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AD 1 - Affinity Designer Easy Retro Flowers for Beginners - Learn the Basics the Fun and Easy Way!

teacher avatar Delores Naskrent, Creative Explorer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro to Affinity Designer Easy Retro Flowers for Beginners

      4:00

    • 2.

      Lesson 1 Overview, Inspiration and Colors

      12:44

    • 3.

      Lesson 2 Document Set Up and Starting the Flowers

      9:11

    • 4.

      Lesson 3 Flowers from Shapes and the Symbol Studio

      11:36

    • 5.

      Lesson 4 Additional Methods and Making Leaves

      8:57

    • 6.

      Lesson 5 Making a Stem with the Pencil Tool

      7:54

    • 7.

      Lesson 6 Additional and Optional Challenges

      7:40

    • 8.

      Lesson 7 Wrap Up, Upcoming, and Next Steps

      2:03

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About This Class

This Affinity Designer Easy Retro Flowers for Beginners class is the first in a 3 part series to introduce you to the Affinity Designer software. I believe learning new software should be fun, and what better a way to have fun than producing an eye-catching and versatile art layout? Who wants to go through and learn every tool before taking the baby steps? We have all been in beginner classes that take hours to explain all the tools and every little nuance of how to use it.  I know I look like a deer in the headlights when I take a class like that. This new class, Affinity Designer Easy Retro Flowers for Beginners, will show you some of my illustration methodology specific to Affinity Designer, and a quick and easy method to make flowers from built in Affinity Designer Shapes. That makes it so much more fun to learn! In the class, I take you from start to finish in creating a fun and funky 70’s inspired layout in retro colors. To create a relevant color palette, I show you how to create your swatches from an imported image, so we are true to the era. The cool thing is that we create a symbols library that we will utilize for the following 2 classes in the series. One of my goals is to show you how cool the symbols library is when it comes to recoloring or changing our symbols. This is one of the most powerful features of Affinity Designer, so I wanted to show that to you right off the hop.

In this class I’ll walk you through:

  • my step-by-step method for easy flower creations from 8 key shapes
  • tips for creating compositions for an impact and interest
  • my workflow for use of layers and other great features like the Symbols Studio
  • adjusting symbols and adding stems and such with the pen tool
  • moving points and using the handles to re-shape the flowers 

If you’ve been wanting to learn vector software and gain a good basic knowledge, you’ll be wanting to start out in as painless a way as possible. This class will benefit anyone who wishes to create interesting vector art and key methods to improve efficiency while using it.

The key concepts I will include:

  • review of basic tools in the Affinity Designer Program
  • a look strokes and paths and how they are adjusted
  • approaches you can take in learning this deeply powerful program

This is an fun and simplified class for you, even if you are not sure what you will use the vector art  for, whether it be for surface pattern design, typography or whatever! Learning vector software workflows is always desirable. I think you will soon see why vector programs are important for you to learn.

Intro to Affinity Designer Easy Retro Flowers for Beginners

This short intro will give you an overview of the class.

Lesson 1: Overview, Inspiration and Colors

In this lesson, I will give an overview, including importing the color swatch image which I provide from which we create the first palette. We talk about retro floral design, and I show you a couple of places you can look for inspiration. By the end of the lesson, I have shown you all the basic tools we will use, and we will have created the color palette.

Lesson 2: Document Set Up and Starting the Flowers

In this lesson, we finish the set-up of the document. I will break down the complete process of choosing what shapes to use to help you in creating quick and easy flower shapes. I show you one of the shapes and how it can be adjusted. I re-import my swatches and set up an application palette that will show up any time I make a new document.

Lesson 3: Flowers from Shapes and the Symbol Studio

In this lesson, I will explain the creation of three different flowers using various shapes. Next, we will load our Symbols Studio with the flowers we have created. I explain the advantage of doing this and as we work through the lessons, you will learn how to make adjustments to symbols.

Lesson 4: Additional Methods and Making Leaves

I deal with the separated elements in this lesson by grouping them before adding to the Symbols Studio. I also explain a few other things in this lesson like alignment, gradient fills and more. I show you a nice, layered motif which we will also add to the Studio.

Lesson 5: Making a Stem with the Pencil Tool

In this lesson, we start getting to the end stages of the final artwork. We will use the pencil tool for the stem, and you will learn all the factors to take into consideration for smoothing curves and simplifying. This also gives us the opportunity to make use of geometry controls to make two shapes into one.

Lesson 6: Additional and Optional Challenges

Before the end of today’s class, I wanted to add a few little things. We will talk about gradients a little more, I will show you how to adjust a shape and add additional points to it, and how you can alter a symbol which changes it wherever it occurs in the layout. Knowing these little tidbits just adds to your base of knowledge.

Lesson 7: Wrap Up, Upcoming, and Next Steps

We will conclude everything in this lesson, and we end with a chat about next steps.

Concepts covered:

Concepts covered include but are not limited to Affinity Designer floral design, Affinity Designer shapes with brushes, layering, Affinity Designer symbol studio, Affinity Designer canvas settings, Affinity Designer geometry tools, the pencil tool in Affinity Designer, stroke and fill in Affinity Designer, adjusting strokes, Boolean functions, compound shapes, workflow best practices, Affinity Designer composites, Affinity Designer color studio, color swatches and importing colors, gradient fills, and much more.

You will get the bonus of…

  • 55 minutes of direction from an instructor who has been in graphic design business and education for over 40 years
  • knowledge of multiple ways to solve each design challenge
  • an outline with useful links

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Delores Naskrent

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Hello, I'm Delores. I'm excited to be here, teaching what I love! I was an art educator for 30 years, teaching graphic design, fine art, theatrical design and video production. My education took place at college and university, in Manitoba, Canada, and has been honed through decades of graphic design experience and my work as a professional artist, which I have done for over 40 years (eeek!). In the last 15 years I have been involved in art licensing with contracts from Russ, Artwall, Studio El, Patton, Trends, Metaverse, Evergreen and more.

