IsabelAracama

Thank You @fde101
I'm exploiting right now a hack that may give me similar results but i still maintain this request.
if in any case the devs find out they need to improve something with the already existing tools then please just do and update the community.
Also there is a 1h30min long FREE course from @IsabelAracama on the PEN Tool that anyone here will find useful check it here FREE Course - Pen Tool (Skillshare)
Blessing to y'All and let's keep improving.

And how would ppl receive a feature like the new Ai freedom gradient tool? 
I honestly never was a fan of gradient meshes cause I never ever needed them to do my illustrations at all, and when I used them all looked a bit artificial compared to my own techniques to achive this without a mesh, and  cause I'm used to work things more "freehand", but maybe if I'd try something nicely created but the Serif guys I'd change my mind, who knows... I looked into this video, and really was not very impressed or at least not as much as the ones presenting it as "awesome". Maybe some users like it?
 
 
 

Thanks for posting this video - I, for one, would LOVE to see a similar feature in Designer!!!

And how would ppl receive a feature like the new Ai freedom gradient tool? 
I honestly never was a fan of gradient meshes cause I never ever needed them to do my illustrations at all, and when I used them all looked a bit artificial compared to my own techniques to achive this without a mesh, and  cause I'm used to work things more "freehand", but maybe if I'd try something nicely created but the Serif guys I'd change my mind, who knows... I looked into this video, and really was not very impressed or at least not as much as the ones presenting it as "awesome". Maybe some users like it?
 
 
 

Hello @IsabelAracama well personaly i'm a big fan of gradient and the way they can make a composition even dreamy or simply good enough but never get my hand to it with Adobe products, it was frustrating but then came Affinity where i actually got to the point of gradient and how to create them and the color theory thing.
That was a bit of story ... Now ! that new tool is just great and very useful when we consider it is always a nightmare to create and abstract background (we're not all Mozart nor Pablo Picasso )
i suggest Affinity to come up with something even better, why would you ask?
Simply because i perceive a bit of Styles thing we have in ADesigner mixed with the already existing Ai Mesh tool.
To me Serif need to bring a real Nec-PLus-Ultra : Free Gradient, Blend/interpolate Tool, Shape builder and keep improving the snapping in the products we use.
Reall it's pure merveille to work with APub for printing projects (i've done few personal things and they just made young peoples go crazy around me) but keep making the product even professional.
in the same time, Chapeau to Adobe for the way they improve their interface and it's whole actions (flipping menus ... they also got inspired by Serif for iPad for this and simply ported it to desktop ...  ... my joke to world).
Well ... let's improve !

My Smashing Magazine article was out last Wednesday, coinciding with the presentation of the new tools Serif showcased at the first Affinity Live: Affinity Designer for iPad and Affinity Publisher. 
I had the honour and luck to be there with them and to be sponsored to create this detailed tutorial:
"How To Create A Flat Vector Illustration In Affinity Designer."
If you want to learn how to create this, check it out, and please, whatever your questions, ask there in the comments section on the article itself. Thanks!
PS - Source file is provided for you all to explore
Here the link: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/flat-vector-illustration-affinity-designer/#top
Cheers all and hope you enjoy it. 

My Smashing Magazine article was out last Wednesday, coinciding with the presentation of the new tools Serif showcased at the first Affinity Live: Affinity Designer for iPad and Affinity Publisher. 
I had the honour and luck to be there with them and to be sponsored to create this detailed tutorial:
"How To Create A Flat Vector Illustration In Affinity Designer."
If you want to learn how to create this, check it out, and please, whatever your questions, ask there in the comments section on the article itself. Thanks!
PS - Source file is provided for you all to explore
Here the link: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/flat-vector-illustration-affinity-designer/#top
Cheers all and hope you enjoy it. 

Hi,
While using the brush tool in other applications similar to Affinity Photo I use a key to quickly color pick and then it swaps back to the brush. This is an essential part of my workflow when painting.
Is there a way to set this up on Affinity Photo? Or is the only option a 4 step process to do this?
Cheers Ben

Thanks a lot Miguel, I enjoyed a lot doing it as I enjoy seeing results - and I enjoy even more when people tell me they got to do soemthing they thought they wouldnt be able to do haha, that's even better. Kiss! Beijinhos!

