JekaL

When I was new to the blob brush, I got lots of useless anchor points. The trick with the bb is to work quickly and smoothly, a skill acquired with practice. I consider the blob brush an essential tool for my surface pattern designs which always require scalability. Mechanical drawing is not art. Artists need a vector drawing program that allows for expressive works. I don't see a problem with making AD work for engineers and artists.

I want to become a surface pattern designer. Scalabilty of designs is extremely important in the surface pattern industry. Most companies that purchase surface design patterns require that these designs are 100% vector because of this. I do not like the simplified cartoon style that vector graphics is associated with. Plotting points and tweaking handles to produce machine perfect lines and curves is not only excessively time consuming, it is inconsistent with the approach I want to take in my designs. I'm currently in a college Adobe Illustrator class where I discovered and now use the pencil tool and the blob brush almost exclusively. I happened to Google search "Does Affinity Designer have a blob brush?". My search brought me to this forum. After reading all the posts from people begging Serif for years to include a blob brush, I wanted to add my two cents. I was convinced that AD was the software of choice as an alternative to Ai until I read that there is no blob brush. To be blunt, this is a deal breaker. The lack of a blob brush and the inability to produce fully vectorized images has made me decide NOT to purchase Affinity Designer. The importance of the blob brush and 100% vector images for the kind of work I will be doing isn't something I can work around using AD. It's too bad because I really hate Adobe and their outrageously expensive subscription model. If AD is updated to include a blob brush and a way to create 100% vector images, I will immediately purchase the software.