I am working on this bunny illustration and I want it in inky, comic style. I have never worked this way before - i've done a lot of vector work in Affinity, but never with brush tool and I really wanted to give it a try. But the way I'm doing this is either wrong, or it just doesn't work in Affinity Designer.
Below is a wip, still needs some work but you can see the style I want to achieve. This illustration is made by using almost entirely small to medium sized brush in draw persona.
My workflow is similiar to using marker on paper - i make a stroke, if it is too thin I make another stroke to make it thicker and so on. I don't edit my strokes since it seems too time consuming. But then, when I was in the middle of work, the software started crashing. I figured that's because of too many strokes, so I expanded them all and merged my layers. But it didn't really solve the problem - the path just has so many nodes in it, the app still crashes all the time.
Is there anything I can do to improve my workflow to produce fewer nodes so the app doesn't crash? How do you work on this type of illustrations?
And I don't really want to change the way I work entirely - right now I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't draw it in vector software at all...