StuartRc

Later Brush set uploaded

Sure I can do that for you. I was wondering today whether this is because it is an older brush set that I imported to re-edit. Today I tried the same process and recorded a test video. It is a bit long as I spent time trying to crash it!. Oddly everything was fine!.. So I decided to complete the Brush set....then it crashed almost immediately! I will upload both videos so you can see what I was attempting and the persistent crash...It is making things a bit difficult to work with! I will also upload the brush set as edited (It is almost complete I just needed to test the new patterns!) NB As I am sure you are aware I am suing Windows 10 Which processed an update a couple of days ago. I believe I logged the latest version in the signature!

Hi (2.1) version of AD Sorry this is a bit long... but seems to be recurring! in several version While working on some new ink drawings I came across a couple of issues with 'some' of my most recent brush sets (PB 33 Comic Ink Blocking) (I don't this one is on the forum!). It was created a couple of months ago to help with inking large blocking areas in the Comic Book Toolkit!.. and I have been using it for some time. Hardware Acceleration is off There are 19 Brush sets installed (1 original 18 custom sets) So 1. Clicking on input field in the brush dynamics and trying to tab to the next caused AD to Crash (Also the brush visual blanked out) 2. A couple of duplicate brushes started to appear in the Category list. Strangely you could not get a response from the brush (i.e Activating the dynamics)..Repeated clicking would also crash AD + In other brush sets by clicking on random Brushes in other Categories would also cause AD to Crash So A. I reset AD 2.1 to default B. Deleted the standard brush sets that came with the APP C. Replaced | Imported some of my little collection This seemed to fix it for a while!😀 Today I have been working on updating quite an old set creating Version 1.0+ edited in Version 2 and again updated in 2.1 (PB 03 Big-T). mostly build for inking with dots!. To update: A. Import old brush set to AD 2.1 (2.1 as working on it until new update available!) B. Save (Export) but rename Category to reflect Version 2 C. Edit brushes in sequence (changes to dynamics [spacing | Jitters | Distance etc]) D. Edit to include new base textures Unfortunately I seem to have a recurring problem a. AD crashes on selecting random brushes b. I tried to delete the offending brush set this time and just re-import (PB 03) but you can still get crashes c. The Original Brush set with the edits this week is on the forum here: d. With the last 5 texture brushes in the set I decided to integrate some additional seamless patterns (From PB 23 dinosaur and PB 19 inker!). So I created 400 x 400 px .png black white | greyscale. but with some recent changes to the dynamics I needed to set the scale at 25%. The idea was to be just able to replace a series of textures and give a bit more flexibility to the brush set. So Needed to set the scale at 25% but delete the pattern so it's an option for each brush.. Clicking back on the Brush later caused AD to crash. I am not sure whether a blank fixed setting caused this issue. e. Had to go backwards to salvage the brush set (with Version 2.1.1) installed still crashing I did not want to put the edited version on the forum as it might be 'knackered'😀

If you were looking for an 'organic' texture rather than a repeating set of patterns you could try out Or I am sure either of these sets would give you a closer proximity to a 'soil' 'ground' like texture

Sounds like you are using specific Pen Mode toggle! On context Menu with pen selected: Pen Mode: have you activated 'Add new curve to selected object'?

Features Test Added a better Test File Features Update.zip

DC Comics 1982 Colour Toolkit Wanted to take this a bit further with an additional bitmap fill Palette based upon old DC Comic colours 1. Sourced the colours of the 1982 DC Comic Colour Palette (Limited as different print process!) and created a simple kit to play around with the new 2.1 Assets > bitmap fill options. 2. Added a limited number of dot fills as a separate Palette and some coloured assets to play around with the results: Process 1. Edited some of the original seamless assets by creating a 2 phase pattern consisting of a solid rectangle containing a dot pattern. The Dots were set to erase (So you can revert using select same etc.!). Set white dots to 'erase' 2. Applied DC Colours to some vectors; then stored as assets. 3. Used the assets to create a 'Dot' Fill in the Colour Palette 4. Scaled and rotated with the fill tool Included the original AD 2.1 File to experiment with Assets Zip File contains: a. Assets b. Colour Palettes c. Editing files (Colour swatches + Vector Dots + test block) To create a separate palette from the visible swatches just ALT + CLICK with the Colour Picker tool (I)... or make your own combinations DOT TOOL.zip

Comic Toolkit Splat Assets 01 A collection of splat shapes! Sketched Vector assets using Inker and Comic Sketcher Brush Sets.

