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Hi! I just saw your Minotaur cowboy art (I love it!!) and was watching the process video. I was wondering how you placed the pattern on his cape/poncho(? Idk what to call it)? I’ve been trying to figure out how to do things like that and just can’t figure it out. Thank you!!

Patterns on Fabric!

This is one I can answer! And I actually have a video of how I do this from an old project!

Essentially I make a tiny pattern, and then replicate it a bunch of times on a separate layer so you have a sheet of it. (it can actually be super simple, and still look good.)

Then I use the select tool to take chucks out of it about the right shape for each fold and put it over the base color. If your program has a morph tool, it might come in handy on this step to make the pattern look like it’s bending with the cloth. [On this particular piece, I didnt need a ton of it, so I used the ‘cut’ feature instead of just ‘copy’, but that’s just so you can see a little better what I’m doing. You can definitely just copy it, and then have an infinite supply.]

If the fabric is heavily shaded, you can turn the layer you put the pattern on to be an ‘overlay’ layer, or something, and then turn down the opacity.