StuartRc

Hi It is really all about masking! and how the layers are organised. Drawing beneath is pretty simple to set up! Ignore some of the complexity in the little movie but concentrate on how the layers are organised 1. Top Layer has a mask (which is the solid with holes [punched out using tier panel assets]) ...Which are still stored as a separate layer! 2. The imported template has 2 layers a. Vector b. Raster (Where you can draw!) 3. Next is tier or panel storage (Not necessary but useful to have for any edits you need to make) 4. background Solid. Notes 1. Draw on the Raster layer. You can see that the ink colour is set to black. But the scribbles are orange or blue or black. In Clip Paint you can set a colour for a layer.. useful... So whatever you draw with whatever brush it will always be set to a single colour...You can do this in Affinity by setting the FX of a drawing layer to 'Colour Overlay' and picking a colour. You can have >1 so switching between colours is a checkbox nothing more! 2. Lock the 'overlay mask'...not the layer itself. make it vector and save as asset then you can have several in one document .... or you can change it! 3. You can fill in the gaps (Holes with fill holes)..but you need to be in 'Vector Persona' or 'Divide' or 'Separate Curves' 4. You could be really efficient and set the underlying panels to be slightly larger than the cutters in the mask..It's not vital but may be useful for printing 5. You can change the colour of the mask... 6. To get more elaborate you can drag the drawing layer inside a panel and sketch inside the panel. Then the drawing is a bit more independent. Hope this helps process.mp4

List UpdateBrushesProject Brush 08 OrganicsUpdated to Affinity 2.0; Added set C as INK Brushes; Created Ink Base Set to access all seamless patterns in the set Project Brush 17 Concept BrushesUpdated to Affinity 2.0; Added base Texture Brushes with access to all Concept Patterns (or any other seamless pattern) Project Brush 28 Ink StippleUpdated to Affinity 2.0; Project Brush 32 Comic Toolkits Added Comic Concept Penciller 10 erasers and 20 ink solids for Blue line sketching Assets Untamed Project a. Added Planetary Toolkit for sky backgrounds (W.I.P). Planet 01 and Planet 02 Added to resources Comic Book Toolkit a. Grunge Vector Page Borders A4 b. Large Grunge Vector pattern Overlays

Planetary Toolkit A Collection of Vector Planets For Untamed backgrounds Added 2 planet Asset categories from the Planetary Asset Collection constructed for the Untamed Project. The full set contains 15 Planets All vector with layer stacking of textures to create variety Found the New tools extremely useful (Knife and Vector Warp) makes editing much quicker! Asset Planetary Planet 01: 1 Complete version | 3 Greyscale (Adjustment layer edits) | 15 optional textures and patterns mostly wrapped in container shapes Planet 02: 1 Complete version | 2 Greyscale (Adjustment layer edits) | 1 mixed Colour | 15 optional textures and patterns mostly wrapped in container shape Sample Sheets P1 P2 Assets File Planetary.zip

Planet Toolkit 03 P8 P9

Planet Toolkit 02 P4 P5 P6 P7

Planet Toolkit 01 Started to convert the Planets to Assets and added a few extra planets Vector warp and the knife tool has been really helpful here + a few raster brush conversions in Inkscape! Bases P1 P2 P3

Monster Meadow II Added a new version of the Meadow

There are a few videos but limited to particular techniques 1. Comic & cartoon illustration using vector tools with Robert Hansford 2. Affinity Photo Comic Book Effect Micheal Wilson 3.Create simple comic page | affinity designer Jago vector 4. Making Comics with Affinity Designer: Pt.1 Reusable Panels Labsquad Media 5. Vintage Style Comic Page in Affinity Photo Frankentoon 6. Propaganda Kit Frankentoon 7. Iannocent Channel 8. Creating a detailed illustration in Affinity Designer with RSKT 9. Squishy Christi du Toit 10. Clamnuts Bob Byrne

No Problem...have a look at this it might give you some ideas!

