Affinity Designer: The Complete Guide to Affinity Designer

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and logistics

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Course

Lecture 2: Getting the most out of your Q&A instructor support

Lecture 3: Tips to Improve Your Course Taking Experience | Affinity Designer Course

Chapter 2: V2 ONLY- Affinity V2 quick start

Lecture 1: Downloads for this section fo V2

Lecture 2: The Fundamental Difference Between raster and Pixel based art

Lecture 3: Touring the Interface and personas of Affinity Designer V2

Lecture 4: The basics of Layers in Affinity V2

Lecture 5: Project Lesson #1- Opening your first document in V2 and layout

Lecture 6: Basics of Layer Effects to detail your emoji

Lecture 7: Pixel painting and exporting your emoji

Chapter 3: V2 ONLY- Shapes In Affinity Designer

Lecture 1: Resources and files for this section

Lecture 2: Basics of Shapes

Lecture 3: Gradients and Transparency in shapes

Lecture 4: Making a gradient inspired street scene using shapes – Part 1

Lecture 5: Making a Gradient inspired Street scene – part 2 (artistic touches)

Lecture 6: Aligning and Distributing Shapes

Lecture 7: Shapes and the use of symbols

Lecture 8: The basics of operations

Lecture 9: The shape builder tool- basic applications

Lecture 10: Quad-warping shapes in V2

Chapter 4: V2 ONLY -Drawing in Affinity Designer

Lecture 1: Resources for this section

Lecture 2: Nodes- The basics of ALL drawing tools in AD

Lecture 3: Open Shapes in Affinity Designer

Lecture 4: Artistic strokes in Affinity Designer

Lecture 5: Closed Shapes In Affinity Designer

Lecture 6: Vector project- The cell shaded ice cream cone

Lecture 7: The pencil tool

Lecture 8: The vector brush tool

Lecture 9: Symmetry in Affinity Designer

Lecture 10: Working with Vector brushes

Lecture 11: Making a neon vector brush

Lecture 12: Making a neon style with the vector brush

Lecture 13: Making a vector stroke brush from physical media

Chapter 5: V2 ONLY-The basics of color in Affinity Designer

Lecture 1: Resources for this section

Lecture 2: Fundamentals of the color tab and visualization

Lecture 3: Basics of Pallets and Swatches for artists in AD

Lecture 4: Making Gradient Pallets in AD

Lecture 5: The basics fo color chords in AD

Lecture 6: Creating Pallets from existing art in AD

Chapter 6: V2 ONLY – Vector drawing in AD- A complete workflow

Lecture 1: Resources for this section

Lecture 2: How to reverse engineer vector art

Lecture 3: All about blend modes

Lecture 4: Art boards explored

Lecture 5: Project Video 1- Laying out the form

Lecture 6: Project video 2- Finishing the basic shapes

Lecture 7: Project Video 3- Adding the stroke elements

Lecture 8: Project Video 5-Defininig the layering relationship

Lecture 9: Project Video 4- Finishing the shading

Lecture 10: Project Video 5 – Finishing the eye and detailing

Lecture 11: Project video 6- Finishing and exporting

Lecture 12: Selecting same in the layers panel

Chapter 7: V2 ONLY- Pixel Persona

Lecture 1: Resources for this section

Lecture 2: Basics of Pixel brushes Part 1

Lecture 3: Basics of Pixel Brushes- Part 2

Lecture 4: Digital painting practice

Lecture 5: Making and adjusting your own pixel brushes

Lecture 6: Making a texture brush in Affinity Designer

Lecture 7: Making a Pixel Brush from a Photo in Affinity Designer

Lecture 8: Selection in Affinity Designer- The Freehand Lasso

Lecture 9: Selection in Affinity Designer – The selection brush part 1

Lecture 10: Selection in Affinity Designer- Selection brush (refining the selection)

Chapter 8: V2 Content ONLY -Digital Painting project – The Apple

Lecture 1: Resources for this section

Lecture 2: Setting up the project

Lecture 3: Laying in the base tones

Lecture 4: Softening and finishing tone

Lecture 5: Adding texture

Lecture 6: Adding deep tones for shading and highlights

Lecture 7: Finishing the project

Chapter 9: Working with Photos in Affinity Designer

Lecture 1: Resources for the section

Lecture 2: Laying out the composition ( practicing selection)

Lecture 3: Working with mask layers

Lecture 4: Working with adjustment layers and finishing

Chapter 10: Working with Text in Affinity Designer

Lecture 1: Section Downloads

Lecture 2: Basics of the artistic text tool

Lecture 3: Working with the Text frame tool

Lecture 4: Making text on a curve

Lecture 5: Adjusting text- Kerning , Leading and Tracking

Lecture 6: Chrome text project- Part 1

Lecture 7: Chrome text project -Part 2

Lecture 8: Making stacked outline text-Project

Lecture 9: Making Drop Shadows in Affinity Designer

Lecture 10: Using text as a clipping mask to combine pixel and vector

Lecture 11: Warping text in Affinity Designer

Chapter 11: Artistic Panels , working with text and Export Persona

Lecture 1: Resources for the section

Lecture 2: Rulers guides and document settings

Lecture 3: Making templates and Presets for Print work

Lecture 4: Working with Assets in Affinity Designer

Lecture 5: Creating styles in AD

Lecture 6: The export persona in Affinity Designer