Amazing Affinity Designer on the iPad Course V1 - Beginner

1. About this Course: Hi, I'm Tim Wilson from Red Rocket studio. I'm a graphic designer, instructor and a university lecturer. I would love to help you create amazing graphics using Affinity Designer on the iPad. If you've ever looked at designer and thought he looked too complicated, or you've never even looked at it. And you want to make amazing graphics, you're in the right place. I'll take you through this step-by-step and you end up creating incredible work. This course is designed in such a way that you'll first cover a series of lectures following each example, step-by-step. These are some of the amazing projects that you will get to create. These projects allow you to put the knowledge you've learned into real-world examples. If you use Illustrator on the desktop or the iPad, I'll show you where to find similar features in designer. Not only that, there are some amazing features in designer that aren't actually available in Illustrator. And we'll be looking at how to use those to start right now. I can't wait to help you to create amazing graphics in Affinity Designer on the iPad. 2. Interface & Document Setup Intro: In this set of lectures, we're going to look at two things. We're gonna start by creating a new document. And then I'm going to take you around the interface so that you can see what all those weird and wonderful studios are all about. Let's get going. 3. The Start Interface: Let's get started by looking at Affinity Designer's interface. When you first open up your copy, what you'll find is it looks at something like like this, but of course, you won't have all of these documents here. What you will have though, is some tutorials and some samples. But whatever you see in here doesn't matter. Because what we're going to do is we're going to go right up to the top. And we came to click on the little plus button over there. Now, this takes us into an area where we can either create new documents or open existing documents. Now, I know some of these can be a little bit confusing because there's things like open from cloud, import from cloud. That seems very, very similar. But I'll show you the differences as we go along. We've also got things like import from photographs. We can make new templates. We can create new documents based on the clipboard. And we've got new projects in there as well. But what we're really interested in here is the New Document button there. I'm gonna click on that and it takes us into our new document settings. 4. New Document Setup: The New Document Setup in here gives us a number of presets, as well as the ability to do our own settings. For example, here you can see mine says that it's set to device, but if I click in there, I can choose that instead of using the device, the device is the iPad that I'm on. I could choose Web, photo, print, press, 3D print, multiply down to presets in there. Now if I choose device, what it does is it automatically changes the settings in here to settings for a device based on which device I've chosen. In here five, got the iPad Pro retina, which is the model that I'm on over here. It's putting the appropriate settings. If I went, for example, over here to an iPad Mini, it's changed those settings in the appropriate setting for that device. Let's try a different one. If I go in here and I, for example, went to web, you can see when I click on that, I've got various web sizes in there, all in pixels. I could choose, for example, HTTP down there, and it's put in my pixel sizes. The one last one. Let's have a look at print. I've gone to print and then I've got my usual sizes in the A4, A5, A3, etc. And same again, it's putting the size, you can see it's millimeters rather than pixels. And it's also put in the DPI, the resolution in there. And it's done a high-resolution, which is a 300 DPI, or you might notice PPI. Down here. We can choose to change that from millimeters to inches to feet to yards to centimeters. Whatever you like to work in. Anyway, once you've done all of that, you click Okay, and there is your document that's come up. Now when you close your document down, after you've been working on it for a little while, you'll find that the document appears in this area over here. At any point, you can just go in, click on a document, open it up, and close it again, and it will still be there. 5. The Interface, Tools, Studios & Menus: Let's have a look at the interface. I'm going to click on that little document over there to open it up. But if you haven't done that, you can of course, click on the plus at the top and make yourself a new document. It really doesn't matter what size you use at the moment. The interface when you first start off, looks something like this. And we have some tools. On the left-hand side is a toolbar there. On the right-hand side, we've got, if you coming from the Adobe range of products, you'd know these as panels. But affinity likes to call them studios. If we click on a studio, you can see it'll open up that studio. Or as I said, you might know it as a panel. In there. We can just flip through the various studios. Over here. Down the bottom, we have some more options, and these options change based on what tool were working on. And at the top, this is kind of a menu. There is a little menu that drop-down over there. There's another menu over here. And then we have something. We can change the persona. So these buttons here are called personas. You can see if I click onto a different persona, the tools change and the studios change as well. There are actually three personas here. This one on the left, which is the vector persona. So we're going to be working with that most of the time. The second persona here, once again, the tools have changed. An elicit panels, the studios have changed. And the last one over here, by the way, that's the bitmap or pixel persona. And this last one over here, which is the export persona. So when we're exporting the documents out, we use this persona here. Let's go back to the standard persona. Now, if you're not sure what any of these things do, what you can do. And this is a really nice feature, is if you click on the little question mark at the bottom right-hand side and hold it. It tells you what everything is. Just let go and it'll go away. And it's just click and hold. And you can use your pencil or you can use a pen as well. Sorry, finger, finger is not paint. If you get stuck, do you think What does that click and hold and you there. Lastly, down the bottom left-hand side, we've got three little buttons. This one over here, the little cross de-select items when you've selected them, the middle one is a snapping item, and I'll be showing you these as we're going along, we're using them. And the last one is the bin to delete things. Have a little bit of a look at this. You can't do any damage. So feel free to click on things. Have looked around in there, open up some more options in there. You'll find that the studios, you can go further into them. So if I click on positioning, it takes me into the positioning options in there and try and try them out and just get a feel for it. So it doesn't look too scary to start off with. Have a go. 6. Vector, Pixel & Export Personas: Let's have a look at the difference between the vector or design a persona and the pixel persona. So if you can't remember where those aren't, remember, click on little question mark. You can see up here we've got the designer and the pixel persona's, and they just slide between those two. The difference between them is that the designer persona is all based on vector. The pixel persona is based on pixels. So how does this actually work? Well, let's just take a brush over here or a pen. I'm just going to take a tool and I'm going to draw a little line in there, and that's done in vector. Now let's have a look at doing something in pixels and look at the difference. So as you can see, I can go to the pixel persona, which is this one here. I'll click on that. And I'm going to use, well, I'll use a paintbrush over here. Now this paintbrush will allow me to also create a brush. And if I click and drag like that, I can create a similar shape. It doesn't look quite so good, but they're both lines. Let's have a close-up look and you can see immediately the difference between these two. You see if I zoom into them over here, this one was done in vector, and this was, one was done in pixels. So when you zoom in, you can actually see the pixels in the pixel persona brush. Whereas if you go to a vector, honesty, I can keep zooming in. You will never see pixels on that. It is totally, totally scalable. Vector shape is made up. Let's go back to the factors over here of points and lines. And then we can change the width of that and we can fill them up. Whereas pixels, It's like painting on an item, what you're putting down is going to be there permanently. Well, unless you use the eraser, of course. If you do want a really smooth lines, you would tend to use the vector persona, designer persona. If you want something which is maybe more of a hand-drawn look like the type of things you might do on paper or pencil. Maybe you'd want to go into the pixel persona. 7. Create & Manipulate Shapes Intro : Affinity Designer is all about creating shapes. These are vector shapes. And we're going to look at some shape tools now on how to make the basic shapes. These are building blocks that we're going to be using to build all the incredible graphics that we'll get onto shortly. Don't forget at the end of this section, there are three projects and we're going to be creating some logos in those projects. 8. Basic Shapes & Selection Tool: We're going to make a start in the vector persona, the designer persona. We're going to go onto these tools over here. Now you'll notice that some of the tools have a little dot next to them, like these two down here. If you click and hold on that tool, you'll find that it opens up more tools in there as well. So there's a whole group of them. For these shape tools, we've got a whole bunch of different shapes. Let's make a start with this rectangle. So I'm going to click on the rectangle, and I'm going to click and drag to draw the shape. Now that I've done that shape there, I want to manipulate it a little bit so I can go long up to the arrow right at the very top. Now this is called the Move tool. And first of all, I can move that shape around. Iso. I can also click on a corner and just scale it around as well. If I want to rotate the shape, I can click the little lollipop that's sticking out the top. And I can then just rotate that around, like so. And the same goes for pretty much all of these tools in here. If I go in and chose or what you have, Let's have a heart. I were to click and drag a heart out. Same again, I can use that move tool, move it around. I can rotate the top. I can scale it based on the little handles around the outside. Now, when you go to the themselves sorry, should I say the shapes themselves in the toolbar. We then got some other options that pop up. Over here. We'll be looking at these options. So do keep an eye on this area here, because based on what you click on, you'll find that this changes. Have looked at what I mean. I'm going to use that selection tool. Click and drag across those items to select them and bend them. Let me do the same thing or go to the heart. I'm going to click and drag the heart in and look down here, we've got some options in there and I can flip through those options. Now we've got a spread. Let's click and drag on the spread and you can see it changes that shape a bit. Let's have a look at another shape. Over here. I'll just been that one by clicking on the bin. I'm not going to go through all of these shapes, just a few of them so that you get the idea. I think I would use the, Let's go with this shape here, the square star. Click and drag the square star out. And in here I can change the number of sides. I can change the cut-out over there. Once again, we've got the constraint options and ignore snapping options in there. Having a little bit of a play with some of these tools and just get used to some of the settings on them. Create a tool, have looked at the settings and adjust those settings to get the tool that you want. As you can see, some of them have different settings. I can mirror this one over here. I could have the negative space if I wanted. They'll all have slightly different settings for you to try out. I forgot. 