Comic Dialogue Toolkit 01 Finished the 1st Asset Toolkit to support the Comic Template. Tried to make it as versatile as possible and following onwards from the Compound Asset Set. Added a lot of extra options to the compound shapes Split the Assets to separate vector objects so most are inter-changeable Set Global Colours so easy to change across pages Added text styles Built Assets

Many thanks! I had not thought of using them in this way...Looks good I will have a play!😀

Hi I built the Pattern Swatch File in 2.04. (creating swatches from pattern fills dragged from the Asset Panel to the Fill Swatch on the Context Bar). By having them in the Swatches Panel was just too easy!. There has been more work on the process in 2.1 as you can see here. You should be able to import the file as a Palette!

Dinosaur Pattern Swatches Playing around with the Version 2 options of creating Palette fills by dragging assets to the Fill Swatch.. Nice!.. much easier Dinosaur Palette.zip

Palette Assets 01 Added the first set of Palette Assets Reorganised Palettes by name and created .PNG image import sets so colours can be combined 1. 'Graphite' for drawing with inking with dark colours and combining high contrast colours 2. Re-edited Untamed Palettes (Originals were simply sampled image versions). However this method can result in a mix of similar colours. Streamlined and selected 48 manually from each set to get better variation and remove similar colours a. Untamed Originals b. Untamed Mushroom Forest c. Untamed Chili Trees

Hi has @walt.farrell has pointed out these are older raster brushes. I have not really maintained these as they were sort of replaced with PB 28: Ink Stipple. In response to the question; Even if they were 'vector' brushes the results would still be raster as the vector brushes are not 'true'. I am not sure what you are trying to achieve but for these type of brushes can I suggest you use download and use PB 31 'base Texture Toolkit' This set works much better and has much greater flexibility. If you are looking for dot vectors you could also try 'Seamless Pattern Overlays'. These are assets (mostly different configuration of dots!) built for the new drag | drop option where you can add assets as bitmaps to the fill. However they are actually vector. So you can pull them onto the page and edit. The Dot patterns are contained within a rectangle so they should; I say should! snap together to form dot patterns. You can also use the 'Quick Grid feature' to layout shape patterns. Sometimes I paint dot patterns using a raster brush and copy the .jpg | SVG to Inkscape to make use of the tracing tool. If you do this avoid using the simplify (Control + L) applied to the result as it can convert all the curve nodes to cusp nodes!. I created some overlay vectors this way for the Comic Book Toolkit but it's not finished yet! In the same way! There is an old set to supplement the old inkBrush brushes here or here That has a small collection of vector grunge that you can manipulate on the page. Hope this helps!

Dialogue Compound Assets Part I Speech Assets Part I 01 Speech Assets Part I 02

Thanks!...This set should be very flexible even thought there are only 20 brushes. There are a lot of possible combinations!

Dialogue and Type Assets Collection (W.I.P) Assets and Toolkits for Dialogue and Labelling structure Wanted to make this part of the template just as flexible as the page template itself! 1. Decide on the typefaces and create the associated styles 2. Make all the structural elements | objects flexible and easily exchanged between alternative assets 3. Use Global Colours for quick editing and apply to each vector separately 4. Introduce some degree of scale, where the text elements can scale independent of the text box (Affinity does not have 'flex' type so needed to add optional styles to the sheet!) 5. Allow for the repositioning of vector objects inside asset without affecting text 6. Build a collection of scalable assets 7. Build a Toolkit that allows for flexibility of assets: NB Need to add additional 'Text Dialogue' layer to imported templates Need to Update Global Colours in associated templates Type Used these (taken from Google Fonts to available!) Stylesheet for all 3 apps Sample Asset Toolkit and Completed single asset Wanted to make this really flexible so assets built for any particular grouped asset could be exchanged for any other There are almost 50 of these now! Tried to keep it simple with: Bubble Area | Tail Area + Base shape and Edge shape for each. Text Contained in Bubble so can re-position the tail separately (+scale) Global Colours Text Styles Sample Page Test A4 page with Mask Overlay text over mask in this case. Scale assets and recolour 'globally'

