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AD4 Building a Robust Asset Studio Collection in Affinity Designer Stock Up with Re-Usable Assets

teacher avatar Delores Naskrent, Creative Explorer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro to Affinity Designer Robust Asset Creation

      1:35

    • 2.

      Lesson 1 Examples, Inspiration, Overview

      8:15

    • 3.

      Lesson 2 Using the Asset Interface Overview

      9:27

    • 4.

      Lesson 3 Raster and Vector Pattern Import

      12:19

    • 5.

      Lesson 4 Flowers in Procreate vs Affinity

      11:48

    • 6.

      Lesson 5 Other Asset Creation Strategies

      13:50

    • 7.

      Lesson 6 Rounding Out Our Asset Collection

      11:21

    • 8.

      Lesson 7 Game Plan for Next Class and Wrap Up

      2:16

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This class, Building a Robust Asset Studio in Affinity Designer, is the first in a second 3-part series to introduce you the Asset Studio and the creation of an intricate, layered, multi-faceted illustration. This class will illustrate the use of a symbol to create a symmetrical mirrored layout. I will be using a butterfly image as inspiration, and I will show you tons of inspiration. We create a bunch of flowers as well as other assets we deem usable for our final illustration. This first class in the series explores multiple methods for creating these assets.

Of course, I am going to tie in plenty of tips and tricks to make it challenging for you. The great thing is, by the end of the class, you will all the info you need to produce assets of your own to fill your Asset Studio. I take you step-by-step through the whole process of auto-tracing as well, and I cover 3 methods for doing so, all free. Auto tracing is the basis for adding originally raster images, such as those done in Procreate, to your Affinity Designer Asset Studio as vectors. The Asset Studio is what makes the production of a series, or collection, attainable. The cool thing is that we can use the Asset Studio any time we open a new document. It travels with the program, and I will show you how to accomplish that. At the end of the three classes, you will have a professional illustration that can not only be enlarge beautifully, but could also be the start of a beautiful collection for you.

In this class I’ll walk you through:

  • my step-by-step method for auto tracing with Adobe Capture
  • free programs such as Vectornator and online converter to vectorize
  • how to use clipping masks to add textures to your assets
  • creating vector pattern files to add to your assets
  • layering, color and design considerations

This class will reinforce everything you have learned thus far with Affinity, and my guidance will help you through any challenges that crop up. I strongly believe the class will benefit anyone looking to add vector illustration to their list of skills and accomplishments.

The key concepts I will include:

  • thinking and planning ahead when faced with a challenging project
  • pre-planning that will make the production of assets possible
  • efficiency with all aspects of vector art production

Learning another Affinity Designer skill is valuable, even if you are not sure what you will use the vector art for! Learning vector software workflows is essential in our profession and are important for you to learn. We will do it, step-by-step, and this class will further reinforce all the Affinity Designer theory which is difficult to learn in isolation.

Intro to Building a Robust Asset Studio in Affinity Designer

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

Lesson 1: Overview and Layered Art that Inspires

In this lesson I will show you a ton of inspiration. I explain what style we are trying to achieve and introduce you to some wildly successful licensed artists.

Lesson 2: Using the Asset Studio Interface

In this lesson, I will show you all the ins and outs of the Asset Studio. I explain all the menu items and demonstrate their use. We create and add an asset, so you see all the steps. I explain how you can adapt symbols you have to add those to the assets. The beauty of the asset studio is that it will be present in all future documents. It is worth the time to create a robust asset collection.

Lesson 3: Raster and Vector Pattern Import

This lesson is about importing patterns that we will later use in our composition. We create the pattern from scratch in Procreate, then auto trace it in Adobe Capture. I explain the Adobe Capture interface and considerations when tracing. We then import both raster and vector patterns and compare the quality when enlarging. Finally, we add these patterns to our asset library. In a later lesson, I will show you alternatives to Adobe Capture.

Lesson 4: Flowers in Procreate vs Affinity

I do a comparative analysis of the two methods for creating vectors. As we work our way through, I demonstrate this, then we do some fun experiments. I will show you how to add patterns to the motifs. I also show you how to make color adjustments using blend modes.

Lesson 5: Other Asset Creation Strategies

In this lesson, I will show you numerous other ways to create assets. You will use the transform studio in this lesson to repeat motifs in a circular pattern. I show you how to alter a repeated petal in several different ways by importing textures and changing the colors. We add several new assets to our Asset Studio in this lesson.

Lesson 6: Rounding Out our Asset Collection

In this lesson, I show you 2 alternate methods to create the tracing for vectors so that you can choose which one is best for you. I also explain why I strongly believe batching is the best way to round out your collection quickly, so that’s what this lesson is all about.

Lesson 7: Conclusion and Wrap Up

We will conclude everything in this lesson. I show you alternate method for getting vectors. I talk about what I think is so great about Affinity Designer and we end with a chat about next steps.

Concepts covered:

Concepts covered include but are not limited to the Affinity Designer Asset Studio, Affinity Designer Vector Persona, Affinity Designer Raster Persona, layering, Affinity Designer Symbol Studio, Affinity Designer Transform Studio, Affinity Designer canvas settings, importing and applying textures, Affinity Designer composites, Affinity Designer Color Studio, shapes, color swatches and importing colors, texture fills, and much more.

You will get the bonus of…

  • 65 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
  • introduction to a new illustration technique