Trying to practice my "not-as-good-as-I'd-like" portuguese here with Miguel, ahaha... Besitos, baci, beijinhos, küsschen, kisses, bisoux , φιλιά, petons, and stop, can't say it in any other language haha.. I think... or not that i can remember now ^^

Trying to practice my "not-as-good-as-I'd-like" portuguese here with Miguel, ahaha... Besitos, baci, beijinhos, küsschen, kisses, bisoux , φιλιά, petons, and stop, can't say it in any other language haha.. I think... or not that i can remember now ^^

Ooh, not just any old kisses! Little coconut kisses!!

Here the article I just wrote. will be adding more as/if I receive more results from people
https://medium.com/@isabel_aracama/the-results-of-people-following-my-flat-illustration-tutorial-on-smashing-magazine-1518c6463aa4

Thanks a lot Miguel, I enjoyed a lot doing it as I enjoy seeing results - and I enjoy even more when people tell me they got to do soemthing they thought they wouldnt be able to do haha, that's even better. Kiss! Beijinhos!

Nice to see some of the results being posted here/in the article. Really shows what people have learnt from it and how they can push it further with their own tidbits/creativity. Great tutorial Isabel.

Here the article I just wrote. will be adding more as/if I receive more results from people
https://medium.com/@isabel_aracama/the-results-of-people-following-my-flat-illustration-tutorial-on-smashing-magazine-1518c6463aa4

Great info Alfred! Great info! 
I was writing now an entry on Medium about some of the ppls results, and would love to include this bit. I will of course quote you all.
Thanks for letting me know!

The tutorial is very well laid out and easy to follow, but one difference I encountered straight away is that I couldn’t find a ‘Create Palette from Document’ option in the iPad version, which meant that I had to add the fifteen colours one at a time. There is also no hexadecimal mode for colour values, so if you want to use exactly the same colours as Isabel used in her tutorial you have to convert the values FE8876 and E1C372 to their decimal equivalents (254, 136, 118) and (225, 195, 114): it isn’t difficult, but the conversion is an extra step and you have to enter the R, G and B components separately instead of being able to put them in as a single block.

Thanks for your reply.
There is almost no difference in the workflow, the two applications are really similar. 

Hi Vincenet! That's fantastic! 
Thanks a lot for showing it here, I really love to see the results and the efforts of people after following a tutorial.
I don't have an iPad, so I'm not sure how different the actual workflow was in the making, I guess not too much? 
Really good yeah, really good!
 
 
 

My Smashing Magazine article was out last Wednesday, coinciding with the presentation of the new tools Serif showcased at the first Affinity Live: Affinity Designer for iPad and Affinity Publisher. 
I had the honour and luck to be there with them and to be sponsored to create this detailed tutorial:
"How To Create A Flat Vector Illustration In Affinity Designer."
If you want to learn how to create this, check it out, and please, whatever your questions, ask there in the comments section on the article itself. Thanks!
PS - Source file is provided for you all to explore
Here the link: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/flat-vector-illustration-affinity-designer/#top
Cheers all and hope you enjoy it. 

Thanks, just what I needed to progress my learning curve.

Thank you for this tutoriel. 
I used it to draw my california T4 with affinity designer for ipad  
 

My Smashing Magazine article was out last Wednesday, coinciding with the presentation of the new tools Serif showcased at the first Affinity Live: Affinity Designer for iPad and Affinity Publisher. 
I had the honour and luck to be there with them and to be sponsored to create this detailed tutorial:
"How To Create A Flat Vector Illustration In Affinity Designer."
If you want to learn how to create this, check it out, and please, whatever your questions, ask there in the comments section on the article itself. Thanks!
PS - Source file is provided for you all to explore
Here the link: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/flat-vector-illustration-affinity-designer/#top
Cheers all and hope you enjoy it. 

My Smashing Magazine article was out last Wednesday, coinciding with the presentation of the new tools Serif showcased at the first Affinity Live: Affinity Designer for iPad and Affinity Publisher. 
I had the honour and luck to be there with them and to be sponsored to create this detailed tutorial:
"How To Create A Flat Vector Illustration In Affinity Designer."
If you want to learn how to create this, check it out, and please, whatever your questions, ask there in the comments section on the article itself. Thanks!
PS - Source file is provided for you all to explore
Here the link: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/flat-vector-illustration-affinity-designer/#top
Cheers all and hope you enjoy it.