Planet Toolkit 04 P10 P11 P12

Hi It is basically just an assembled layered file in Designer that contains a grid to layout to guide the painted sample shapes (raster) and where all other files are assembled together. The Nozzle shape layer (vector) are just copied from the 'Vector Nozzle sheets' which is basically a 400 x 400 repeated grid separate file; with tested nozzles (20 on a sheet I believe..no point doing one at a time!)... and placed inside circles (White for Brush | Red for sub-brush) The Brush names are taken from the Mineral List on Wikipedia (luckily have not exhausted them yet!) There is a sample layer where the final brushes are just painted for testing. To get the effect I just layer a series of shaded colours..just repeating the process for each brush, (Sometimes adjusting with layer adjustments) The Base Texture Patterns are also all vector (Symbol layer stacks for variation!) and extracted from another 20x 20 grid based file then scaled for effect to be incorporated into the sample sheet above. transform and scale separately on context bar helps with this! Sometimes they are aligned on a separate file as they can be complex (AD slows down sometimes!) The 'Extras' are just imported .png's from a Base Texture Export folder (Some of these are large). For these brushes all are just exported .png. Base textures from all V2 brushes are available to each brush...there are lots and lots (1000's probably!) and are all vector! Hope this helps

Updated Toolkit Added 10 additional .png files to reflect the collection of seamless pattern overlays here So now 25 additional .png options Updated the file collection and removed old .zip file so need to download it again!

No Problem they are fun to play around with. Will be much more powerful when combined with vector Flood Fill in 2.1

Seamless Pattern Overlays Added a basic set of seamless patterns to Resources for use with the new Asset >Fill Swatch feature here Updated PB 31 to reflect this with 10 additional 'dot' .png files (@pruus)

Here you go......Set of Seamless Dot Assets

Seamless Pattern Overlays Extracted, Modified and extended a set of Pattern Overlay Assets. (Part of the Comic Book Toolkit) Built to make use of the new AD 2.0 feature of being able to drag images | Vectors from the Asset Panel and onto the Fill Swatch (Good for grunge artwork and vintage effects!) Assets Content 1. Set of Positive Dot patterns (scalable using Fill Tool) 2. Set of Negative Dot Patterns (scalable using the Fill Tool) Use 1. Select your vector object 2. Drag Asset to Fill Swatch on context bar 3. Adjust with Fill Tool Or you could just use the vectors If need to change colour -drag out and recolour objects | Create new sub-category and add as required.. can be added to swatches (no need for Styles) Or Use adjustments to recolour and effects with Transparency and Layer Settings Samples as below: Positive Negative Seamless Dot Pattern Overlays.zip

I never made all the brush sets available for download. Any that are are located in the links to resources section. There are lots! Still have some work to do on V2 updates but most of the texture brushes available from V1 Should import fine. New Distance option in dynamics affects Inking and Paint Brushes Project Brush Sets: PB 01 Hungry PB 02 Crazy Tree PB 03 Big-T PB 04 Ammonite PB 06 Poison Inkers PB 07 Ink PB 08 Organics PB 09 Grunge PB 10 Leaf PB 11 Camouflage and Paint PB 14 Organic Pattern PB 15 Textured Pencils PB 19 Inker and Inker Toolkit PB 20 Patterns PB 23 Dinosaur Styles Patterns and Brushes PB 28 Ink Stipple PB 31 Base Texture Toolkit