Making Patterns in Illustrator( losing your mind in 5 simple steps)

Finished Image Vector Pattern

So module 4’s seemingly easy task of creating a pattern from a photo, specifically of an objects shadow that had to be recognised as an object and turned into a vector image seemed relatively simple, however I found it frustrating trying to save the art board of the pattern and exporting it as a jpg for the assessment and to post to the forum and here. By Comparison part two of the module will be a drawing of my hand without looking at the papertimed over 10 minutes which I will post shortly which I thought would be the harder of the two was so relaxing in comparison to the 3 hour ordeal in trying to save an image in Illustrator. I don’t use Illustrator often I’m a huge fan of photoshop and Lightroom but I find Illustrator cumbersome and frustrating to use.

Screen shot of my work in progress
Item the shadow image came from
Shadow photo for creating vector art pattern

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