9. Customise Shapes: Now if you pick one of these shapes, and once again, I'm just going to choose the triangle. I click and drag to make the shape. As you've seen so far, you can go over here and you can manipulate the shape by changing the options down the bottom, I can mirror the shape if I wanted. But you'll notice that a lot of the shapes also have a little red dots on them. If you go to that dot, you can then do the same thing rather than changing the options down the bottom. I'll just go onto my move tool. That when you get back to the move tool, you'll see your options change. So you can't get back to those options. If I'm on the triangle, then I can get back and adjust the triangle. So do keep an eye on that. Because as soon as you go to this tool here is where those options gone, you need to be back on the same tool to access them from the bottom or on the shape itself. Let's have a look at one more shape here. So I'm using that move tool to select my shape and delete it. I'm going to go in here. You can hold on there a bit. And let's use a Coke shape this time. I'm going to click and drag my cog out. So I could use these options down here. Or while I'm still in the COG tool, I can go along and experiment with these options here. So let's pull that one in. This one, I could move out. Then over here, I can adjust that it aligned there. I can adjust this one over here. I can even go to the middle and pull that in and out a little bit as well. Once again, try out the different shapes and have a look at the new shapes you can create from those existing ones. 10. Fill & Stroke: Let's start looking at the color of these shapes. I'm going to go in there and I'm going to just choose a rectangle. You can choose any shape you like. And I'll draw my rectangle out. Now on a shape. We have the fill color, That's the color in the middle. And we have the stroke color, which is the color of the line around the outside. If I go up to this color studio that's almost at the top there, I can choose to adjust the fill color or the stroke color. You click on one of those to bring them to the front. I'll click on the Fill Color. And then down here, I can choose the hue. The hue is the color on the color spectrum, red, green, blue, purple, yellow, etc. Then we've got the saturation, how saturated that color is. Finally, we've got the luminance, which is the lightness or darkness of that color. I'll put the luminance right in the middle. And then you can see the saturation goes from gray to full blue. And I can choose any of those colors that I like. Now you can see it's remembered that recent color and popped it down the bottom. But what about for the stroke? What I'm going to click on the stroke to bring that to the front so the stroke is now active. Same again, I can change the color. Let's make that orange. We'll take the saturation right up and the luminance as well. You can just about see my orange line. But I like to thicken up that line. So I'm going to click down here next studio down. And I can adjust the width of that line there. At anytime. Using this selection tool or the Move tool at the top, you can select a shape. You can just go along to a studio. You can pick either the fill or the stroke, and you can adjust the colors. You can also pick from colors in here. And we're gonna be looking into the swatches shortly. So there's a lot more premade colors that you can use as well. Finally, a quick thing here. If you got your fill and stroke, you can flick over them and it will swap them around. So now I've got an orange middle with a green stroke around the outside. So just pull over to swap them about, actually prefer it that way around. Do you have that go with that? Don't forget your hue, saturation and luminance. Because sometimes if these two are down and you're looking for your colon, you think where on earth is that color? Just pick the color. Get your saturation up. Then don't forget your lightness, which is your luminance in there. 11. No Fill or Stroke: Once again, let's have a little shape in here. I'll use an ellipse this time. I'm going to take an ellipse shape. You can see it's remembered my last colors that I had. I'm going to go in here and I'm going to adjust the fill color to what I want. I'm going to go across here and maybe increase the width of the stroke. What I'm gonna do a second shapes. I'm going to put another shape over there. This time. When I go to the fill, I could actually choose to have no fill. So click on this little None button down there. I can have a shape without a fill. Once again, you can see it's remembered that last setting. I could actually have a fill on a shape. Let's give this shape of fill color over here. So we'll just pick a color. But I could also go to the stroke. I could choose a none for the stroke. Lastly, I could actually have a shape. I know this seems a bit weird with no fill and no stroke on it, which then becomes invisible. You can see if I use my move tool to just deselect, it seems to have gone. It is still there. Those are quite useful objects. We can use them as helper objects later on. Now I have done these on circles, but the same thing works on all of those shapes in there. Try them out, habit of fun with them. 12. Corner Tool: One of the things that we can do with our basic shapes, apart from changing the shape itself, as we've had a look at so far, where you can just go down to the bottom and pick different options in there. Is we can also change the corners. Now we've got a little corner tool over here in the toolbar. Remember, if you're not sure what's what, click on the little question mark at the bottom. And I'm looking for the corner tool. And you can see it's this one over here. Let me go and make a shape. First of all, I'm going to use rectangle. I'm going to draw in my rectangle in there. Then I can go to my corner tool. I can choose to change the corner. If I've got this corner here, you can see I can just click from that corner in to round it off. I can go to this corner here and click and round that one-off as well. Let's do that again with a different shape. I'm going to delete this shape over here by clicking on the little upsets. Try that again. Same again. It's got a different shape in here. So I'm going to just pick the, what should we go to triangle? I think. I'll draw my triangle in there. Once again, I go over to the corner tool. I can just click and drag to adjust that shape. You can do that on multiple corners at the same time. I'm going to use two fingers to induce a two fingers. And does, if you wanted to read you, by the way, it is three fingers, three fingers to redo, two fingers to undo. With that little tool. If I clicked and dragged over my shape, you can see it's selected all the little points or nodes. If I click and drag, I can do them all at the same time. Basically, I can get back to a circle with any of these shapes, work in exactly the same way. If you go back to your selection tool, those little circles disappear and you can still adjust it. At anytime. I go back to the corner tool, I can click on a corner and adjust them. Try it out. 13. Create Curves from Shapes: One of the things you might notice when you're working with these basic shapes is that when you create the shape like that, they're an option over here is says two curves. So what does that mean? Well, if I click it, nothing appears to happen at the moment. Look at that, still appears to stay the same. Let me show you again on a different shape. I'm just going to delete that. Let's get something which obviously has got curves in it. So once again, I will just pick a shape over here. That is curves, but it still says make curves. So what does this thing to? Well, it's to do with the shape itself. The shapes that we've got that we're using, there are very special shapes and you can adjust them as we saw before. So for example, you could go into the code and change the number of sides. At any time. What happens is when we make something into curves, we're breaking that basic shape and just saying it's just lines on the page. Well, why would we want to do that? It could be that we want to adjust the shape ourselves. Let's have a go with a different shape over here. And I'm going to use the staff. I'm going to make a star there. If I go up here to the Nodes tool, I select the Start. I'm trying to select just a single node over here. Let's de-select that and do it again. Try and select that little node. And you can see the whole thing selected. It's still in the star thing. It still allows us to adjust these options. But if I say to curves and I'm going to break it and make it into curves. Now I can use this little Node tool and I can select the individual points and I can adjust those points there. So let's get a little sort of shooting star. Oops, that wasn't what I wanted. It'll shooting star over here. Falling towards the Earth. Doesn't look much like a shooting star. Just looks up at something weird. But anyway, let's have a go with a different one. In here. I'm going to go to a basic shape. I'm going to use one of these ellipses. I'll draw my ellipse. Once again if I go up to the node tool and try and selected it selects everything. And if I'm changing it, just adjusting the shape like we do with our main selection tool. But if I say two curves, now you can see we've got these nodes with handles. If I use my node tool, I can select an individual point and adjust that handle and change what is called the Bezier curves. That these are the Bezier curves. Over here. I can even grab a handle if it's on a curve like that, to pull it around, to adjust the angle that that curve is coming into that node. 14. Node Tool: I've got a rectangle here, and I'm going to click on two curves. Then I'm going to take my node tool over here. And I'm going to select one of those points. So you'll see to select a point I'm just clicking and dragging over the point like that to select it. You can also select, by just clicking to select a point. You can select multiple points by clicking and dragging over them so I can move those two around. At the same time. We've caught a number of different options down here that we can work now on our points. I'm going to select this little point down here. So I'm gonna click and drag over it like so. You can first of all see I've got a sharp point there, which is what it is. But I could also make that into a smooth points. I could round it off. And then I can pull out these handles and adjust them and adjust the curvature of that shape. We've got another one. Just to pull this out a little bit over here called a smart handled. If I click on that, you see it just makes those two handles the same width. Once again, if I pull that out, I can just do smart. If we choose delete, that gets rid of just that point and the rest of the shape just goes from there to there. So it keeps it, the stroke going all the way round. Let's have a look at another option here. I'm going to get rid of that. So I'll press the full at the bottom. You have for them. And I'm going to make another shape over here. Let's go and take something a little bit more complicated, like this cog. I'll draw in my cog. I'm going to adjust the cog settings while I'm student the crop tool, I might increase the number of teeth. I'm going to pull that in a little bit like so the whole radius, I'll make that a bit bigger. Then I'm going to click two curves. Now curves. Now I can use my node tool and I can select some of these curves. So I can just click and drag over those two to select them and then pull them out like so. One of them here, I'm also going to smooth them out. I can get them to be rounded and I can then select them individually and move them out. Like so. Of course, if I make a mess of that, well, I just select that point again. And I can either go with a smart curve or just back to a sharp one. Again. Let's take this one here and go back to the sharp point. If I drag, for example, over there, I can stick to whole number of those points. And if I select one of them now they will all move at the same time. Try that out. 15. Use Geometry for Custom Shapes: We have another way to create custom shapes. I'm going to start off once again back to my basic shapes over here. And I will just start off with an ellipse. I'm going to draw an ellipse in there. I want to just change the color because it's honestly it's a bit gray really. So I'm going to go into my hue, change my saturation a bit, and my Luminance in there just to get an interesting color in my shape. Now, let's make a copy of this shape. So how do we copy something in Affinity? One of the ways is by looking at these little menus. Over here, you see the second menu in there has got various options. One of those options is copy. So you could copy an item and then you could paste it. Over here. I can just do copy and there it's copied. Let's go back in there again and I can paste it in like so. Another way to copy an item is just to go up to here and choose duplicate. And that's duplicated that item. It's a really easy way to copy shapes. Now, I've got these two shapes here. And what I'd like to do is I'd like to use one of the shapes to add or cutaway from the other one. Change the color this top one a bit. If I select them both, some on my main selection tool, I'm going to select them both. And then I'm going back to that same menu. Downhill, we've got something called a geometry. And if I click Add, it, adds those two shapes together. Let me undo that. I'm using two fingers to press on there to undo. I've gone back to the stage again. If I go back there once small and you subtract, you can see it subtracts the top object from the bottom object. This is really a very useful way of creating some interesting shapes. Let me put another shape on top of that over here and I'll just get little star pop that on there. I'm going to select them both by clicking and dragging across both of them. And I'm going to go up to the top here. I'm going to choose Subtract. Now what do you have noticed is that I didn't go in and make these into curves first, if I go to my node tool, they're already curves. So what happens is when you use geometry on the basic shapes and you add them together or subtract one from the other one. You'll find that they will automatically become curves. And you can then go and use any of these settings in here that you want. Backup today, once again, do have a bit of a go with that. Try the ad and the subtract with a few shapes. And what you'll find is, Let's get rid of that one. If you've got multiple shapes, it works as well. Before you have a go, let's just make a shape, a shape, shape and the shape over there. And I can select all the shapes and then just add them together. Likewise, you'll find that you can put in multiple shapes and subtract all the top shapes from the very bottom shape. 