New answers tagged patterns
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Here's my take..... and a little mini-tutorial.
(If you right click on the image above and choose "Open image in new Tab/Window" you can see it a bit larger)
Save for web reduction does some odd appearance things to the diagonals, but they are all spaced evenly and dont' change color mid-stream like they appear to.
Be aware, creating too many tartan ...
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There are a bunch of lines patterns included with Illustrator, but they are a little hidden within the Swatch Libraries menu:
Select one you like. You can then rotate the pattern with the Rotate tool. You can double click on the Rotate tool and uncheck "Objects" so that only the pattern is rotated:
Then use multiple fills with a blending mode to color ...
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No tricks, just basic shapes.
Draw a line grid
Create your square
Clip the lines with the square
Apply a background color to the square
Dupe it and create your pattern.
Here's how I prefer to go about #1
Draw a horizontal line (or shallow rectangle, sometimes easier for pixel alignment)
Apply a Transform effect to create the other lines and their ...
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Reverse engineer it by applying it to a surface and find the point of repetition. Crop there to get back the original texture.
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Method one - works with any shape.
Create a no-fill, no-stroke rectangle and place a $ sign in the middle of it. $ sign must be on top of the rectangle. The amount of space between the $ sign and the rectangle edges will determine the spacing between the repeated $ signs.
Drag all that to the Brush panel and choose Pattern Brush when asked. Then click OK ...
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