• This is a quick class with a super fun project — creating a spontaneous, free-flowing scribble repeat pattern in Adobe Illustrator!  You'll learn how a seemingly complex pattern design can be made based on simple hand-drawn marks.  Rather than working with polished, illustrated motifs, you’ll explore a more abstract approach—building a textural, expressive pattern using pressure-sensitive brushes and loose vector strokes. It’s a refreshing process for surface designers who want to break out of that overly precise “perfect vector” mindset and create work that feels natural and full of personality.

You’ll learn how to:

• Build a seamless repeat pattern in Illustrator from simple hand-drawn elements.

• Use pressure-sensitive brushes to add variation and a human element to your strokes.

• Explore color variations to completely shift the tone of your design.

• Envision how scribble-style patterns can be applied to products like fabric, wallpaper, apparel, and more.

Whether you design for licensing, digital products, or personal creative play, this method gives you a fresh new way to approach vector pattern design.