jer

BTW the fan like object can also be made out of a gear/cog shape, afterwards converted to curves. The unwanted parts of it can then be deleted and adjusted/resized with the node tool as you showed before with your method.

Regarding my InAffinity YouTube Channel, I've just had the below in email from YouTube. There's now around 350 total videos uploaded on Affinity Photo...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOnLUmyPHr2rayOHVHWsHVw
See update video for update, plans and subscriber comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apgypHgxcmA
Dave
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Dear all,
I have just completed a interesting tutorial on Affinity Designer on Mac.
Please have a look.
 
Link youtube:
 

Here we go with this new video about and making Minimal Art, I really love this kind of art style because of the simple meaning, and here I think you will have the best tips, to give a big step, for you that want to get some job doing simple illustration. why? I'd say from my insight, the current Contemporary Design Illustration Trends.
 

Hey there guys...just a simple way to do a double exposure in Affinity designer..... figured I would share since i was posting it on my site anyway. In included the odifiable project file.....but the origin files are in the youtube page.....it is all wrapped up in once nice file 
 
 
bear modifiable file.afdesign

https://youtu.be/q9g-NSvcyhc
 

Sky replacement done right.
https://youtu.be/g8cLkcHqp_k

Super easy way to restore colors in old Photos. Watch this Affinity Photo tutorial to learn a quick way to bring back colors in vintage photos. How to get the original colors back. 
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Hi Everyone,
In the need to understand the sometimes complex subject of Color Models, Color Spaces and Color Profiles better, I found it hard to find a nice to read and complete source on the matter. So after I did a deep dive into the subject I decided to share what I've learned about it by writing a tutorial blog about it with illustrations and interactives. Yesterday I published part one about Color Models and color basics, to pave the way to Color Spaces for the next and last part of the article.
Although not directly Affinity related, I figured this could benefit other Affinity users too in understanding Color Spaces better and when to choose which in Designer and Photo. And making Color Spaces a little less confusing to understand. Of coarse all graphics-work for illustrations and interactives in the tutorial are made in Affinity Designer.
The blog is available in both Dutch (https://www.wigglepixel.nl/blog/wat-zijn-color-models/) and translated in English (https://www.wigglepixel.nl/en/blog/what-are-color-models/).
Hope you like it and if this makes others understand the subject better and as enthousiastic as I am now about it after this, I reached my goal!
Maarten

Great stroke pressure effect put to good use for a group of curves. Much better/faster than pen-tooling each drip, which is how I would have approached it. The drip variety is simply a result of the length of each line segment and you can still revisit each layer for a different pressure setting if you see the need. Thanks for sharing this technique.

I recently saw this post by @ivanozzo sharing a great resource for gradients and colour ramps, but I couldn't figure out how to easily use the eyedropper tool with the gradient in order to copy them into Affinity Photo.
After a long time playing around, eventually I sussed it out - so here's a tutorial for anyone else who needs this!

In this Affinity Photo Tutorial, You will see, How to create Neon Glow Line around persons in Affinity Photo. In this tutorial, I used the Pen Tool and Node Tool for creating the line. I hope you like the video. Thanks
#affinitytuts, #neongloweffect, #affinityphoto
 

How to remove or change the background in Affinity Photo with refine the selection. 
 

Affinity Photo tutorial on how to add a pattern to clothing. It demonstrates how to resize a pattern and show the folds of a pattern.
 

New Video Out Now!!!!! Enjoy it!!!
In today's tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a simple line art-style letters effect in Affinity Designer, that can be used for a logos or as some kind of typography design.
Here is the file saved with history so you can follow along:  How to Create Line Effect in Affinity Designer.afdesign
 

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you an easy way to draw Tech-circles, you can then use them to create your own HUD or they can be use in any Si-Fi composition.
I hope you enjoy it!!
 

Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vl4bresUEo&feature=youtu.be
The easiest way to create fake 3D Text in Affinity Designer from Vector. In seconds you can create stunning 3D effects from any Font.
I show you 2 methods how to create the faux 3D Text. The first create a cool effect by clearly leaving the individual Layers visible. The second fake 3D Text effect covers up the rough edges and connects everything with a smooth gradient.

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Mag. Olivio Sarikas is a professional Designer from Vienna Austria. He has been a passionate Artist for over 26 Years, starting at the age of 16 with his creative education. He studied at the University for fine Arts in Vienna and Munich and holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. He works as a self-employed Web & Print Designer. Occasionally he also gives Lectures on Marketing and Community Building at the local University. 
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Learn to use Affinity Publisher in under 12 Minutes. In this Video i show you some of the best Tips to get you started right away. Learn how easy it can be to create amazing designs and start to publish
In this Video:
- Warp Text around image Content
- Text Frame Fill and Stroke Colors
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Mag. Olivio Sarikas is a professional Designer from Vienna Austria. He has been a passionate Artist for over 26 Years, starting at the age of 16 with his creative education. He studied at the University for fine Arts in Vienna and Munich and holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. He works as a self-employed Web & Print Designer. Occasionally he also gives Lectures on Marketing and Community Building at the local University. 
Hi Channel focuses around tutorials for Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher and occasionally other Software tools like Krita, Corel Software, the NIK Collection and more. 
Olivio is famous for his "Secret Sauce", always trying to introduces some Pro Tricks into his tutorials and give a bit more background information. Also his "Creative Chats" are part of this channel, where he gives insights into the creative life and talks about how to improve your creative flow and realize your creative dreams to share them with the world.

Happy Halloween!
Link tutorial on youtube 
 
 

Hi,
You can just create your own textured image brush in a pipe style, with a gradient look for the 3D:
 
 

You could create the brush with a drop shadow, not sure it’s too accurate, as it’s moving with the flow of the brush instead of how the shadow would fall:
 

Or you can download my file, good Alfred.
Best regards!
Spiral Template.afdesign

THANK YOU! I've been struggling with this exact problem, getting parallel, but also intersecting lines. Awesome! I tried drawing letters with two strokes enabled, and now it's easy as a breeze..!

 
EDIT: PS, I also just discovered you can draw open ended roads by setting one stroke to "butt cap" and the other to "square cap"

(split from this announcement post)
Thanks for a great update.
As a  quick test, I played with the appearance panel. Specifically, I tried drawing a  basic street map, as you might see in a leaflet for a local business. 
Using the new multiple strokes capability, it’s  possible to do to such work quickly Affinity Designer. 
First I drew the roads using a heavy dark stroke. Then in the appearance panel, I added a second stroke, in a lighter colour, above the first stroke. 
That produced the effect of parallel lines, with a fill in between.
The technique will work only if another new feature in 1.7 is used: when using the pen tool, the "Add new curves to selected object object" button on the context toolbar must be selected.  Then the lines blend together.
The second stage in this exercise was to duplicate the artboard containing all the elements. On the second the strokes have brush styles to give a more hand-drawn style.
This is a quick, very rough test, and I’m looking forward to exploring the latest Affinity advances in more depth!
 

Hi all,
Second instalment!
Just sharing a new collection of brushes
A streamlined set of 30 brushes used to create 'Crazy Tree' and composed from mixed sources in the Brush Library + new brushes edited/redesigned to assist with painting
 
PDF sample sheet as attached
 
Enjoy!

ProjectBrush - Crazy Tree.pdf
ProjectBrush-Crazy Tree.zip