asi17 Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Hi all, I am very new to this game but is there any way of recreating this illustrator technique in affinity designer? Here's a link to the video. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 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 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara72 Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 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. Mark Oehlschlager 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 For this, you need to use the Basic brushes with pressure curves (you'll be able to save the settings in a style): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 You can draw in that look & get vector objects, too, with a pressure profile in Stroke panel + Pencil Tool + controller "None": draw floral.m4v Sara72 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara72 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 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. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara72 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asi17 Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 Thanks for all the replies, its helped a lot but I need to try it out now Sara72 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 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. ] Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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