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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 Robust Asset Creation: Hey there, welcome. My name is Dolores ask Grant and I'm coming to you from sunny, Manitoba, Canada. Today's class that I'm bringing you is another in a series of Affinity Designer class is that I'm producing Class number four in the series. You might want to go back and do the previous classes if you haven't done so already. Because we definitely build up skills. As we go along. We fully explored the use of the Symbol Studio. And now it's time for the Asset Studio. We're creating a bunch of assets that we can use in a project that will take place over the next two classes we are going to be producing eventually have really fleshed out design using a ton of the assets that we create to explore a really intricate illustration process with tons of layering and lots of interests. I hope you'll be interested in this. I was blown away by what I could do here in Affinity Designer. And I definitely want to share everything that I've learned with you. A lot of what you learned in the other classes will be fully applicable here. We can even take some of the symbols and change them into assets. So if that sounds complicated, don't worry, because I will be explaining everything, every step of the way. As with all of the other affinity classes I'm doing, I'm definitely going to be touching on both raster and vector elements. Are you ready to get into it? Alright, let's get started. 2. Lesson 1 Examples, Inspiration, Overview: Hi guys. Wanted to less than one and less than one here. I just wanted to give you a bit of an overview and a bunch of inspiration. As always, let's get started. I wanted to talk to you about how I go about planning a project like this. I am interested in doing a butterfly. This is the one that I've chosen as my inspiration piece. And you're going to see a lot of similarities. What I wanted to do was to go through this whole project just to be able to tell you the things that I think you should be creating in the form of assets to help you get to this sort of a finished project. In the end, we are going to be taking three classes to get to this point. And don't let that scare you because each of these are really important steps that I think you should learn how to do. And it's not just because of this project. I think overall, there is something truly powerful about having a ton of assets available when you're setting out to do a design project. And a design project could end up being just the single illustration, or it could be a series of illustrations. I brought this earnest into focus here, Jennifer Brian Lee, because she is such a super successful artist. And you can see, I haven't even scroll down here, but you can see that she has a distinct look that she has developed and you can see that she works in collections. So that's one of the things I want to talk about today is not just the creation of assets that we're going to use for this one illustration. It's for that possibility of using it for multiple illustrations. So if you're thinking of maybe producing a greeting card line, maybe lags, possibly fabric design, repeating patterns. Any of those things could really use the assets library to help you create them efficiently. So this is one of the artists that I was wanting to show you. And then the other artists I wanted to show you was Ophelia. So Wash, wash. I don't even know how to pronounce it, but it really is a fantastic artists. And I first got introduced to her on and on about four or five years ago when I needed to produce some artwork for a calendar, I was producing a calendar for trend international. And when my agent asked me to produce some artwork for that calendar, if Helio was who he talked about, and yet it's also represented by the same agent as I am. Here. Again, you're going to see work that is very similar in the sense that it's got a ton of different motifs that are built up in many, many layers. I can see that her design style has really evolved since I first saw her work. If I can find some of that old reference, I will definitely show it to you. But look at this exceptional work here. And this is done in many, many layers. And obviously a lot of texture has been added to each of the layers. She has all these different motifs in the background. Some of them so light, they're just like watermarks. This looks like an almost sketched element, like she had this rough sketch that she was using in the background. You can see a year and she painted directly on that sketch, but then kept some of the motifs just in outline form. I love it. I really think this is gorgeous. I love her use of the borders. And I did notice when we looked at Jennifer's work too, that she had numerous artworks with either a border at the bottom like this. And sometimes it was actually an element that she illustrated. Here's, here's a really good example with this kind of a border on the one side. And you look down at some of the other pieces that she's done and you can see that she uses that idea over and over again, right? And then really in comparison to Achilleus work very similar where we've got a bunch of motifs and the background, very subtle. And then just a really, really cohesive color palette. So color palette is definitely going to work itself into these three classes. Like I said, for today's class, we're going to focus on creating a bunch of useful elements that we're going to add to our assets library. I'm going to be explaining some of the things about an asset library that's different from the symbols. Both of them have really important powerful features with the symbols. What we found that was really useful was that we could alter one of the motifs and they would be altered everywhere. You can't do that with assets. Assets are basically Azi, as you bring them in, you can change the color and so on. You can change the fill. But if you make those changes, they don't update in the Assets Library. By all means you can resave them into the Assets Library with their new sort of fill or look. But generally assets in your library, something that you can use over and over again. And you'll see that you could set up the asset library so that you can bring that asset library from one document to the next. So every time you open the asset library and when you're creating elements to put into your asset library, you can specify whether or not you want it to be an Application Palette. So I would love you to take a look at these different artists and think about some of the assets that you might want to produce. And don't stop with those two. Of course, you can go on and check out some of these other art pieces that I've got. This is my butterflies, dragonflies, and B's Pinterest board. And this is another artist. I don't know who this one is. But look at that art and then look at the ones that come up as examples. Now this is very, very different than the two girls we just looked at. But this one is also really gorgeous, really effective. And one of the things I'll point out with this one, and probably the other ones we could have found the same thing. But I want to point out that this type of asset could easily be made in Affinity Designer just because we can combine vector and raster elements so we can be adding texture or doing some of this painting or drawing, right, in Affinity Designer. In this class, I'm also going to be showing you how to tie in procreate. For those of you who are big fans of Procreate, I am definitely going to be importing some stuff that I created there and even patterns. So when we're creating these assets, we're going to be creating in several different categories. We're probably going to do a flowers category, a leaf or fern, leaves and ferns combination, and a pattern gallery. And then we're gonna do some just sort of filler objects. And by filler, I mean, taking a look at this one here is little tiny elements that have gone into add a certain texture to the document. So we will be producing a bunch of those. So very similar are a lot of the similar techniques that we used when we were creating the symbols. And the thing is, we could even use some of those symbols and add them to the Assets Library. Just because there's a completely different purpose for them. I would love to see you really develop both of those when you're doing this class today. Alright, so that's it for this first Inspiration lesson, and I will see you in the next lesson. We're going to start doing some work right there in Affinity Designer. See you there. 