pragmaticleas Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 I would like to draw a bumble bee in vector in affinity designer. However, I am not sure how to approach drawing the colour stripes of the body. Should I draw each stripe with say 4 pen tool nodes, snap the nodes for the shared edges together and hope to tweak the curvatures along the body outline to make them align and look smooth? Or should I first create a body outline and then put the stripes inside it somehow with snapping and somehow tweak the stripes’ curvatures along the body outline? I am inclined to use the first method, but is there a way to ensure I can get a perfectly smooth body outline curvature which is shared by several segments of different closed curves? Please let me know if there are other methods to approach this sort of problem. Quote
DM1 Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 1 hour ago, pragmaticleas said: Please let me know if there are other methods to approach this sort of problem. 1 hour ago, pragmaticleas said: is there a way to ensure I can get a perfectly smooth body outline curvature which is shared by several segments of different closed curves? One method is to clip the shapes to the body. This will clip any overhanging lines. Simple example below. IMG_3574.MP4 pragmaticleas and Aammppaa 1 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
pragmaticleas Posted March 24, 2020 Author Posted March 24, 2020 Thanks DM1! That should work very well. Don’t know how I forget about using sublayers (probably means I need more practise and experience XD). DM1 1 Quote
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