Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video 564 Designing an M.C. Escher-like tessellation, part of Deke's Techniques.
- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week I'm going to show you how to create…an M.C. Escher-like tessellation in Adobe Illustrator.…Now, for those of you who have…no idea what I'm talking about,…a tessellation is repeating tile pattern…such as this one here.…This happens to be Escher's famous Reptiles,…and in case you're looking at this…and thinking there is no way in the world…I'm going to be able to create this.…It's actually easy once you know the trick,…and the trick is to take a bunch of sides of a hexagon…and flip them around as I'm about to demonstrate,…and that will allow us to create this single humanoid…that we can then rotate into interlocking positions…and eventually assemble into a seamlessly…repeating tile pattern.…
Here let me show you exactly how it works.…All right, here are those classic…M.C. Escher Reptiles just as a point of reference,…but of course we're going to be creating…these more human-like creatures right here,…but the truth of the matter is,…once you get the basic form down,…
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