3. Lesson 2 Using the Asset Interface Overview: Hi guys, welcome to lesson two. Lesson two here I'm going to explain the whole interface for the Asset Studio. We're gonna be creating our first little asset and adding it to the studio there. Let's get started. Alright, I want to introduce you to the Asset Studio here, and I want to show you a bunch of the stuff that I have now accumulated in here. Now this is not something that you necessarily can get done in one day. But I've got a category for patterns. This is a pattern that I was working on, a repeat pattern, and so those are the elements I needed for it. And I have used them in other layouts as well. So having it here was very helpful. Then I've got, this is for a different project and I've got all kinds of different firms and flowers. If I was doing this over again, it would actually make his second category so that I could have all flowers in one and then all leaves and foliage in another. But that's something that I have learned since using it. This one is a built-in one. It's called artistic textures. You can't see them here because they received in black. But if you were to insert one, you would see the texture and these are neat. I've actually used them on two or three projects that was handy to have in there. And if I was to import it any more of that type of texture, I could maybe change the name of adhere to just texture and add it in. I've got some butterfly parts here that's not completely filled out yet. I was starting some gradient flowers here. So I've caught that one is colored flowers. I've got some small pillars, this flowers category that I have, this is my flowers, so I've got a ton of those added and you can recognize these. I'm sure I've used them many times before. And here's a bunch of outline versions of the same flowers. But some line art fillers in here. I've got butterflies and I've got some other fillers, and I've got leaves and stems here. So I could probably grab some of those other ones and put them into here. And then I've got, like I said, the patterns and these patterns are quite varied. So I've got some that are just simple, like this polka dot pattern. I've got some that are textures. And remember that even if you save them in this color, it can be changed in the software so it doesn't matter too much how you, or what color you save them as. That's one of the reasons why when I am doing the flowers, for example, I keep them in a very light color so they show up really nicely here in the studio. I wanted to briefly touch on some of the other settings here for adding assets to your studio. So you've got this menu here, which will allow you to add a category. Once you have a category, you can add a sub category. You can import and export. That's something that we'll maybe touch on in the future. I won't be doing that in today's class. Then of course you can delete the category. One of the main things I use here is this renamed category and add category. Those are probably the top two that I use with subcategory as probably right up there too. So these will allow you to make these new categories. When I want to add something, just quickly go in and create a shape. We can actually do a similar thing to what we did in that last class where we created flowers based on the shapes. Remember this. This would be a really fast way for you to create some assets. For this one, I often just grab all these endpoints, so I'm just single clicking on them. And then I'm changing it to a smooth point, makes it into a flower. And so let's just add that one to this category. So we've got the category open that we want to add it to. And here we have a little sub menu as well, or flyout menu. And here I would just add Asset From Selection. And then you can see that it's added it right here. So if I was to delete this, I want to insert this flower. I get the exact same thing, but now this is saved so that I can use it anytime, anywhere. Okay, so this is a great thing that, I mean, depending on the design you want to do, this is something that you could do in an evening, probably just creating a whole bunch more assets. Now if you've got symbols that are saved, you could, let's just do that same process again. I've got that there. I can go into the symbols and add the symbol. Just remember this doesn't travel with the applications, so this would not open with these. The next time I make a new document, the symbols won't come in. But I just wanted to show you if you do have your library of symbols, you could insert the symbol and then you could go into your Assets Library. And now I'm going to, well, I'm going to have a duplicate here. It's no big deal. I'm going to add the asset to the selection and now I've got it here as an asset in instead. So don't forget to do that if you are interested in some of your symbols as possibilities for this project. This is that. Jennifer, friendly design that I experimented with to try to figure out all of the ins and outs of the project. I want it to be able to explain to you all the different things that can be done. And so I've done it with her pieces and inspiration. I would never use this piece for any sort of distribution. I would never try to sell this piece or use it for any other purpose other than to just demonstrate to you all the different things that I did for this project. So I'm going to break it down for you. I've got some of those individual elements that I created. One I imported from an Illustrator file that I had. You'll recognize this flower because I've used it a ton in different projects. You've seen that, and I imported those as well. So you can take line art that you've created in a program like Illustrator and import it individually and then add them to your Asset Studio. So that was a piece that I did that way. This one flower in the background was one, this one here. So I was able to build up my library quite quickly. This one here I created right in the program. So I just drew a kind of a petal shape and then I duplicated it to create the flower. You can see in the background here, I've got some textures. So those are textures that I imported and applied and extras can be saved into your assets library. So these are assets that I've got in this studio here. I think that's one of them right there. I have also used pattern. Now this plot here is the plot that I used within this flower. So that's something I'm going to be showing you how to do some of these flowers I built completely with the use of the shapes. So I went into here and did exactly what we did in the last class. So I've produced a flower and I was inspired by some of your work. I saw some beautiful flowers that were done with gradients, so I decided to experiment with those. And the cool thing is once you've got it drawn and yes, it does take a bit more time and work to create a really intricate flower like that. But once you've got it, you've got it. So you could use it again and again, changing colors, perhaps using them as little tiny filler elements in a bigger layout. But why not? Why not use some of the stuff that you've already created. Other things that I've done here that I'll point out quickly, but we're going to be covering in later classes, not necessarily this class. Things like adding the gradient, gradients and textures. This gradient was a texture that I put on that wing. And this one here was a pixel layer that I put in as well as this one here. These little flowers got one of the textures that I brought in to make them more interesting. This one is pattern you haven't seen yet, but it is a class that I've created. At some point, you'll, you'll see that class. So you may have seen it. I don't know. I never know what order I'm going to be putting these up in my school are on Skillshare. But I think I've covered all the different things or is that polka dot pattern that I showed you at the beginning? And overall, you can see a ton of texture here. I think I've just displaced my wing. But what I've done is I've also created the document in such a way that this butterfly, that whole layer is assemble and that has given us the ability to do the reflection. So if I was to go into my Symbol Studio here, you would see that if I was to insert it, you can see that half wing. Okay, It's even got the texture in the background. The whole thing is saved in the Asset Studio. Not that I would ever use it again, but at least it's possible you can see how complex the acids can be and still work absolutely beautifully in something like this. So I'm meant to be actually drawing elements at this point, and I've dropped the ball there. So in the next lesson, we're going to start working on some of these, importing some of the other textures and things that are going to help. So you can have your, both your affinity designer hat and your Procreate hat on for this first class in this three-part series. Alright, I will see you in the next lesson. 