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Elevate Your Surface Pattern Designs: A Procreate to Adobe Illustrator Workflow

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Learn how to create beautiful surface pattern designs by combining your Procreate art into Adobe Illustrator repeats.

Procreate has become one of the most popular apps for creating art. And for good reason! With the vast array of brushes available and the mobile nature of the medium, it the perfect tool for surface pattern designers.

On the other hand there’s no denying that Adobe Illustrator’s Pattern Tool and Image Trace function still remains an effective tool when creating repeating patterns. 

In this class you'll learn how to combine these two powerful apps and harness their strengths to build gorgeous designs ready to sell!

I walk you through workflows that combine the best of both worlds. You’ll learn how to incorporate your much loved, texture-rich, Procreate illustration into your patterns designs directly in Adobe Illustrator.

This comprehensive class includes three projects, each presenting different approaches, giving you various workflows you can incorporate into your own process.   

YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO: 

  • Prepare raster artwork for best results
  • Embed and recolour your raster illustrations directly in Adobe Illustrator
  • Combine vector and raster motifs to produce unique results
  • Build and test your patterns, using both traditional methods and the Pattern Tool
  • Export your artwork ready for licensing (including the technical stuff like resolution and size)

Plus I’ll be sharing many tips along the way to help speed up your art making process.  

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED: 

  • iPad with Procreate installed
  • Desktop version of Adobe Illustrator 

BONUS RESOURCES INCLUDED IN THIS CLASS:

  • 6 Fun Moth Stamps for Procreate
  • 2 Premium Texture Brushes for Procreate
  • Colour Palette for both Adobe Illustrator and Procreate
  • Pattern Design Toolkit Template, use in other projects too!
  • Watercolour Botanical Motifs for Project 3

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Syllabus

  • Class Introduction
  • Materials & Class Resources
  • Difference Between Raster & Vector
  • Project 1: Creating Motifs in Procreate
  • Project 1: Importing into Adobe Illustrator
  • Project 1: Working With Raster Images & Vectorising
  • Project 1: Applying Colour to Motifs
  • Project 1: Building Your Pattern
  • Project 2: Creating Motifs in Procreate
  • Project 2: Prepping Your Document in Adobe Illustrator
  • Project 2: Adding Colour & Completing Your Pattern
  • Project 3: Preparing Watercolour Motifs
  • Project 3: Building Your Pattern
  • Recap & Upload Your Project!

Taught by

Lisa Glanz

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