My work ranges through acrylic paint, ink, marker, collage, pastels, pencil crayon, watercolour, and digital illustration and provides many ready paths of self-expression. Once complete, I use this art for pattern design, greeting cards,... See full profile

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1. Intro to Affinity Designer Easy Retro Flowers for Beginners: Hi guys and welcome. My name is Dolores Nazca and I'm coming to you from sunny, Manitoba, Canada. It's a beautiful day out there today. So today I'm bringing you the first-class in my program for learning Affinity Designer. I call it a program because this is going to be a ton of different courses that I'm going to put together that will offer the full spectrum of what you can do in the Affinity Designer program. I truly believe that when you're learning new software, the funniest way to do that is by having projects that are interesting to look at. Easy to do. There are thousands of different functions in the Affinity Designer program. It's an incredible program and so worth it for the price. I pay for a subscription to the Adobe Cloud. And when I started using Affinity Designer, I couldn't believe how great it was in comparison to Adobe Illustrator. It can do everything that I can do in Illustrator, with the exception of a couple of little functions that I can do using an app or something. We're gonna be going through so much of this in the future. And like I said, wanted to keep it simple. There's only about maybe ten different functions that we're going to go through and use today. And the project is super fun. It's kind of a throwback for me to The 70s and that was the formative years that I had when I first started to really look at art as a possible career, I was in high school taking commercial art and I worked part-time at a wallpaper store, first of all, and then later on at a fabric store. So I started to get really exposed to surface pattern design. And I think that, that influenced the rest of my life when it came to art. So the pattern that we're gonna be focusing on today is a throwback to the 70s. It's a really vibrant floral pattern. The flowers are super easy to create. We're gonna be using shapes that are built right into the program with some alterations to make them look like the quintessential eighties florals. The color scheme that we're going to use, we're going to grab right from inspiration from the seventies and eighties. And you can do any era that you'd like. I think it would be fun if we all end up with very different patterns and colors schemes. This is your first step to learning Affinity Designer. And it's actually part of a three class series that I'm putting together. This three-plus series. We will feature whatever we do in the first class. We'll use that in the second and the third class to do different things. In the second class, we're gonna be using the layout that we created in the first-class to do some topography. And in the third class, we're going to be using all of the symbols and flowers that we've created to do some surface pattern design. So by the end of this, you're going to be shocked and amazed at how much you accomplished with these simple flowers that we create in literally less than an hour? Because this sound interesting to you. I had a blast with this assignment, so I can't wait to share everything that I've learned while using this program. Now if you haven't done so already, I'm going to suggest that you click the follow button up there. And that way you'll be informed of any of my new classes as I release them. I suggest you also get your name on my website mailing list because that's where I will post alternate classes on the alternate weeks that I don't post on Skillshare. And some of those might be really right up your alley so you want to check it out. Are you ready to get into the project? I assure him, Let's get to it. I'll see you in lesson one. 2. Lesson 1 Overview, Inspiration and Colors: Hi guys, welcome to lesson one. And less than one here we're gonna do a little bit of an overview and I want to talk to you about bringing colors into Affinity Designer and creating a swatches palette. Let's get to it. So this class is going to be my intro to Affinity Designer. And I wanted to break it down for you in a really fun and easy way. So I've produced three different projects, which we will take three different classes to learn how to do. So I can break it down into really small digestible bites. I figured that is the easiest way. And I know for myself that if I have a fun project to do, I'm more likely to stick with the program if you know what I mean. This is the idea that I had and I had seen something that kind of inspired me for this. Well, two things. Actually. I was looking through some photo albums at my mom's the other day and I came across a bunch of pictures of us, myself and my sister is dressed in some really funky closed during the seventies that had some really great floral patterns. So that kinda got me to thinking about it. And then the second thing was in playing around with the shapes here in Affinity Designer and altering some of the built-in shapes to make flours made it really easy to come up with all these flowers. So I thought, well, hey, that's something fun and manageable, digestible. The scary thing about Affinity Designer, of course, is all of these different settings. So if you press on that question mark at the bottom, it shows you all of these different tools and there are lots. And within each of these tools are numerous other tools. And then on this side are what they call the studio. So you see the word studio after each of these. And these studios work in conjunction with whatever you're doing on this side. To even add to the confusion, there are different persona's here that you can use in Affinity Designer. So you've got the vector persona, which is what I've got going on here right now. And that's what these tools are all four and the studios, then you've got the pixel persona. So that would be similar to drawing with a program like Procreate. So it's a raster based portion of this program. And you saw that as soon as I switched, see that's vector and raster, all of the tools and all of the studios changed. So there's those two persona's as well as the Export persona to learn up here, there are just so many sort of hidden things within this program that make it really hard to digest when you're first learning, let's face it, learning new software is hard. And the hardest thing is that you get looking at the software and without a tangible project to work on, it's really easy to just throw up your hands in frustration because there's so many things to learn here. So I want to make it as easy as possible. The three different projects we're going to do are, first of all, just learning to draw the flowers. So that's going to be today's class. Then we're going to do a layout with the flowers that we create. And the cool thing is we create and place all of the flowers into something called the symbols gallery. And with this simple studio, we can then recycle anything that we've drawn and use it in different documents. That's what made this one a lot easier. And then finally, doing the surface pattern, repeat also using everything that I have in my studio here, my Symbol Studio, and you can see I've added a few cents. The other document. The cool thing about doing Surface Pattern Design here in Affinity Designer is that if you move something in this document, and this is the one art board. If you move something in this art board, it's reflected in all of these different symbols. So we have created this as a symbol. And I know I'm already starting to sound confusing even to myself that we've created in the layers palette, something called a symbol. And that symbol is this big orange section here. Anything that we put into that one here, one art board is reflected in all four over here because these are also this same symbol, if that makes sense. So you will work your way up to this. So that's why I'm not starting with this project as my first project. We're going to start by simply creating the shapes and that's going to be flowers. And that's how we're going to put together this. And our Symbol Studio, which I'm gonna be showing you how to create. And we're just going to have some fun creating just a fun and funky retro style of floral pattern. I'll take you to the inspiration here that I was looking at. These are the kind of florals that I grew up with. So in the seventies and eighties, this was the kind of florals that you would see. All of these are really symmetrical. I mean, they