Illustrator Tutorial: Easy Chevron Pattern (CS6 and earlier)

Illustrator Tutorial: Easy Chevron Pattern (CS6 and earlier)

http://www.illustratoring.com/chevron-pattern-illustrator/ Chevrons are cool & trendy. Luckily, they’re easy to make too! Create a chevron seamless repeat pa…
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17 responses to “Illustrator Tutorial: Easy Chevron Pattern (CS6 and earlier)”

  1. Gary Radville says:

    Thanks, Laura, really helpful. I hit one snag, wonder if anyone can help. I
    am using AI CS5, and have no problem creating the single stripe chevron and
    dragging and saving the pattern to the swatch panel. When I add additional
    stripes, however, I hear a beep when trying to drag the multi-stripe
    pattern to the swatch panel, and can’t complete the operation. I tried to
    select all and had the same problem. 

  2. Truong Ton says:

    Very cool share!

    Please help me! How do I fill a shape with many small icons in illustrator?
    Similar this: “http://i.stack.imgur.com/NaihM.png”
    Thank you so much!

  3. Christina Oblak says:

    Is there a way that you can create a pattern, and then quickly change its
    color?

  4. Hayden Hancock says:

    This doesn’t work for me at all. I am trying to use the direct selection
    tool (selecting both points) but they never move together…

  5. Belinda DeBoard says:

    When I use the white arrow and hold shift to select the two anchors points
    on the right side of the rectangle and then drag down, it doesn’t drag down
    that side. It creates a shape like half of a simple house where the bottom
    three edges stay square and the top edge is sloped up from the left to
    right. Am I missing something?

  6. OLStudios says:

    nice tutorial. 

  7. Karen Creftor says:

    Awesome thank you! I was trying to create chevron stripes in Fireworks and
    when I saw your video I had a facepalm moment…so simple but effective!
    The tutorial transfers easily to Fireworks btw :P

  8. Liana Mendez says:

    I followed this tutorial and did it in Photoshop. It was really easy.
    Thank you.

  9. Cassie Schelldorf says:

    This tutorial was great! I have a question, when I made it a swatch, and
    filled in a rectangle with my new design, you can see each individual box.
    Will it print like that? Also, a white line appeared on the right hand
    side, will that print as well? Thanks for your help!

  10. Erika Gonzalez says:

    Hi, your tutorial is great, but I still own CS3 version, Cant find Shape
    Builder Tool and nothing happens with Shift+M , is is a CS6 thing?? thanks.

  11. Laura Coyle says:

    You can save your swatches panel as a swatch library (includes color,
    gradient and pattern swatches) to use in other files. Click the library
    button on the panel and choose “save swatches.” Find the library from
    another file by clicking the library button and choosing “user defined.”
    This subject and more is covered in my Beginning Illustrator class.

  12. Laura Coyle says:

    Wonderful! I love the CS6 pattern maker too! I have a class devoted to the
    CS6 Pattern Feature called “Pattern Power” on Renee Pearson if you want to
    get immersed in the pattern maker 😉

  13. Laura Coyle says:

    More than I can explain in a comment. Students of my classes on
    ReneePearson can use the forum for questions like this. There are links to
    my classes on my channel page.

  14. Laura Coyle says:

    You’re welcome! I’m glad to hear it Angie!

  15. skittlerap says:

    Thank you very much! I’m making easter patterns for my personal freelance
    pattern sets and this was a great tutorial!

  16. Sdharshi Ekanayake says:

    Thank you for great training…

  17. walter koh says:

    Very good tutorial…

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