That’s it, after you click OK, your pattern brush will be added to the Brushes panel. But you can pretty much just leave the stroke tile and set others to none for most purposes. They can be automatically generated or taken from Pattern Swatches you’ve defined. Scale option defines whether the pattern will be fixed to a certain percentage of original size or adjusted dynamically with inputs such as pen pressure if you have a tablet.įive squared tabs below the scale and spacing options define how the stroke itself, beginning, end and inner and outer corners will look like. You will see the Pattern Brush Options dialog with the preview of your brush. Click New Brush button and choose Pattern Brush and click OK.Open Brushes panel ( Window > Brushes or F5).Create or choose artwork that you want to use as a pattern brush stroke.It’s a type of brush stroke that repeats your artwork of choice along a path. This in combination with Snapping ( View menu > Snap) and Smart Guides (Ctrl/Cmd + U) will make creating precise and seamless tiles much easier.Īnother way of making patterns is using a Pattern Brush. With it, you can draw the tile directly on the artwork. Use Pattern Tile Tool at the top of the panel.Check diamond-shaped icons of overlapping options at the bottom which decide which side will be in front. Uncheck it to be able to make objects go outside the tile’s boundaries and overlap the artwork on the other side. Check Size Tile to Art and change size of all the objects to define the scale of the pattern relative to the artwork you have.This will allow to better assess whether repeating seams are noticeable and how your pattern will look on your artwork. At the bottom of the panel, increase the amount of copies to preview, uncheck Dim Copies and Show Tile Edge.Align objects or elements on the opposite edges of the tiles to make seamless patterns that connect and flow into each other. Manipulate objects as you would normally in Illustrator: move objects around to create even spacing, edit them, change colors, add new objects.Choose Tile type: Grid will repeat the tile in simple rows and columns, Brick type will create an offset in rows or columns, Hex to arrange tiles like a honeycomb.To enter Pattern Editing Mode, select the object that uses it and go to Object > Pattern > Edit Pattern or double-click the swatch.You can re-enter this mode at any point in the future and saved changes will automatically apply to the swatch and any objects that are using it as part of their appearance. Here you can adjust options and manipulate objects while previewing the results. Next you will enter Pattern Editing Mode and Pattern Options panel will appear. Select your objects and go to Object menu > Pattern > Make.Ī warning might come up that will inform you that a new swatch will be created, and adjustments you are now going to make will be saved to it.This can in fact be a single object, for example, a flower, an ornament, or just a circle. Roughly place out the objects that will form the pattern.Create new document of any size or designate an area in your existing one where you will create a pattern.They can be made out of any objects an are stored as swatches on the Swatches panel or as separate libraries. Patterns are special types of fills, alongside with solid colors and gradients, that consist of repeating objects.