are all necessarily in the same style, but we're gonna focus on this kind of floral. You can take a look at some of these to get some really great ideas. I'm gonna be doing a really basic flowers, but once you get the hang of it, you're going to want to be doing things like this where you're layering your flowers can make them more interesting, things like that, like that. And I'm gonna be showing you in Affinity Designer how you can really easily put outlines on things. So different than a raster based program. And this is the look that we're going to be creating. So here's one that is the rough idea of what I'm going to be doing. And obviously, as you can see from this Etsy shop, this is something that you could create and possibly even sell if you were trying to make some extra money with sales of your assets on sites like Creative Market. Now, as I flip through here and we were looking at these, and of course, I've got seventies flowers as my search parameter. You could see very quickly the kind of color schemes that we used to have back in the seventies. So I did some searches here. Let's take a look at all of these and you'll see a predominance of brown, turquoise. I've often also seen this kind of a color scheme but with lime green instead. So remember back, I don't know, maybe ten years ago or more, there was that color scheme that came out that was chocolate brown and teal. And that was a throwback to the seventies. So these things come around and I think now we are seeing a lot more of these colors being re-introduced into fashion and things like home decor and accessories. That's the reason why I think it's just one of those fats and trans that just comes around again. So those are the kind of color schemes that we're looking at. I'm gonna be showing you how to bring those swatches or create those swatches right there in Affinity Designer. So it's ready for us when we're starting our flowers. So as far as creating a color palette, you can use sites like coolers. I also use color.adobe.com and there sites that you can use to generate color schemes. Now, personally, I just found it as easy to import an image here and create my color scheme from it. So that's what I'm going to show you how to do. You can use my color scheme. I will give you this image. What you need to do with the image is go to Place Image and I'm going to import it from photos because that's where I saved it. So I went to Pinterest and found this color scheme. And you can see that those are the colors that I indeed used for this document. What we're gonna do is use this eyedropper here to sample the colors. And this is the first studio that I'll introduce YouTube, and that's the color studio. With the color studio, you can use your color wheel, which is what I'm most comfortable using, is a great way to mix and sort colors and so on. You can use sliders. If that's more up your alley, you can use all these different sliders. I'm personally going to just use the color wheel here. And throughout the class you'll see me using it more. And now the swatches that we put in will end up being stored here. So these are the colors that I sampled and created my color scheme with. So to sample, you can either use this eyedropper here or you could use this eyedropper here. I'm going to just grab this one. And you see as soon as I clicked on that color, this swatch changed color. Now here you see two little swatches. And at first it might seem confusing, but what we do when we're creating vector shapes, we draw and we can specify whether we want to fill or the outline to be colored. So we could create a shape here just for a quick reference. Right now, it's got, I'm actually going to add an art board here first. I don't want to confuse you, so I don't want to be creating too many steps for you to go through, but to create an art board, we go into this menu here. Art board and we can draw, that's art board one. Well, I didn't have an art board for this one. So what we can do is work on art board one. This is off to the side anyways, we're not really going to be using this document, but I want to show you really quickly different settings here that you see in the color studio. So right now I've got just a fill, so that rectangle is filled. Now to move anything around, you need to grab that Move tool. Now if we were on the desktop, there are shortcuts for all of these things. I will be showing you some shortcuts as we go along. Not very many, but as far as the tools that we're going to be using, we're going to be keeping it really simple. So we're going to use the Move tool, the Node tool going to be using the shapes here. So right now it says Rectangle tool that we will be doing other shapes besides the rectangle, we are using the color picker tool as we speak. And we're gonna be using the color studio. And I'll show you real quick the Stroke Studio. We may not need to use that today. You will, of course, use the layer studio because we're gonna be organizing our layers here. And then we're going to use the symbol studio. And that's really all I want to do for today's class. We will use Transform off and on for resizing. It's really simple, but I really want to keep it down to very few tools to start out with. Now here in the bottom corners you'll see that there's an undo and redo. So you don't have to go into a menu anywhere to do that. And then there's de-select here that we'll be using once in awhile. We won't even use snapping today and we've got the delete, which will help us to delete items we don't need or delete points. Now, every time we do a different function here, we will have a different context menu here, contextual menu. So anytime that there's something here that I need you to see, I will definitely pointed out, but let's go back here to the color picker. And the one thing I just wanted to show you here before we end this lesson is that you can also choose a color for the outline. So right now I've got the outline, this dark brown. You can barely see it because I've got no is two, it is 0.2 here. But if I go into the strokes, you can see here that I can add an outline so easily. So that's the advantage to Procreate right now. Right away. No, I don't want to really compare to Procreate throughout this process, I probably will a few times. Now, you can go into the Advanced menu here and you can make changes to things like the corners here, how they are shaped. Whether or not you want this stroke to be on the inside or the outside of your lines. So there's all kinds of little things that you'll learn like that. Now again, four will go back to our color studio for the next color we could choose. Now I'm gonna go back to my fill here. We could choose this orange. You'll see the fill here. And because that was selected, it changed it, and then I just need to add it to the palette going into this menu. So we're going to add current fill to the palette and you can see it's added there. So that's the basic steps. I've given you some really basic stuff here. You can experiment for a couple of minutes before coming to the next lesson. And just see how you feel about just those very few things. Remember that you can always go to this question mark here. If you're trying to find something or you just don't know what the name of it is. Alright, so let's meet in the next lesson where we're going to start playing around with some of those flowers. I'll see you there. 