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Hi Randall1028,
 
We're aware of this issue and it has been logged and passed over to our developers to look into further.

1 year later it seems like this is still a problem  Devs?

July now, and I’m seeing this on Designer for iPad. I can’t use guides at all on pixel layers with pencil or brush tools.

Also combining it with a vector eraser would double the functionality while still keeping the interface clean and optimum. These 2 tools are so powerful, adding them would make Affinity even amazinger (that's a word right?).
I've only ever dabbled in both because i don't use Adobe for my illustration work at all, i've always been jealous of these tools, but switching from app to app just to use them has always felt clunky, so I've never given them their proper use, but dang i run across the use for both almost every day in my normal illustration work. 
I hope the handsome, intelligent developers consider these, haha.

I'd like to request a tool from illustrator that would be an amazing addition to AF on ipad, especially with the apple pencil combo.
Blob tool is a tool that looks like a regular brush, but when you draw with it, it fills in a whole area and vectorizes around the solid area. It's basically the vector eraser tool but opposite. 
It would be amazing to have a blob, eraser combo tool that would switch between the functions with a one-finger modifier (with an option to set default erase or draw).
Adding to and erasing from vector shapes would make filling in vector areas and drawing full shapes really easy to do on ipad, especially with apple pencil!
Video attached so you can see what these tools do (in case anyone here has never used them) This is shown in illustrator as 2 tools, but in true Affinity style, these could totally be combined with a modifier since it doens't need to be that complicated. (illustrator is great at making 6 tools to do do the work of one).
 

Blob eraser combo.mp4

Also a good way to keep the interface clean would be to include a brush like this in the pop out for shapes.
Call it the "shape brush" or something similar, that way people would realize that drawing with it would render a shape rather than a line, and the interface and main core tools wouldn't get cluttered.
The blob brush does render shapes, so this placement in the UI wouldn't be far fetched.
Just thinking out loud at this point, haha.