fatkidfrank

Thanks for the replies. I was kind've lost in sea of Amazon search results prior to starting this thread. Sadly, I only read them after Christmas but thank God for a January Birthday!

"Santa" was asking me what I want for Christmas and I could really only think of a digital tablet and stylus. Sadly, I was unable to give "Santa" the exact model I wanted so I wanted to see what others were using and how they like them. I know Wacom has the bamboo which works with Adobe products and I'm assuming that it would work with Designer as well. If anyone has some suggestions please let me know.

Alfred, I tried this technique and was successful with just one overlap per letter but when I attempted to drop multiple shapes into the same letter it undid the previous overlap. Any thoughts on how to do multiple overlaps without creating a letter per overlap?

Thanks for this alfred. I think I have a lot of experimenting ahead of me...that and I should probably by Affinty's book

This looks amazing!! At this point I'm half tempted to ask you just to go into work for me from now on. I'd have plenty of gold stars after just 1 day!

So if I attempt something like this in the near future is there any way to accomplish the design without creating all the overlapping curves by hand and not exporting to a vectoring program? Possibly just use the smart mode on the pen and creating the necessary curves?

First off, Thank you so much for that file. I came for advise and I can say I got a whole bunch more. Strong work on working out the initials. Most people in our town can't even figure it out To answer you question, for reasons I'll never know it has become tradition to make scrambles like that for department logos. They are normally complex and yes hard on the eyes at any sort of distance. Normally the more complex the more people seem to like them and since I'm currently in the dog house with our Chief I figure I better really make it confusing. Thanks for including the history in the file. Now comes the task of scrolling through it to see how I should have done it to begin with.

I'm working on a new design for my Fire Dept and I've run into a brick wall. I'm attempting to design a new scramble, letters over lapping each other, and I was successful in getting the outlines done but I can't figure out how to fill it. I have done this a few times before using Illustrator and the Live Paint feature normally works but I have been at this for a few days and I haven't been able to figure out a work around. I started with just the 4 letters of a font and then combined them to get the curves I wanted. From there I broke the ones I needed to delete. In doing so I believe I have opened them up so when I go to fill it I get all sorts of unintended results. I'd greatly appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction or tell me if I need to attack if from a different angle. Please excuse the novice level of this post. I'm brand new to Affinity and its been some time since I've played with Illustrator so I'm starting from square 1 again. CAFT scramble outline 2.afdesign