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How to Break Apart Patterns in Illustrator

When you’re done with this tutorial, check out my free Ultimate Guide to Becoming A Textile Designer.

With tons of resources for grabbing free vector patterns online, you may want to use some of the motifs from the patterns in your artwork.  This tutorial uses a free repeating pattern from Vecteezy and a grunge texture from the same site to create a placed print for use on fashion flats.

{Sew Heidi} Sew Remixed: Extracting Motifs from Repeating Patterns in Illustrator


Watch the full video tutorial to learn step by step how to extract motifs from a seamless repeating pattern and use them in your artwork.

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