Cleaning up the beginning/ending of a brushstroke applied to a circle.

[michaelAF]

Here’s the issue I am having.

 

• In a Designer document I draw a circle, no fill, and a black outline

• In the “Stroke” panel, I apply the “texture line style” option

• I begin to sample different brushes to apply to the line drawn by the original circle. (Here’s where the problem comes up)

• The circle has a distinct beginning and ending to the stroke.

 

Is there a way to avoid this “beginning/ending” visual in the stroke and simply have both ends run into each other nicely?

 

Thanks for the consideration!

[MEB]

Hi mic furu,
If you select a brush from the Texture category and click the white small menu icon in front of the category dropdown to open the Brush editing dialog you can see how the texture (with its head and tail) are applied to the stroke on canvas - they join themselves at the top end node of a circle leaving the white space you are seeing.

To get that effect you have to create a brush with no head nor tail and where both end sides of the texture match seamlessly (see image below - note that I have not matched both ends to get a seamless join so you can still see a small misplacement where they join on the top of the circle).

[michaelAF]

Thank You! That makes a lot of sense. I'll give it a try this evening.

Much appreciated.

[firstdefence]

You can also do a circle and a half to overlap a stroke on a circle.

So this

Becomes this

 

[Barliesque]

Working in Affinity Photo/Designer 2, I am unable to make a textured stroke that is seamlessly closed.  I'd also like to make the thickness of the line consistent all the way round, but the Size Variance slider has no effect on the thickness of the stroke.  Has something changed in Affinity 2, or am I missing something?  It kind of feels like a bug to me.  I'll try in Affinity 1 to see if things behave differently.

 

 

[Barliesque]

...nope.  No matter what I do, I can't get a textured stroke to close, no matter how I adjust head and tail offsets.  Some brushes have even line thickness, while others do not -- in all cases, the Size Variance slider has no effect.