I help creatives build and monetize their digital art skills. I send out a freebie, quick tip or tutorial every Tuesday to make learning digital art fun and approachable.
How to vectorize Procreate patterns with Adobe Illustrator 👩💻
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Happy almost-Spring! With the pollen already teasing our southern noses, I’ve been working on some new floral patterns this past week and wanted to share a helpful tip! As a creative who loves working with textures, transparencies and organic shapes, I tend to create my patterns as raster (or pixel-based) first. This gives me the freedom to create my patterns exactly as I want them without being limited by the more flat-style aesthetic that comes with vectors. There are times when a vector pattern may be needed, though, and luckily it’s a pretty easy process to take a seamless pattern that’s pixel based (yes, even jpgs!) and convert them into vector art. In today’s tutorial, I show the process of exporting both a full drop and half brick pattern I made in Procreate and fully vectorize them using Illustrator. Once vectorized, we convert them into a seamlessly repeating pattern swatch and test them out (one of my favorite parts!). Even if you’ve never used Illustrator before, this is a straightforward, beginner-friendly process that can really work to your advantage if ever needed ✨
Happy Tuesday! 🌷
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Hey! I'm Teela
I help creatives build and monetize their digital art skills. I send out a freebie, quick tip or tutorial every Tuesday to make learning digital art fun and approachable.
With Black Friday upon us, I decided it was time to put together the first ever ✨ Every Tuesday Holiday Gift Guide! ✨ And it contains my very best recommendations from the past 10+ years working as a designer, illustrator and online educator. Inside, you’ll find the categories: technology, watercolor + lettering, crafting, books and a miscellaneous section of personal favorites. This is not your typical gift guide. First, the guide only contains products/services I have personally purchased...
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