4. Lesson 3 Raster and Vector Pattern Import: Hi guys, welcome to lesson three. Now, many of you are well-versed in the use of the Procreate program. We create roster images when we use that program. Now to convert them into vectors that we can use in our assets. We're gonna be using the program called Adobe Capture. Now, don't worry, this is an Adobe product, but it is completely free. I would suggest that you download it unless you have another vector tracing program. It's up to you. I'm going to walk you through all the steps of creating the vector in Adobe Capture. Let's do it. I thought for the first motif that we create that it might be kind of fun to do it in Procreate, since you're also comfortable with using Procreate. And I think I want to produce sort of background tile that I might want to use in my composition that I'm creating, that tile or that pattern that we create could then be used for filling in another object or whatever. But I just want to create the tile first. I've gone into my drawing guide here and edited so that I've got a radial. I'm going to thicken that line up a little bit so you can see it on camera. And let's just quickly create this. We're not going to stress about this too much. We're just creating what will be a repeating tile. So I'm just going to create just something off the top of my head here. And I think that's fair enough. Let's go a little bit smaller here. And I've got my snapping and guides on so that I can snap right into the position that I want it in. So I've got that perfectly centered. I'm going to duplicate it, grabbed that one and move it into this top corner just to check. And I think that size will be good. So now I can duplicate, duplicate, duplicate. And we're going to drag into each of these corners here. And now I've got my initial tiles. So let's just group all of this, flatten it. And now I want to just make the repeat a few times here, so we're going to duplicate. And remember to always look out for those yellow guys as you're repeating this initial tile, merge it down, duplicate. And now I've created a very, very quick pattern. You could even go one more step if you wanted to merge it down. Again, duplicate or actually you don't need to duplicate. While if you did, it's no big deal. Select them both, bring them down to the corner without one over, merge it down, duplicate it again, and bring it down. And I think this is going to be perfect. We're going to make sure that's merged down. Let's just save it out as a JPEG, and I'm going to save it into my files. And I've got a folder that I've created for affinity, Affinity Designer. And I'm going to put it into my raster patterns here because this is not a vector at this point. Okay, so I'm going to call it flower tile so that I can remember that in five-minutes when I needed to go ahead and hit Save. And so we can go into Affinity Designer and actually import this. But it's gonna be a raster patterns. Interesting. I think if we do a copy of this one as a raster and then one is a vector. So you can see if there's any advantage or disadvantage. The main advantage with vector patterns over raster patterns is that vector patterns can be scaled infinitely. So if you're gonna be doing something really big, this is only a ten by ten tile that I've created. So it might, if you were going to use it large, let's say in the background, it might pixelate a little bit on the edges. If we do this as a vector, then it won't do that. I'm going to import both of them. Now, at this point, you could colorize it, but you can also color rise in Affinity Designer and I think you need more practice with it there. So let's just save that step four. When we do that, now, I'm going to create a vector from this vector tracing. And in order to do that, I want to use Adobe Capture. I've got my one of my practice ones there. What I wanna do here and now Adobe Capture is a free program. I would suggest that you check it out, you can download it. You might have to make an Adobe ID, but it won't cost you anything. Having capture as your means to trace is great. If you have something else like you could possibly have something like vector Nader as well. So I'm going to open up my Adobe Capture. I'm going to do an import here. I'm going to import from files. We know that we put that into the Affinity assets, raster patterns and there's the flower tile there. So I'm bringing it in and it does a ton of the work already just in the background. You won't have seen anything happened, but it actually has already done the tracing. You're keeping it on the Shapes menu, and that's all you need to do at this stage. We don't need to do any of these adjustments at this point. I'm going to hit, okay, here. You often will get this message because at this point it is trying to get the best possible quality image here. So it's putting in a 100 or more points around a little shape like this, just to make sure that it's perfectly accurate. I don't need it to be that accurate because of the way I'm going to be using it. So I'm going to say, Okay here. And then with the simplify, I'm going to bring it right down to the very, very bottom. So that should simplify it considerably. I'm going to hit Done here, and I'm going to hit Save. Now, if it was a problem, I would have gotten that image warning again about the vector limit being reached. It seems like it's fine at this point. I'm going to be just saving it into, I've got Adobe folder just called vector flowers. If you don't do a lot of this, don't worry about setting up this really elaborate system for saving your patterns. I don't use that often for auto tracing, but I just wanted to give you look at this software because I know in the past I think I've done vector Nader, and possibly even Adobe Illustrator for audit tracing. If you don't have those programs, that's where Adobe Capture comes in because it's free. Now here, once you have the shape showing up in your library, you hit the three dots menu here, you're going to export. And the important thing is to export as an SVG that is going to give you the paths that you need. So the nodes in the past, like what Affinity Designer would create in the vector studio or vector persona. I'm going to save it here and it's at the moment called shape six. I'm going to rename this as flower pattern too, because I know I have when they are already my bullet practice run, I'm going to hit Save and now it has saved it into my files. If I were to go and look in my Affinity assets, I have it here in my vector flowers. You won't see a preview of it here. I know it's here because there is shape six and there's also flower pattern to that I just saved. Now we can go into Affinity Designer here. Let's go into this, my patterns. I'm going to create a new document. I'm going to change that to inches. I want my document to be 20 by 20 and I'm going to change the DPI to 300. I'm making the document really large like this because we are going to be adding some raster elements like textures. So I want to make sure that I have it nice and big to ensure that I can enlarge it if necessary, or at the very least, it will be 20 by 20, which is a nice big document. Say, Okay, here, this has created a new blank document. So you can create yours to this size. It doesn't matter really what size you created at. If you want something a little bit longer, that's up to you. You can do that, but just make sure that you make that measurement quite high and you make the DPI quite high. So here now I'm going to import my two flowers. So I'm gonna go into the application menu here. I'm going to go to Place image import from cloud, and it was in vector flowers that I saved that. So I'm going to grab that flower pattern too. So this is the vector, so I can just drag to place it so that you can see it. I also want to import the roster one that I did. So I'm going to do the same procedure. Place image import from cloud is Tom. I'm gonna go to the raster flowers or no, it was raster patterns, flower tile, drag that out and they look identical. But they are different. I'm going to show you that right here. So now as I get bigger and bigger and bigger, you can see that the raster pattern is big bitmaps, but the vector, no matter how big I go, is still super-duper sharp. So that's the importance of the difference with these two. Now, I'm going to create or add these to my assets. Point to save these two as is into my patterns here. So I've got the raster ones selected first. I'm going to add Asset From Selection. Now you see it here. And then the vector, I'm going to first convert it to curves. So I want to insert this whole file, this whole pattern here. So before I recolor it, I'm going to go into my layers here and make sure that it is groups. So looking at it here, you can see the whole set of curves that makes up that pattern. So I'm going to make it into a group. I missed a few here, so let's try that again. So what I wanna do is get rid of this, which is the white square in behind. So I am going to hit the trash can. Now I can see that the background is transparent and that's gonna be really useful when we're using it as a pattern. And now all my individual elements are here. If I was to select this now and drag it into the assets folder, in fact, let me do that. But what I wanna do is make a new category just to point something out to you. So I'm going to add a category. We're going to put this in temporarily. I'm going to show it to you or show you what happens if I drag this in. I need to have a sub-category here. I'm not naming these because I'm just going to get rid of this. Here. I would add Asset From Selection and you're going to see what it does. So it visually added every little part here, so we definitely do not want that. So I'm going to delete this category. I'm gonna go back to my patterns here and make sure when you have that selected, that you go into the layers here so everything you can see it's selected. I'm going to put it into a group. So if I was to turn it off and on again, you can see that all of my elements are there. At this point. I could do the recolorings, so I would select, I'm going to do a soft, creamy, beige color that I can see when I have it in my assets gallery. It doesn't really matter because I could change it when I am using it in my designs. But now I can go into this menu and Add Asset From Selection. And you can see it here. It shows up with a black background because that's the background of the assets panel. If I was to just eliminate this here and go back to my main document, let me just eliminate that completely. Then if I was to insert this, it comes in and look how beautifully large it is. So no matter what size we make it, it's going to be the most incredible quality so we can enlarge it or reduce it. And at this point, now that it's placed here, I could change the color of it. Okay, so that's the advantage of doing a vector pattern, the raster pattern, when we use it, if we wanted to have it colored, we'd have to do some stuff with layers. It's a little bit more complicated, it's doable. I'm gonna be showing you how to do that, but I wanted to point out the main differences here in this lesson. So in the next lesson, what we'll do is another method for adding assets that we've already got created in other programs. All right. See you there. 