Affinity Designer: The Complete Guide to Creating Vector Art

Affinity Designer: The Complete Guide to Creating Vector Art, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4.5, with 30 lectures, based on 581 reviews, and has 3245 subscribers.

You will learn about an understanding of Affinity Designers tools an understanding of Affinity's Designers vector/pixel Hybrid workflow an understanding of common graphical and illustrative terms simple creative techniques that yield high visual impact FREE sketches to work from FREE brushes, textures and color pallettes one completed project This course is ideal for individuals who are This course was created with the beginner in mind but also usefull for someone transitioning from similar applications like illustrator. This course is probably not for you If you are already familiar with Affinity Designers tools and workflows. It is particularly useful for This course was created with the beginner in mind but also usefull for someone transitioning from similar applications like illustrator. This course is probably not for you If you are already familiar with Affinity Designers tools and workflows.

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Summary

Title: Affinity Designer: The Complete Guide to Creating Vector Art

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4.5

Number of Lectures: 30

Number of Published Lectures: 30

Number of Curriculum Items: 30

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 30

Original Price: $59.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

an understanding of Affinity Designers tools
an understanding of Affinity's Designers vector/pixel Hybrid workflow
an understanding of common graphical and illustrative terms
simple creative techniques that yield high visual impact
FREE sketches to work from
FREE brushes, textures and color pallettes
one completed project

Who Should Attend

This course was created with the beginner in mind but also usefull for someone transitioning from similar applications like illustrator. This course is probably not for you If you are already familiar with Affinity Designers tools and workflows.

Target Audiences

This course was created with the beginner in mind but also usefull for someone transitioning from similar applications like illustrator. This course is probably not for you If you are already familiar with Affinity Designers tools and workflows.

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Message from the Instructor:�I am an active instructor who cares about his students. I read and respond to all email and pertaining to this course and even your personal projects.

-Ronnie

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With its ultra-fast functionality and flexible interface, Affinity Designer has quickly become a must-have app in the world of graphic design.

Enhance Your Graphic Design Skills and Speed Up Your Workflow by Learning the Basics of Affinity Designer

·Create stunning vector illustrations
·Master the essential principles and features of Affinity Designer.
·Step-by-step instructions of the tools and techniques
·Transform your own hand-drawn ideas into vivid digital graphics.
·Learn simple creative techniques to design a finished piece of vector art.
·Acquire exclusive free content, including sketches, brushes, and textures.

Affinity Designer Chosen by Apple as the Runner-Up for 2014 App of the Year

Affinity Designer has impressed critics and users alike, emerging as a viable, cost-efficient alternative to more established programs such as Adobe Illustrator.

Affinity Designer’s versatility makes it an ideal program for a wide range of graphic design and vector illustration projects, including website graphics, icons, UI design, marketing materials, concept art, and more.

Contents and Overview

Created with the beginner in mind, this course will also prove useful for experienced graphic designers looking to transition away from Illustrator or other vector graphic design programs. Combining detailed instruction with real world examples and interactive projects, this course will reveal to you the full creative potential of Affinity Designer.

·Learn the Essentials:Moving at a steady, step-by-step pace, you will learn how to use Affinity Designer’s various tools and features to create stunning vector graphics, starting with a study of common graphical and illustrative terminology before moving on to more advanced topics, such as Selecting and Manipulating Vectors using the Affinity Design Interface, and Illustrating your first character drawing.

·Use Your Own Work:During the interactive exercises, you are free to use your own work. You may also use the complementary original sketches supplied by the instructor.

·Vector Art Project:The final section of the course will walk you through the creation of an original piece of vector art from start to finish.

·Free Content:By taking this course, you will automatically gain access to exclusive free content to enhance and inspire your own projects, including free brushes, textures, color palettes, and sketches.

MAC/PC: This course was created when there wasn’t a PC version available, If you are a PC user you will still be able to follow this course as long as you know that option is Alt on a PC and command is ctrl on a PC. Everything else about Affinity Designer is similar on both Apple and Microsoft OS systems.�

After completing this course, you will have a detailed understanding of the tools and techniques available in Affinity Designer that can help to make you a faster, smarter, better graphic designer.

Message from your Instructor:�I am an active instructor who cares about his students. I read and respond to all email and pertaining to this course and even your personal projects.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: about this course

Chapter 2: Understanding the Difference Between Vectors and Pixels

Lecture 1: vectors vs pixels

Lecture 2: understanding personas

Chapter 3: The Affinity Design Studio Interface

Lecture 1: overview of the workspace

Lecture 2: document setup and preferences

Lecture 3: toolbar and context toolbar

Lecture 4: menus, palettes

Lecture 5: guides, grids and snapping

Chapter 4: Anatomy of a Vector Object ( the pen tool primer)

Lecture 1: nodes, line and shapes

Lecture 2: manipulating and editing nodes

Lecture 3: bezier handles sharp, and smooth corner points

Lecture 4: special vector shapes

Lecture 5: open paths vs closed paths

Chapter 5: Selecting and Manipulating Vectors

Lecture 1: selection methods

Lecture 2: the bounding box – scaling, rotating skewing

Lecture 3: layers and groups

Lecture 4: fx, adjustment layers, masks, and styles – Part 1

Lecture 5: fx, adjustment layers, masks, and styles – Part 2

Lecture 6: creating complex shapes with compound objects

Chapter 6: Illustrating your first character drawing.

Lecture 1: organizing your project

Lecture 2: importing your sketch

Lecture 3: adjusting your line art

Lecture 4: digital inking your art – part 1

Lecture 5: digital inking your art – part 2

Lecture 6: coloring your sketch

Lecture 7: adding the details

Lecture 8: creating a custom texture

Lecture 9: Bonus Lecture – making pixel selections to extract an object from a picture

Lecture 10: Bonus Lecture – how to create the metal text effect

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Lecture 1: A few last words

Instructors

Ronnie McBride
Visual Designer / Instructor

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 12 votes
2 stars: 21 votes
3 stars: 70 votes
4 stars: 179 votes
5 stars: 299 votes

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