Sonic the Hedgehog spikes with pen tool

[Jon1968]

Hello,

I’m watching Aleksey Rico’s video “Illustrating a haunted house in Affinity Designer for iPad” and cannot figure out how he achieves the sharp “spike” tips at 2:40. I’ve slowed the video to 25%, then recorded THAT in slow motion. It looks like he lays down a curve node (solid colored dot), pulls a handle to shape, releases, and THE MOMENT he drops the next curve node (solid colored dot) behind it (for “spikes”) the previous node toggles to a corner node (white square). I’m struggling with that previous curve node staying a curve node, and the resulting line looping all over the place.

note: he does not use a finger gesture when dragging the handle of the curved node, thus making it a sharp corner. The act of placing the NEXT curve node seems to automatically toggle the previous into a corner node.

I’d pull my hair out but I’m bald!

[AllAppsUser]

Hum, the video is so speeded up that I don't think it's showing exactly what he does.

So even slowing it down, it doesn't fully describe what's happening. There are frames missing, yes? Missing as a result of the speeded up production. (I often find these kinds of videos frustrating for this exact reason).

I'm not aware of any other way of achieving the points and curves, configured in that way, without the finger gesture you identify.... it's what it's for afterall.

I work almost exclusively with the pen tool in Designer iPad, btw. I've also used pen tools extensively before Affinity Designer came into being.