5. Lesson 4 Flowers in Procreate vs Affinity: Hi guys, welcome to lesson four. So now you've had the experience of converting a raster image into a vector image using Adobe Capture. I'm going to show you a different method here. I want you to definitely have that feeling of whether or not it is feasible to do it that way. Does it take more time or is it better to just create the elements here in Affinity Designer? I'm going to let you be the judge. Let's get started. Okay. So let's just get rid of these two or three things that are on this document. And this is one of the things that you need to decide after a while. You may not want to be working in two programs just because there's that extra step in there of auto tracing, that is definitely one of the things I like about Adobe Illustrator is that I can just bring in whatever raster image and do the tracing right there in the program. I don't have to do it in another program, so I don't have to know how to use capture. I just can do it straight in Illustrator. There's that step which is for vectorizing. You might want to think about the fact that your time might be better spent learning how to use this program a little bit better so that you can do things like create quick assets. I just drew that with the pencil tool, super quick. I'm going to delete that extra little point in there and drag that one. And I mean, it's not gorgeous, but it's there. So I'm going to switch to the node tool here. Note that when you select it with the moving tool here or the Move tool, I don't remember what they call it here. The selection tool. You're moving the whole image and you're not able to do any sort of correcting with it. If you go to the Node Tool, then you've got the ability to do things like select the point and delete it, make adjustments. Personally, I find that the best way to get smoother curves is to delete any extra ones. And I could drag over like this and delete and then take that and correct the shape. I usually find that the best thing is to have 1 at the end at the top of your curve, like this one is a good example. I would leave that one. I would take this one away and this one away so that I'm left really with just the one at the bottom and then the one at the end to get a really nice smooth shape. So once I'm happy with the shape and I know how frustrating it can be to learn this pencil tool, but adjusting nodes and so on. Here I could use moves to make sure that it's perfectly straight. Now what the smart node adjustment does is it tries to figure out what you are trying to do with the line. And if you had something like this that was really off. If you hit smart point, it takes on both sides and tries to figure out what it is that you're trying to do. So here, for example, that one's not the best example, but it does, sometimes works, sometimes it does. That's the way I find it. I'm going to delete that one and delete this one. So you can see that you could go through a lot of time to do your motifs. This is just a freehand drawing that I did. You know how to do flowers if you took my other class. But now we've got a shape here that we can select. We can go into, maybe I would go to that 20 flowers and then Add Asset From Selection. And now that's added so I can get rid of it here. The other way was to create your flowers based on some of these shapes. And you can make these super detailed. You can do things like add gradients, which I saw some of you do, which was so beautiful on that other project. Here's the elliptical, radial gradient. You can go in and make adjustments to the colors and create some really great motifs like this. Once it's drawn or into your assets, Add Asset From Selection. And the thing is you never really know until you're working on your composition what it is exactly that you want. I definitely went through with some of my collections and was very consistent with my colors. For example, like this one. I knew that those are the colors I wanted to use, so I kept it in that color range here I've got quite a variety, but remember that you can always drag them out and change the color if necessary. I want to go back to procreate there real quick. And let's just see about drawing a flower. I'm gonna do ten by ten. Again, I'm going to draw just a really simple flower. I'm using my posca pen marker, not the greatest, but it's going to work for my demonstration here if you wanted to, before taking it in and tracing it in Image Capture, if you wanted to correct it, that might not be a bad idea because It's easier to correct at this stage. So I've got a shape here, a flower like did that really quick. So it depends on how quickly you are able to draw these things. I'm going to share it as a JPEG. It's going to go into my Affinity assets, raster flowers, and I'm going to call it chunky flower, one, Done, Save quickly going into capture, importing from files, raster flowers, chunky flower one. I'm not doing really any, any major adjustments. So there's the shape, we've got it, we're going to save it here. I'm going to export. As an SVG, we're going to put it into the vector flowers and say save it as the same name just to make it easier on yourself. I hope nobody is judging me on my penmanship tend to do this kind of stuff really fast. It doesn't really matter as long as your iPad can discern what you're trying to say. Okay, so I'm going to delete that one here. I'm gonna go to place an image from cloud. I'm going to go to vector flowers, chunky flower one, drag it. And it's a beautiful vector. So it's nice and smooth. We can change its color. Okay, I forgot that one step. So what we have here is the vector I want to, Let's see, the more times you hit it, the less points there ends up being to a certain extent. Now we're getting to the point where it's probably not going to take very many more out, sort of trying to decide whether it wants to take some out or add some in. But I think we've simplified it quite a lot here. We can definitely go in and select points to delete and save our image. So you can see here that the actual flower I can isolate. So that's, I'm actually going to cut it. I'm going to delete everything on this document here at this point so I can just reduce it this way too much to select here. So I'm doing it like this. As long as you drag and get everything within your selection, you can get rid of it. We're left with just a transparent document. If you look at the layers here, There's absolutely nothing. Now we can paste. And all we have is that one simple curve. That curve is what we would use. We could then add it to our assets. We can colorize it, we can do whatever we want. So I just wanted to kinda show you the two different methods. And depending on how proficient you are, not the pencil tool here in Affinity Designer might be the deciding factor. I mean, I still encourage you to get to know it, kinda learn it. Because the more you know, of course, the more you use it as the more comfortable you will be with using it. So you can go through and do all those same corrections. I don't think you have to go crazy because you can, this isn't that many points at this point, we can take this shape and add it as is here to our collection of flowers that we're creating here. And then I want to show you something else that might be fine for you. And that's the creating of elements like this. So that's a flower that I filled with a pattern and then I added it to my assets. Let's grab one of the patterns that we already have here in our assets. I've already saved this as is. So now I could grab a pattern that I've created. This is a nice clean vector pattern and you can see I produced at very, very large. So we could take that and we could apply it to our flowers. