Designer - Brush with wedge nib

[maxmax]

Hello!

I want to draw in Affinity Designer similar to a flipchart with a wedge nib marker.

(https://us.neuland.com/markers-more/neuland-markers/neuland-bigone-wedge-nib-single-colours.html)

How I can create (or buy) a wedge nib marker vektorbrush für Affinity Designer (like the screenshots from coreldraw and mischief)

Regards
Max

[SrPx]

Dunno if you can find sth like that here...   :   http://www.paololimoncelli.com

[Gabe]

Hi @maxmax,

Welcome to the forums. 

We have got a few articles on how to create your own brushes:

Even though they are for iPad, the same settings apply on Desktop:

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/how-to-create-raster-brushes-in-affinity-designer-for-ipad/

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/creating-your-own-brush-nozzles-from-real-life-media/

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/how-to-create-vector-brushes-in-affinity-designer-for-ipad/

You can also create your own shape and use that as the nozzle. You can also use a standard round brush and change the shape to an elipse. Put the spacing back to 100 and you're done.

 

[maxmax]

1 hour ago, GabrielM said:

Thank you. The Screenshot looks like the Bitmap Brush. 

I want to have a wedge-nib as vektor brush. I want the brush to be e.g. wider is when I draw horizontally and narrower in the diagonal for a dynamic drawing as on a flipchart.

Regards

 

[v_kyr]

BTW you can often also import and reuse PS brushes for AD (Deadbeat Marker), though can't tell if those can then possibly be transformed into vector brushes. However, if you search the Net you will find tons of brushes (free and commercial), maybe you find something which comes close and you can possibly adapt here.

[maxmax]

Sorry. It dosn´t work.
- I am not able to create a wedge nib vector brush.
- I found no wedge nib vector brush in the shops.

[firstdefence]

The only thing I could suggest is creating a few raster brushes in Affinity Designers Pixel Persona.

Here are few brushes I knocked up quickly, there are 30º 40º 45º 0º and 90º the screenshot below is me just messing around with the settings and I quite liked the effect. These are raster brushes so will show up in the Pixel persona in Designer

Calligraphy.afbrushes

 

 

 

[lepr]

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[Wosven]

1 hour ago, >|< said:

Calligraphic brushes are on the roadmap for inclusion in Designer 1.x, but with no ETA.

Interesting point!

For now, like @firstdefence, the only way I find to do this is pixel brushes, with a better result when adding a wet edge, and using some tricks since you can play with the nib leaving partly the paper to get different effects. When there's a fine border of the nib, the borders aren't continuous.

Plumes.afbrushes

[maxmax]

2 hours ago, >|< said:

Calligraphic brushes are on the roadmap for inclusion in Designer 1.x, but with no ETA.

 

I'm looking forward to the Calligraphic brushes support.

I need the brushes around them on vector shapes.
Thanks for all hints and help.

[StuartRc]

Hi

I believe at the moment without the option of Calligraphic brushes the best workaround is to create vector brushes based on simple wedge shapes. With Vector brushes you can get better control over the graphic shape by manipulating the nodes. There is a weird bug in 1.6 AD where the end of the brush/vector line 'wiggles'. To get around this you can draw a vector line (pen/pencil/sculpt+-stabiliser); then apply the brush stroke to the line.

I personally use the pencil tool with stabiliser to draw outlines (shaped using the pressure controls)..to get tapered lines...and then convert to raster (with simple key press)...You will find the line edges are much smoother than using a raster brush..

Try the attached brushes just to see if they are closer to your requirements (cannot guarantee they will be perfect!)

I set at 1000px width with min height 100px

 

Brush Test.zip

[maxmax]

21 hours ago, StuartRc said:

I personally use the pencil tool with stabiliser to draw outlines (shaped using the pressure controls)..to get tapered lines...and then convert to raster (with simple key press)...You will find the line edges are much smoother than using a raster brush..

Try the attached brushes just to see if they are closer to your requirements (cannot guarantee they will be perfect!)

Thank you! I will wait ...

[Federico M.]

I hope Affinity can implement the shape function to the full vetorial brush like illustrator do...
At the moment is only round.

 

[Aleksandar Kovač]

Inkscape has truly beautiful vector nibs... 😉 Quick, responsive, configurable...