From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

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Creating a themed pattern

Creating a themed pattern

(dramatic music) - [Instructor] Welcome to drawing vector graphics laboratory. I was recently asked to speak to an AIGA student group in Arizona, and they asked me if I'd show them how to create a repeat pattern design in Illustrator. That was the assignment they were faced with and they wanted to get a jumpstart by asking me how I would approach that. So I'm going to share with you what I shared with them because it's good general information to review and it's a fundamental when it comes to pattern building. So if you watch my full course on pattern design on LinkedIn Learning, you'll see this pattern showing here in that course this is a more complex repeat because it's really hard to tell where this specific repeat pattern is in this design, but I'm going to show you some fundamentals on how you need to approach this and what to do and this is going to be a theme based one, meaning we're going to focus on a specific…

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