An experiment with brushes

[William Overington]

I have just tried to make two custom brushes using vector brushes of the New Textured Image Brush kind.

I would like to share them here.

They have ended up in my acrylics brush folder.

How do I get them into this thread as files that readers can use, and how does someone who wants to use them get them into Affinity Designer please?

I have not made custom brushes before. I want to have vector brushes, but whether I have chosen the best format I do not know.

Here are the two png files that I made so as to produce the brushes.

It is all very experimental but the idea I have is to make monochrome brushes that contain information about colour so that someone who cannot distinguish red from green can prepare artwork that can later be adapted to full colour by somone else.

I know it is a bit wild but I just wonder how far I can get with it, will it work and could it be useful.

William

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

First, rather than having them in this thread, I would suggest the Share Your Work forum, or the Resources forum.

As for sharing:

1. Create a new brush category by clicking on the Panel Preferences ("hamburger icon") and choosing Create New Category.
2. Click on the Panel Preferences icon again, and choose Rename Category, and give it a nicer name.
3. You can then right-click on a brush and choose Copy to Category or Move to Category, and put your brush into your new category.
4. Then, with that category selected in the Brushes panel, click on the Panel Preferences icon again and choose Export Brushes. Name and save the file.
5. Upload the saved .afbrush file to the topic you want it in.

[William Overington]

I have now produced the .afbrush file.

It is available in the following thread.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/144623-artwork-using-some-experimental-brushes/

Please continue discussion in that thread.

William