Butler To Cats

Probably not telling either of you anything but, for the benefit of other readers, using the site option in a Google search can be helpful.
 
e.g.
In Google search for "vector brushes" site:affinity.help (the quotes find a specific multi-word phrase rather than also searching for the separate words)
or even "vector brushes" site:affinity.help/designer
Leave out the quotation marks if you have only a single search word or don't know the exact phrase e.g. boolean site:affinity.help/photo

I must say that I don't miss Adobe at all. Kudos Affinity on creating great design tools!

Here are some women hairstyle assets to share (maybe for the hairdresser next door) ...

hairstyles.afassets

Thought I had better finish it or I probably never would and it didn't take too long (although I kept fiddling with it). Added the cap too. It's not perfect but it will do. The paper in the background is just part of a photo vectorised.
 
 

Here are shortcuts to a couple of the solutions ronnyb was referring to:
 
Indicator arrow assets from lenuis : https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/30290-indicate-arrow-asset-for-ui-design/?hl=arrow
 
Some brushes from ronniemcbride : https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/3723-arrow-brush/?hl=arrow (and further down that thread is a very clever trick for creating arrows using Affinity Designer's pressure profile, from ronnyb).

A bird drawn as a vector.
Not spectacular, but it was still a lot of work.
https://b-bertuleit.de/bird-vector/

For those new to working with vectors, Vector Basic Training is hard to beat. More about general vector graphic technique than specific software or graphic design.
Haven't read it myself, but I've heard good things about The Non-designer's Design Book for introducing non-professionals to design principles.

Here is a copic palette I created. Maybe it will be useful for someone.
Copic.afpalette

Where oh where is the Cat Tool on Designer for the iPad!? ;)

This is it! This is what I have been waiting for to turn my iPad into a full fledged web-design tool (I needed slices, and no other iOS app (as far as I have seen) has provided that). Thank you! This was worth the wait! I recently, and reluctantly, updated my iPad Pro to the latest version concerned that I should have bought an under-powered laptop instead to do web design. Thanks to you guys, I have no more concerns! 
The features you put into this thing are amazing and so much has been done right, I can’t wait to see some of the UI features bleed over into affinity photo (like the 2-finger undo feature!).
You guys really outdid yourselves. Bravo!!

Really sorry about the lack of updates - some of this is down to the fact that there's very little to update you on regarding Affinity Publisher (still looking good, still on track for Beta - to the best of my knowledge at this point) and some of this is down to the fact that Affinity Designer for iPad has been occupying 100% of my time recently as I get it ready for launch. That situation will change. Soon.
So hopefully you'll see more obvious progress over the coming months...  

I take it this was unexpected. A pheasant surprise, you might say!
 

Look what decided to check me out while I was working today, he got real close and just started eyeballing me, I always carry my camera with me so I slowly got the camera and he just stayed there. going to get some better photo's tomorrow hopefully.

 

Workaround:
(Note: even after adding text, you can still use the node tool to modify the shape, and text will reflow to fit)

If this is particularly important to you, definitely go for the Surface Book 2.
I love the iPad Pro as a fantastic solution for lightweight portability, and with iOS 11 it is making in-roads on inter-app communication, but (in my opinion) it still doesn't match the overall flexibility, power, and general utility of a full OS (MacOS or Windows). 
 
 
More from reading and some limited in-shop previews than personal experience:
I suspect the i7 is a minor advantage in speed but not a huge advantage for 2D work and non-gaming applications. The extra memory may add to speed and responsiveness, especially when working with very large multi-layered projects (the more you can run in-memory before swapping to disk, the better). If portability is extremely important, I'd say consider the Surface Pro, but from what I've read/seen, the Surface Book's screen is sufficiently superior to tip the balance for design work.

Isn't it nice to have all the time in the world, a head full of daft ideas, and the means of bringing them into being? I'm old enough to call the bit on the left a wireless; my grandfather used to make 'em like that for his own amusement back in the twenties. He'd have been quite capable of setting up the steam generating set to drive it too!
 

 
(You get better reception if you connect the headphones!)

