MojoMan

Ditto for me as well in this respect; Maybe I just need to look at whatever techniques you’ve developed to get me to something that was absolutely normal technique of overshooting brush strokes and then using white out to take off the “tips” and artifacts you did not want. Or I can go back to illustrator. HATE that because in so many ways this is a fabulous application.

@Boldlinedesign - By no means my ideal art quality, but it again demonstrates where I want to be able to go with the “Clay Butler” technique. Thanks for the video. I will wait for the 1.8 update and then try out your methods since dealing with the failed boolean issues is clearly a time consuming process to overcome, or so it would seem. I’ll continue to follow this thread since I think you are clearly on top of overcoming the issues surrounding this issue. In my ideal scenario one can overshoot lines in a vector persona, clean up the overshoots and drop color inside vector paths. The key benefit is

Bold line Design; Well after several failed attempts to replicate the Clay Butler method within Affinity here is as close as I get. Not Good. By comparison in Adobe Fresco one draws with a vector layer, and simply uses an eraser to delete overshoot. All interiors are easily fillable with bucket or manually with brush. No I’m not shilling for Adobe. I just wish Affinity could solve this issue so that one can ink, overshoot, remove artifacts and allow fills closed or otherwise without losing one’s mind. If I still don’t get something please advise. Thanks

My apologies to Clay Butler and you. Clay is indeed the person who deserves full credit for the “expand/make...” process in Illustrator that I was until now unaware of being doable in Affinity; or at least close to doable. I’m going to watch the video link your provided and play around a bit in Affinity. Then I’ll be back. The critter below was created using the “overshoot” inking and expand/live paint in Illustrator and later composited in photoshop. Thanks so much for your assistance in this matter.

This method of inking and flooding color into the vector shapes is a genuine God Send for cartoon illustrators. The technique is demonstrated in the youtube video by Brad Clark. https://youtu.be/R5wW_65iAiU < Technique in illustrator to expand and merge lines to remove overstrike. The process is to vector ink and overshoot, then group and expand stroke (which Affinity does) then make "live paint (Illustrator thing that Affinity does not do at this point) Then you have to grab the object(s) "live paint" expand again. At that point one can go in and remove all the "overshoot" line artifacts. Finally one goes back to object/live paint and make. This allows one to drop colors within the merged vectors.... All this said if I could just get the expansion and joining that would leave areas to be fillable I can certainly live w/o live paint. I know that there are lots of issues surrounding copyright and patent. I'm really just seeking a function to do a very logical artistic process w/o feeling so overwhelmed with pat your head rub your tummy activity. Solve this issue and I'll become a full time convert to Affinity. A fabulous application and value for the money!