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ratkiss aka nicholey is a 28.55 year old girl, has been a member since August 25, 2008, has scored 23,389 submissions, giving an average score of 3.44, helping 614 designs get printed.

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Mar 23 '11 by ratkiss
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Repeating Pattern TUTORIAL

TUTORIAL!!
please ask if it still doesn't make sense

step1:
draw something in the middle of the page, no matter what DON'T go to the EDGES!

step 2
cut it vertically and flip each side like so:

step3:
cut it again but this time do it horizontally. Flip those. you should have what was once your center doodle, split to bits in each corner of it, good work!

step 4
draw something rad in the middle of the page to fill it in, remember DON'T touch the EDGES!

step 5
select it and create a pattern of it in photoshop, (name it something cool).
Open a new canvas
Use then paint bucket tool, set it to pattern, select "yourpatternname" fill the new canvas with the pattern you just made and then check out your cool drawing :)
good luck!

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martiandrivein on Mar 23 '11 at 2:41pm

hey I have a question for you... when you're creating these patterns, what's the best way to test that they are seamless?

martiandrivein on Mar 23 '11 at 2:41pm

also...white.

rhythmdev9 on Mar 23 '11 at 2:45pm

grey, please dont ever stop your patterness streak

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 2:46pm

hi!

The way I make them and cut them makes them seamless so I don't know other than that :s

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 2:52pm

matt, thanks! I'm gonna make more ~ it's fun and challenging:)

martiandrivein on Mar 23 '11 at 2:55pm

wait... ok then how do you make them? haha I'm going to attempt a belt print, but I can't figure it out.

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 3:02pm

Here's me attempting my method
draw something in the middle of the screen/paper don't touch the edges at all, once you've got that covered, cut the paper horizontally and then flip the section and tape it the back of the paper (so your drawing is now cut and your drawn part is now on the top and bottom edge of the paper and your middle is empy)
Now cut it vertiacally, and flip and tape it so then your drawing will be in all 4 corners of the page.
be creative and fill in the middle with more stuff, have fun.

I can demonstrate it when I get to work on another one if it makes no sense at all.

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 3:03pm

oh and don't touch the edges when you fill in the middle or you'll mess up shiz

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 3:19pm

neither is a color option too

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 3:28pm

*chip chirp*
anyone?

myteemo on Mar 23 '11 at 3:31pm

put me down for a white. thanks!

Farnell on Mar 23 '11 at 3:32pm

cool

martiandrivein on Mar 23 '11 at 3:35pm

ohhhhhhhh awesome. I think I get it. I may have to ask you again a little later. =D

ArTrOcItY on Mar 23 '11 at 3:38pm

That's one crazy pattern! Can we see a close up?

psherman42 on Mar 23 '11 at 3:47pm

Maybe on silver? I like the look of the grey behind the bird cages on the white one, but I'm not crazy about the white in between. The grey you mocked it up on seems a little dark to me, so of these two I'd go with the white.

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 3:59pm

close up added:)

working on a tutorial doodle uploading now:)

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 4:08pm

pattern tutorial added:)

NiNTH WHEEL on Mar 23 '11 at 4:12pm

I'd drop the opacity of both the blue/green and gray to about 70% and put it on silver.

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 4:15pm

stupidquestion:
If I drop the opacity, will it be printable?

NiNTH WHEEL on Mar 23 '11 at 4:15pm

I just mean snag the spot color generated by doing so. I couldn't think of a better way to describe it.

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 4:16pm

I see, I'll give that a try now, brb

NiNTH WHEEL on Mar 23 '11 at 4:18pm

PMS 7472
PMS 877

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 4:27pm

I don't know how to show PMS color so here's my guess:

jrc_vines on Mar 23 '11 at 4:53pm

hmmm could you do a little more organized design just to see what it would look like?
like have all the same cages in a row, same with the birds, and the rotate them so they criss-cross like a X but still have their orientation straight up and down...i hope that isnt too confusing...
idk, just a thought...

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 5:02pm

I like to think of it as an organized mess;)
it's not so easy to do what you mentioned unless I redraw it all.

NiNTH WHEEL on Mar 23 '11 at 5:03pm

Yeah, that's more or less what I had (see below - but obviously not the correct scale):

Here are the RGB codes if that helps:
RGB 085 186 183
RGB 132 136 139

RGB 175 103 094
RGB 171 164 143

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 5:13pm

coolcoolcool!

Thanks Matt!

Chirp Chirp! - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

even though i used the wrong humbnail, hehe

rhythmdev9 on Mar 23 '11 at 6:45pm

Wow this came a long way in 4 hours. AWESOME SAUCE!!!!

myteemo on Mar 23 '11 at 7:45pm

oooooh, really lovin it on the silver!

ratkiss on Mar 23 '11 at 7:53pm

quister on Mar 24 '11 at 12:47pm

Really cool illo and tee design!!! Thanks for the tutorial =]

2 days later

ratkiss on Mar 26 '11 at 5:27pm

burp burp!

ratkiss on Mar 26 '11 at 5:27pm

oh, thanks John, you're always a delight to see :)

myteemo on Mar 26 '11 at 5:34pm

This would have been great for the new challenge.

ratkiss on Mar 26 '11 at 5:38pm

I didn't even know that was going on when I made this, ha ha

ratkiss on Mar 26 '11 at 5:38pm

I'm busy with some other work but I might give something else a go for it if I get time.

myteemo on Mar 26 '11 at 5:40pm

Ah, you should. You're really good with the patterns.

Steve The Great on Mar 26 '11 at 5:43pm

ratkiss on Mar 26 '11 at 5:53pm

thanks

:) steeeve

quister on Mar 26 '11 at 6:02pm

Awesome!!! Loved, commented and scored ;)

ratkiss on Mar 26 '11 at 6:15pm

thanks a bunch ^_^

nikolina100 on Mar 26 '11 at 8:47pm

this is so cute girl!
I would love to have a roll of wrapping paper, this pattern.
The packages would looks so cute with turquoise ribbon!!

ratkiss on Mar 26 '11 at 9:32pm

aww thanks, I agree :P

quister on Mar 27 '11 at 10:57am

Slooooooooow Sunday bump

ratkiss on Mar 27 '11 at 2:12pm

thanks john:)

it's sunday and I have a lot of candy
I have to be the one that makes sure we don't eat it all, hehe

ratkiss on Mar 27 '11 at 8:34pm

atesomecandiesbutnotallcandies bump

ratkiss on Mar 28 '11 at 8:41am

hello!

B 7 on Mar 28 '11 at 8:43am

Oh man I'm out of the loop, i didn't know this was up yet!

ratkiss on Mar 28 '11 at 8:44am

loop de loop!

now you do:)

ratkiss on Mar 28 '11 at 8:45am

btw your latest sub is doing really well ~ I smell a print!

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