I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software and share with you the tutorial on creating a refined and seamless texture pattern.
Tutorial sharing:
The pattern of a scene is randomly listed on the entire canvas, which forms a pattern of texture. This kind of texture pattern has two manifestations: The first is the subtle texture. Most of this kind of texture is applied to the background of the webpage, and it looks relatively low-key, the main color is black and white; the second type is the pattern texture randomly distributed based on the independent details, as shown in the following figure.
This type of pattern texture can be used to spread the entire canvas and directly emphasize the topic. Although it is rare to directly use the webpage layout, it can also be used to create an advertisement image or a specially modified scene.
Today, we are going to learn the second pattern texture that uses patterns as independent details. A website like thepatternlibrary has provided you with exquisite pattern texture downloads, however, the design is far from the actual details, so it is very important to create a seamless pattern texture by yourself.
I. Preparation
1. AI software;
2. Completed manuscript diagram;
3. Color scheme;
II. Draw a detailed diagram
1. Sort out details
Here, the detail graph is a "cell" or "texture" composed of a random pattern, so the beauty of the texture will greatly affect the final effect. Therefore, we will ask you to complete the manuscript first.
The manuscript can be used to draw details that you think are best suited to "appearance" based on the themes you want to create. You can use a pencil to draw a manuscript on paper or wacom. Here I am using wacom for direct painting.
Note: wacom is the alias of hand-drawn digit board.
The color scheme should be emphasized here. Because a detail graph is composed of multiple objects, multiple colors are involved, and color matching is very important, therefore, full preparation requires a color scheme, which can be easily applied to the painting, and will not cause headaches because of the messy colors.
Let's take a look at the color scheme I have prepared:
What I want to do here is Japanese classical texture, so whether it is color or the choice of objects will tend to Japanese classical style.
2. Draw a pattern
From the Japanese travel photos, I chose several typical Japanese impressions: Sakura, lantern, dwarf bamboo, fan, and stone.
I will use AI software to draw them one by one. I believe that you will use your preferred method to draw objects. I will omit the actual drawing process to ensure that each reader is more open and free to create objects. AI Vector Software has sufficient advantages for the construction of geometric images. Therefore, you can use geometric patterns for ingenious combination and cutting during painting.
My experience in using AI software to draw images is that, just like the paper-cutting and hand-cutting work we did when we were a child, we used basic Ry and hand-brain, you can create any shape. The fine degree of the software and the use of various effects can make the entire pattern brilliant.
During the painting process, you can temporarily use a random color combination. When all objects are drawn and combined, you can re-color the color based on the color scheme.
Sakura rendering process:
Japanese fan drawing process:
Lantern painting process:
The painting process of dwarf bamboo:
Stone painting process:
III. Architecture and seamless processing
After all the objects are drawn, we start to make a composite diagram. The most fun time is now!
AI creates a document of the right size and places all the items just painted on the canvas. Because we didn't consider the neat color matching during the painting, what we need to do now is to adjust the color according to our color scheme.
This is before coloring:
After the color scheme is used:
Select all objects and click object> pattern> create. The pattern creation option panel appears. You can select and debug the panel to make the most desired texture pattern. For example, copying a new cherry blossom, adding dot decoration, reducing the transparency of some details, and re-coloring.
Note the following points:
1) in the panel settings for creating your pattern, to keep the pattern seamless, select "grid" for the collage type here"
2) the pattern size I set here is 300px * 300px to ensure that every object can be perfectly displayed.
3) Try not to leave any blank space so that the entire pattern is full and rich.
You will immediately see the final effect of the entire pattern here. Click finish in the upper left corner. You will see the seamless texture pattern you just created in the color panel. Double-click it and the setting panel will pop up. You can continue to modify it.
Then, the seamless texture pattern is ready.
IV. Application
You can try to draw a 300px * 300px rectangle. The size of this rectangle is the same as the size of the pattern you just set. Select a pattern fill and export it as a png image.
The advantage of saving a PNG image is that it retains the transparent background, so the use of this pattern will be more flexible, because the background color can be changed according to different situations. This pattern is defined in the pssoftware. When used, the gradient background or other solid background are added, as shown in the following figure.
V. Conclusion
In the process of creating a texture pattern, you need to train your ability to balance the beauty of the entire image. The design is to balance the relationship between each material, including their colors, distances, structures ...... All of these require you to get the best point by trying in step 3. In the tutorial, I did not further beautify this pattern, but you must remember that the design has no end point.
All right, the above information is the detailed tutorial on creating the exquisite and seamless texture pattern effects for the users of this software of Illustrator. You can see it now, I believe that everyone is very clear about the production method, so everyone will go to follow the small series of tutorials to make their own exquisite seamless texture pattern.