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to copy it, or I guess you could cut it. Then when you have your selection, make sure it is selected your flower. Then you can go into this and do paste inside. And you'll see that you have pasted your flower with that pattern. And now that can be added as an asset here. And you see here, we have both of them. You can do additional things as if that isn't enough. We're going to have that one. We're going to duplicate it. We're going to drag our pattern out again. Maybe let's try a different one this time. I'll insert this one. Okay, so as long as it's big enough to cover, we can cut it, paste inside. And now I've got the two. Remember that if it's not positioned correctly, you can just double-click and you'll be able to move it around, then we can bring this one to the front. So go into your layers and put it a top, the other one, Let's select them both here and go into our alignment options. Align vertical and horizontal. And then let's go to that top layer there. What color do you think we should do it? Let's do it kind of a golden color. Of course, it's still blocking out what we want to see there. So what we would do is go in here and experiment with blending modes until we get something that works. That one's kinda nice. I don't mind that one. Linear Burn multiply is also good if you want the color to show through and add to whatever's underneath that works. You can also put snapping on, by the way. Just do if you want to line them up, That also works. If you don't want to go into the alignments that's snapping to the middle of the document. So if we do that with both of them, we can also get them to align perfectly here. Now remember, when you select this and go to add it to your assets, It's going to add them in separately. You see, we've got the two of them separate unless we go in here and put them together. So group them, then go into your assets and now you get them together. So if you want to get rid of those two, you can. I'm just going to keep them because I might possibly will actually this one and this one will be the same. So I'll delete this one. So now we've got a solid one with the x's, this pattern, one with the x's but on a cream colored background and one of them with the circles. And looking at this one here, I think I bought two the same, so I'm going to delete one of them. So the long and the short of it is, decide what the best way is for you personally and create as many assets as you can. I myself, created most of the assets using these shapes just like last time, and I was pretty happy with the shapes that I came up with. Also take note that we've got right now two vectors put together. If we were to delete this one or fill it with something raster, that's another possibility. So in the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to take a flower or any other object, add a raster texture to it, and then create an asset from it. Alright, I will see you there. 6. Lesson 5 Other Asset Creation Strategies: Hi guys, welcome to lesson five. And less than five here I want to explore other asset creation strategies. Let's figure those out together. For this lesson, I brought in a few examples or inspiration pieces that we can use to create some of our little assets. Now, looking at this, I can immediately see that that little flower can easily be created using the Cloud tool here. So there's an idea right off the hot for you. I think most of the flowers and this one would be really quick and easy to create. I'm also looking at the leaves on both of these. I'm going to show you how to do that and this repeating element, I like you that. And I want to show you how to quickly create those as well. I'm sure you're going to end up in a frenzy of creating all of these little assets for your future project. Remember there are future project can be anything like this. The one I did as a butterfly that reflects, so something like that would work. But really this could work equally as well for this, if you don't want to do any reflecting whatsoever, you could do something like this. So I'm basically giving you all of the instruction, the tools that you need in order to create any one of these or any number of these. Well, let's start by and I think maybe some of you have done this already if you are in the symbol creation class that I had, but I'm going to show you anyway, so we've got a single ellipse here. So I may just a perfect circle by holding down a finger on my screen as I did that. And I'm going to duplicate it and a fast and I find the fastest way to duplicate is to start dragging, but then put two fingers down and you're gonna get a duplicate. And what I'm paying attention to is the shape that's going to be formed when those two overlap. So you can decide on that. You could move it over a little bit if you want a taller, narrower shape, we can alter that of course. But having the two shapes here, what I want to do is go in here and hit Intersect, and there's white could be either a leaf shape or pedal shape. So let's just leave that for now. We'll put that to the side and we're going to talk about different things that you can do there. I'm going to show you right now how to do a repeating duplicate like this that we see here. So I've got the single teardrop shape. What I wanna do is rotate it around this point here, you can see the rotation point is currently in the middle here. So we want to go to that little tool on the context menu here and drag it down to the bottom. So now we've got it right in the point, and that's what I want. I also want to duplicate it, but I want to rotate it as well. So I'm going to duplicate here. So I've got the duplicate right on top of the original. And when you rotate here, you can see that's going to rotate from that point. What you wanna do is have it at probably exactly a 120 or any other measurement that will divide evenly into 360. So 12 works great, 120 works great. That would give it at a 30 degree interval, right? So what we wanna do is go into the transform studio here, and we're going to set this at a 120 and click, Okay. You can see that it's duplicated it with a very nice amount of spacing there. So you can experiment that's 12060 also works. Let's set this original one here at exactly 180 so that we know exactly what we're working with. So like I said, it was a duplicate. I'm going to delete that one. We know that this one is exactly at 180 when we look at it here. The duplicate on top, as you can see, now what I wanna do is just start the rotation and it doesn't really matter where you end up because you're going to make the adjustment actually right here in the transform studio, you're going to type in the amount, so there's your 120. And now if I was to duplicate this, it's going to continue to duplicate it around in a radial formation. That's the basic steps for creating something like that. We could do that with that shape. And that's one that we could now RUP and add to our assets. We've got it in here, it's gotten no fancy fail or anything, but we can always do that later. So let's get rid of this one and attempt that with this one as well. So let's, I'm going to make a duplicate of this because I actually may use it for several different things. So this flower, we'll just do this with our rotation point here and here. Again, we're pointing to what end one. Let's try one AT this time and that's reflected it completely to the opposite side. Now, the thing I forgot to do was duplicated. The rotation point is still here. I'm gonna put in 120 again and then duplicate that again. Now what I'm gonna do is grab those three. I'm going to first group them here, then I'm going to duplicate it. Right on top of itself, they're forgot to change that rotation point. I wanna make sure that's right in the middle here. And let's just do a manual rotation there. One of the things I like about doing it manually is that you don't necessarily have to make it quite as perfect. It looks more hand-drawn that way. And I often even go in and just slightly change some of the petals so that it's not so symmetrical that it looks like it's been really manufactured, so to speak. So then I'm going to make sure that all of them are in one group is group. I can now delete. Now I can select this group there altogether. You can see because there's only one selection bounding box. And now I can go in here and I'm going to convert it to curves and fill it just with a different color. So I have an alternate use that green wrote a lot of that design work that I'm doing, selecting all of the different ones here. And I'm going to add them altogether just so that they're one single flower. And I've got my nice clean motif that I can now add into my library. Now the other thing I haven't showed you how to do is to add a raster image to that, like a texture. For now, let's just add that in here though. It's just a plain flour for now. I'm going to keep it though and then we'll use that with a texture. So in order to import the texture, you do basically the same steps as placing any other image. I'm going to import it from the Cloud. Roster textures here they are. I've done ten different ones here. I will probably do these on my own time, but I will import a good graphic texture here. Now when you are going to use it for doing an object, when you bring it in, bring it in big. You can always make it smaller. And that way you're ensuring that your quality is going to be good. That's one of the things you want to be sure is that you always have a good quality texture if it's going to be a raster texture. So you want to start big, angle small if anything. Now I'm going to just cut it and then I'm going to use my node tool to make sure that that's what's selected. Then I'm going to do paste inside. There we go. So now we've got a nice textured asset that we can add. So make sure that again, you check it out, make sure that everything is in one group and it is because we did the paste inside. So now we can go into the Assets panel and Add Asset From Selection. Now, only going to be