16. Other Geometry Tools: Let's have a look at the other geometry options. Moving downhill, we've got an intercept. What Intersect does is it leaves the overlapping area in there. Pop another shape. Here. I'll use a diamond this time. Let's put a diamond over there. I'm going to select both of those up to geometry. And this time I'm going to use not divide yet, but this exhale over here. So what this does is it knocks out the overlapping areas type, you call it Zola, but I think it's XO. I didn't know. You'd have to figure that one out. Lastly, here, we can also go to divide. If I choose divide, what this does is it divides the object, tap into all these different shapes. Now, if I click on that shape, you can see I can just pull those bits around. They've all been divided up. 17. Draw a Fruit Logo: If I go in here, I'm going to start off by using an ellipse. Draw a circular ellipse in there. I want this ellipse to kind of go down at the bottom. So I'm going to convert it to curves. And once I've done that, I can then use my node tool to select this bottom and just put it down. Like so. Now I want to have those. So I'll use my selection tool to make sure it's selected. Go up to the top, to the menu and duplicated. And I'm gonna pull that across like so. I want to take those two shapes that I've got. Select them both. And I'm going to use, once again, the options in here to add the geometry is going to add those two together. A little bit more to this. Let's take another circle over here. I bet you'll get you'll guess what? This is very, very shortly. I'm going to move that circle in like so. I'm going to select both of them. And then once again, in the geometry, I'm going to subtract the front object from the back. Lastly, I'm going to take same shape again, that little circle, like so. I'm going to duplicate it. I've got two of them. I will move across like that. I'm going to select both of those and go up to my geometry up here. And I'm going to find the intersecting area. You get the idea. One more thing, these little shapes over here, that shape and that shape should be rounded a bit. If I use my node tool and select this little point Ever there, I could try smoothing it out like that. I'm going to undo that. The other way that I could do it. Just select it once more, is I could actually go in and I could use my corner tool. I could click on there and just round it off, like that. Same over here. This is much easier to just click and round that off. There we have one piece of fruit, have a COH. 18. Create a Compound Path: If I take a shape and I'm going to go and just find a little lips in them. I put that ellipse inside the other shape. I were to go in and select both of those shapes. When other up here. And I choose Subtract, it, subtracts one from the other. But what this has actually done is it's actually made a shape with two strokes around it. There's a stroke that goes around the outside here, but there's a second stroke that goes on the inside of the. If I was changing my stroke width in here, it would affect both the inside and the outside. Why is that important? Well, if you've got a shape with more than one stroke on it, it's known as a compound path. The great thing about compound paths is if you change your mind, you can always undo them. So a five-stage to this shape here, which comprises of the two different pods. I go up to the top there, you can see it says separate curves and I click on separate curves and it's separated them out back into the two shapes. If I had done something like that and used exactly the same one, and I'd gone to subtract. Then when I went to the top, it won't allow me to separate them because there's only one curve or one stroke on that particular shape. Try that out. 19. Make a Monkey Face Project Intro: We're onto the first project. What we're gonna do on this project is we can create monkey faces. And we're just going to use circles to make these cute little phallus. 20. Draw 4 Circles & Touch to Get Rounds: Now before I start this project of a little monkey icon, I'm going to go up to the settings at the top right-hand corner you can see this little cog. Click the cog. This opens up the options. And there's an option I want to show you here. I've switched mine on, but by default it's switched off. It's called Show, Show touches. If you don't have it on, nothing happens when you touch the screen. If you do, you'll see this little blue circle appear. And I've got it switched on, so it's easy for you to see when I'm touching and what I'm touching. I'm just going to click done. And I'm going to click the plus over there and make a new document. The document I'm going to create is just gonna be the default. It's in the device. I'm using the iPad 12.9 retina because that's the machine that I'm on. If you're on a different device, will use that device. We're going to click, Okay, just making sure that this is set to landscape because it'll be easier that way. Not necessarily. Here's my page and then I can just zoom in, zoom out with two fingers. You can see the little blue touch area is showing that up. Now what we're gonna be doing is we are going to be using some circles. So I'm going to go over here to my basic shapes. I'm going to find the ellipse. I'm going to draw a circle. But when I'm drawing the circle, I want to make sure that that circle is perfectly round. So if you hold down one finger on there, that will give you a perfectly round shape. If you hold down two fingers, by the way, it goes from the middle out and three fingers, We'll go from the middle out. But as a perfectly round shape, I'm not too worried about that. I'm just gonna do one finger for it for now and make my shape. Now with this shape, I want four copies of this. Let's just move it out the way a little bit here. I'm going to duplicate this over there. And I'm going to duplicate it again. Look at that. My next duplicates come down here. This is called power duplication. I'm going to show to you later on It's really, really cool because when you do something, when you go to duplicate it, does it again, but it does the same movement. So I went for duplicates of this shape. I'm going to select them and to make it easier for you to see exactly what I'm doing, I'm going to come to my fill color. I'm going to fill them with a color. Just use something like that for now. I'm going to go to the stroke. And I will just get a bit of a stroke on those shapes. Get yourself a four circles exactly the same size, but try out at one finger down while you're drawing it to make sure that it draws perfectly round. 21. Geometry to Create Hair: I'm going to take one of these circles. Once again, I'm using my move tool and I'm just going to move it out the side. Then just put it right out the side of my of my page. Then let me go back to these ones here. Now, what I'm going to do is start with one at the back. I'm going to put these two On top of that one. What I'm looking to do is to make a little shape that looks like that. That's going to be the monkeys hairline, if you like. For liners, suppose I should say. Now, you might find that you can get rid nice arena shaped like that. Or if you want, you can actually delete one of these. If you don't like that. You could take a shape and you could actually make a smaller shape. Once again, I'll hold down this finger to get a perfect circle. You can make the shapes smaller, and you could do it with smaller shapes. It's entirely up to you, but you do need to have those shapes. Let's just duplicate that again. Like so, put them together. Now you'll notice that as I'm moving these things around, these little items are just snapping to each other in there. If you're things don't snap to each other, make sure that the little snap button in there is switched on. You see if I switched off now? It doesn't show me when I'm perfectly parallel to those items. I'll switch it on. And when I move that along, you can see right on the middle of the page there, you can go there to sort to show the middle of the page. I'm going to move those across that went across there, something like that. I'm going to select all those items. And I'm going to go up. And I'm going to use the geometry. I'm going to subtract the front objects from the back object. Look at that, It's left another object over there. So what we've got here is sort from one object over there in two parts. If I go up to the top over here, I can separate those curves out because that's actually one object with two strokes on it. It's a compound path. So if we separate those, that will break it up. And now I've got that separate and I can just delete that little bottom section. And here's the hair for my monkey. Now I'm going to choose a color for the hair. I think I'm going to go with a slightly darker brown. We'll just flip that over. Some sort of brown black that it's going to pop this one back over there. Now, you can see that I've got these the wrong way round. Need the hair to be on top of this. This is where we're going to start by looking at in the studios here. It's 12345 down the layer studio. Because I can take this curve here and drag it. Below that one. You see as I'm dragging, you get blue line, blue line in the middle. We don't want that blue line at the bottom. I can just drag those two around. When you're dragging them here. Just watch where you dragging them. That's not gonna do anything that will actually put it inside that shape. We don't want that. We wanted underneath. But I want the third, the top, and the monkey's face under that. Try it out. 22. Create Tufts of Hair & Ears: Let's do another circle here. I'm going to go in to my Ellipse Tool, draw another circle, hold down the touch and make that a circle is small. Perfect circle. I'm going to make a copy of that. I'm going up to the top to the menu. I'm going to duplicate that and move my duplicate down. I'll have to go back to my move tool. I can just move that down a little bit. Like so. This is going to be the hair. But if I select both of those, I will use once again the geometry. And I'm going to subtract the front one from the background. This little bit over here is gonna be the bit of head. It's going to stick out the top of the tuft of, hey, I want to have those. Same again. Back to geometry and back to geometry. Let's try going to duplicate. And I'll take that one, pull that down. So I've then got those two little tufts of hair. I'm going to select them and now go to the geometry. I was getting ahead of myself there and just add those together, like so. That's gonna be the bit of hair that's going to kind of stick out the top. But as you can see, some of it is overlapping this area. So I want to cut some of that off. The easiest way to do that is to take another shape, put another shape over the top of that. Just like that. Select those both. And once again, we could use subtract to subtract it. And that is going to be my little tuft of hair up the top. Now, if I select that and the hair, how do I select them without selecting the face? If I hold down my touch, I can then click on that. And both of them are selected. You'll find that the touch will allow you to add and subtract items by just clicking on them very quickly. So I can click that Add. And I can click that to subtract. Let's just subtract that again. I'm holding down the touch. Just add that one in as well. Now that I've got both of those unengaged, go back up to the geometry, and I'm going to add them together to make the one shape. It's do some ears. Years be nice and easy because it's just gonna be circles. So same again, using my ellipse tool and we're going to draw my elliptical shape that I think that's probably a good size for a monkey ear, quite nice and nice and large. I went to another smaller one inside that. I'll do the same thing again. I'll duplicate it. And there's my copy. I'm do that and use the right tool, so we'll get the move tool you took with a copy there. And I'm just going to pull this copy down and make it a bit smaller once again, whilst holding down my shift key. So this copying will be the same as the skin tone of the monkey. That she's going to be the same color as the hair of the monkey or the third monkey. How am I going to do that? Well, if I select this item and go up to my colors, there is a little eyedropper up there. If I take this eyedropper and move it onto the monkeys for you can see it picked up that color. All I have to do is click that color to choose it. Let's do it again in case you missed that. I'm going to do the same thing here. I'm gonna select this little bit of the ear. I'm going to go up to the top. I'm going to drag that eyedropper onto the fur. You can see how it's sick selecting the colors, I let go. There is the color over there. I click it and it applies it to that shape. There's my one ear. Just going to go like so. I want that to go behind the other shape. How are we going to do that will exactly the same as we did before. With them both selected. I'm going to up to the layers. I'm going to drag both of those layers down all the way below the big circle. You can see how it's moved them both below. Of course I need one on the other side as well. So I'm going to select that. I'm going to go up to the top, duplicate those to move them across. And I'm just going to rotate them around. Now, when you're rotating, if you put down a finger, you'll find that it rotates in increments like that. If you don't have that finger down, it'll just rotate freely. But over the air can rotate it in small increments until it's exactly perfect. And I'll move that across. Like so. I think the monkey or the face should I say, shouldn't have a stroke on it anymore? Algorithm the stroke and choose none. And that way we also get the two of them to almost look like they're together. Happy to go. But if a bit of ears using duplicate and also go into the geometry and using the geometry options in there. 