for me? Its greyed out in the menu
Hi there! thank you for this tutorial ✨ but I can't do the cropping with the pathfinder, I don't know why :') can you tell me what could be the problem? Thank youu
Hi i just keep the steps with you but at the point you said expand appearance, Its not working for me i cant expand appearance. Can anyone help please
Hi. When I move the selected pattern to the swatch panel it doesn't work. What am I missing
The bounding box is genius! Thank you so much! This is, by far, the easiest seamless pattern tutorial
Thanks for the comment :) Glad you like it!
THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS WAS EXTREMELY HELPFUL :D
hi there,
I love this video so much! you are great at what you do and teaching people!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge xx
Thank you! I refer to this video so many times over the last few years!
hi.. your tutorial is great.. but i have a problem when i want to crop the pattern and top backgrounnd, the pattern won't crop like that, but still out of artboard. how to solve this? thank you
Thanks... but why can’t we fill the color box itself ,why do we need to create any box to fill the background color. Can you please explain? That would be of great help
Just saying ...first time voice is more soothing than music awesome tutorial btw
Thank you so much. It is very useful.
Im doing something wrong as my backdrop looks like separate squares when I test pattern. Elements repeat ok but the the background is not, what do I do wrong? I tried many times and pulling my hair out 😿
You need to make sure that you have an empty background/bonding box underneath the background. Both of them have to be the same size as your artboard and aligned to it.
@@bycristinasilvia thank you so much for replying,I am very greatful . thats what I thought after I went away from computer. I will try again ,♥️
Cristina / Elan Creative Co I did it yeeey😻 i put that bounding box at the bottom and then it worked, thank you so much, your tutorials are massive help ❤️
This video is very helpful. Good luck to you.
thank you it very very easy to understand
Wow, thank you so much for the tutorial! That was really helpful for me. I just installed Adobe Illustrator, and I am confused with so many tools it has. Oh oh I wanna ask you something. So where did you get the cactus picture? Did you draw it yourself? If yes, could you please tell me how to create it? Thank you!
Hi!! Thank you so much for the kind and detail step by step tutorial to make the pattern in illustrator. And I have a question, 6:03 to expend the fill stroke you do Object-Expend Appearance, but I am not sure why you did this step. The explanation was not clear to understand for me. Also, my case Object-Expend Appearance is always not activate doesn’t matter my vector image has stroke or not. Can you please tell me why?
problem solve. I did everything you said, but when I put it into the swatch I ended up with a border. I went through the layers but can't find the one that has it. Its not a little white line. One of the layers must have a border. But since I can't find it I can't fix it and will have to delete it and start over.
amazing, you make it easy to understand. thankyou
Thanks Elan - great tutorial - very informative and helpful :)
When I add the GMS, it was giving differend soft in spead of yours
Mam thank you for this video.from where you have downloaded the images ?
What is the best way to save a pattern (or bundle) as? For commercial purposes or commissions
You're so helpful
Nice tutorial.Cristiana,what is seamless pattern?
How can I identify a seamless pattern?
You have a very good tutorial and a very good voice.
Thank you
I'll probably not get an answer but still, when I opened my soft Roll I couldn't place the "notes" or however you call them that finely, by