Rob:

Hi there, is there a simple way of resizing your patterns (or any pattern for that matter) in illustrator? Say resizing from the 8-10 which your patterns are, to a 12 or a 14 etc.?

I have to say thankyou for these wonderful tutorials

Sabina:

great tutorial! Fascinating to watch how you use illustrator to do this since I have been using illustrator to draft and I use it very differently. In particular, the way you do the arm/neck curves is brilliant. Two things that might be helpful…
(1) If you have a line from point A to point B, and you want to mark half-way between the A-B line, no need to use a calculator, just copy the A-B line, select “Object” then “Transform” then “Scale” and 50%. You now have a line that marks the half-way distance.
(2) If you want a line perpendicular to another, as in a dart, copy the first line, then select “Object” then “Transform” then “Rotate” 90 degrees. That new line is perpendicular to the first line.
(Sorry if this is all in caps, the comment box is showing this as all caps no matter what I do.)