23. Eyes, Mouth & Groups: The mouth area going. So I'm going to use ellipse this time. Click and draw my elliptical shape in. I'm not doing a perfect circle this time. This is going to be within nose and mouth go. I'm going to select that. Once again, go up to my fill color. And I just want a darker shade of this color that I've got in there. So I'm going to go to my luminance. I can darken it down and maybe remove some of that saturation. Let's move that up. Now. If you click and drag like I've done there, what you might find is that you actually start drawing a shape. You can see how I was on that till then started to draw a shape. So just be careful with that. If you start to do that, just deleted or use your two fingers to undo. Always go back to that Move tool. I can move that into the right position over there once again because my little magnet is switched on as I'm moving it, It's finding the middle for me very, very quickly. I need a small little nose. This is gonna be written nice and simple. So a little nose like that. I'm gonna make that knows black. So once again, we can either use these to find the black or you might have some quick colors down there. I'll just choose black for that. Let's move that into place. Gonna go up the top there. We need a big mouth around the same again, using an ellipse. I'm going to make a second copy of this ellipse. I'm just making it a little bit smaller there. I'm going to copy it by going up to the top and duplicating it, moving my duplicate upper bit, selecting them both. And then once again using geometry to subtract one from the other. And this will be the mouth shape. And I can just adjust it a little bit to suit. Let's make the mouth red. Over here. I'm going to go onto the reds, the saturation and the lightness. I'll just change that until I get the sort of red that I want. Something fairly dark I think. And same again, I'm going to select this and move it into the right position. There because we need some eyes. And there'll be really simple to do. A little eye over here. Now you can make these bigger than then scale them down. I'm going to make an eye shape like that. And I think we'll have a dark color for this. So we'll just go with a much darker color like that. So that's going to be this outside of the shape. Let's zoom in to it. Then inside that, we can have another little shape as well. So I will duplicate that again. And I'm going to scale this one down, but I'm gonna hold down two fingers. So when I scale, it scales into the middle, you can't see that. So if I were to take the outer one over here with the outer one, I will just lighten that up quite a lot. So the luminance or Latin it up a little bit like so. And it's sort of a bluish color. And lastly, I need a little highlight in the eye just to give it a bit of life. Of course, we're always using ellipses here, so let's do a little ellipse, it like that. I'm going to make that one white. And I'll move that across into the eye. Now, why is that where it is? Let's have a look at the layers. We click in layers and it's below the black one. You can see if I put that above it. There it is. There's the little highlight I. Now before I start moving it around, I'm going to select all of those and do something that we haven't looked at in the course. I'm going to go up to the top. And I'm going to choose to group that together. What that's done now is it's grouped all of those together, so I don't need to worry about trying to select all three at a time. And you can see how I've got the monkey I in there. I think it's a little bit on the large side. Let's scale it down a little bit, like so. Pop it in there. And I wanted to make a copy of that. So I'm going to duplicate the group and move that across to there. Select all of those items, and we'll move them down a little bit to the middle. I think the only thing we're missing is a neck now ready? And because this is a cartoon monkey, we will do the one shape that's not going to be a ellipse. We're going to use a rectangle. I'll just draw a little rectangle down here. Same again, I need to select the color of the monkey's face. I'm going to use this little eyedropper. Move on to that and click. Now, once you've got to that stage, if you didn't want to start moving this around or changing into doing whatever you want. You can select the whole thing. And you can go to the top menu and you can choose to group that. And this means that now whenever I selected, the whole thing will move around. I can scan it all at the same time. I can duplicate that to make a whole bunch of monkeys. Let's start with this one here. We'll duplicate that. Maybe you have a bigger one and rotate that one a little bit around there as well. And you can see we can just keep going with hollowed different monkeys in that. Once again, have a bit of a go. Once you've tried this out, try some other animals and see what you can do with very, very simple shapes. Have fun with it. That's the most important thing. 24. Make a Rocket Icon Project Intro: Our first proper logo. We're going to make this rocket. And once again, we're going to be using circles with a few squares, but we're also adding some other extras like drop shadows. Now we haven't talked about this yet in the course, but they're really easy to use and you'll see just how they work. 25. Draw a Circle and Create Rocket Shape: I'm going to go up to the top, to the little plus clicking there and over to the new document. I'm going to create a document and the size I'm using is this size over here. I'm just using my device. If you want to use a different size, that's no problem at all. But I'm going to click Okay. Now I've got my page up and the logo through I'm going to do is going to be a rocket shape. I'm going to start off with just circles over here. If I go onto my circular tool, find it in there. There we go. There's my ellipse and I'm going to draw an elliptical shape. Now I'm not worried about this being perfect circle. I'm going more with an ellipse like that. I've got my ellipse. And what I'd like to do now is to copy the ellipse. So back to my move tool. Hold down two fingers and drag and that makes a copy of that elliptical shape. I'm going to select both of these shapes. And you can see this is the area that I really want for my rocket. So it's a lot easier to see exactly what I'm doing. I'm going to go across to my colors and I'm going to just change the colors on the tool. So over here I think we'll take the luminosity down a little bit like so and give it a bit of color in there. But I'm actually going to flip those around and we're going to remove the fill color. I've just got a color on the stroke. And of course you can then go to the stroke and you can adjust the stroke width as well. Now that I've got both of these, I'm going to cut them. And I'm going to use the geometry setting for that. Right up to the top, to the menu. We've got geometry over here. And what I'd like to do is I've actually had the intersect between those two and that just leaves me this little shape right over here. Now for the next bit we're going to do the bottom section over here. I'll do something very similar. Let me just move this one out the way for a moment. So we'll just push that out to two. They're gonna do the same thing. We're going to take an elliptical shape like that. I'm going to get another ellipse. I'll use two fingers, drag a copy of that. Now, this happens to me so often I'm on the wrong tool. So I'll just undo that with two fingers. Go back to my move tool. Then I'm going to move that again. So two fingers down and click and drag to move a copy. And my copy I'm gonna take down like so. Now if I put one finger there, you can see as I'm moving and it's moving it perfectly vertical compared to the last one. Happy with that, I'm going to select both of those. And once again, up to the menu at the top. And I'm going to choose to subtract the frontal object from the back. And that gives me this shape here. Let's take that one and put it in with the rocket. Now I think I'd like to actually be right up there. And I'll move those two back into the right position. Now. Let's try that again. Select both of those and move them back into the middle, like so. Before we take this any further, do have a little bit of a go with that and just use basic circles to make a very simple logo. We're going to expand on that shortly. 26. Add a Stripe with 2 Circles & Group: It's taken our rocket a bit further. What do we need to do now is I'm going to select the entire rocket. So both of those shapes, once again, you've probably guessed what I'm about to do now I'm going to go up to the geometry and just add them together into a single shape. However, I would like to have a very subtle stripe through my rocket. What I'm going to do this time is I'm going to do the same thing as before. I'm going to come along and find an ellipse. I'm going to draw a large ellipse. I want this to be a perfect circle, so I'll hold down my finger while I'm drawing it. And I'm going to make a copy of that. So two fingers down, drag a copy of that. I'm going to select both of those. Do the same thing again, up to geometry. And I'm going to subtract the front one from the back one. Now that I've got this shape, I'm going to put this shape on my rocket and you can still adjust it if you don't like the shape that you've got in there, you could adjust it a little bit as well. You can also rotate it around if you wanted more of an interesting angle. I don't sell hold down my finger and make sure it's perfectly in line with the others. Happy with that one. I'm going to select both of those shapes. And I'm going to go once again to my geometry and I'm going to choose divide. What this will do is it will divide up those into individual shapes. So when I click off it, this is a separate shape. I can delete it. This one is a separate shape. I'll delete that. I've got my rocket in three parts. Now. I am going to select the different parts and just color them up a little bit here. So I think I'll just flip that over to get a bit of a color for the rocket. I think I'm gonna go with white for my rocket, but for now, I will just choose this red. Now I've got a stroke on that. I don't want a stroke on there, so I'll click on the stroke and choose none. And finally, for this shape in the middle, once again, I'll go into, by the way, when you're doing this, be careful that when you select something to unselect and by mistake, just drag it a little bit like that. So we'll just get that back. Should be I'll make sure I selected without moving it. And I'm just going to change the color once again to something else. India. Now it's changing the stroke because I'm on the stroke, not on the fill. So I'll just choose none for the stroke. Go back to my fill, and then just pick another color. India RED doesn't matter at the moment what color you've chosen. We're just looking to be able to see the rocket clearly. Once I've done that, I'm going to select all three of those shapes that can move them around together. I'm going to go up to the menu and I'm going to say group them together. So now when I click on one, I can still move them around. If you need to adjust one of them. By itself, you can just double-click to isolate that objects. And as you can see, I could then go up and change the color on that area. Have been for go with that to get your rocket into some sort of stage like this. And then we'll make an interesting background for it. And some shadows. 27. Draw in the Background Rounded Rectangle: I'd like to draw background shape and I'm going to draw a square or a rectangle. I'll go over here to my shapes, choose the rectangle, start drawing the rectangle out. I wanted to be a perfect square. I'm going to hold my finger down over there to get that to be a perfect square. Now that I've got that, I can also choose the type of corner that I want. If you see down at the bottom here, while that is selected, I can go in here and from none, I could choose to round that corner or frequent straight corners, rounded in verses. I'm going to choose the rounded corner. Over there. You'll see this little red dot. If I put on that red dot, I can adjust how rounded I want that corner to actually be. I'll go back to my move tool once again, move that. Now it's in front of the rocket. I'm going to go up to the Layers panel, this little one here. And I'm going to drag that below the rocket. Now I have to drag it all the way below. You see there's a group there. That's because I grouped the rocket. If I just felt the group up by clicking on that little arrow, then it's much easier. I can drag this underneath that group. And now my rocket is in front of the group. Not to be a lot easier for me to actually color it up as white. I'm going to double-click and then just color these up individually. I'm going to just choose white from there. Go back to this one, white from there. And I think the middle bit, I'm going to go a little bit more subtle of there. So we'll start off with white by my change the luminance to just give a subtle stripe like that. If I then de-select it and clicked again, you can see my rocket is still selectable. I'd like to just adjust the angle and because it's a group I can then just anglers around like so. If you hold your finger down, you'll find that it'll actually angle in degrees. I can keep going until I get to about 45 degrees, which is what I want, this going across the shape like. So I'll just choose a different color for the background now. And let's go something. I'm gonna go something like that, which I might just darken down a bit. Anyway. Try that out. Get your rocket to this stage there, put it onto a background, and then we'll move on. 28. Adding the Drop Shadow: I'd like to separate my rocket from the background a little bit and give it some depth. So I'm going to be using a drop shadow. Now to get you drop shadows or other effects, we can go along to the right-hand side and find this effects studio. It's got an effects on there. If I click on that, there's a number of different effects that I can choose from. To click on the rocket, and that will select all three of those parts of the rocket. So it's going to treat this as one shape. If you hadn't grouped it together, you might start with that one there and that one. And then you're effect will be applied to each individual object. But doing it this way, the effect we applied to all of those objects at the same time. I'm going to go down here. We've got things like inner glows, outer glows, Gaussian blurs, 3D is building buses will be using some of these later on. But I'm going to go over here to the outer shadow and switch it on. And when I click on the outer shadow, you can see that it's just disappeared in there. I don't seem to be on the move tool either. But down here, we've got some options for the shadow. Now a nice quick tip here is if you just click and drag on there, you'll actually see you can drag your shadow around. What you're doing is you're changing the angle and the offset. So I could drag that around to where I wanted it. Then I'm going to go over to here to the radius and I'm going to just soften that up a little bit. And I will go to the opacity and put it right down. I'm not really fond of very heavy drop shadows, so I'm keeping mind as subtle as possible. Do the same thing with the background. So I'm going to get my move tool again. Click on my background. Same again over here, up to the outer shadow. Click on it. I've switched it on, no. And as you can see, I can just drag that out, but I'm going to make it very, very subtle. Change the radius and take the opacity down. You can barely see it. You can then keep going with this if you wanted. I can go back to my shape over here and I'll use my move tool. And I'm just going to go across to the color. I'm going to go to the stroke and I'm going to put a white stroke around the outside. You can see it shows up quite well with against the drop shadow. Like so. It's up to you, whatever you'd like to do with that. We can just extend that a little bit if we want something a bit thicker, I'm going to keep mine fairly subtle. 