Winter is a season of warm cozy clothes, white fluffy snow and clean bright colors. In this tutorial we will get inspired by this magical season and create a cute winter seamless pattern consisting of simple objects. We will go through the process of creation of every element in Adobe Illustrator and end up with forming a swatch using the Pattern Tool . Let’s get started! 1. Draw a Cute Bullfinch Step 1 This time I won’t be using a sketch, because the elements of our pattern will be quite simple. First of all, we need to decide on the color palette to create a harmonic look. Here are the colors that I’ve chosen for our future pattern. We’ll be using the Eyedropper Tool (I) to pick the color we need. Step 2 Take the Rectangle Tool (M) and make a 600 x 600px rectangle covering your artboard. Fill it with a light-blue color from the color palette that we’ve made in the previous step. Step 3 Let’s start forming the body of our bird. Create a red circle with the Ellipse tool (L) , holding the Shift key to make it perfectly round. Take the Direct Selection Tool (A) and pull the lower anchor point down, extruding the circle. Move it to the right side, forming the bullfinch’s tail. Change the position of anchor handles to make our shape smooth. Now we have something like a comma symbol. Step 4 Pick the darkest blue color from the palette and create another circle above the body. Use Intersect in Pathfinder to form the bird’s head. Step 4 Draw the next circle for…
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Create a Cute Winter Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator