Looking for Vector Brushes

[ElEstragos]

Hello,

This is my first post however I have been reading all the questions and getting great info on this forum. The one thing I am having trouble finding is more vector brushes specifically a few dry brush strokes. I’ve watched a couple tutorial on how to make brushes but am having trouble making a good dry brush stroke. 

My question is does anyone know where I can find some or does anyone have a couple to share. 

 

Thanks for any help or direction you can give. 

 

[firstdefence]

I think there is some confusion as to what the Affinity Designer vector brushes are.

They are vector brushes if the shape is simple and you can create a vector brush called a solid brush, these are very basic and is effectively a stroke and that stroke can be expanded to create a curve shape, anything else is a rasterised image on a vector curve, so you can adjust the curve but not the brush shape itself.

You cannot create a true vector brush with a pattern or texture, in order to create a brush you have to export whatever shape you drew to a raster format such as a PNG file, you cannot create a brush from an SVG vector file.

[ElEstragos]

I did know that, maybe I worded this incorrectly. I am looking for more brushes to use in the vector persona as they are limited and even the ones in the pixel persona are limited as well. I can export those all day as PNG files but I’m still looking for one that resembles a dry brush look. 

[walt.farrell]

Have you looked through the Resources forum? Various users have made their brushes available there, and perhaps some will provide what you're looking for.

[ElEstragos]

Oh no I haven’t, thank you I will take a look

[AlexPolicastro]

On 1/7/2019 at 11:40 PM, firstdefence said:

I think there is some confusion as to what the Affinity Designer vector brushes are.

They are vector brushes if the shape is simple and you can create a vector brush called a solid brush, these are very basic and is effectively a stroke and that stroke can be expanded to create a curve shape, anything else is a rasterised image on a vector curve, so you can adjust the curve but not the brush shape itself.

You cannot create a true vector brush with a pattern or texture, in order to create a brush you have to export whatever shape you drew to a raster format such as a PNG file, you cannot create a brush from an SVG vector file.

I wish this was a future feature. SVG to Vector brush that is expandable.

[firstdefence]

11 hours ago, AlexPolicastro said:

I wish this was a future feature. SVG to Vector brush that is expandable.

I agree but you should also be able to create a brush from within Affinity using a selection, such as "Create vector brush from selection" it's very tedious to have to keep exporting png files only to bring them back in, it seems a wholly unnecessary workflow.

You really can't call a brush a vector brush, unless all of it's attributes are vector, so the brush pattern is vector and it is applied to a curve/path, at best it should be called a vector-raster hybrid brush.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, firstdefence said:

You really can't call a brush a vector brush, unless all of it's attributes are vector, so the brush pattern is vector and it is applied to a curve/path, at best it should be called a vector-raster hybrid brush.

Maybe just call it a "path brush" or something like that?