29. Make a Delivery Logo Project Intro: Now the last project on this set is going to be a logo for a courier company. Once again, lots of squares, lots of circles, and we're gonna go through it from scratch. As always. 30. Start with a Circle and 2 Rectangles: Let's do another logo. I'm going to click on the Plus. I'm going to go up to new document. And once again I'm just using the device standard document. Click Okay. Now this little logo that I wanted to create, his going to be a delivery logo. So I'm going to create a little vehicle. Once again, I'm using our basic shapes and I'm going to use geometry for this. I'll start off over here by just going into my basic shapes. And I'm going to pick an ellipse to start off with my lips. I'll just click and drag a little elliptical shape like that. This is defaulted to gray and I think I'd prefer different colors, so I'm just going to pick another color in here. And we can just adjust the luminance and the saturation for our colors. I'm quite fond of this. One, call it silver, a quasi type of green. That's the basic shape, which is going to be the front of my little van. Now for the van itself, I wanted to go up like so. I'm going to use a different shape for that. I'm going to go to the rectangle. I'm going to draw a rectangle shape for the back of the van. And as you can see, if I pull that up like that, it looks nothing like a van with me. With my little shape over here. If I'm still on my Shape Tool, I can go down to the corners and I can just choose to round the corners off. I'll round it off. Like so. This will be roughly the shape of my van. Now, once again, I know what you're thinking is still doesn't look like a van who told to me. One last thing. Over here. I'm going to choose a rectangle and lead to drag a rectangle across the bottom, like so. Now I'm gonna select these and I'll select those 2 first, those two shapes. And I will use my geometry and just add them together. I'm going to select those two shapes there. I'm going to go to geometry and I'm going to subtract the front. So this is really the van shape that I'm off to overhear. So we've got kind of where the engine goes and this is the van itself. Now we need to cut out some wheels. So I'm going to go back to here again. I'm going to choose an ellipse. I'm going to draw a perfect circle with my finger over there. And I want two of them. So one is going to go there and I'm going to hold down two fingers now. I could copy. That will be the front wheels. Going to select them both. Then once again up to my geometry. And I will subtract those two. So these are where my wheels will go. Do some wheels. So once again, over here, very simple. I'm going to go into my elliptical shape over there and I can draw an ellipse. Once again, I'm holding down my finger to get a perfect circle. But if I now go down here, I could actually choose to have it as a donut. And I could then adjust the middle of that doughnut over here. Whoops, there so I can make it any size that I want. I'm gonna go sort of a zippy type of wheel like that. And same again, I can then just move it up into the right position. Hold down two fingers and make a copy like that. Have been for go with that. And then we'll make this a little bit more interesting once again. 31. Cut Out Windscreen: You might be thinking that it doesn't look like a windscreen, its two upright. I want something at a nice angle. I'm going to zoom in. I'm using my two fingers here to zoom in. I'm going to do the same thing as before. I'm just going to take a rectangle, drawn, a rectangle shape, how this is gonna be a cutter object. I'm going to use my selection tool to just anchor it to the right angle for the wind screen. I think I'm gonna have something maybe a little bit more angled like that for the wind screen area. Then I can use my selection tool to select both of those shapes. You've got it back to geometry, subtract the front. And there we go. We've got a silver more sporty looking little van. Have been for good with that. 32. Round Corner with Node Smoothing: Now if we wanted to round this, top it off just a little bit, I'm going to use another technique. I'm going to go down to the second tool down there. The top one is our selection tool. This has just below the selection tool. It's called a node tool. If you're not sure, hold down your question mark at the bottom and it'll show you exactly what all the tools are called. I'm going down to my node tool, and I'm going to click to select that little node. You might have to click once and then a second time to select it. And down the bottom, we've got some options that we can change that node. And there's one called smooth. Over there. I'm going to click on smooth. And you can see now I've got a really nice rounded area to the top of the wind screen. Once again, try it out. 33. Speed Stripes: I want some little streaks going from the back of my van. So I'm going to go along and once again do the same thing with one of these tools here. I'm going to use my rectangle tool. I'm going to draw the first of those streaks in there. Now, I'm just going to zoom in a bit because I want to make sure that that lines up with that bit. Now, if you think it's not lining up, what you can do is you can click on the little magnet. And this way when you move them around, you can see how it jumps. So it's actually lined up perfectly with that. I've got the one shape in here. I'm going to make another copy of that shape. Two fingers down to copy it. I can put on it. Sometimes you'll find if you are too too quick with your fingers, you don't get the copy. So I'm going to make sure that I'm once again, I'm on the move tool there, as well as rather than being on that tool, I'm just looking at my two fingers down. I can pull that copy up. Now I want another one the same distance up here. So I'm going to go up to my menu and I'm going to say duplicate and duplicate it a second time. This is known as power duplicating. We'll just do what you've done lost again. Right? So we need to add a bit of an angle going on for that as well. So I'll make another shape over here. I'm going to rotate it around to the angle that I want. I want this. I think, something like like that. So it looks like it's zipping along. If you want another one of these shapes further up, by all means, do so. I'm going to leave it like that. I'm going to select all those shapes, go up to my geometry. And in here I'll choose divide. That's divided them all into individual parts. So I can take this part here. I can delete that. I can select these bits and delete them as well. Then I could maybe just pull that up a little bit. Like so. 34. Create Background and Color Variations: Lastly, the background. I'm just going to move this way so I'll select it all. I'm going to group it up to the top and choose Group. I can then just drag it out to there. I'm going to draw my background in. You could do anything you like for background. I'm just going to take a simple rectangle like that. And then I'm gonna take my van and move it across now, as you'll see, if I change the color of my van and I'm just going to make it white. You won't see it because this is in front of the van. Go to your layers and I can take my rectangle and put it down. Now be careful you don't drop it into the van layer. Go be below the layer so you can see the blue below the layer that'll move it below it. And I can put my little van in. If you want to make color variations on that. Select the whole thing. Scale it down, hold down a finger when you're scaling it as well. And I could then do a few variations on that. From here. I'm going to hold down two fingers and drag a copy. And I can then change the background color of that knits. Try a greenish version. Once again, select both of those two fingers down to there, and select the background. Once again, will have a different color variation is go to something a bit more bluer. Move all of those across into the middle of my document so you can make as many variations as you like. Have fun with it, have a go. Try different vehicles. 35. Lines, Curves, Nodes & Handles Intro: In this section we're going to be looking at these pesky things called lines, nodes, points, handles, all those type of things. And I want to show you how to work with them. How to draw using the pen tool, the pencil tool, and then manipulate those little nodes with the node manipulation tool. Let's get on and try this out. 36. Use the Pen to Create Straight Lines: Let's have a look at the pen TO what I'm gonna do is click on it. It's on the left-hand side of this little pen. And start off by just using the pen tool by clicking from point to point. Like so. Now I can keep going, clicking on my points. And finally I can get back to the store to click on the start to finish that shape off. But you don't have to finish the shape off. Once again, if I do this over here, I can actually click point-to-point. Just leave my shape empty. If I wanted to go and put a fill in it, I can pop a fill in. They're going to choose a fill color. You can see where there is a stroke. You will get the stroke around the outside where there isn't. We just get a line going across. Now I can just adjust my stroke width in here by going to the stroke studio. And let's just take that down a little bit like so. Once you've created your lines, you can then adjust them in two ways. You can use the Move tool and move towards light, move it around, scale it, and rotate it like we've always done. But you can also go to the next tool down called the Node tool. Now, all of these little dots around chair are called nodes. And I can click on one of the nodes to activate it. You can see it's blue and these ones here are all white. Now it's activated, I can move it around. Click on that one there to move that about as well. If I want to select more than one node, I can just click and drag across the ones I wanted to select. So I just want those two inner ones. And once again, I can move those two together at the same time. Let's select all of those four and I can move them around without affecting the others. Using the pen tool, the most basic way of working is to just go in and draw your shape using dots point-to-point. Have a go with that before you move on to the next lesson. 37. Create Curves with the Pen Tool: Now if we want to start creating curves, There's a few ways we can do that. Once again, I will use the pen tool. With the pen tool, I can click to put down my point. And I'll click another point there. One there. I'm making a fish, by the way, just in case you are wondering. It's kind of straight edges. Very simple little fish shape there. And back to the beginning again. Now to create my curves, I can just go to the line here using the Node tool. And I can click on the line and pull that out. I could do the same over here and just pull this one out there. Let's click in there. And I'm gonna pull that one in. This line over here. Oops, didn't mean putting that point to this line here. I'm pulling out with that one. And lastly, this one here, we can pull that around as well. The first way that you can start creating curves by just going in and clicking on a straight line and curving it using the Node tool. Let's remove that. Another way to create curves is to actually change the nodes. Same again over here I will use my pen tool. I'm going to click just point-to-point like that to create a shape. I'm, I'm actually making a little flower type of shape here, just going into the star shape like that. Then using the Node Tool, I can select shapes and then we can convert them into smooth points from sharp points. So I'll choose smooth over there and you can see how it makes it into a curved point Glaxo. Now it doesn't look much like a curve yet. But when you start dragging these handles out, these two handles on either side of the node, sorry, this two heads, one on either side of the node. They are linked together. So if I pull one, select that again. If I pull one of them, the other one will move as well. And it keeps this line nice and smooth and gives it a really good curve. These are known as Bezier curves. I can still move the node around and adjust those handles and the further out or pull them, the more of a curve we'll get going on there. What happens is the line tries to follow that curve and then a continued morning then curves back to that one, tries to take follow that handle, shall I say? It pulls it out like that. As I pull this further out, you can see it's trying to follow that handle more. When I put it back in. Now we can take a curve like that and we could actually go back and make it a sharp point as well. Over here. If I were to select some of these points, I could go in and I could make them all smooth. Then some of them, maybe these ones in the middle here. Maybe I actually want them to be sharp points. And all I have to do then is to pull them out to get my curves. Remember you can still use your node tool to click on the line and pull them out this way. Instead, you can see, I don't know if you've, if you've noticed, but it's a very subtle difference. If I'm doing it here, look at the curve. The curve is changing there. When we're doing it here, the code is only changing over here. And I'll explain why that happens in the next lesson or two. But experiment with that a little bit. Making some curves from your straight lines. 