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Create eye-catching designs with our pattern tutorials. Create seamless patterns and backgrounds in Photoshop, Illustrator, and a variety of other applications.
  1. Eat Your Veggies! Create a Vegetable Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Eat Your Veggies! Create a Vegetable Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    Get those sweet vitamins and minerals with this cute vegetable pattern in Adobe Illustrator CC. We'll use simple shapes to create each item, repeating basic...

  2. Create a Seamless Fantasy Floral Pattern in Adobe Photoshop

    Create a Seamless Fantasy Floral Pattern in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Advanced

    Ever wanted to sleep in bed sheets designed by your own hand? Or to sew a dress from fabric with an absolutely unique pattern? Then pick up your stylus pen...

  3. Leapin' Lizards! Create a Chameleon Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Leapin' Lizards! Create a Chameleon Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    Leapin' Lizards! Open up Adobe Illustrator and join me in creating a custom chameleon pattern as we put shape building, custom brushes, and textures to great...

  4. How to Create a Serbian Ethnic Design: Pirot Kilim Pattern

    How to Create a Serbian Ethnic Design: Pirot Kilim Pattern

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Pirot kilim designs are among the most recognizable traditional Serbian patterns—here's how to make one that's both authentic and unique!

  5. How to Create A Nature Inspired Arrow Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create A Nature Inspired Arrow Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Love everything vintage? Spend plenty of time drawing all of those Pinterest-inspired arrows, flowers and animals? Let me show you how to create an arrow...

  6. Create a Detailed, Illustrative, Seamless Pattern in Adobe Photoshop

    Create a Detailed, Illustrative, Seamless Pattern in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Here's how to make a perfect repeating pattern in Adobe Photoshop with no stress and no guesswork. This is the easiest way to create a flowing, seamless...

  7. How to Create a Children's Flat Animal Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Children's Flat Animal Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial we'll create a set of flat animals made from simple shapes in Adobe Illustrator CC. Using rectangles, triangles, circles, Live Corners, and...

  8. How to Create a Traditional Romanian Folk Inspired Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Traditional Romanian Folk Inspired Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    Today’s tutorial is a little bit special, as I am going to show you how to build something based on a traditional hand-sewed Romanian decorative pattern. The...

  9. Design and Recolor a Flat Precious Gems Seamless Pattern in CorelDRAW

    Design and Recolor a Flat Precious Gems Seamless Pattern in CorelDRAW

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial we’ll be creating an elegant seamless pattern with precious gems in CorelDRAW® X7. Follow the process together with me and learn how to make...

  10. How to Create a Kawaii Soda Shop Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Kawaii Soda Shop Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial we'll create a set of truly adorable soda shop inspired food icons from scratch and assemble them into a dynamic all-over print, ready for...

  11. Fractal Art: How to Create Grand Julians in Apophysis

    Fractal Art: How to Create Grand Julians in Apophysis

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to make the Grand Julian fractal style from scratch. Start from the ground up and style amazingly complex and beautiful images.

  12. Create a Crazy Sticker Bombing Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Create a Crazy Sticker Bombing Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Are you ready to twist your mind and create a super-bright and playful seamless pattern with crazy characters? In this tutorial we’ll go through the entire...