Learn to Create Repeats with Confidence & Ease
In this 7-week course, you’ll discover a toolbox of techniques to create repeats that agents, studios, clients, and customers are looking for in today's market.
Introducing...
The Ultimate Guide to Repeats
September 12 - October 28, 2022
With an increasing number of agents, studios, and print-on-demand companies requiring professional repeats, textile and surface pattern designers must know how to put various pattern styles into repeat.
Imagine being able to create seamless repeats that enhance the quality and marketability of your artwork. Imagine having the confidence to make the patterns you dream of without fear of the repeat process holding you back from bringing your vision to life.
You can make these dreams a reality in our recently updated course, the Ultimate Guide to Repeats.
Through The Ultimate Guide to Repeats You'll Learn:
How to create repeats that flow easily with no apparent "lines."
Efficient ways to create textural and hand-painted repeats
How to critique your repeats before sending them to agents or clients
Techniques for creating repeats in both Illustrator & Photoshop
Course Schedule
A Creative Approach to Repeats
After achieving a solid understanding of why repeats are so crucial to our industry in Lessons One, Two, and Three, you will begin to explore various repeat techniques through Lessons Four through Eight.
Starting in Lesson Four, you'll receive a trend-driven design brief focused on a particular pattern style. You are then encouraged to create a pattern concept and put it into repeat using the technique covered in that week's lesson. This course structure will provide you with a real-world experience, placing different repeat techniques to use while creating new artwork for your professional portfolio.
Lesson Schedule:
In Lesson 1, you'll learn what agents, studios, and clients are looking for when reviewing professional repeats and the most popular repeat styles.
In Lesson 2, you'll discover why we create repeats, how textiles are produced, and how various production methods affect our work as designers.
In Lesson 3, you'll learn how to critique your own repeats before sending them off to production.
In Lesson 4, you'll learn how to create repeats in Illustrator using Pattern Maker mode. You'll know which pattern styles are ideal for this technique and when you should use them.
In Lesson 5, you'll discover how to create complex repeats in Illustrator using the Transform method.
In Lesson 6, you'll see how you can put textural patterns into repeat in Photoshop.
In Lesson 7, you'll discover how to use the Pattern Preview mode in Photoshop to create complicated repeats in less time.
In Lesson 8, you'll explore a third method for creating motif-based patterns into repeat in Photoshop.
Repeat Challenge! In this final week of the course, designers are invited to submit their patterns to the Textile Design Lab team for a repeat demonstration. Our community manager, Chelsea von Hasseln, will choose one pattern and show the community how she would repeat them based on the pattern style and file organization.
The Ultimate Guide to Repeats
September 12 - October 28, 2022
The Ultimate Guide to Repeats is a part of our Textile Design Lab online community, and this course is free for all members. By joining our community, you'll have access to this course, in addition to all of our Textile Design Lab courses, tutorials, and community events such as our weekly live art critique, guest expert presentations, and more.
Already a Textile Design Lab member? Register for the course here.
Included in this course:
8 video lessons walking you step-by-step through the process of creating professional repeats
Exercise pattern files to use as you watch our tutorials and techniques
An additional repeat tutorial showing you how to apply your new repeat "toolbox" to various patterns
Feedback from instructors
Access to a weekly live art critique
Access to ALL Textile Design Lab courses, tutorials, and design challenges!
