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Defining a tile pattern

Defining a tile pattern - Illustrator Tutorial

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Defining a tile pattern

In this exercise I am going to show you how to take this collection of repeating objects and define it as a tile pattern. Now as you may recall even though it doesn't look like it, we have an area that repeats inside of a rectangle. So in other words, the top of this guy's head, for example, in the upper right-hand corner of the rectangle, will continue on into his body over here in the upper left-hand corner of the rectangle, and down here in the bottom-right corner, this guy's face descends into the bottom of the rectangle and it reappears at the top of the rectangle along with his arm. So everything is going to repeat exactly right, knock on wood, but how in the world do we define this thing as a tile pattern? Well, it's kind of weird the way it works, because it goes against a few rules that we've learned so far. I was telling you that if we were using a rectangle to create a clipping mask, this back in a previous chapter, why then that rectangle has to be in front of everything…

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