showing you how to tell her eyes. Basically you need the curve, copy it or duplicate it. So it's right on top. We will take that texture out of that second layer. And then we're going to go into the layer options here and experiment with different blend modes until you find something that you like and how something like overlay. It often works. That's one of my gotos. Another one that works quite nicely is multiply. So it kinda depends on the look that you're trying to get. But I'm going to do the overlay. I kinda liked that soft kinda look. And then here you want to make sure that you select your entire group. And that's going to be what you're going to add. Man, I just noticed here. Oh, yeah, that's right. I have the plain colored one. I've got the one with the black kind of a texture and then I've got the colored one. Now the neat thing about it too, is that if we were to insert this one, it still looks exactly the same as what it did before. So we can go in here. And for example, if we wanted to change the color of this, we could just go ahead and change the color. So that's gonna be really helpful. I can already see that in our composition. Now the last thing I want to show you, and I've been waiting to do this, I'm going to eliminate this right now. I don't need it. I wanted to show you. I'm going to actually, you know what, I don t think I'm going to use that leaf. I'll leave it there for now. But I wanted to show you how to draw a nice for any branch, like I'd say like this one here, I'm going to have my leaves connecting to the branch, but maybe more like this here. So I'm going to first of all draw the stem. So what we need there is the pencil tool again, we're just going to, let's change this to green, actually about them both to green. I should be taking my colors that I want to use. That's a green that I have been using of a brownie green. And let's just use that pencil tool to draw a stem that has no thickness to it so you can't see it at all. One of the things I wanted to show you here is how you can change the profile of your stem. So right now we've got that line selected. One of the things we can do is we can mess around with these controls to change the shape of our stems. So we can have something like this that gets thin and thick. We can have something that tapers so it goes from thin to thick. So depending on how you want yours to look, you can make those adjustments in here. I think it just makes it more interesting. Remember that once you've drawn this, you can still make alterations to it. We could, for example, take out that point and this point and then just use the handles that are here to smooth out the shape. It's really up to you. You're gonna get used to doing it a certain way and that's the way you're going to want to do it. Now I want to add some leaves to it. So I know that I need to expand this stroke first. So I'm going to go here to expand the stroke. And now it's made it into an actual shape. So it's called an outline. We can't edited like we could a minute ago. But that's gonna be how we're going to be able to attach our leaves to it. So I'm going to draw. A bunch of leaves just freehand with the pencil tool. So we're obviously going to have to take that stroke off of it and make sure that we haven't filled with the color that we want. Now the one thing I didn't do there was to put a stabilizer on my drawings. So I'm going to put it to a rope stabilizer. That's kinda what I've gotten used to using and I keep that rope really short so it's still, it's dragging, but you can see that it's creating a nice smooth line. Now I also want to use fill here when I'm creating those shapes. So I'm going to delete that one and that one. Now I can go ahead and draw the leaves. So for now I'm just drawing the leaves. I'm not doing the little stem part. We'll do that in a second with, with the, it looks like we just did. So I'm just kind of going through and quickly drawing my leaves here. I'm sure you're going to take a lot more time and care and see you that I didn't close any of these shapes yet. I kinda like going through and doing my drawing first and then I'll go through and for each of my leaves here and make sure that the shape is closed. So all you need to do is drag that open point and put it on top of the beginning point here and there. I'm doing a little bit of clean up. Nothing major. Okay, so all of those leaves are now closed. This one doesn't need to necessarily be closed because we're going to join everything in a second and it will blend into that stem there. And now I'm just going to switch back to doing a stroke. So I have to de-select first. I don't want that to be selected while I do this. So I'm going to flick upwards to get that color out of there. Then I'm going to grab that color again for the stroke. I'm going to go back into the strokes and that's gonna be way too thick. And I don't mind the profile. That's the profile that you see there. It goes from thin to thick, so I'm going to be drawing them in this direction. So I'm just going along and kinda dragging right into the leaf so that it'll blend in nicely when I do the expansion, gonna go into the Layers palette, I'm going to swipe to the right on each of these so that they're all selected. Then I'm going to expand the strokes. So now they're a shape and now we can take a should've kept them selected, then take them and drag them down here. Although it doesn't really matter because what I'm gonna do now is drag over everything. I'm not sure what that line is there. So better get rid of it, drag over everything, and then go here to geometry and hit Add. And now I've got one please shape. That shape is perfect as is. I can add it here. You don't have to worry about grouping it because it's all one shape at this point. And for the fun of it, what we can do is important to their texture and add that. So any of those other little things I'm gonna be showing you in the last lesson. I think that I've probably overwhelm you with so many different ideas, but definitely take some time, try each of those techniques so that you can end up with a really diverse asset library here. That's going to be what makes it so much fun and so easy to create your final projects. And literally, you could do six birds using the same assets and have a beautifully cohesive collection. So let's meet in that next lesson there were, we're going to tie up some loose ends. I'll see you there. 7. Lesson 6 Rounding Out Our Asset Collection: Hi guys, welcome to lesson six. And less than six here we've just got a few other things to cover. And I definitely want to explain a whole bunch of other things that I do when I'm preparing for a big project, like what we'll do in the next couple of classes. Let's get started. Okay, so I was looking back at the previous lesson with Adobe Capture, and I thought I should show you a couple of other methods for creating your vectors. So one of the things I did was just create a quick document with some of the motifs that I might be interested in doing. As a matter of fact, this one is going to be layered flowers. So two levels, front and back of a flower, for example. I'm just going to show you with one layer here. And the other thing I thought of was that there are other alternatives besides Adobe Capture in case you didn't want to use Adobe Capture. I wanted to show you also the alternative method for creating vectors that I figured that I should include here. You might want something really easy, even easier than that. So here's a document that I've got with a bunch of images here. So let's go to the Auto Trace. And I, when I searched it out, searched for a free auto trace or vector tracing online program. I didn't want to have to pay into some kind of a subscription. So here we can choose the file. I'm going to go into folder where I put that and I had named it for online conversion demo. So I knew that was correct. And this is what I want is a scalable vector graphics, SVG. That's something that I can import into Affinity Designer. I guess I could bring it down to two colors, so that would be the black and the white. There are advanced options. I haven't done any testing here, so you and I are doing this together for the first time and I'm just going to hit Start. Now it usually takes a few minutes to go with you a bit of a process here that was a pretty large image physically. That looks really good to me, as good as what we had in Adobe captures. So I'm going to download the results and it's asking me do I want to download it? Yes, I do. So I know that the document is called for online conversions, so let's see which one it goes into. Yeah, it came into my regular iPad's download folder and so we could check it out. It looks pretty nice and clean. So this would be one that is also now in SVG format. And I'm going to drag that into my iCloud Drive into my Affinity assets. I'm just gonna leave it loose in the folder here, so it's quick and easy for me to find. We'll go in here open from Cloud. I can go into the Affinity assets, and here it is right here. So let's open that up. And I can see that each of these is beautifully converted. So this is a really decent quality, just as good as what I did with Adobe Capture. And I'm gonna check this out in the layers. So right now all of these are curves. What I need to do here is to