914 Lantern tile: Type 1, onion

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … This week is about something simple and yet fascinating. … Lantern tiles inside Adobe Illustrator. … Now, a strict lantern tile is one that repeats seamlessly … as you move and duplicate the tile … into endless rows and columns. … In this movie we'll start with the so-called onion tile, … which you're about to draw without a hitch … using the old school pen tool. … Whether you consider yourself an artist or not, … I've set things up so you cannot fail. … Here, let me show you exactly how it works. … All right, I'm going to start things off inside this document … that has a couple of center guides. … And if you're wondering how I created such a thing, … you can check out Deke's Techniques 379, … which is called Two ways to create center guides … in Illustrator. … And it originally came out years and years ago … on January 2nd of the year 2015. … All right, I'm going to go ahead and select that text … and press the Backspace key …