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Further developing pattern elements - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery
Further developing pattern elements
- All right, so as I say, this pattern is ready for tessellation. If you're eager to see that occur, then go ahead and skip to the next movie. In this movie, I'm going to show you how to create these little windows along the bottoms of what were formerly the arrows. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my document, so far, and I'll zoom into this green shape right here and I'll press the A key to switch to my white arrow tool, and I'll click on this segment, and I'll shift-click on this one in order to select those two guys, and then, I'll press control-C or command-C on a Mac to copy them, and I'll press control-F or command-F on a Mac in order to paste them in front. Now, I want to blend between them by going up to the object menu, choosing blend and then choosing make. And because these paths are going in opposite directions, we end up with this kind of radar effect right here. Now we're looking for nine…
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Patterns let you be free2m 15s
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Creating a pattern4m 34s
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Introducing the Pattern Editing mode4m 50s
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Saving a copy and undoing a big mistake5m 43s
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The better way to duplicate a pattern6m 27s
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Moving a pattern inside its container3m 33s
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The three tile types: Grid, brick, and hex5m 56s
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Using the Pattern Tile tool6m 33s
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Designing a real-world tessellation10m 14s
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Measuring the exact size of a hex tile4m 59s
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Creating complementary pattern elements8m 14s
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Adding representational pattern elements5m 7s
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Drawing a triangular cartoon eye6m 40s
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Further developing pattern elements8m 46s
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Creating a pattern with a keyboard shortcut4m 55s
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Constructing a seamless denim pattern8m 53s
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Making your denim pattern look like denim7m 52s
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Creating a pattern brush with auto corners9m 59s
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Creating custom start and end tiles14m 3s
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