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One of the oldest forms of artwork is pattern design. You’ll find it within every culture globally from Middle Eastern rugs, lattice work in Asia, to border treatments on ancient manuscripts dating back thousands of years. One could say man has always had a penchant for ornament.

Last year I launched my own creative excursion into this art form when my new book “Drip.Dot.Swirl” hit the shelves. In all I’ve designed about 200 patterns since then and I’m still fascinated and intrigued by the whole creative process behind them. They are artistically addictive to say the least.

This tutorial goes into how one can go about creating their own pattern artwork from scratch sans any plugins, or software to pull off the repeating tile pattern. Eventually software will make this process easier but if you learn how to do it manually you’ll have far more control when it gets automated later.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Pattern, Repeat, Tiles, Book

File Size: 16.8 MB

1. photochopeando wrote: December 3, 2009 at 10:18 am

   Von
   Thanks a lot for this helpful tutorial but specially for taking the time to attach instructions in spanish!! Its difficult to get a good Tut site in my mother tongue…sometimes its more clear to get the ideas on your own language…

2. musc wrote: January 2, 2010 at 10:11 am

   many many thanks for this useful and cool tutorial

   

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