• New Class! Textured Vector Florals in Affinity Designer V2

    Do you love that you can quickly create floral shapes with Affinity Designer, but sometimes want something a little less perfect… less “vectory”? Do you wish you could add a more hand drawn feel to your vector florals, while still benefitting from Designer’s built in shapes? Or, perhaps you’d like to create your own, unique floral assets for your illustrations, surface patterns and graphic design projects… What if I told you that you could create beautiful vector flower, leaf and even vase shapes, using the built in shapes and tools in Affinity Designer, and still give them an organic, textural, uniquely you feel? Want to know how? Take a sneak peek at the intro below,…

  • Affinity Designer Tool Tips | Transparency & Fill

    Hello and welcome to another installment of Affinity Designer Tool Tips! In this lesson, we’re going to focus on two tools that work very similarly to one another, the Transparency & Fill tools. While they work similarly, the resulting outcomes are different, however they can easily be used in conjunction with one another to achieve some really cool gradient effects. I’ll be using the iPad version of the app for this tutorial, however, if you’re following along on the desktop version, the overall process is the same. Let’s get started! Where Are the Transparency & Fill Tools? The Transparency and Fill tools are located on the default tool bar on…