BobsDaubs

I completely agree.  The brush studio seems flawed in its implementation -- at least to Procreate where you can much more easily see what brush you are using.
As noted when using Brush Studio
1. Select Brush -- it is highlighted
2. Change any setting such size -- it is no longer highlighted
3. Return settings to original -- still does not highlight
4. Brush Name Not Shown -- it also hard to know since you cannot remember a name, unless, as noted, you go and fuss with the advanced dialogs for the brush.  Hovering will show the name, but as I am using a Wacom Cintiq this is agonizing hard to do.
I find this exceedingly frustrating as I am doing digital art.  Makes me want to look at other programs to see if they are better suited to digital art workflows.  My hope with Affinity is a single product between macOS and iOS ... but even something as "trivial" as this is a huge amount of friction to me -- especially as is only one of 3 studios I really care about:  1) brushes, 2) layers, 3) colors.

Hi all
This is a new small sample set of brushes I have been working on for several months with base textures, seamless patterns with mixed vector/bitmap nozzles. 
 
It is a larger single set containing 30 raster brushes I have changed the numeric s slightly on the brush reference sheet (it's just a number!) 
 
Sample sheet is attached
 
enjoy!

TexturePainter - 01-S.zip
TxP 1 Set 1.pdf
 
Added A new version of the sample set using AD 1.7 Brush Engine
Used #08 sample set Texture Paint Brush set as latest in sequence!
 
TexturePainter - 08-S.zip
TxP1 BRUSH PACKS TxP 8 01.pdf
 

 
Added Experimental Set combining 2 brush Sets
1. Project Brush Organics 08 (For AD/AP version 1.7)
2.Texture Paint Special Set 08 (For AD/AP version 1.7)
Added luminosity adjustments for effect
 

 
TexturePainter - Effects-09-E.zip
TxPE1 BRUSH PACKS TxPE 9 01.pdf

Been a bit neglected so:
Vector Assets from [Filthy] Inktober07
Asset List | subCategory List
04 Large Objects
08 Plastic Objects
08 Small Objects
11 Water Textures
PDF sample Sheet x2 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 4 subcategories
Asset Sample Sheets


Vector Assets Filthy 01 01.pdf
Vector Assets Filthy 01 02.pdf
vectorAssets - Filthy.zip

With these simple hatching styles you can hatch your vector objects in Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo. Affinity Publisher Beta seems not working yet (previews looks strange on my machine).

 
DOWNLOAD: https://mensch-mesch.com/download/affinity-designer-schraffuren-hatchings/
With the red styles you can easily change the color of the hatching while using an adjusment layer recolor.
Keep on drawin'
Norbert
 
 
 

In this video, you will see how to create shiny silver 3D text effects in the affinity designer, in this tutorial of Affinity Designer, you will learn about the use of 3D and outer shadows effects. I hope you enjoy it. 
 

Had a bit of spare time so created a few brushes to make  some nice leafy patterns.

Nature.afbrushes

This is the styles pack converted from Photoshop free asl file. Styles look best on a dark gray background and using large, black and bold fonts.
 
Pressed & Embossed.afstyles

The basic image I copied from a New Yorker cover but then I made it my own. Just a learning process.

Sharing some AD brushes I made that were the result of some fun experimentation.
Repeating strokes was a major theme in this set: CD_testbrush16-17.afbrushes
These are brushes made while testing several notions.
I am dropping these with no formal arrangement. They are grouped as they were created.

Left side of the reference image attached:
The first six brushes are designed to see how some “wet” watercolor or ink looking strokes might work when set to repeat. 
Further down are wet edged strokes for line like effects. 
Some have a generic texture that can be drawn over and over to create coverage. Coverage over large areas that doesn’t look like a flat fill. Just keep drawing until the strokes cover - like a watercolor fill.

Right side:
Strokes on the right column are mostly experiments in seeing how well the texture of Koh-I-Noor Magic FX Pencils could be emulated. These pencils are the most fun drawing tools imaginable. I was looking for a way to have several colored bands NOT draw as uniform bands (always in the same position) in emulation of the random effect of the real pencils. This was an interesting experiment - making the color bands look semi-random - but also making the bands link up and repeat.
These were made from scans of strokes made with one of the actual pencils. The color examples are the actual pencils colors. To retain the original colors - don’t apply a stroke color to the brush.
There are several more repeating “wet” brush strokes on the right side as well.
Some of the line style brushes were used in the grumpy geezer image and this:
 
 
Enjoy!
If you do find a use for these brushes - please do share with me examples of artwork you create. I would love to see.