separate them so that they're individuals. I don't want them to be one group because remember what happens when we do that? It'll go in as if this is a pattern or something. So I'm gonna go in here and go to separate the curves. So then we end up with them each on their own level and same with this one here. So we have all these separate ones and you see when I select it now, only one of them gets selected, not all of them. So then I can go into here, actually, let's take them and make them into that. I guess I got a big rectangle in the background here that I can get rid of. And now you can see that all my assets are that cream color. That's going to work better in my Asset Studio. So I'm going to actually add a new category here because I've already added this set here, I want to be able to get rid of the category really easily after I've already got them, so I don't need them twice. And then what I would do is go in here at a subcategory and then Add Asset From Selection. Now I've got that one. I can just go through and add them all in here. Or let's try this because they aren't grouped anymore. I should be able to Add Asset From Selection and they come in separately. So that's perfect. That's one of the things I really wanted to show you because look how quickly we were able to create that. So when you draw it in, Procreate, make your document large, draw a whole bunch of them, what you think you might want to use and then go through that process and do it online. Why not? I also want to show you the vector Nader workflow. And I'm want to use this time some of my little flower brushes that I have, this is just gonna be the fastest way. So these are stamps. Let's just stamp a few of these on. I'm going pure black. Who was a big one? I want to fit a few of these on here because I think that would be a nice quick way to get a few more elements. I bet you, these swirls will come in handy. I'm just going for solids right now. I'll get more organized and do this really methodically liter when I don't have you watching every move, I make sure I've got enough here to convert. And this time I'm going to save them as a J peg. And I'm going to go straight to that pronator. So I'm gonna hit more here. We're going to go right to vector Nader app. As soon as it opens up in here, I can select it and as soon as it's selected and I go into this, I can go to Auto Trace. So we'll let it go through its process. That's how quick it was. And now each of these is an individual vector. So now we'll export it. Now here it says I can set it to Illustrator if that's where I was going now, I'm going to save it as an SVG file. Hit Export, save to files, put it into this, this vector, I guess flowers is fine here. Let me rename it. I'm going to call it random stamps. Done, hit Save. And now let's go into Affinity. Get over this one. I'm going to import it and I put that into vector flowers, random stamps, open that puppy up. And you can see here that I've got all my individual stamps that I could add worse now there are curves. So what I need to do is go up here to separate the curves. Now, that's giving me a couple of little challenges here that I will have to correct. That's something we could do, but I want to take this class to do it. We know that once we have them here and we want to add them individually, they each have to be converted to a group, something like this, where there's a bunch of parts. I'll make sure that I select the whole thing and also group it. This one here is another example, and so on and so forth. And then you know that as soon as we have that as a group, we could select all here on this document. I'm just going to ignore that one for now. But here at this point, we would then go and change it to somewhat of a cream color. Now this one here is because it had centers in the leaves. I'm going to take those out for now because like I said, this isn't, this isn't a class about vector Nader. So we can hit that some other time if you guys end up wanting to use it. This last one here, I have to group. And so this one here, it's a curved still here, so I want to name it or turn it into a group. So now I've got 123456789 new elements to add. I could select them all again and go into my assets. What would I add this into? Let's put it into this fillers and I'm just going to add assets from selection. And you see now that they're all here. Oh, and I just remembered one last thing. I don't know. If you are an illustrator user, you could go in and export any of your files here. Come on. So something like this. These are all separate little vectors. I could take this, go into the Export here, Export As, and make sure that I specify SVG here, export it, save it to whatever file it is that you're working with. In this case, I would put it into my patterns. I'll call this one raw patterns Done Save. And now I can just go here to Affinity Designer, add from cloud, go into my vector patterns and add the raw file. And you see I've got these already. There must have been grouped and the other program, and so these would be ready to go. I could change the color and then make sure they're all individually grouped which they are. And I've got that pattern category in here. I would just hit Add Asset From Selection. So now we've got four little vector patterns here that we could add at any point and these can be duplicate it. You can have four of these together to create larger pattern area. We'll get more into that in the next class. But for now I think you've got everything you need to really beef up your assets library. So I've showed you several different ways of batching your process and doing it in this way. A whole batch at once is definitely what I would consider the fastest way, whether you use vector Nader, whether you use the online conversion tool, Adobe Capture, whichever method that you use. Having a whole bunch of them here together is by far the fastest way. Definitely don't ignore the fact that some of these might need to be touched up first because he'd want to do that before adding into your library. But the wonderful thing about them is that no matter how large we make them after we bring them into our documents, the quality is going to be fantastic at whatever size you can see here, they've really enlarge. This one has got to be well, this is an eight by 12 documents, so this is over ten inches and all the edges are still a really sharp. If I was to have done that in Procreate, if I was to grab that one image and then try to enlarge it, That's the result I would get. That speaks for itself. I think now you've got everything you need, your armed and dangerous. You can really get at this process of creating all of your assets. I'm super excited to see how this all turns out for you all. And I guess that's it for this class. I mean, my whole purpose for this particular level and this three-part project. This first part is, I wanted you to be able to create a ton of assets quite quickly so that you could fill out your library. So now I've got tons of colored flowers. You can roll through this and take a look at everything that you've done. But you'll see that within a couple of hours, you could easily fill up your library. So I will see you in the wrap-up. 8. Lesson 7 Game Plan for Next Class and Wrap Up: Hey guys, welcome to the wrap-up. So we've gone through a lot of different things in this class and I feel like this was a really heavy class. As far as information, you've learned so much and there are so many things that could confuse you. So I really welcome you to ask any questions, post them in the community if possible, or in the discussion section so that we can sort out those problems together. Remember that when you ask a question, it really helps someone else who's confused as well. Sometimes it just takes a different way of explaining it. And I know that in classes sometimes there's just so much it's so overwhelming and I just want to be sure that nobody is left in the dark. It's also very common to feel confused when learning new software. A lot of times just remembering all of the little shortcuts and where to look for things can be super confusing. I know that it takes me a while sometimes before I get it under my belt, I often have to google the answer and figure out, okay, what am I doing here? Why is this not working? Sometimes when I'm learning from another teacher, I will replay sections over and over again until I get that a-ha moment. So feel free to do that. And like I said, lean on us, lean on the community, lean on each other. And that way we'll learn much more thoroughly. Now if you didn't do so at the beginning of class, I'm gonna suggest that you hit that follow button up there. That way you are informed of any new classes I post. And you'll get all of the other classes in this series. Also visit my website and add your name to my mailing lists there. I send all kinds of different things from that location. Don't worry, I don't overwhelm you with too many emails, but if you add your name there, you'll get more access to the free goods and so on that I share in my artists resources. I'm so glad that you hung out with me today. Thank you so much for hanging in there learning this difficult program. I really hope to see you and all my other classes as well. 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