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Surface Pattern Design Tutorials for Beginners

I love to help creatives discover the joy of designing seamless patterns and turning them into beautiful handmade projects. Through easy tutorials and inspiring ideas, I teach artists and hobbyists how to bring their designs to life — whether for fun or to build a creative business.

What is Surface Pattern Design? A Beginner's Guide

Want to learn the basics of surface pattern design? In this beginner-friendly video, I walk you through the basics of surface pattern design, including what it is, where it's used, and how to create your own seamless repeating patterns.

How to use Pattern Design Guides

If you've heard of the diamond method in pattern design and you're wondering how it works, this is your video.


I'll teach you about pattern design guides (like the diamond guide) and how to use them for beautifully positioned patterns.

Illustrate a Simple Leaf Pattern

In this tutorial I'm going to teach you how to illustrate a simple seamless repeating pattern in Procreate. I'll guide you step-by-step through the process:

  • Setting up your artboard
  • Illustrating your leaf elements
  • Arranging pattern elements into a seamless repeat
  • Testing your seamless pattern

How do Seamless Patterns Work?

Are you just starting out in surface pattern design and you're not sure how seamless repeat patterns actually work?


In this video I'll show you:

  1. What a pattern tile is
  2. Why pattern tiles repeat infinitely
  3. How to create a pattern that repeats
  4. Procreate tips to help you illustrate patterns

Create a Gingham Pattern

In this video I'll walk you step-by-step through designing a Gingham pattern in Procreate on your iPad.


You'll learn:

  1. How to setup a pattern tile artboard
  2. Creating a Gingham pattern grid
  3. How to recolor your pattern in Procreate
  4. How to design a seamless textured overlay for your pattern
  5. Exporting your seamless pattern tile

Looking for more tutorials?

For more free seamless pattern tutorials, visit my YouTube channel:

Creative Skillshare Classes

Seamless Pattern Class

Step-by-step class on how to illustrate a simple (but beautiful) leaf pattern in Adobe Fresco.

Create a Digital Planner in Canva

Beginner-friendly class guiding you through the design of a digital planner.