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Designing a custom crosshatch pattern - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Designing Your Own Online Avatar
Designing a custom crosshatch pattern
In this movie we're going to create this white hatch pattern that I'm using to symbolically represent my thinning and graying hair. And this is fairly labor intensive, as you're about to see. But it can yield some great results. So, I'll go ahead and switch over to my document of progress. And we are going to start of with that hatching dense pattern that I loaded in the previous movie. So, just go ahead and press Ctrl+Shift+A or Cmd+Shift a on the Mac to make sure nothing inside your artwork is selected and then click on Hatching Dense if you are working along with me to select it. And then click on the little new Swatch icon at the bottom of the Swatches panel to make a copy of it. And I'll call this one white hatches like so and the I'll click OK. And now I'll double-click on it in order to enter the paths Editing mode which we see here. Now this is a great pattern but it's too loose. I need some additional hatches. And it's also built kind of strangely. So to get a sense of what…
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Shading a face with gradients8m 9s
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Assigning a gradient stroke2m 31s
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Creating a seamless fabric texture7m 4s
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Customizing a predefined pattern4m 25s
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Designing a custom crosshatch pattern13m 57s
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Combining gradients with crosshatching5m 57s
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Adjusting crosshatching to suit filled paths4m 44s
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Repositioning patterns inside paths5m 21s
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