3. Lesson 2 Document Set Up and Starting the Flowers: Hi guys, welcome to lesson two. Lesson two here we're gonna get started on that document. So we're gonna do this setup for that. And then I'm going to show you some really quick flowers to start with. Let's get to it. Okay, so I wanted to step back and show you exactly what you're dealing with when you start Affinity Designer. So you're gonna be greeted with this screen, which then turns into your gallery. In this gallery, you'll see all of your documents. There are methods to do something like this where you group a bunch of documents together. But for now let's just set up our basic document that we're going to use for today. So up here in the corner you'll see a plus sign and that's what you're going to hit. And there are a lot of different options here. At this point, we can ignore all of these. We will eventually, as we go through this entire affinity program that I'm designing or creating, we will eventually hit on every one of these things, I promise you, but today all we need to worry about is a new documents. So click on that or tap on that and you'll be greeted with this screen. This screen also looks a little bit confusing, but basically it boils down to the size of your document. You can base it on whatever hardware you're using. So I could at this point, this is exactly right for me. This is my iPad that I have, which is a 12.9 inch iPad Pro. But if you've got the smaller versions, you can just decide and pick one of these and it'll create the document based on the size of your screen. Personally, I like going to the print preset here and setting it up to be a half by 11 or nine by 12. It's kind of a basic shape. You can choose what increments you want to use. And I usually use inches here. That is just a little bit easier for me to visualize. So this is actually set at very close to 8.5 by lab. And we could probably just go with this size here. If you want it to be exactly 8.5 by 11, you can click on the circle there and you can actually put in your measurements. And since we change it to inches over here, you can just put in your inches. Actually, I'm going to change this, I'm going to do this. You can actually change the size here as well. And that's what I was doing, is accidentally scrolling through that instead of which is what I wanted to do, which was this, I want to backspace and put in 11 because I want my document to be in landscape format. So 11 for the width and for the height, we're going to put in 8.5. And so this will be a letter size sheet that we can print if we'd like at the end. Alright, I'm gonna leave it at 300 DPI. And that's gonna give me a really good quality document which is not even important in Affinity Designer as it is in procreate because it's not a raster based program. So even if we did it at 100150 dpi, we could enlarge or reduce the document without losing any detail at all. In Affinity Designer, it's only important when you are using your pixel persona. And today we're gonna be focusing on our vector persona so we can leave it at 300. If you have a smaller, older iPad, you might want to change this to 150 or something just so that you're ensured that your document won't she slow down your iPad at all. Alright, so we're gonna hit Okay here and our new document will be created. So at the moment, if we were looking at the art boards here, we don't actually have an art board. We can work without doing that. But I just wanted to point this out that if necessary, we could add an art board here or more than one. If we were working on something like say, surface pattern design where we had a repeat pattern and we were working with the symbols like I showed you in the previous lesson. So right now we don't need to worry about that. Let's just leave it alone because I really want to move into the fun stuff. So what we're gonna do today is we're going to be creating the flowers, like I mentioned in the first lesson. So what we're gonna do is we're going to use these different shapes. So if you were to do a long press on that, you would see a bunch of different shapes that we can work with. The cool thing is that every one of these is highly customizable. So let's start with a square star because it's a great base for a pattern. Now, you saw that I just lost my, all of my menus and stuff. If that happens, you can just click on this and it'll bring them back. Some people like to work, especially if you're working in really large, you're illustrating. You can take all of that off your screen and just focus on your illustrating. We're going to, so we've grabbed that tool and what we're gonna do is we're going to just pull to create our shape now to keep it perfectly constrained to the same proportions as when you first drew it. You put two fingers down on your screen. There are a bunch of instances where I will show you the shortcuts are the additional things that you can do by different touches on your screen. Just like in procreate to undo three, we'll redo. And of course you have those over here too. You can go back or forward to undo and redo. So as I drew this. You probably notice this little menu, and it's a context menu or contextual menu that came up on the screen. Now, this will change based on whatever you've got here. For this particular one. What it will allow us to do is add more sides and it's infinite. And you can see here that what I'm doing is I'm just dragging to the left and to the right. You can I think you can go up and down as well. So moving further away from the circle gives you more and staying closer gives you less. The other thing you can do is you can increase the depth of the ketones. So here we could bring it in really tight or we can have a very short cut out. And that very short cut out is what would control what will be the size of the petals that we're creating. So for this first one, let's land about there. I just wanted to point out a couple of things that we see here on this part of our shapes. So here we have a control that is basically doing the same thing as what we did here. You see how it's changing this number as I make adjustments. And so right now it's still fully editable using these, or these two settings. I'm going to convert it to curves though. And the reason I'm doing that is because I want to be able to change these to look more like a petal shape. So now that I've done that, you can see that these controls will not work. But the cool thing about that is if we go back to our move tool or our story node tool. So these are the two tools that you're going to be mainly using today that the Move tool does exactly what you'd expect. It moves the entire shape. What the node tool does is it allows you to move separate nodes. Now you notice right now we've got just a gray fill. So if we were gonna go into our swatches here or our color palette, we could change to any color that we want it. So I don't have my color scheme in here because I didn't make it a global color scheme when I created it. So you could go in and just pick a new color here. Or you could go through that process of bringing into picture, which I'm gonna do now because I really want to use that color scheme. I'm going to import it from photos where I have it. And then I'm going to drag, grab that eyedropper or color picker tool and go through the process of adding it to my swatches. So I'm gonna go to my swatches here just to keep myself organized. I really want to create an application palette. And the beauty that is that I can use that palette then throughout other documents that I create. So I'm gonna go to the swatches here and up at the top, I'm going to add an application palette. I can rename this and I'll probably do that later. But for now what I wanna do is just import those different colors. Okay, so I've got this palette here and I am going to do exactly what I showed you. We're going to take that color picker tool. We're going to, I'm de-selected there. I'm going to take the color picker and you can see that that color has come up. I can just go to this setting here or this little menu here and add it to the palette. So I've got my first color there. Let's do that again this time with the brown. And I'm going to follow through and do that with all of these. And I will speed that up for you so you don't have to watch the whole process, but basically the steps are always the same. And you don't have to go back and forth to the tool, it'll stay selected. So you can see that as I did that one, it worked just fine. So now I've got my colors here and I'm ready to get to work on customizing the flower. First of all, changing all of these two curves, and then we can start working with color as we're doing that. So I'm going to delete this palette for now. I can just highlight it and click the little garbage can in the corner and we're set and ready to go for our next lesson. 