38. Curve Lines & Node Smoothing: I'm going to make a line or two here. I'll get my pen tool once again. I'm just going to click a few times, like so. Over there. What's the difference between dragging on the line or changing the node? Have a look here. You see if I click and select that node, when I go to a smooth point, it only changes this node over here, puts handles just on that node. Let me undo that. Of course, if I use the node tool and I go to the line and I click on the line and drag that out. Now you can't see them, but this actually a handle there and a handle there. What skin with my node tool, if I select that point, you can see there's this handle here, is this handle on that side, and there's no handle on that side day it's removed that handled what hasn't actually even put it in. To be honest, that is the difference between those two. It can be a bit confusing, but do try that out before we go into the next step. 39. Break the Node Handles: If I take my pen tool and I draw a little corner, like so, then I take my Node tool and I select this point and make it into a smooth curve. What we have are the two handles on either side, as you've seen already. And I can pull them out like so. But if I wanted to change this handle and move this handle without affecting that one, at the moment they're linked together. But if you put a finger on your screen, that will allow you to break that curve, like so. Let's try that again. So I will just select that and delete it. Once again using the pen tool. I'm just going to click. And I'm using that click point by point method that we had before. Back to the start. And then I can go in and I can get my node tool selected point. I'll use the smooth option. I'm going to pull out that side, pull this one out, but then put my finger down and drag that in. To do that again, select this point over here, make it smooth, pull it out, and then put my finger down and drag. Now you'll see if I put my finger down first before I tried to drag it. It doesn't really work properly, so start dragging it and then put your finger down to break it. One last time. Select that, smooth it out. We'll put it out. I want to want to break it the other side now. I go to that, then put my finger down and then I can break that or I could pull it out the other way as well. Have a little bit of a go with that. It can be a really, really useful feature. 40. Click Drag Fish Shape: Let's look at how we can actually create these curves without doing the straight lines first, if I get my pen and I were to click once, instead of clicking a second time, I'm going to click down and drag. It's one movement. You can see it's automatically dragged out two handles. Now, this handle here that's dragged out controls the curvature on that side of the line. This handle here controls the curvature on the next line that I do. If I just clicked over there, you can see that handlers pulling this one out. Let me do it again. I will click drag over there, and then click, click drag, and then click, click drag, and then click. Using this method, it means that you can actually just go in rather than having to make a shape with straight lines. You can go back and just do the curves while you're drawing. Let me draw one more for you here. I'm going to draw that fish shape again. Starting on the nose. Me. I want a curve, this, I drag it and I click up here to the top fin. I'm going to click drag and click, click, drag, click, click, drag, click, click, drag, click. I'll stop saying click, drag, click now because you know what I'm doing. I'm putting these little points between o in the middle of the line. Click drag and click. The same again. Now that I've done that, of course, I can always use my node tool to tweak it and move them around into the exact position that I want. Like so have a go try fish. Fishes are great because no matter what you draw, you can just tell somebody, yeah, there is a fish that shape, so try it out. 41. Add a 2nd Handle: Now let us look at getting handles on both sides of the curve C. So far what I've done is I've clicked, clicked and dragged to make a curve like that. So there's no handle here, but there is a handles on that side. What about if I wanted handles on both sides? Well, I can start off with a pen and I can click, drag, click drag a second time. And now I've got a curve with handles on both ends. Once again, I can click, drag, click, drag, click, drag, click, drag to make a very smooth curve. You don't have to do the click and drag and then click again Method. You can just get the whole thing smoothed out like that. 42. Modify Handle - 1, 2 & 4 Fingers: Let's have a look at the other things that the modifier functions can do by modifying mean the fingers on the screen. If I use the pen and click and drag, I can obviously use one fingertip break that handle there. Let's do it again. But with two fingers this time, click, click and drag. If I use two fingers, you can see as I'm dragging this, it's making that handled jump to 45 degree increments. The next thing that we can do is as I'm going to four fingers, I can actually move that point around while I'm still working. If I click down here and suddenly realize, oh my goodness, I've put that points in the wrong position. Four fingers down and I can move it exactly where I needed. Release my four fingers and carry on drawing from there. Try that out for now. The one finger or two fingers and the forefinger method. 43. Stroke Width & Profile: Let's have a look at the strokes now. I'm gonna take my pencil and I'm just going to draw a stroke. You can do this with a pencil, pen. Anything you like, radius, long as you've got a stroke up there, down the bottom, obviously I've got the width in here that we've looked at before. But I'm going to go right up to the stoke Stroke Studio. That's the second one down after the color studio. The first thing that we've got here is the width that's the same as the width down the bottom of them. But then below that we have the profile. So I can actually just change this profile. And if I pull this side down, I can get my brush to go from thick to thin or thick. If I pull that side down and that went up, I can get it to the opposite. I can also pull the middle app and both sides down to get it to go from thin, thick, thin or vice versa. Over there, I can pull that one up in this one down and that went up like so. You can add as many of these points as you want and you just click and pop point in some very, very interesting profiles on your stroke. Now what about if you've done something like that and you just want to get rid of some of those points. All you have to do is click on it. And you can see we can delete that node from there. Once again. Click on there, delete the node, select that one, click it, delete the node, or you can just click and click it and then reset the pressure on all of them. 44. Advanced Settings: Cap, Join & Align: Let's have a look at the advanced settings. Now. I'm going to use my pen tool. And I'm just going to create little shape here with some rounded bits. Like so. Now I'm going to go over to the stroke and to the advanced settings. Me move this across a little bit so you can see it a bit better. The first thing that we have over here are something called caps. The caps are these two points, the ends of the line. So I can have them as a cutoff caps or we can extend them as well. You can see over here the difference. There's the line itself. If I cut them off, it cuts them to the line. If I have the extended cap, it extends it the same distance out as half of that stroke width. Once again back to the circle. Now, when it comes to these ones here, the corners. Over here, we've got a few options. So first of all, got this corner here, which gives me those corners. I could choose to cut off those corners. Or lastly, I could round those corners as well. Let me go chat line option. Now the lines, you'll see what I'm clicking on them are not working at all. Why is that? Well, it's because it's done for a closed shape. Let me take a shape over here, and I'll just take a triangle like that. Let's move that out the way. Select the triangle. And now you can see I can go either on the inside, on the outside of the line, or across both of them. Now lastly, we've got a little slider here called the miter limit, and this is not a very obvious thing. However, if I were to take a corner and I'm going to use my pen to do this. I'm gonna click here, click up there, and we're going to click over here. I'm going to take my Node tool and the skin to allow me to move that point around. When I go to the joins and I put a corner join on there. Have a look, you'll see it's a corner join, corner joint, corner joint until I get to a certain angular just cuts itself off. Even though I'm on that corner over there. And what we can do with a mycelium is, is we can actually control that. So if I do that, but I still want that corner. If I increase the miter, it will just bring it back like so. I'll keep going over here, cuts it off. I still want that corner there. If I increase the miter, it will bring it back. 45. Advanced Settings: Order & Scale with Object: Now the next one is pretty obvious. It's the order. Do you have the stroke on the top, the fill? On the top of the stroke, you can choose which way around you want those two. Also, if I'm scaling a shape like that at the moment the stroke remains constant, it's the same width of stroke while I'm scaling the object. But if I switch this on, now when I scale, it will scale the stroke width at the same time. This little area here, if you don't remember any of this, do remember that when it's so important when you're doing artwork and you want to scale it up or scale it down. 46. Arrows: Now moving further on, we have got arrows. You click over there. You can choose the arrow that you want. You can have it on one side or on the opposite side. I'll just have a different shape in there. Down here we've got the size of the arrow. So I can click and I can actually increase the size of that error, let's say 200%. You can see how it's gone to 200 per cent. It's because both of those are linked together at the moment. If you want to do one without the other, you can unlink them. And in this one I'm going to take back to say 50% ever there to make it a lot smaller. Lastly, this option here allows us to get the object with its an arrow or the tail to either be on the line or start with a line, finishes like like so. 47. Advanced Settings: Dash, Gap & Phase: Let's have a look at putting in some dashes on the line. If I go along to the dash option up the top there, you can see I haven't got a dashes as much as just a lot of little Lawson shapes, dots. Really. The reason that that looks the way it does rather than a standard dashed line as you'd expect. Because in the advanced settings, the cap is set to round it. If I choose to have this normal cut-off cap, then that's what we expect in there. I'll just close the advanced settings to make this easier to see. Then over here we've got three settings. There is the dash. I can actually change the width of the dash. That's the little line over there. That one, that one, that one. And I can change the width of the gap over here, so increase it or decrease it. You just click and drag or you can click on there to put in an exact size. Then we've got the phase. The phase allows us to actually move the dashes along the line. And if I just click over there, you can see how I can move it along to exactly where I want that to be. 48. Violin Project Intro: This project is going to be quite a big one. We're going to redraw a shape and we're going to be redrawing a violin. So we're going to find a photograph in the stock library, redraw the violin. We're going to work with some colors, change the colors, and then we'll bring a picture into the background as you can see and blend the two together, as well as a little bit of text down the side. And the idea behind this project is that it's going to be a poster for a classical punk concept. 