: How can I make a Tartan Design in Adobe Illustrator I generated on the internet this tartan design: Now I want to get this design as a vector graphic built in Adobe Illustrator. Is there

@Nimeshi706

Here's my take..... and a little mini-tutorial.


(If you right click on the image above and choose "Open image in new Tab/Window" you can see it a bit larger)

Save for web reduction does some odd appearance things to the diagonals, but they are all spaced evenly and dont' change color mid-stream like they appear to.

Be aware, creating too many tartan patterns will result in the ghost of William Wallace haunting you. F R E E D O M ! ! ! (although his voice is much more soprano now)

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@Hamaas979

There are a bunch of lines patterns included with Illustrator, but they are a little hidden within the Swatch Libraries menu:



Select one you like. You can then rotate the pattern with the Rotate tool. You can double click on the Rotate tool and uncheck "Objects" so that only the pattern is rotated:



Then use multiple fills with a blending mode to color the pattern:

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@Cooney243

No tricks, just basic shapes.


Draw a line grid
Create your square
Clip the lines with the square
Apply a background color to the square
Dupe it and create your pattern.


Here's how I prefer to go about #1


Draw a horizontal line (or shallow rectangle, sometimes easier for pixel alignment)
Apply a Transform effect to create the other lines and their spacing
Apply another Transform effect to rotate the grid to your angle


The upside to this approach is that it's dead simple to fine tune your line grid later by just tweaking the effects.

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