4. Lesson 3 Flowers from Shapes and the Symbol Studio: Hi guys, welcome to lesson three. And less than three here we're going to continue with creating flowers from those shapes and the shapes studio, I want to show you all the different ones that you can do really quickly and easily. And then I want to also explain to you the use of the symbols gallery. We're going to be creating symbols studio as it's called here in Affinity Designer. And it's going to include all of the flowers that we create. This makes it a very versatile documents that when copied, can be used to set up multiple documents with the same assets. Let's get to it. Okay, so in this lesson, I want to show you a few things. I wanted to rename my color palette. So once you have the palette, you can just go to this little menu again and rename it. And I'm going to call it retro, retro 70s one because I may create other rituals, pellets at some points. Click Okay, there, it's renamed, you can see the name here. And I also just wanted to point out that you can have your color swatches show like this or just like this. And you may find that eventually most of them, you're going to have this way just because they'll give you more space. Now I wanted to, in this lesson goes through a few of the other shapes that we could use to make flowers. And you remember that this one we did convert to curves so we can't adjust it anymore using those particular contexts options. But I wanted to point out that you could go through and create smooth points for all of these. So you could select all of these and then hit Smooth and it'll instantly converted to a flower. You will find that there's always one spot that doesn't quite work or do what you want it to do, which is okay. I mean, I think it's nice to have a little bit of variety with your flowers. So right here, right now, we've already created our first flower. And that was using the, which one did we use? The square star tool. That's right. So remember I talked to you about creating symbols. And one of the things I want to do here is just quickly show you how to add new symbols. So this is the studio, is Symbol studio. When you've got a shape selected here, you can simply add it to your studio. That's all there is to it. Now if you ever wanted to use that again, you could just insert and it's going to give you a version of that. So we're going to do some things to these flowers, adding centers and that sort of thing, which is you may want to wait for that before you start adding them to your samples. But I wanted to point that out real quick. Okay, so we've done the square star. I'm going to show you the basic ones that I use to create really fast flowers. So let's go into the cog here. And the COG is sort of like a big gear. If you put your one finger down, you can keep it as a perfect circle. And they remember that these are going to change based on what we have here. So let's increase the number of teeth, which is the number of petals that we'd have. We can adjust the radius. And the cool thing about this one Is it ends up with that circle in the middle automatically. So I actually use this one quite a lot. You can increase the size of that as well. And remember that you can go and make a lot of your adjustments here. So in this particular shape, you can pull and change the shape of the petals right here. Also the circle that's on the inside. You can change the size of, I've curved the sides already. You can widen or narrow. This is a really great one for producing pointed petals like this. I think I'm going to reduce the amount of petals actually. Yeah, this is just a really great one for creating an instant flour. So that's number two. Let's take a look at the Star Tool. Now. The star as well, you can hold down your one finger to keep it perfectly symmetrical. Let's change the color of this one. Whatever we do for colors, by the way, is what we'll show in the symbols palette once we save it, it saves it full color. So you're not just creating a black and white version like what we would do, sort of like a stamp brush in procreate, you can assign the colors and the colors, stay with them the whole time. For this one. If ever you drop it or move it and you don't have those controls, just double-click on it and they'll come back here. We can also increase the number of, we'll call them pedals and adjust the inside diameter of where those petals will end. You can click to curve the edges and you can go right in here to do those changes. Now, right now, this is round. You can sometimes have different options here now I think because I've already rounded it, it's just going to keep it as rounded. So that's something to keep in mind. Now at this point, when you select it, you can also convert it to curves, which will take away our little control points, but give us these separate nodes that we can move around. So if you wanted to make a flower that was a little bit more organic looking like you had drawn it by hand. You might want to have these controls because you can do things like this. Now, you may be wondering what the heck are these little lines that go across the end. These don't print just so you know, they are there simply to control the size of the curve and the shape. So you can go through and individually adjust those little nodes. And here you have the control to change the sides. So that's something that is pretty amazing in comparison to a raster based program. With a raster based program, have to redraw it if you want it to be shaped differently. You can't change the initial shape other than maybe using something like liquify or a distortion method. But this allows you a ton of control for changing the shape of your petals. So this one is a little bit less symmetrical, which I actually very much like. So that's something to keep in mind that can be a very cute flower. Now if you wanted to add a center here, you would want to get your ellipse. So that's the second one from the top of the list. And you could again hold down a single finger to make it a perfect circle. And in this case we could change the color. I'm actually going to create a cream color and I want to add that to my swatches. And I also want to make sure that there's no outlines. Now this, you can change by dragging over it. I'm going to put the stroke or the outline here in front and then select this, which removes the stroke. So that's the way to do that. Now with this color, actually that was so close to this one here that I think I'm going to change it. So let's go in and do that first. I'll lighten it even more so that we have alternate kind of a light cream color. And then I'll go back to the swatches here, and I'll just simply add current fill to palette. And now we have an alternate very light cream color. Now with this one here, you can't change the inside circle. You have to convert it to being a regular shape rather than a compound shape. So a compound shape is like a doughnut where the color or their opening here which show anything else that's underneath. So that's one of the things to keep in mind when you're using this particular technique to draw the flowers. So for that, what you need to do is go into this menu and go down to what let me select it first, I guess, and go down to separate curves. And now you can see it's filled with the same color, but you can now go and select it and fill it with a different color. So there's three that we've done. Next, we're going to choose the Cloud. That one's probably the one that seems like the most obvious attorney into a flower shapes. So two fingers to keep it perfectly symmetrical. And here we can control the amount of petals. We can change the inner radius. As you can see. You can, you can easily create really funky flowers that looks so different. You wouldn't even believe that they were created by the same shapes. So notice I'm dragging from right to left. So dragging right is making it smaller and shorter. Dragging it back to the left is making those deeper. So you could use this one to create five or six different flowers. Like I said, that don't even look like they were first together, that they belong together. And remember of course, that you can use the controls here. Once you've done that, you can also convert it to curves and go in and use your node tool to make individual changes throughout. So the other thing is you can select everything like the entire shape by dragging over it. So note that when you are de-selected like this, if you've got the Move tool, you are selecting the whole shape. If you've got the Node tool, you're basically doing individual points. If you wanted to do something here, whatever you're doing is only going to apply to that 1. So if we were to, let's say curve it like this, it's only going to apply it to that 1. So if you were to select it with the move tool like I have here, you're not able to make those changes easily to everything. So here, if I do smooth than I'm giving, Given a bunch of additional points here, which make this way harder to shape. It's harder. But then again, it could be exactly what you need because you may be wanting to put a divot in the middle of each petal like this. So remember that, keep that in mind because that can produce a pretty neat flower in itself that looks a lot like, I don't know what flower. I guess. A lot of dahlias have that kind of an end. And remember that you can combine shapes to make the inside. So you could use that again to draw the middle. And you notice that that when I had one finger down, I'm pulling from a corner. It's drawing just from the corner. If I have two fingers down, it's drawing from the center. The