What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we will make a simple yet beautiful oriental pattern in Adobe Illustrator. Various objects of Asian culture will be created with basic shapes and then combined into a neat composition, forming a seamless pattern, that will fit perfectly as a background for your blog, an ornamental wrapping paper for your gift or a festive piece of fabric for clothing. Interested? Let’s get started then! 1. Create Traditional Paper Lanterns Step 1 We’ll start by forming the first element of our texture – a red paper lantern. Firstly, make a rectangle using the Rectangle Tool (M) and fill it with pure red color. Secondly, go to Effect > Stylize > Round corners and set the Radius to approximately 30 px, to give our shape a lantern look. Step 2 Add a small rectangle on top of the basic lantern shape and press the Enter . Set the Vertical value in the pop-up Move window to -3 px in order to separate the rectangle from the lantern and to maintain our simple style. Step 3 Add a thin white stripe using the Rectangle Tool (M) again, hold the Alt key and drag the stripe down a bit, so that…
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Create a Gentle Flat Oriental Pattern in Adobe Illustator