Beautiful patterns can be easily created by duplicating basic shapes with a simple colour scheme. This tutorial explains the process of creating a trendy chevron background pattern using Illustrator’s vector shape tools. We’ll then take the design over to Photoshop to add some extra polish and really bring the pattern to life with subtle gradients and texture effects. Here’s the final abstract geometric background pattern we’ll be creating. It’s made up of a simple tessellating shape which alternates through a warm colour scheme and is given some texturing treatment in Photoshop to bring it to life with subtle detail. This kind of abstract pattern design can look fantastic when applied as a background to all kinds of digital and print work. The first step when creating a design with a limited colour scheme is to draw up a series of swatches to form a palette. Here I’ve picked out a cool mix of hues named We are young from ColourLovers . Draw a series of squares in Illustrator and use the Eyedropper tool to…
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Create an Abstract Geometric Background with AI & PS