Affinity Designer Basics: Vector Assets for Surface Pattern Design

Interested in Affinity Designer as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator? Are you looking to take your surface design skills to the next level? Enrol now and start designing beautiful vector assets which will help you tremendously in creating repeat patterns with Affinity Designer. This course was created in 2023 and it's very up to date.

In this course, you will learn everything you need to know to create beautiful and professional-looking vector assets for your surface pattern designs. This class is for beginner and intermediate artist who would like to learn to draw gorgeous vector assets with a “hand-drawn feeling” to them. No more flat boring vectors!

Together we will draw magical botanical elements (flowers, small blooms, leaves and berries) in bulk. The process that I'm going to show you will save you a lot of time and it will help you to stay very organized within the Affinity Designer interface.

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My FREE Bonus Resources

• I want to help you fill up your Assets Studio, so I create an assets set with popular fillers. You can check it out here.
• Here's your class Pinterest board.

Assets are essentially the building blocks of any vector design, such as vector spot illustrations and vector seamless patterns. Personally, I build all of my patterns out of assets. You create assets one time, you save them into your library, and you can re-use them across all your documents. They’re really worth your time!

Affinity Designer is a fantastic alternative to Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Fresco on your iPad. With regard to vectors, it is also superior to Procreate (where you can only create raster illustration).

In this assets masterclass, we will be covering:

• everything about the Pencil Tool (Stroke, Fill, stabilization etc.)
• all about the Assets Studio in Affinity Designer
• the main differences between Affinity Version 1 & Version 2
• working across multiple artboards
• sketching in the Pixel persona
• organizing assets into groups & layers efficiently
• using clipping masks
• applying blend modes to vectors
• the Knife Tool! (new in V2)
• handy shortcut gestures for the iPad version

Who this class is for:

• Artists
• Surface Designers
• Repeat Pattern Creators
• Graphic Design Enthusiasts
• Illustrators
• Anyone creative who would like to draw beautiful vectors!

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Join my Affinity Designer FB group for even more support

Find me on Instagram for wonderful art challenges!

Check out my YouTube channel

Read more on my website - blog posts & video tutorials

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Would you like to refresh your Affinity Designer basics? Start with my introduction course (applicable for V1 and V2):

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Course date: January 2023

Affinity Designer version: 2.0.3

• Introduction
• Your Project & Inspiration
• About Affinity Designer
• What Are Assets
• FREE Assets Download
• The Interface: V1 & V2
• Projects & Documents
• Your Artboards
• References & Stock Panel
• Planning Assets (Procreate Demo)
• Pixel Persona Sketching
• Organizing Assets in Layers
• BONUS: Stroke & Fill
• Pencil Tool Base Colors
• Brush Stabilization
• Sculpt Mode
• Stroke Panel
• Re-grouping Assets Part1
• Re-grouping Assets Part2
• Clipping Masks
• Clipping Lines & Stroke
• Blend Modes
• Knife Tool
• Scale With Object
• Assets Panel
• Importing & Exporting Assets
• Next Steps
• Giveaway (03/2023)