Affinity Designer Workflow. Combining Vector and Pixel.
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- A video showing the workflow in Affinity Designer 1.5. Starting out in pixel persona and sketching, then moving over to the draw persona to do vector inking and coloring and then back to pixel persona for final rendering. This process works for any design process from character design to logo design. This is an Affinity Designer exclusive workflow, you can't do this in Adobe Illustrator.
Affinity needs to make an VECTOR ERASER just like illustrator
You would want to start with a simple mask that blocks out what you don't want to see, but then you'd want AI to go in and replot all the points so that there is a logical flow that gives you the new desired image and new layers if necessary. Automatic AI chop shop. Shouldn't be that difficult.
Great tutorial! Just got Affinity designer after working with Illustrator for ever. This is exactly what I wanted to learn to get me going.
It would be helpful to plan and organize your presentation before hitting Record. Good info, for the most part, but so much wasted time trying to find the info amidst all the ums, ahs, here there and everywhere of the presenter.
Very nice, was actually looking for something that helped to explain a good workflow. Thanks for the great video.
thanks for the video,
it’s a little improvised, like a go-with-he-flow presentation, but your ‘heart’ is in the right place.
it’s actually been very useful in making one better realize the toggle between Vector and Bitmap.
as for the photoshop-like brushes.... well.. you’ve got affinity photo. ;)
I felt that mixing vectors with rasters together is a great idea and I’ve done it several times using Affinity Designer. I enjoyed using it to create some great concept artwork of my personal projects. But someone told me that combining rasters with vectors is a noob mistake and a waste of time and suggest me to stick with using only Photoshop for concept art at a fast pace. Do you agree with that statement?
Besides having to hop between illustrator and PS, its very very expensive
Great video. Just getting into design and Affinity and this helped out a lot. Can't wait to check out your other Affinity videos!
I just heard "You Know" 100 times
don't even think about doing a "y'know" drinking game
fck i laugh out loud literally at 3 am dude xD
I just discovered Affinity and am absolutely in love with it. I'm a GIMP and Inkscape user, and I would always create a design in GIMP and then have to import it into Inkscape to vectorise it. I'm rubbish at creating a design from vector. Lol. Anyway, thank you for the video!
There's really nothing else like it. I agree with the previous comment, there should be a vector eraser (perhaps mask-hide to AI recalculate-and-replot-based), but really, there are so many workarounds to that, it's not necessary.
Subscribed !!!!
Awesome video !!!!
Thanks
Hello Steve Oliver!
12:13 you change the thickness of a brush stroke inside of the stroke. Ist it possible to make it in pixel persona? I didn’t find that option.
Great artist, not so great teacher. But appreciate the video nonetheless.
all good. I'm just doing my thing.
Steven Razorblade you're bridging the gap between left and right brained people... It would come out the same on the other spectrum if I did it haha... For instance I am not much of an artist but I'd make a better video hahaha let's collaborate
Awesome video. Learnt a lot !!! Thanks for sharing
thanks a lot for this, great intro to designer! don't listen to the haters :))
Do you know a good way to clean up vector lines like Ai razor tool, keeping everything 100% vector?
Sorry, but I got sooooo weary of all the "you knows" (a really bad speech habit). Had to stop watching. 👎 There are other, more palatable tutorials on using these two personas. Maybe you (and your audience) would benefit if you scripted your comments. Best wishes.
Thanks Steven Subscribing, Love your Affinity videos, and thanks for showing how to use the vector brush to draw with also, I am getting use to the pencil, so now I will try the brush!
FINALLY! There is a program that do things I need! Thank you for the video, you made my day!
Awesome!!!! Thank you!
This video helped communicate with my 13-year-old the importance of learning Affinity Designer as she understands how to use Procreate now. I am doing my best to provide her with all the tools that she can use.
Painful. Sorry.
Thank for video
If only Serif were to concentrate more on Designer and stop pushing it's iPad version & Publisher beta before giving us a live paint too, shape builder tool and a few others as offered by Illustrator CC, then it would be a silver bullet graphics suite par excellance.
Thanks...I really like the idea of making my vectors have that painted look.