neat thing about that is if you go into the center here and you hold both fingers down, you're getting that drawing from the center. So this might be a really cute center without even doing any changes to it. Or you could of course go in and reduce the amount of, we call it bubbles here. And you could almost remove that bubble shape or you could be really extreme pay. So what I'd love to see you do here is take the time to do a bunch of experimenting and create half a dozen, maybe a dozen flowers. Because once we've got those attitudes are symbols, library, we're gonna be able to do all kinds of fun stuff with either our pattern creation or just our layout. In general. We're gonna do a layover this class. That's all we're gonna do is just a fluoro layout. And in the following class, we're gonna be working with texts to make a completely new layout but using the same symbols that we've just created. And then in the third part of the series, we're going to be doing our pattern repeats. Okay? So make a few, add them to your symbols library. Remember to do that, you just simply click on that little menu once you have it selected and hit Add symbol. Now, do you see what happened there? It has put them in here as separate. I'm going to explain in the next lesson how to avoid that problem. Alright. I'll see you there. 5. Lesson 4 Additional Methods and Making Leaves : Hi guys, welcome to lesson four. Less than four here I'm gonna be showing you how to make additional assets, including leaves. And these are still being done using the shapes gallery. Let's get to it. There's a few extra things that I'm going to throw into this lesson that I haven't explained before, things like getting this symbol into the Symbol Studio all in one piece, I'd like to show you how to do gradient pills. I want to show you the leaves, of course. And at the end, I'm also going to address alignment issues and such. So we've got a few things here. We might as well throw these all into the same lesson. So the issue with this particular one going in, in separate pieces is that it wasn't grouped. And in order to group them, what we'd have to do is go into the Layers palette here. And this little thing that looks like a puzzle piece is what we'll group them. Now you see in the layers palette here that it's two parts, but they're now together as one. And so if we go back to the Symbol Studio, we can go in here and just add it. And you can see now that it's added this as one object. I'm just going to keep those anyways because a lot of times these little plain ones are great for fillers. And you'll see that later when I start to compose my layout. I want to also talk about creating leaves. And that can be done really quickly and easily with this teardrop shape. So you could keep that exactly as is, or you can make adjustments to it and you can see what's happening there is the sides of it are expanding or contracting. The tail position can be moved so it can be changed so that it's not a perfectly symmetrical leaf. There is a control here called band. So this is what the band does. You see how it part of the line. And essentially this can be used as leaf exactly as is, but we can now convert it to curves. And I'm going to show you something else here. So we can take a node tool and click on that node that's at the opposite side of the point. And now this menu comes up here, the context menu. And if we hit sharp here, we have created what looks like a more traditional leaf shape. At this point, we can't use those same controls to change the shape of the band and whatnot. But you can see here that if we click on the individual nodes, they all have handles. And like I said, these don't print, but the beauty of those is you can go in and really customize your shapes so you could create leaves of every different shape and size. So that's one of the ones I wanted to point out as well. This polygon is another one that can be altered. You could use it to create this sort of shape. And I use this a lot for doing the inside of the flowers. So that's something that you could experiment with. You can add sides so you could increase the amount of sides here according to what you want. And once you've changed the amount of sides, just experiment a little bit with how you can change it. And then you can also do this, which is smooth points, and you can convert it to curves. Again, remembering that the node tool could be used anywhere in here to make adjustments to your shapes. So that's a lot of the different things that you need to create a flower. I'm going to also show you how to use the pencil tool so that you could draw. It's gonna get rid of that leaf. You don't realize how many steps you go through until you've tried to undo. And then you realize, oh my God, I did 20 steps, I could have just deleted. That would have been a lot faster. So there's two other things that I want to make sure I point out to you before I get out of this lesson. And that's alignment features, which I don't think I've showed you yet. So let's just make a quick star shape. I'm going to increase the amount of sides. Change that inner radius curve, these little guys. So that's one layer of what's going to be a layered flower. I also wanted to show you the gradient as we're filling. That's one of the things that I didn't show you too. And so I created a gradient here. And I want to show you this control. So now that I'm on the gradient here, it shows the different types of gradients you can have. So you can have a solid that's just the solid color. You can have a linear gradient. So from side-to-side, so if you had this flower field just with a solid color, no gradient. And if you wanted to change it to gradient, you would grab the fill tool and just drag. Once you have that initial gradient in there, you can change the type and I'm gonna change it to an elliptical because I want it to be dark on the outside and light on the inside. And that's how you control the darkness and lightness. Now, you can go to the middle dot there and you could lighten it even more. And really if we wanted to stay with our colors that we're working with, I would go to a dark color on the outside and then grab that same, that middle dot and then go to the lighter version of it. So these are the two greens that I am working with that aren't in my swatches palette. That's a fun thing to do for a couple of the flowers. So let's just make a round center here. And at the moment, of course, it's going to fill it with the last fill, which is of course the gradient. So here we would have to change the color of it. And what about if we also use the star tool to make some lines within our flowers. So I'm gonna go back to how many points, 123456788 points. I am going to bring that inner radius all the way in. Let's go with a yellow just so that you can see what's happening here. You can, of course, control it here. So we've got what will be the lines that we're going to put on there? I'm actually going to do these into the dark green. Of course, they are not aligned. You can see that very clearly there. I wasn't very careful, so I would select all three parts. Start with one or two year direct select or your Node tool and click on one of them. I'm holding down two fingers and I was able to select all of them. And I want to go into this transform studio. That's where we did the flipping and made changes for positioning and whatnot. Down here you've got alignment options you can go into, and then you can align horizontally and then vertically. And you've got all of your parts here and together. Next thing I'm gonna do before I even get off of this selection is go into the Layers palette and group them. You can still make changes to the individual parts and they would still remain aligned. So if I wanted to change the shape of that inner trim or let's say I wanted to bring that to the front. I could do that here in my layers palette and grab it and pull it up to the top. And I liked that because it kind of hides the center, but it really gives detailed to that set of lines that we've got just as an accent, you could at this point experiment like maybe double the amount of lines might look good. You can still go in and reduce the size of that one. It's now going past the edge of the main flowers. So here I'm holding down two fingers so that I can enlarge and reduce it from the center point. It's very subtle here, but quite interesting. So that would be another one that I would then select and add to my symbols here. So this isn't my main symbols document. I would go into that other document, and here's my main gallery of symbols. So I would just paste there it is right there. But then I would take that and I've pasted it in, inside the symbol here. So that's why I can't drag it off the screen, but now I can because it's not in the symbol anymore. Now I can go into the symbols gallery, add symbol from selection, and I've added to my main library of symbols. This symbols document then has to be my master. And if I ever wanted to use the symbols again in another document, I would have to duplicate the document to get the symbols. I still think that's a win-win because you've got the symbols. You can definitely take everything off of your art board and still have the symbols here in an upcoming class. I'm definitely going to explain the Asset Studio because with the Asset Studio, you can actually make it global so it will open in any new document you create. I just wanted to give you those last few pointers on creating alternate flowers. And I really hope that you take the time to experiment with all of those different tools and probably some of these other ones could work. I just haven't tried them yet, so yeah, let's meet in the next lesson. See you there. 