 

Thanks for the share Alfred.

“This year’s Inktober is finally upon us.”
https://theblog.adobe.com/celebrate-inktober-with-adobe-and-jake-parker/
The above page includes a link to a Photoshop brush set (*.abr) created by Kyle Webster especially for Inktober 2018.

Thanks to Serif I officially pulled the plug on Adobe. 

Yet another reason to have app sub forums  

As a web designer, I find websites like uiGradients.com a quite useful resource, with a massive selection of ready-made gradients (and css code for those).
This palette is a complete (01.09.2018) pack of all gradients alongside their names, hand-imported over the course of an afternoon and a few podcasts.
I don't think you can copyright colors/gradients, but the GitHub repository of the uiGradients.com website is licensed under MIT. I'll try to keep the file up to date with the website, but if there's a missing gradient or a error, please tell me about it.
Enjoy: uiGradients.com.zip
 
(A preview will follow soon)

These Brushes have been updated into new and more comprehensive sets
New versions are located here:
Dots
Hatching
I just wanted to share some of the brushes that I ave been using for re-creating #intober(wod prompt:twelve) in Affinity Designer and Photo 

First set of Texture Brushes originally created in Sketchbook Pro for the fantastic #INKTOBER Challenge in 2016 (http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober)
01 Texture Brush Pack.zip
Texture Brush Pack 01_2.afdesign

These brushes have been updated into new and more comprehensive sets
New versions are located here:
Dots
Hatching
Old versions:
02 Texture Brush Pack.zip
Texture Brush Pack 02_visual.afdesign

This set has been updated with a new version that can be found here: Hatching Brushes
Making available a new set of texture brushes [hatching 01] that I have been working on for a new artwork
 
 

Texture Brush Pack 03.zip

Mysterious!

It was a try to add some hope and fun in an answer to post about how a version 1 of an app isn't as complete as a v. 9 or v. 12 of others apps.
But there's already a lot of posts about how features aren't implemented fast enought and which feature each one of us deems most important to ba added first.
Serif also did a threat to discuss next features and added some videos to show they are making progress.
I understand your frustration, but if you can use another app while waiting for new features, that's nice.  Rome wasn't made in a day and all of us are waiting next updates like children on christmas eve.
Cheers, we'll have more features when Serif'll be happy they're behaving as expected.  But good work need time, and we should stay patient.

Added Project Set 6   : Poison (Grass) Vector Brushes
30 'Grass' Vector Brushes:

PROJECT VECTOR BRUSH - POISON 01 05.pdf
ProjectVectorBrush-Poison E.zip

Added Project Set 5
 
Sharing a new collection of brushes
A streamlined set of 30 brushes used to create 'Monster Club' and composed from mixed sources in the Brush Library + new brushes edited/redesigned to assist with painting
 
Replaced original brushes used for creating Monster Club (first AD project!) with completely new set using better brush dynamics and recent nozzles.
A lot of 'low flow' brush dynamics here to help build up pattern texture
 
PDF sample sheet as attached
 
Enjoy!

PROJECT BRUSH - Monster Club 01 01.pdf
ProjectBrush-MonsterClub.zip

Texture Brush Fur 
Updated 03 02 2022
Adjusted the Brush dynamics so that they perform better
Zip file contains 30 brushes (1 pack x 30)
PDF sample file added

 
TB 4 FUR Set 4-37-39.pdf
 
TB4 Fur Brushes - 0A V2.afbrushes

Added a new set of Vegetation Raster Brushes (leaves 2) 
 
Zip file contains 30 brushes (3 pack x 10)
 
PDF sample file added

 
Vegetation S2 P13-P15.zip
VB 1 Set 2 13-15.pdf

Vegetation Raster Brushes (leaves) 
Zip file contains 30 brushes (3 pack x 10
PDF sample file added
Set 2 (30 raster Brushes) available here:
Vegetation brush Set 2
 

 
VB 1 Set 1 01-03.pdf
Vegetation S1 P01 - P03.zip

Vector Assets from [Poison] Inktober#03
Asset List subCategory List
20 Mushroom Outlines
11 Overlay Textures
13 Texture Patterns
19 Plants
10 Cracks
13 Moss Patterns
10 Leaf Shapes
7 Vegetation Components
PDF sample Sheet x3 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 8 subcategories
Asset Sample Sheets



 
Vector Assets Poison 01 01.pdf
Vector Assets Poison 01 02.pdf
Vector Assets Poison 01 03.pdf
VectorAssets-Poison.zip