Hi,
I’m trying to learn vector design from scratch by learning Affinity Designer for iPad. I guess this is a good thing and a challenge: I don’t have any prior knowledge that I need to ”unlearn” (except years of photo editing in Photoshop), but then again – all the tutorials and resources I can find are very focused on explaining the Affinity Designer software features, whereas I hardly know how vectors work in the first place. (I do, but only to a certain, insufficient, degree.)
Now, I started out trying a design I thought was really simple – a line based, circular process chart I’d sketched out on paper, and figured I should be able to vectorize and then use as it is and develop further. But after experimenting I found I can’t merge layers, and realized that somehow I’ve managed to create pixel layers instead of vector layers – without even knowing. My conclusion: This is me, not knowing how to ”think in vectors”.
I am taking an online course on Affinity Designer for iPad, through Udemy, but it’s very tool-oriented, and I don’t think it’s going to cover the ”thinking”-part that I need. So my question is... Could anyone give me some tips on resources for basically understanding vector graphics. I think I may have gone about breaking down my paper-sketch to vector-shapes an ”inefficient” was - thinking in lines rather than shapes.
(Optimal for me would of course be if the Serif team would make a series of general tutorials for vector beginners – how to think USING the affinity designer interface.)
I hope this question makes sense - and that I can have some tips on how to learn from scratch using the Affinity Designer - I am still confident that I will be able to do everything I want. I just need to get over this threshold...!