6. Lesson 5 Making a Stem with the Pencil Tool: Hi guys, welcome to lesson five. Less than five here is gonna be your first introduction to the vector pencil tool. Here in Affinity Designer. Using the pencil can be a little bit daunting at first, but I'm gonna be showing you some of the ins and outs of settings and all the things you can do to make it as easy as possible to adjust the shapes when you're done. Let's get to it. Now. I want to show you this pencil tool, a vector pencil tool, is very, very different than the pencil tool that you'd find in a raster based program. When you use the pencil tool, what you're doing is laying down a series of points. So right now because I have no outline on my stroke, it's hard to see what I'm drawing. So I'm going to add a stroke here just so you can see what I'm drawing. And I'm going to increase that stroke width a little bit. So that as I'm drawing, hey, that's not a little bit, That's a lot. So as I'm drawing, you'll see my shape. And you see as I'm drawing, I'm laying down all of these points. And you look at this and think to yourself, Wow, that is the worst stem I have ever seen. But there are of course, ways to improve the look of the stem. You could also specify whether or not you want this to fill with the color that you have selected. So I'm going to add that right now so that you can see that I'm filling with that other color here. And then also these little triangles lead to advance controls. And the stabilizer here is what you want to take a look at. So I'm going to put it on stabilizer and there are different choices. This is something that you should experiment with because they both do a different method for stabilizing the rope stabilizer. It's like you're pulling the point around using this little control that you saw. You'll see that you can control the length of that rope here. So if I go low by pulling to the left here, you'll see that my rope is very short. If I go right to the end, you can see that my rope is really long and that takes a little bit of getting used to how to control it. So experiment with that. Now with the Window Stabilizer, there are also different controls, are different degrees of control. So if you go all the way up, you see how it changes. So I would experiment really, there's no real standard way that I can tell you to go. I usually use the rope stabilizer myself and I keep it fairly short. So the rope that's pulling is not super long here. I could even go smaller. It just depends on how you want to work with it. Just remember that with vectors in general, what you're doing is you're creating the path on the outside. And then that path is filled. And the fill is whatever color you specified back here. Or you could go to no fill at all one way or the other. Your basics for every shape, everything that you do in a vector-based program is to draw the outline of it with a fill. The Window Stabilizer just looks a little bit different and behaves a little bit differently. So experiment with that and just see what works well for you for drawing your stems. Now you can see that as I draw a convex curve, the fill will be on that side until I continue drawing. And as I continue drawing, you can see that the fill will follow. Now if you get to the end here and you just stop, you can see by the stroke that we haven't completed our shape here. So in order to complete the shape, you could do a couple of different things. You can grab that node and just bring it to the beginning. And you see now it's closed. That's probably the easiest way. So might be the way you want to do it for now. And you can make adjustments to this, of course, with that node tool, anywhere along the way, you'll find that the more points there are though, the harder it is to get a smooth curves. So I generally go through and delete the points that I don't need. You can use the trash can to delete the point. So I'm going to use the trash can here to take any of the extra points off that I don't need really. All I need is the one at the bottom, the one at the top, and then one in the middle to control the curve. And you can see that as soon as you do that, your curve is a lot easier to get smooth. In this case, I would take away that point there, move this one to the middle, and then use my handles to get the smooth curve. Now in this case, this handle here also controls the top part of the shape. What I would do is actually connect that to a flower. Figure out how I want it positioned. And here you have this little control at the top to allow you to rotate. And so in a case like this, I would take that stroke off of it. So we're gonna go into the color palette here, click on the Stroke and just hit that no stroke. Now you've got those two and you could either take all of this and group it. Layers palette, which I recommend for any of these flowers that you're doing that have multiple parts, always go in and group them. Otherwise, when you go to move these, you're trying to do your full layout and you go to try to move it. The inside part won't necessarily move with it unless you've already done that. The other thing you can do is to, I'm going to make a slight adjustment here to those two petals. But the other thing you can do is select both of the shapes. So at this point because it's grouped, it's selecting all of it. I'm going to ungroup it for a moment because what I wanna do is just select this and this. So we see how I held down my finger to select both of them. Then I would go into this menu here and go to the geometry section. This has a lot of different, what they call Boolean functions for today. The only one that I think we'll be using is this ad. Ad. You see what it did here? Is it made it all into one continuous shape. At the moment, it has moved it so that the circle ended up in the back. But all you have to do in your layers palette here is to move it down and then this would be a great opportunity to swipe to the right, have them both selected and create a single group from that. And then of course, what I would do is go in and add that into my symbols. So you see how quick it will be for you to go in and fill up your symbol library. And this is an unbelievably valuable thing for you as you start to learn more about layouts, and especially when you're doing surface pattern design that you'll have these features. Are these symbols just available for you at anytime? It's almost like creating brushes, like stamp brushes in Procreate. It's just so handy. So yeah, like I said, now that you've got a couple more functions that you are able to do here. I would suggest that you go through and create a whole grouping of flowers. I'll go ahead and do that. I've got that other symbol library from the other document that I think I'll make. I'll combine with this one. I could do that easily by just selecting and then copying. So for copying in this program, you have to go into the menu and hit Copy. Then I would go back to my floral layout. I think it was this one, yes. And paste. So go back to that menu and paste. Now I've got these extra flowers here that I can add to the symbols library for this document. Okay, So I'll meet you in the next lesson. See you there. 