49. Set-up Document: For this project, let's do a banner. I'm going to click on the plus up here. And I'm going to go to new document. And I'm going to do something footprint in the device. I'm going to choose, print right to the very top. Then the sizes I'm not too worried about because I'm gonna put my sizes directly in here, the size of my banner. In height-wise. I'd like that to be about a meter. I'm going to put in one. And over here I can just change that to centimeters or meters. I'll just type in. Try that again. I'm going to type in one meter high. Then over here in my width, I can then type in what I want from that. So I'm going to have 600 and that's going to be millimeters in there. Now that I've got that, I need to change the color mode from RGB to CMYK because it's going to go for printing. And over here you can choose the profile. If you don't know which profile to choose, the best thing to do is to talk to your printers about that. There were a whole lot of them. So I'm going to leave it on sort of the US Popular profile, which is this web swap profile. If you are in the UK, then we generally tend to use one of the fog rose, one of these ones over here, frog or 39 is quite use one, but the best thing to do is talk to your print and ask them what profile. If you get that totally wrong, don't need to keep you up at night. It can be sorted. Let's click Okay. 50. Import Image: Let's bring in a picture now that we're going to copy. If you put your own picture that you want to work on, you can use this little button at the top here, that's the menu. You can go down and say Place Image. And then you can either import something from the Cloud or from your photos. I'm not going to do that. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go to a studio. And we could have studio here, which are stock libraries. If I click and hold on that, you'll see it's actually called the stock studio. It's about halfway down there. I'm going to go to the stock studio. And these two libraries in mind that I've got pixels and Pixabay. You will need to click on the I understand button over there about what the terms are. But these are usually royalty-free images. I'm going to go and find a picture to go in here. And I want a violin. I'm going to type in violin. There. You can see we get a whole bunch of different violins and I can just sort through those images to find the royalty-free one that I want. If I can't see what I want in there, I can change over to the other library, which is the Pexels library over here. And then once again have a look for the graph as a photograph that I wanted to use. Now I need to go back to pixabay. And I've seen one that I liked the look of down here. Now to get it into my document, if you click and hold, you'll see it's removed slightly and then you can actually just drag it and drop it into your document like that. If you don't like it, well, just click on the little button at the bottom to get rid of it, find something else, and drag that in. Feel free to just try a few different pictures in there and see which one works for you. I'm going to delete that. However, the one-way going to be using is this one here. And we're going to be redrawing half of that violent. If you want to do a different instrument or different shape, feel free to bring that in and try it. Once you've watched what we're going to do with this one, before I stop and you go and get yours, I'm going to make it a bit bigger, so I'm going to just scale it up like that. It doesn't have to be perfectly scaled because we can scale afterwards. Remember, we're working in a vector program or the vector side of the program. Everything is scalable. Going to make that go vertical. So I'm just gonna put it over there so it's vertical and I'm putting on the edge of my page so I can see very quickly when I get it to being vertical. And I think that's it over there. Right? Half a bit of a go with that. Get to that stage over there. And then we'll lock down the picture. 51. Chnage Opacity & Lock: Now before we start drawing, what I want to do is I want to lock this picture to stop it from moving. And I also want to make it a whole lot lighter so it's easier for me to see what's going on. I'm going to go up to my layers studio. That's this one over here. You can see it shows me the layer. That's the layer that I'm on there with the image. I'm going to click the little circle with the three dots in it. And doing that takes me into the options for that layer. Now I can adjust the opacity of that layer. I'm just going to take it down, make it quite light, and click on the lock. Now to get back to your layers again, click the layer options at the top of the back button and you're back in your layers. Now, it doesn't mess it what I'm doing over there, I can't move that by mistake. And we can draw that if you do need to move it. And I will actually move it into the middle just for ease of use at the moment. Go back to your layers. Click on that little button in there. Now, having done that, look at that. Nothing's working. Why is that? Well, it's because I didn't click on the image to select it first. There we go. Now I'm in this version of mine and I can just unlock it. Moved across a little bit and make sure I'm on my move tool. Move it across in there. And then once again, let's just lock that down. What we're after is a violin shape. Or if you want to use a guitar, something along that line, which is going to be right in the middle. 52. Redraw Violin Body: Let's start drawing the violin. Now we're only going to draw half of the violent because we only need half on one side. Over here. The way I'm going to do is I'm going to do it in smaller parts. I'll do the body of the violin. Then I'll do the F holes. I'll do the next violin, the head of the violin, the keys up there, and then the strings on the top. We do this step-by-step, looking at starting at the bottom, the item that's furthest away, which is going to be the body of the violin. I'll do that first and they'll build my other items On top of that. When you're drawing, you can use a few methods to draw. We're going to use the pen. But if you like, you can actually do it like this in points. So you can just click points that let's have another point. Maybe there, another one over there. You can go all the way around like that. And then you can use your node tool. And you can click on your lines and drag your lines into the right position. Work your way around like that. You've only got to do half of it. That would be one way of creating that line. Let's get rid of this. I'm going to go once again to the pen tool. A second way would be to actually just click and put the points where you want the curve to go. Over here. You can see I can just keep going down. I'll stop there. And then I can use my node tool. I can select a point and make it as smooth curve and then pull out the handles until it matches the shape. So same again, I could select that one, make it smooth, pull out those handles, and work my way around the rest of the shape that way. The last way to do this, and this is the way that I'm going to do it, is I'm going to use the pen tool and I'm going to click drag to make the handles as I go along using the pen, I'm gonna start over here with one click. Then I'm going to go over here and it's just click down and drag. And that's made the two handles and the line goes along there. Then I'm going to go over to about here. You kind of with experienced, just get used to where you think the points will go. But even if you get that wrong, don't worry about it because you can always move them later on. So I'll just click drag there and you can see that that's come out right out like that. I don't want that. I'll change that later. And I'll just click over there. I have another click there. I think down here I will click and drag a point in there. And then over here I'm going to click and drag another point. Another click there. You can see my lines not perfect at all. Then here I'll just click and try that out. Just go back to the last point and click drag. Click drag here, down to the bottom. I could probably do that in one go. That's perfect. Then I will just go in here. It really doesn't matter what you do for the rest of it. Just back again to the starting point, black. So let's have a look at that line. If I make this line a bit thicker, you can see it's not right. But that doesn't matter because I've got my node tool, so I can click on that point or that node and pull them in. Now you'll notice that sometimes I call these points and sometimes I call them nodes. And it's because different software use one or the other. For example, adobe uses the terminology points and affinity and coral use the terminology of nodes. But they're both exactly the same thing. I'm just going to move those around a little bit until I get something that I liked the look of. No right or wrong here. You can be fairly free and easy with this. We're not doing a technical drawing. We're creating something with style. That's half of that done. And I'm going to stop there. I made the lines thick enough so that I can see what I'm doing. Have a go with getting the body of the violin done. 53. Draw Rest of Violin & Strings: Now that we've got this shape in here, I'm going to go and lock it. I can't move it by mistake or touch it with the other shapes that I'm creating. I'm going to go into the layers. And I will just go to the curve, up to the options and choose lock that can come away from the layer options back down there again. And that's now locked. Both those objects are locked in the right position. Let's draw some more. I'm gonna do the chin thingy. I'm sure there's a technical name for it, but I'm going to call it the chin thingy. Over here. I'll go to my pen tool. Same again. I'll click, click and drag, click and drag, click and drag. Click down there. And then I'm going to just go around the outside. Over here. I'm making mine a little bit bigger than the one that's there. Now, it's a bit of a mess there. Let's have a look. Using my node tool. I can go in there and I can actually just pulling that handle over there. We get a nice curve going on over there. Coping right away through to that point. Pull that out a little bit as well. Once again, same thing. Now that I've got it I've selected, I'll go to my layers and I'm just going to lock it. Let's do another few items in here. This one is going to be an easy one. Remember, although I went around there, we're only going to be using this half of the violin. I don't have to draw the whole thing perfectly. This one's easy though, because it's just 0.5. Well points in with a little bit of a pull-down there. I'm gonna go to there. I'm going to rounded off over here. Remember this doesn't have to be perfect. And back to the organ. Haven't worried about that side. It's not important, it's just that side. That's the important part. Now we've got this shape over here. This is going to test your pen skills a little bit. Because when you start over here, and we're just going to click and drag, and click and drag and we'll just do it in small increments around like that. Up to there. And once again, I'll just continue on. Click dragging a little bits around like that. If you get it wrong, to worry about it, you never get a notice on the final result anyway. Because, well, we can have a texture over the top. We're just looking for a feel here. There we go around there. One and that one, like so. And then of course, use your node tool to go in and adjust all of these until they're all in exactly the right place or where you want them to be. There's no right or wrong here. Just make it look as you'd like it to be. I'll stop. Don't worry about the other one. We don't need that one in their tool. Now, when it comes to the this part here, this is going to be very simple. It's just gonna be the Pen tool and a mezzo go all the way round it. Up to there, to there, and back again. Now, I have made a bit of a mess there as you can see. So I'll use my node tool to just pull that up a little bit. So let's do the top section. Once again, I really should be locking these things down as I'm going to make my life simpler. So I'll do that. Normally if I'm working on something, I'm not quite this religious about locking down items. I'm doing this really to help you when you start out. But once you've got the hang of it, then you might not need to be quite so locking down. Perfect. Let me do this section here. And this is going to be an easy one. So the Pen tool click, click it, then this section here. Well, once again, I'm going to just do it pretty roughly. I just want the feel of this top section. We don't need to worry about that side, so I'll just go straight down to there. Back to that. If you want to do that as a section, that section, that's entirely up to you. Now the pegs, exactly the same thing. Now, I forgot to de-select. So it's made another 0.2 fingers to undo. And I will just go back to my Move tool and click to de-select. Incidentally, if you've got something selected like that, you can use the Move tool and click off of it to de-select it. Or this little x down here, if you click on that, deselects everything. Same again over here. Just really quickly. You can see my shape is not perfect. And we can actually cheat now, because I've done one of those shapes. What I could do is take that shape, hold down two fingers and just make a copy of it and put the copy over there. And we can adjust the copies so I can take that node then pull that node in a little bit until it sort of matches that shape. That strings. Now I'm going to just do lines for the strings, keeping it really simple. And I suppose I should put in bridge, I think that's the bridge over there. Like so. Then the strings, the strings will go from here to there to there. And I really only need to have the two of them. But get to that stage and then I'll show you how to do the strings. For my strings, exactly the same thing. Using the pen tool. I'll just start and do one string from there to there, and then all the way up to the top. Now, if it doesn't go quite in the right position, you can use your Node tool and just move it across a little bit. Like so. Actually I want to continue on that just a little bit up to their same again, only need the second string in there. So I will deselect using the