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Pretty much the same way, select a basic vector brush, if you are using a stylus the pressure should create the brush taper, and just draw within the bounds of the text

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Hi,

You can’t create true vector brushes in Affinity, they are pixel brushes along a vector path but no matter which way you choose to create the effect, it would be time consuming no matter what but I feel like the effect could be done quicker tho with grouped vector shapes duplicated. I usually don't take a youtube tutorial as gospel on how to do things a certain way.

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The pencil seems to draw smoother if you set it with more nodes, thankfully you can save it as a preset and the Stabiliser setting in Rope mode helps. I did only a few flourishes and grouped, duplicated, clipped them to the letter to form the shape, very rough go at it:

 

 

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18 hours ago, summersara said:

You can’t create true vector brushes in Affinity, they are pixel brushes along a vector path

You probably meant to say only Textured brushes don't produce vector curves – whereas you are able to generate vector brush shapes with Pencil Tool and Vector brush tool quite well.

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16 minutes ago, thomaso said:

You probably meant to say only Textured brushes don't produce vector curves – whereas you are able to generate vector brush shapes with Pencil Tool and Vector brush tool quite well.

Yes, the textured vector brushes that are just a pixel/raster image dragged along a vector path.

How would you save the pencil settings as a brush? The pressure settings when you create a new solid brush work differently, one node effects the middle and the other, both ends. 

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2 hours ago, summersara said:

How would you save the pencil settings as a brush? The pressure settings when you create a new solid brush work differently, one node effects the middle and the other, both ends. 

I think you would save one property only rather than a brush. The pressure curve can be saved in the Stroke panel. The stroke width is variable.

The other, the brushes pressure curve appears not to have an affect while drawing: I get the same result with both Size Variance = 0 and =100. But you should not touch it after drawing with a object selected – then it appears to have an affect. Possibly a bug?

[ As a workaround, you can save an object style. If you want to use it for drawing, apply it to a stroke, then click "Synchronize Defaults..." and start drawing with it. ]

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