Last week I was participating in the 5 Day Pattern Challenge with Bonnie Christine. Bonnie is an artist and surface pattern designer, passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. She walked us through the process of creating a repeating pattern in Adobe Illustrator from gathering inspiration to a final design that can be applied to the product.

I used to design patterns in Adobe Photoshop but never used Illustrator for this. I created my designs in Illustrator for iPad, so the process was a bit different and I had to figure out some tricks along the way. I think that I wouldn’t have designed these three repeats in one week without the 5 Day Pattern Challenge.