Sketchbook Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 Would like to know users opinion on this... While the current focus of Serif and nearly every other app is to make very capable software for finished complex pieces of art this is only a part of the creatives need. I and many colleges across the spectrum of creative industries who actually spend most of there time scribbling in sketchbooks rather than making final pieces. These sketchbooks are crude and really only intended for the user to reference but often contain the most valuable seeds of ideas and so are all are carefully kept in date order and referred back to continually. There is no app that offers this. It needs to be in a fixed format consisting of pages, not art-boards, so you can flick back and forth quickly like a book to view older ideas. Vector based as often a simple mark will have the essence of an idea and need to be scaled up. A few simple tools and nothing else. Fast and immediate. Maybe each “Sketch book” maxes out at a fixed number of pages so you can build up a library on the cloud. Exportable as a multi page pdf for archiving. I have tried a bunch of apps and this is just not there, seems super easy to do, and would be the key precursor to doing a final piece in Affinity. Maybe you could side load a doodle as a starting point. As workflow goes Digital this is bound to happen and become a core app for our community, its just who does it first.. Images of my traditional sketchbooks attached. Who else always has a sketchbook with them? And how I am currently forced to scribble over a giant art-board if doodling on my iPad. Maybe it is just a special document format inside Affinity? Quote
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