Where can I find those raster brushes you are using in the sketch?
but you know i have affinity, you know im trying to get back into drawing you know, even if.. you know i havent touched any drawing stuff for.. you know YEARS you know
If I already have Clip Studio Paint EX, which allows me to sketch in raster layer then ink vector layers and color the vector art layer (same doc), what is the advantage of Affinity Designer? I have been thinking of getting this program, but wondered if it has any advantages over CSP’s vector drawing capabilities.
Unprofessional, waste of time nothing learned! organise yourself mate!
Are you using a wacom or drawing tablet for your sketches?
I use Astropad App on iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. It's an app that uses your iPad like a Wacom Cintique. It's awesome highly recommended.
Shading made a worst doodle into cool art...
Ok
Good
Hi Steven, nice video tutorials.
i enjoy it ... would it be possible to make the refreshed/remixed version of this tuto but using the recent versions of Affinity ?
Even with beta version of the software, i believe your perception and application of the workflow have improved since last year.
Stop talking and start explaining already!!!
Just swapped great explanations thanks
Nice video, well demonstrated and you did not rush the video!
So now that you have pixel layers within or under the vector layers that mask them, when you complete the drawing and export, do the pixel layers become "vectored" so when enlarged it looks fine? (Not sure the correct terminology I'm a beginner). Thanks!
SlyRy the original sketching that was step 1 should only be used as reference for creating vector in part 2 then that layer won't be seen anymore. The added shading on the last step with the pixel brush will stretch if you upsize the picture however because it's shading and not crisp lines this will be hard to see unless it's sized drastically bigger. Pixel layers never turn to vector. If you have a project where you want to work small but want to be able to size it bigger in the future, I would up the DPI of the project settings to 600 or even 900.
Steven Razorblade Oh okay, interesting. Thank you so much!
Which drawpad are you using?
+DondiBronson iPad Pro with Apple Pencil using an app called Astro Pad to link it to the computer screen.
Ah nice! Well I have the same app but only on my 6s :(
Thanks! Helped me to get started!
Hi. I am customizing text. Do you know how to offset text like Illustrator?
Hello, unfortunately you can't currently do that in Affinity Designer alone. You need to use a combination Affinity Photo and Designer to do it. Offsetting text and grouped layers is the one thing about AD that really stinks right now. They have recently been posting teaser videos of new features in Affinity 1.6 and they do have this on the roadmap of things to add so I think that this will be updated in the next version and I think the update is just around the corner... Fingers crossed.
I have so much to learn about drawing
this is awesome for 2D game design! gonna buy it now
ye know tho right?
You know... I don't know because I'm new to Affinity Designer, you know
clip paint studio also lets u mix vector and raster, for ages now :P
+L C true but CPS is very cluttered in it's layout and menu system + it's so targeted towards anime drawing I feel that it's not as flexible overall vs affinity designer. But CPS is still a really good drawing app I agree:)
Looks like a good replacement for fireworks.
I haven't heard anyone say Fireworks for quite some time. is that even still available? Yes I would highly recommend it over Fireworks. I used Fireworks for a long time when it was Macromedia after Adobe acquired it I only used it for a bit longer then ditched it altogether for PS, but ya as far as I can remember of fireworks Affinity would be a good switch.
I still use it for PNG etc, but its no good for SVG. Its lightweight compared to PS, plus i don't want to do the Adobe subscription since I'm not a pro (yet). I need something for web graphics and this seems to fit the bill. I like to buy software not rent it. Old school i guess.
Exactly what I was thinking. I just downloaded the trial version of Designer today and am 99% sure I'm going to buy it. Fireworks was way ahead of its time back in the day with its vectors that can look like rasters. I loved working in it and did everything I could inside FW instead of Photoshop. Then Adobe bought it and killed it...
Sketch might be another app to check out if you're on a Mac and do a lot of UI design.
5 minutes to tell me that i can do vector and pixel in one app, WOW
Dude ... don’t burn yourself by talking about AI man... no one watching AF cares about AI.. you have good content ...stick with what’s relevant to THIS software... we all use AF because it is far superior to AI.. it’s like switching from a PC to a Mac... once you’re Mac you can never go BaC!!!
Sir, i hope you make a tutorial how to make own brush for affinity designer
Waste of time
Got tired of hearing this guy say "you know". Very disjointed explanations.