While working on my portfolio I once again became sidetracked by pattern creation. I have created a seamless, repeating pattern in Illustrator with six colour variations.
I basically took one of the hands from an illustrator I had done before (seen in the background of my twitter page: http://twitter.com/#!/richardstelmach, displayed the grid in Illustrator, made sure it all fitted in a big square, duplicated the hand and used clipping masks to hide parts of each instance to make it join up at the edges.
You only really get a sense of the pattern when you see it repeated en-masse, please take a gander here. Hopefully I’ll create my pattern gallery soon where the patterns will repeat across the entire screen but til then, please use the link to gaze at its wonder.
You can download the Illustrator pattern here (in your swatches window just go > open swatch library > other library > and select the .ai file from the zip)
Download the Photoshop Pattern Set Here
Here is each segment of the pattern if you wish to use it in a web project:
