I want to create a textured background from scrach, preferably in Affinity Designer for iPad v2

[ScarletQueen]

Hi there! Design question here: 

I want to create a nice background for a car seat coverr that I am going to be making for people who love gardening. I want it to be a nice artistic "textured" background of gardening soil, on which I will add other elements such as flowers and so on. I want it to be attractive and professional looking. The car seat cover is rather large (2993 px x 7703 px). 

My questions are as follows:
1 - Do I create a seamless design that I will use as a bitmap fill or should I just design all over the product's template?

2 - How should I go about designing this to make it look realistic but artistic as well (what bushes, tools and so on do I use, and if it is best to create it in the Pixel Persona or in the Vector Persona)?

3 - I also have a photo of a soil background that I can use where I could make into an artistic rendering (what are the steps to make a photo look like art (which filters to use, and so on?)

Links to tutorials for creating textured backgrounds are welcome.

Thanks so much!

[v_kyr]

See:

• https://mensch-mesch.com/download/download-affinity-designer-pattern-template/
• https://mensch-mesch.com/affinity-designer-pattern-beispiele/
• https://mensch-mesch.com/affinity-photo-ipad-wiederholungsmuster/
• "affinity designer" textures patterns
• "affinity photo" textures patterns

... and so on ...

 

[ScarletQueen]

• @Members Thanks so much!

[StuartRc]

If you were looking for an 'organic' texture rather than a repeating set of patterns you could try out

Or

I am sure either of these sets would give you a closer proximity to a 'soil' 'ground' like texture