Hello everyone, just to let you know, we're one of the finalists in this year's Microsoft Windows Developer Awards, in the Application Creator of the Year category. If you have a Microsoft account (e.g. Hotmail, Xbox, Office365), and feel like giving us your support, then you can cast your vote at the following page:
 
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/projects/events/build/2018/awards 
 
Thanks for your time.

I think it was in the Sherlock Holmes stories that this is mentioned as a mark of genius: clear ideas, obvious to hindsight but not to foresight.
 
Thank you for sharing!

The robot who was once destroyed and sometime after re-animated by the evil will of technomancer. This guy is like a zombie but made of steel. 
 
Used new for me method of inking - vector brushes without any pressure sensitivity at all. You just create the shape you need and make a brush out of it. Having some brushes made in this manner results in nice and natural looking inks. The reason for using them is actually better predictability of strokes and much higher speed. The brush engine just does not spend time calculating size and opacity variability and you get much faster inks. For many inking tasks this is more than enough. 
 
Have you been using this method? How you feel about it?

Or just make yourself some easy reusable style for this ...

diamond_pattern.afstyles

Probably not telling either of you anything but, for the benefit of other readers, using the site option in a Google search can be helpful.
 
e.g.
In Google search for "vector brushes" site:affinity.help (the quotes find a specific multi-word phrase rather than also searching for the separate words)
or even "vector brushes" site:affinity.help/designer
Leave out the quotation marks if you have only a single search word or don't know the exact phrase e.g. boolean site:affinity.help/photo

Yes, that can be helpful, and it also works in other major search engines such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, StartPage and Yahoo. Make sure you don’t include a space between site: and the domain/folder name.

See https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ipad-update/ for the temporarily free content released to match the timing of the iPad 1.6.7 release, although (as per Patrick's post) I'm fairly sure this content will also work in the desktop apps, rather than being iPad-specific (with the disclaimer about the usefulness of the macros, so maybe only the brushes).
Link to download just under the Buy Affinity Photo now button. If you reach What's Included, you've gone too far, you are into the description area past the download.
 
Buy the (temporarily $0) extras, download and save on your desktop/laptop machine, and I assume you will be able to copy the content over to your iPad (probably via an online storage service, seems to be the easiest route) when/if you get an iPad.
 
Other raster brushes for the desktop apps should also work on the iPad version of Affinity Photo (but not vector brushes until the iPad version of Affinity Designer is released).
 
Even without a Twitter account, you can monitor announcements at https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif

Hi, ampm12,
 
Here's a quick try.
 
Make a rounded rectangle. Duplicate it. Draw a slanted stroke. In this case, I used the default .24 pt size. Do a power duplicate horizontally, and make however many copies as is necessary to cover the width of the card. Duplicate that, and flip on the horizontal axis. Select all the hundreds of strokes, and use the expand stroke command. With all the expanded layers selected, do a geometric add. You will end up with a "curves" object of thousands of nodes.  Do a geometric subtract on the top most rounded rectangle. which will create an object comprised of thousands of diamonds. Apply an emboss, and/or 3d fx on them. Make the 1st, lowest rounded rectangle a darker color. 
 
See my quick example. I'm heading to bed just now, so I didn't mess w. the fx parameters to much. I don't they are quite reight, but at least headed in the right direction.
 

 
FWIW, I suspect given the quality of lighting in the original means it was done in a 3D app, and so the texture may have ween a 2D pattern used as a bump map.

I Have added a limited number of seamless (hopefully) pattern assets (30 in total) (import to asset Library) as a supplement to the Texture Paint Brushes:
 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/55202-texture-paint-brushes-group-1-4-120480/
 
and as a working asset library for creating vector patterns. (Found these really useful while working on the on-going Inktober artwork Conversions )
 
Usage
1. The patterns can be complex inside the rectangular containers but they can be broken apart for other use. (Like spreading a texture inside another object/masking/ pattern making)
3. Tiled patterns (They should snap together)
4. Re-colouring (select internal groups in layer panel to re-colour collectively) [not 100% success can be a bit of trial and error!]
4. As symbols should you choose to add to symbol panel
 
Hope you find them useful!

Updated versions (01 05 2019)
TxP Ptn 01.zip
TxP Pattern Assets 1.pdf