Elevate Your Surface Pattern Designs: Procreate to Adobe Illustrator Workflows
Learn how to create beautiful surface pattern designs by combining your Procreate art into Adobe Illustrator repeats
COURSE LENGTH: 2h 16m
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS COURSE
- How to prepare raster artwork for best results
- How to embed and recolour your raster illustrations directly in Adobe Illustrator
- Master combining vector and raster motifs to produce unique results
- Learn how to build and test your patterns, using both traditional methods and the Pattern Tool
- The best way to 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.
COURSE PROJECT
We’ll be creating three projects that cover various workflows. Each project includes using your Procreate illustrations directly in Adobe Illustrator to produce lovely repeating patterns.
Project One: Magical Moths
Create lovely painterly winged insects in Procreate.
Project Two: Quirky Half Drop
Draw motifs in Procreate using a fun half drop template.
Project Three: Botanical Watercolour
Prepare and export watercolour artwork in Procreate.
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Hi Lisa – this course is absolutely fantastic!! I’ve made 3 patterns – 1 for each project lesson. In the watercolor section you mention a link to a tutorial about removing the background of a piece of artwork. I’d really like to try using my own hand painted elements as well but haven’t been able to find the link. Would you point me in the right direction please? Much Aloha to you –
Joanne
Hi Joanne,
Thank you so much for your kind words – I’m thrilled to hear you’re enjoying the course and that you’ve already created 3 patterns! Amazing work!
Apologies for the confusion with the link! The tutorial on removing the background of your artwork can be found in the lesson titled “Preparing Watercolour Motifs”. But to make it easier for you, here’s a direct link to the tutorial:
How to Remove the Background of a Digital Watercolour Painting
I’m excited for you to try using your own hand-painted elements! Feel free to reach out if you have any more questions.
Happy creating!
Lisa
Hi lisa, i was wondering is it the ipad or the procreate version tht makes the amount of layers is different from mine n yours?
Hi Amani,
Thank you for your question! Do you mean the amount of layers that you have available to work with in Procreate? If that’s the case then it is the iPad’s capabilities that determine how many layers Procreate makes available to work in depending on the size of the document. In other words, if you create a smaller document you’ll get more layers, if you create a larger document you’ll get less layers to work in. And depending on your iPad model, the amount of layers will be different across the different iPads (hope I’m explaining that well!)
If you are running out of layers as you work, I would suggest using a smaller file just to increase the amount of layers available to you.
I hope that answers your question but please do let me know if you have any other questions. I’m happy to help!