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Affinity Designer for iPad: Creating Textured Styles
Hello and welcome to my tutorial all about how you can easily create, and save, textured styles in Affinity Designer. While this tutorial is geared towards the iPad version of the app, the process is exactly the same for the desktop version. Best of all, any styles you create in Designer can be imported in to both Photo and Publisher and used there as well. Let’s get started! What is a Style? A style allows you to save a stack of non-destructive effects, such as Fill/Stroke, effects created in the Layer FX Studio as well as gradients and transparencies created with the Fill and Transparency tools, on one shape for…
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Textural Illustration: Sources for Textures for Your Own Work
One of the biggest questions I hear from students in my classes is, "Where do you find your textures?" So I created a blog post covering just that topic!
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New Skillshare Class: Symmetrical Florals With the Symbols Studio in Affinity Designer for iPad
Learn how to create perfectly symmetrical vector illustrations, using Affinity Designer for iPad's Symbols Studio.
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Floral Typography Using Affinity Designer for iPad
Learn how to create beautiful floral typography, right on your iPad, using Affinity Designer and the mask and reveal methods taught by Skillshare teacher and Chicago area artist Tracey Capone.
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Embracing my Inner Space Nerd
When I was in third grade, I had was totally, madly, deeply in love (in so far as a third grader could understand the concept) with a boy who sat next to me. I was shy though. I don’t mean shy in that, “blushes when someone looks in her direction” sort of way. I mean “so shy I couldn’t speak.” So, while I had known him since first grade, I still couldn’t bring myself to talk with him the way I wanted… so I mustered my most artistic abilities and did the next best thing. I embraced my Inner Space Nerd. You see, he loved to draw space pictures… intricate…