Ever wonder how to create beautiful ogee shapes in Affinity Designer? Have you been wanting to add ogees to your surface pattern design portfolio, but thought they looked too complicated?

It's not as difficult as you might think, in fact, I'm going to show you how to create three ogee patterns, three different ways, that aren't difficult at all!

Hi everyone! I'm Tracey, an illustrator, photographer and designer from the Chicago area, and welcome to class!

Welcome to the next class in my series of surface pattern design classes, called "Pattern Toolbox!" In this series of classes, we'll focus on a specific pattern, or theme of patterns, in a variety of applications: the Affinity suite, Adobe, and Procreate. With each lesson, you'll walk away from class with a new design for your portfolio, as well as experience in tools that can expand your creativity in surface pattern design and beyond.

Affinity Designer is packed with tons of amazing tools, but, in this class, we only need to focus on a small handful to make beautiful ogee shapes for our surface pattern designs. Throughout the class, we'll looking at:

• How to turn a single ellipse in to a template for an ogee shape: I'll show you how you can break the ellipse in to a few single strokes and turn it in to a template for an ogee shape. I'll also show you how choosing the size of the original ellipse can impact your final shape and it's ease of tiling across the canvas.
• We'll look at how to use the Shape Builder and multiple ellipses to create an ogee: We'll harness the power of the shape builder to create any size ogee from a series of six simple ellipses
• How to turn a single straight line in to a beautiful, versatile ogee shape: All it takes is one single stroke with the Pen tool and a little node tool action to create a series of connected, and tile-able ogee shapes. I'll show you how to create the initial template and how to quickly, and easily tile that line across the canvas with ease.
• How to set up your canvas, and your initial ogee shape, for efficiency: When you think ahead to what you want your final outcome to be, and set up your initial shape with that in mind, you can quickly and easily, create tons of ogee patterns, at any scale, for your print on demand needs and portfolio.
• How to test your patterns using the Gradient tool: I'll show you how to save your artboards as assets and use the bitmap feature in the gradient tool to test your designs quickly, right inside Designer.