{"id":1394,"date":"2012-02-17T05:38:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T09:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2020-10-15T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T10:00:02","slug":"create-an-upholstery-pattern-using-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/create-an-upholstery-pattern-using-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Create an Upholstery Pattern Using Illustrator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Final preview:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-final\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1395\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-1 Draw a rectangle in an illustrator document and fill gray like color.<\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-fill-gray\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1396\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-2 Go to Object > Create Gradient Mesh and give the number of rows and columns you required.<\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-gradient-mesh\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1397\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-3 Select the nodes of the mesh in checker wise direction using direct selection tool.<\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-nodes\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1398\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-4 Change the color of the nodes to dark gray.<\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-color-nodes\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1399\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-5 Don\u2019t leaves the selection of nodes. Go to Object > Transform > Move.<\/p>\n

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\r\n \"image-1400\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-6 Create a line using pen tool as shown below.<\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-pen-tool\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1401\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-7 fills it with gradient colors of black shades.<\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-gradient-colors\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1402\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-8 Go to Object > Transform > Reflect and hit the Copy button.<\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-Reflect-hit\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1403\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-9 Go to Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform and set the parameters as shown below.<\/p>\n

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\r\n \"image-1404\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-10 Duplicate the line and cover the entire upholstery.<\/p>\n

\"upholstery-pattern-cover-entire-upholstery\"<\/span><\/a><\/div> \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t
\r\n \"image-1405\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Step-11 Draw a rectangle in the size of upholstery. Select all the objects and go to Object > Clipping Mask.<\/p>\n

Step-12 Decorate it with ornamental nails.<\/p>\n

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\r\n \"image-1406\"\r\n <\/div><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Final preview: Step-1 Draw a rectangle in an illustrator document and fill gray like color. Step-2 Go to Object > Create Gradient Mesh and give the number of rows and columns you required. Step-3 Select the nodes of the mesh in checker wise direction using direct selection tool. Step-4 Change the color of the nodes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,5],"tags":[104,105,103,102],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustrators","category-web-design","category-web-design-tips","tag-upholstery-pattern-graphic-design","tag-upholstery-pattern-in-eps","tag-upholstery-pattern-tutorial","tag-upholstery-pattern-vector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/web-design-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}