Hi, Interesting question! Works very well if you set up a structured workflow From a personal perspective I would rely heavily on templates and integrate a workflow that encompasses the whole Affinity Suite. Using just Publisher (because it's publisher- Pages + documents!) would be a mistake as you are restricting the application of some extremely useful features that are not directly available. This is particularly true when you consider the upcoming new features added to Designer 2.04 | 2.1 (Vector Warp | Vector Fill | Brush Panel Enhancements | Knife Tool | Bitmap Fill new options and Style picker etc....) Affinity Apps work very well and closely together.. they were designed this way! Considerations 1. Consider using templates at a Page; Panel and tier level. Also create a valid asset structure that is available to all the apps 2. Decide what tools are needed to speed up workflow: Pre-define brush categories | Typefaces | Styles | Palettes (Re-usable) 3. More complex bit -setting up different page sizes U.S and UK Comic templates are different standards!) 4. Create assets for Panels Tiers and Pages 5. Define you pages that can be 'pulled as templates from Affinity Designer into Publisher. (When A comic gets larger ..much easier to work on the master document) 6. It is not just a matter of building a page template with spreads and pages.. need to decide how your panels + Tiers are going to fit the pages (templates inside templates) 7. Flexibility: the more variation you can add to assets and templates the better 8. Make use of the most valuable tools. Clip Paint has a lot of integrated features to speed up workflow. Some are available in Affinity but a. Not called same feature and b. work slightly different and simpler in some ways (a considerable advantage) 9. May need to make a series of structural templates to help you (Sketching | inking | Pencil work) rather than try and create everything by drawing inside spreads of publisher

Sorry could not be of more help! Did some tests a long time ago with brush settings and dynamics. 'Distance' would have been a good option. However you could check out: Inktober Inker Dynamics to see if you can get a better response on the brush Adjust the Curve to a convex ''Dome as in the first graphs on the left side of the image (Unfortunately this works well with 'Distance')

Ok in that case a bit more difficult not sure you can! Setting property to 'Angle' and a convex curve on the graph and high percentage will go some way to achieving it!

You could try adjusting the graph and set the size jitter to the new 'Distance' Property

Thanks Alfred! I thought it would be the other way around...I was really impressed when I viewed his work....eek! You can easily get swallowed up in the quality of work on that site! fantastic stuff!

I only knew that because I worked with one of the developers!... Check this site out (avoids the clutter of artstation) and in particular Dominique van Velsen

Thanks! bit of work to do on the Planets though!....need to split off the vectors into assets

Roger Dean! I believe.. also did cover work for Psygnosis Games in the 80's

Wireframe (Split View)

Thanks! and... Yeah probably!...It was supposed to be a distance galaxy bit maybe it is a bit too close!😀 I have a couple of layouts.. might try another version in another drawing (Planetary Toolkit has 14 different planets in several different layouts and configurations)

Stand of Trees II New version of 'A Stand of Trees' (version I) Bit large this one! Original Size 2000 x 1000 mm 300dpi All vector Affinity 2.04 Toolkits Planetary Toolkit (Untamed) W.I.P Trees (Untamed) Meadow (A Stand of Trees)W.I.P

Turbulence Now I have a vector planet toolkit : rebuilt the turbulence background and tried to add some more depth with shadows

Planetary Toolkit Kit for Constructing Planets using layer stacking Coloured Versions As Vector assets

Hi Really Depends on whether you want to create a 'Vector' or Raster (Pixel) based brush. For vectors: or Creating and individual Vector Brush from @Mensch Mesch: Ivy Brush Creating Vector Brushes by @IsabelAracama: Custom Vector Brushes or Creating your own Vector Brushes for iPad: at Affinity Spotlight or Bristle Brushes: Creating your own Bristle Brush: Tutorial Or General Information: General process of creating Vector Brushes by Envato Tuts+: Everything You Need to Know About Affinity Designer Brushes Ipad: Creating your own brushes for iPad at: Affinity Spotlight by @paolo.limoncelli: Paolo's Daub Brush Techniques acquire them here

Colour Tests Planetary Testing Sheets:

Improvements to the background sky! Planetary Toolkit Kit for Constructing Planets using layer stacking | new Warp features and raster - Vector Conversion Consisting of: a. Greyscale and Colour versions b. All Vector c. Patterns d. Shapes Planetary | Grunge e. Helper Tools Greyscale samples (Seem to accept colour adjustments better!)