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The complete guide to Affinity Designer 1. 7 Volume 1 - Basics of Affinity Designer and Shapes

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Overview

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the biggest and best course on Affinity Designer out there on the market, and what a time to be alive. Affinity Designer is quickly approaching more well known programs like Adobe Illustrator and 7th Season Studios is proud to partner with Video School online to being you the class that taught over 10,000 students to use this amazing program. plus with the upgrade recently to 1.7 it has gotten even better 

This is a 6-part series where we take the program in small bite size pieces, so wherever you choose to drop in we guarantee the best experience learning this amazing software.

In this section we will cover the basics of this amazing program and the fundamental building blocks of shapes, including:

  • Getting you UP and drawing in the first 30 minutes
  • Duplicating and adjusting shapes
  • Working 3 projects from start to finish (see the example projects below)

No experience and brand new to Digital art ….no problem, Affinity Designer and 7th Season studios can get you up and moving in the very first class….included in this we cover

  • 3 complete projects ( Smiley Face, Southwest turtle, Seamless Texture)
  • My complete working files to follow long with and use for your commercial projects
  • Access to myself to help you long the way
  • A basic understanding of the workflow involved in all digital art
  • What separates vector from pixel-based art
  • How to draw and sketch digitally 

Syllabus

  • Introduction to the series
  • Opening and resizing your first document
  • Fundamentals of vector vs pixel art
  • Basics of the Interface
  • Basics of layers in digital art
  • Creating a smiley face in Affinity Designer - Step 1
  • How to create a highlight using a curve-Step 2
  • Adding a pixel layer to shade the image- Step 3
  • Creating the mouth and detailing Step 4
  • Exporting saving and placing a document
  • Applying Fill and Stroke to shapes
  • Adding multiple strokes to a path in version 1.7
  • Filling a shape with the gradient tool
  • Adding transparency to a shape with the transparency tool
  • Challenge on transparency and shapes
  • Adjusting the size, and rotation of shapes
  • Power duplication and expressions
  • Aligning and distributing shapes in AD
  • Snapping - What is it and how to use it
  • Creating complex shapes using Operations
  • Challenge-Southwest turtle
  • Using symbols with shapes
  • Grids in Affinity Designer
  • Making a template for a seamless pattern 4x4
  • Making a seamless Plaid pattern

Taught by

Jeremy Hazel

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