Throughout the class, we’ll create several flower, vase and leaf shapes and, when you’re done, you’ll be able to go on to create your own, beautiful vector florals quickly, and efficiently, without losing that fun, hand drawn, organic feel.
How to DRAW with single stroke textures using the Pen and Pencil tool.Quote Affinity Designer 1.10.8 Affinity Photo 1.10.8 Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 OSX El Capitan Affinity V2.3 apps MacOS Sonoma 14.2 iPad OS 17.2. Use a transparent background for your brush PNG and save it with transparency. How you can use built in, or imported, vector texture brushes to add an even more organic feel to your floral shapes and, How to get rid of grey background on vector brush.How to use both the Fill tool and the Vector Flood Fill tool to quickly add gradients and texture from the Stock studio, external folders, and the Assets studio.How Warp Groups can be used singularly, or in multiples, to add a bit of, “wonkiness,” to our too perfect shapes, giving them a more natural feel.In part three of the class, we’ll bring our florals to life with texture and dimension. We’ll use what we learn about pressure settings to create beautiful, organic, flower, leaf and even vase shapes.How you can use those same pressure settings in multiples to add a hand drawn feel to the shapes you create with them.I’ll also walk you through the basics of using Pressure Settings, as well as various pitfalls when using pressure settings and show you how to either avoid them, or fix them, when you can’t.
How to use special control nodes, built in to Designer’s built in shapes, to create beautiful floral shapes simply by dragging a series of nodes and,.Next, we’ll get down to creating our shapes, and I’ll show you two of my favorite ways to create flower, leaf and vase shapes in Designer. How to use the Contour Tool, to create unique shapes for your florals, or create an offset when you need to, “bulk up,” your shapes.How to use the Style Picker tool to quickly copy color, fills, strokes, and more to multiple shapes and,.How to use the Appearance Panel to build up dimension on a single layer.How the Assets studio is not only a powerful tool to organize your complete floral shapes but can also help quickly build a library of floral, “parts,” that you can combine in future illustrations and designs.The difference between Groups, Destructive Joins and Compounds, and the pros and cons of each,.How Symbols can help you quickly create, and adjust multi petal florals, allowing you to create them in less time.Multiple ways to Power Duplicate fills and strokes to quickly create floral shapes.
We’ll start by taking a look at what I call the, “Creative Helpers.” The tools that help you create and organize your shapes.