7. Lesson 6 Additional and Optional Challenges: Hi guys, welcome to lesson six. Less than six here I'm gonna be showing you my layout and everything that I've done to really spice it up and get it ready for the next class, which is going to be on using it for a typographic layout. Let's get to it. Okay, so I just wanted to show you the sort of end products I reserve the right, of course, to make any other changes. And I'm sure that once I go to start incorporating my type here, I may want to adjust or move some of these indifferent areas are into different areas. And yeah, I mean, that's the way it works most of the time. You can see here that I have a massive, massive, massive amount of objects here. And one of the things that you're going to find really cool about Affinity Designer as opposed to procreate is that you have an unlimited amount of layers. You can keep going. It's never going to stop you. One of the main things that probably is different here than what you saw me working on is the fact that I added a couple of other colors here to my swatches. So you can see now I've got a really dark brown as well, and we're ready brown. And I've got two shades of the lighter brown. I found that that was really nice for adding these sort of background elements. So you may find that hard to see on your screen. But I found that that really kinda added to what would give the appearance of depth. I almost forgot. Show you something that is probably one of the most valuable things about using a symbol from the Symbol Studio. The cool thing is that if you take Assemble, which let's just drag this one ends, It's an unchanged version from the gallery here. You know it's a symbol when you go into the Layers folder, should be on the top here. Yes, it is. And you see that it's a symbol because it's got the orange line on it. So check this out. This is one of the things that I think is one of the most important things about symbols. And that's that you can go in now, you can isolate and just work on one part of the image if you want. So I've got just the center chosen there and I can go into my swatches and change the color of it. And did you see what happened there? Every other version of that flower changed. See that? So that's one of the things that is super exciting about this because I could change this symbol now and everything made with that symbol is going to change. So I think that's one of the most valuable things. And of course, it will reflect that in the symbols gallery here as well. The next thing I want to talk to you about here is just this background that I've done and I've got a bit of a gradient on it. So let's review that. Let me go to it because I think I've got it locked at the moment. The rectangle at the bottom here, I'm going to unlock wherever you do want to lock something. I found that I kept moving that rectangle out of the way in order to lock it. I'm not sure if I mentioned it earlier, but it would just go into the layer settings here and you can go to lock, to unlock it, you can just simply click on the lock. Now you can see here in the Layers and I know I called it a palette. I either call these galleries or pallets. It's really hard to get used to the fact that these are studios. But here you can see that I have a gradient. So let's go and check that out. The gradient is very light at the top here, what I could do is make adjustments to it. Now, this is the gradient control that I have on here right now. This is linear, so I could turn it to have the gradient go from side-to-side. So that would be like this. This probably wasn't noticeable when I was doing it the first time, but you can adjust from side-to-side as well on a linear gradient. Now here, on the gradient you can also use that little kind of a line in the middle to adjust where the gradient actually kinda changed his position. And did you notice that there as soon as I clicked on it, I was able to add another point. So if I wanted to go in here and do something crazy like add, I wouldn't do that, but if I wanted to, I could. So the other thing I could do is go to my color wheel here and make adjustments to it if I wanted that to be less visible, plus I could go in and work this until I was happy with it. So I could have something like that going on, which is quite interesting as well. So that was one thing I hadn't showed you. I'm going to undo because I still like that brown. You can see the potential for that delay. This one, I might go a little bit lighter and then just kind of work these points over a little bit till I get to what I like and I feel like that really gives it depth. So that was one of the things I hadn't showed you. There was the different Brown elements that I had put in. Also these little dots that I've added, those are kinda fun to for a little fillers. And all I did there was the pencil tool. I had the stroke set at about 3.7. You can experiment with that of course. And then you can just drop lines, dots in there. Now I'm on the dark areas so you don't see it. But if you drag them like currently with the shape that I have specified in my strokes palette in the advanced here, these settings might not be what you're looking for. You could go to around on both ends kind of shape. That's more what I was after. So you can play around with that just to add interest. And then one other thing that I just want to remember to tell you, because it's something I really wanted to include in the class, is that when you are working on a shape and you have expanded it, I'm going to take the stroke off of that and I'm going to color it just in a bright color so you can see it. Remember up here I can just flip upwards to get the stroke off of it. And I'm going to color it just a lighter color here for you to see when you expand it to curves. And let's say you wanted to make some changes. Course you can do that, That's not a problem. I just want to also point out that anytime you want to add a point, you can just click onto the line and you can put additional points. And so that might be a way to do something like adding a stem. Now this looks like a cauliflower or something. But I just want to show you that this is a possibility for doing things like stems as well. So these are all just little pointers that I want to give you along the way so that when we are in the next classes, you've got that and I will keep repeating it. And anytime that I use it, I pointed out, but sometimes just knowing in the back of your mind that that's a possibility is a good thing. So overall, I am very happy with the way my layout has turned out here. I think I am ready for that next stage. I don't have any gradient flowers or anything in here. I think maybe before the next class, I might take some time to experiment with different possibilities. And gradients are just one of the ways that you can add interests. Eventually I'm gonna be showing you how to add texture, all kinds of advanced functions, but we're going to work our way slowly towards that. For now, just experiment with creating this layout and try to keep most of your flowers around the perimeter with a nice open space in the middle that you can use for your lettering in the next class that we do. I really hope this class has been kinda fun for you because that was really my goal was to teach you a lot of the basics just with a fun little project. Alright, I will meet you in the wrap-up, I guess. See you there. 8. Lesson 7 Wrap Up, Upcoming, and Next Steps: Hey guys, welcome to the wrap-up. Now what is it that a fun and easy class. You've learned some of the really basic steps for using Affinity Designer. And you've learned how easy and flexible the symbols studio can be. You've learned how cool it is to be able to use the symbol studio to make alterations that apply to all of the instances of that symbol in your layout. This can be a super powerful tool. In our next class, we're going to be using this document for a typographic layout. That'll be really fun and I think that you're going to learn a lot more about the Affinity Designer program. So make sure you stay on this course here and you've learned everything there is to know I'm gonna be producing a ton of clauses to put in this bundle so that you have everything over time that you need to know for using this program on a day-to-day basis. I really believed that every artist should be able to use both raster and vector based programs to create art and fulfill any job requests that you get. I'm so glad that you were hanging out with me today to do this. Now if you didn't do so at the beginning of class, make sure you hit that follow button up there. That way you're informed of any of my new classes as I post them. Also put your name on my mailing list on my website because that's where I produce alternate courses that I don't necessarily post here on Skillshare. I really hope to see you in all of the follow-up classes that are going to come after this one. I'll say bye for now and see you next time.