x down there. And same again over here, just started there up to that one. And all the way up to there. And then across to the right. Once again, try that out. And then we'll start to cover this up. 54. Adding Color to Your Artwork: Let's start unlocking these and having looked at some color, I'm going to go back to my layers up here. And I will just unlock them and you can actually just click on little padlocks in there to unlock the items. I haven't unlocked the background picture. We can hide it if we need at this stage. First of all, starting at the back here, I'm just going to go right up to my color and I'm gonna put a color fill in there. Now, I don't want the stroke around the outside. I'm going to choose none for that. I'm going to go to the fill. I'm going to find a color that I want to use. Now this can be changed later on. I'm just going to get a color that I happen to like over there. Then I can go through the rest of the items in exactly the same way. So we've got the, the chin thingy in there. And a quick way to go between your fill and stroke is to just drag over them like that. And this will just flip from one to the other. So I've now got no stroke and a fill. And fill. I'm gonna go with maybe a little bit more of a dark brown like that. Now, moving up over here, back to the wood at the top. Over there, I'll choose that same because this is my recent colors, the same color for that. But I'm going to maybe darken it down just a little bit and get rid of the stroke. Very top of the head of the violin. I'm going to once again remove the stroke, go to the fill and pick the same color, but possibly darkened, lightened up a little bit, really doesn't matter too much what you're doing with these colors. Let's take this one here. Same again, I'll just flip that over and go to the fill. And I'm going to go with a much darker green this time. Select the two little pegs, are going to flip them over. And I'll make that. Now. I haven't flipped. I clicked over to just bring the stroke to the front. Let's try that again. Flip over, bring the stroke to the front and choose none over there. For my stroke, I will darken that down a lot in the photo over here. Well, once again, this can probably remain black. This bit here. Once again, just pick a color for, for that. Let's see. Come on. There we go. Something quite, quite dark. Nasty. The bridge thing. I'll choose, darker green. Now I've got all of those in the right place. I could change the strings as well. I'm going to see what it looked like by just selecting the strings. Now sometimes when you try and select an item, you can't always get it when it dense other items around it. So you can go to your layers. And if I click over here, you can see it's just select that string. I can click to select that string there. I'm just going to change the string color, the stroke to white. And I'll choose the second string by going to the layers as well. Once again, go back to my colors and make the stroke on that one white too. I'm going to select all of these items now by clicking and dragging over them to make sure that they are all selected. I'm going to go up to the menu at the top, and I'm going to choose to group them. Now if I move one bit, they will all move at the same time and that's going to actually end up over there, although probably a little bit bigger. Do have a bit of a go. Change your colors in here, pick any colors you like. We can adjust them later on. But start off with something interesting. Group them all together. And then we'll move on to the next step. 55. Add the Text: I'm going to move this across, but I'm also going to scale it up. And if I pull from the side, you can see it will scale proportionately. If you hold down one finger, it will scale disproportionately. Scale it from the side. I really just want that section over there just like that, halfway, halfway up. Now I'm going to put some text up this side. So I'm going to go to My Artistic Text tool over them. I'm just going to click once and put in my text. So this is going to say classical punk with an exclamation mark. After that. There's my texts there. If I go to my move tool and grab a corner, I can just pull it out very quickly. Like so. I'm going to rotate it round. And to make sure that rotates perfectly vertically, I'm going to hold down my finger. And that way it'll rotate in increments and I get it absolutely vertical. That's going to be a lot bigger. So we'll move it up to say about there wherever corner. And I'm just going to scale it out like so. Now I'm going to double-click on that to select the the text area. And I can keep going. So if you keep clicking, you can eventually select all of your text. Over here. I'm going to choose a different typeface. Now being that this is sort of got a slight punk way out feel. I don't want something too dull in here. And I quite like the idea of the sort of typewriter. Look, you can choose whatever you like. In here. I'm going to change the color of the text. So once again, I can click on my colors over here. Good, my fill color. And Let's get rid of that for the moment. And I can pick a color from here. Right? So, oh, that's a little bit too large. I'm going to pull that in a bit like that because this is Punk. We can actually just put it from there and mess with the type a little bit as well. Wouldn't do that to something to do smart if this was just classical, never do that. But because it's got a bank feel, that'll be fine. Habit of a goat get to the stage and then we'll do the last bit which is gonna be bringing in an image. 56. Add the Photo for Text & then Blend: I wanted to bring in a picture with some texture here because as good as this looks, it looks to clean for punk. I'm going to go over to the right-hand side, go to the picture Library. And I have typed in texture in there. And looking through these textures, I've found a texture that I like. And I'm gonna click and hold on the texture and just drag and drop it into my document. Now that's in there. I can resize it to any size that I want and move it around. Now that's a great texture, but you can choose anything else you like. If you don't like the one you've got. Binet, choose a different one. Once again, click and drag it in and resize it. I kind of like this one with the dots on it. I think it looks quite, quite good. So I'm gonna go with that one over there. Now I've got the picture on the top. I'm going to move down to the layers panel. I'm going to click on the picture and go to the options. The first thing I could do is I can change the opacity circuits, see some of the violin coming through that way. But better still. I'm going to go to my blend modes. And that's the blend mode is here where it says normal. If you click on there, these are all the different ways of blending an object with the objects underneath. You'll see as I kind of pulleys through, it shows me all the different blends that I'm getting. So I can just go along. Choose any blender. Like I'm probably going to try something like overlay, which is interesting or soft light. Now, these work by looking at the literature on and then what is underneath that layer. So let me just make sure that this is set to soft light again. That to soft light there. It looks at the way that it's on and looks at what's underneath. Of course, what do you see will depend on what color is underneath there. You can see how it's affecting the colors in there. All I need to do is to maybe improve some of these colors or change them a little bit. So I can see more of what I'm looking for. I'll click on the layers panel again. Go to the layer options. By the way, if you're studios keep disappearing, you can click on that little pin radius, suppose. And when that switched on, it'll stop them from closing all the time. So I've just done that. So this stays open. Let's go back there again. I'm going to go to the group, and I'm going to click on the arrow to open that group of objects up. This is my violin, and I'm going to go down to this curve. This is this shape over here. I want to change that. So by clicking that selected, I can then go over to my colors. And I could adjust the color in there and have a look and see what sort of color I would like. And I'm looking for something which is sort of sympathetic to the background color. Let's try something a little bit more yellow. The same again, the keys on the top here, they're not really showing up. So I'm going to go back to my layers. Now, let's find those keys. If you can't tell what he's wanting in here, you can just click on the little tick to switch things on and switch them off. And you can see as I'm doing that, It's very subtly switching that one out on an off. There. I'm going to select this one, but I also want to select the second one. So I'll just click and drag like that. And let's select both of them. Change the color of that. Going back to the colors over here, I'm just going to lighten it up, maybe like that so we can see a bit better. You can work your way through the rest of the shapes in here. I'm just going to do two more very quickly. I'm going to go in and I'm going to choose the neck over there, change the color of that. I'm going to go into the wild, wild orangey red over there. Lastly, this F0, which is kind of standing out a little bit too much for my liking. So I'm going to go in here, choose the WHO. Once again update the colors. I could just click on choose one of those colors in there. I want it to be a little bit darker than that, right? That is all done. Later on in the course. We'll be looking at different ways of saving this, this out. But for the moment, if you click on the little arrow at the top corner, it will just save it back into here and click it again to open it up. Have a bit of a go with that and maybe try some other instruments or other items, India and look at different pictures and the way they work with blending the images, we're using those blend modes. Have lots of fun with it. 57. Pencil & Vector Brush Intro: We're going to be looking at brushes in this section. So these are called vector brushes, as opposed to pixel brushes that we'll deal with later on. The idea behind vector brushes is that you can have something which looks as if it's hand-drawn, but it is a vector, so it's fully scalable and you can adjust it at anytime. As you can see, I've got two very large brush examples in here. But there are so many different vector brushes that we can work with. 58. Working with the Pencil & Stabilisers: The brush tool and the pencil tool in Affinity Designer are really amazing. Let's have a look. I'm going to start off with the pencil tool. If you're not sure where it is, as always, click on the little question mark at the bottom. You'll see the pencil tool is right over there. Now, with the pencil tool, we are basically creating strokes. If I just start to draw, I get a stroke in there. And now the width or the weight of the stroke can be controlled down here. You can see I can adjust it after I've done the line or in the usual way, I can go up to the stroke weight and I can adjust it in here. But there's a lot more to this tool and just free hand making strokes. Let's get rid of that. So I'm going to select that and just choose Delete. Same again, pencil over here. But this time down here, I'm gonna take my width down before I start drawing. And moving along. What you'll see is we've got a stabilizer. Now when I start drawing, you can see my hand is not the smoothest ever. And the line is pretty good at follows exactly what I've done. Like so. But if I put a stabilizer on and there are two types of Stabilizer. There's a rope stabilizer and a Window Stabilizer. You choose which one suits your needs better once you've experimented with them, I'm going to go with a rope stabilizer. And then I've got a little length here. I'll show you that as we go along when I started to draw this time. Now you can see this a little rope. The rope is pulling that line along. If my hand wiggles a bit, that wiggle doesn't translate onto the line itself. I can get very smooth lines. And the longer you make that, the smoother your lines will be. But obviously the less accurate. Let's take that down and go with something a lot lot more accurate over them. Exactly the same with the Window Stabilizer. Slightly different. And you can see as I'm putting this, go faster, that rope gets longer. If we go back to the rope stabilizer, it doesn't matter how fast I go. The rope remains the same length. I'm going slowly or I'm going fast. It's all the same. The difference between these two is the Window Stabilizer is like having an elastic band rather than a rope. Whereas the rope stabilizer is like a rope. But this makes drawing so much easier because it just smooths out your lines for you. 59. Working with the Vector Brush Basics: Let's have a look at the brush. Now, I am going to switch on the little question mark at the bottom. To find the brush. You can see it doesn't just call it the Brush tool, it calls it the vector brush tool. The reason this is the vector brush is because in the pixel persona that we'll be looking at later on, There's also a pixel brush, but we're working with a vector brush over here. Once again. Let's try and get the vector brush up. Once again, I can then start to draw with the vector brush. Now, what you'll see is it, I've automatically got a brush on here. Down the bottom. I've got the width so I can adjust the width of my brush. And if I go along here, I've got a stabilizer so I can actually stabilize that brush as well. But how do you change these brushes? Well, if you go up to the top over here once again, we'll click on that so you can see there is a Brushes studio. If I click the Brushes studio, there's all different types of brushes in here. And you can just pick any that you want. These brushes are based on the color that you're working with. So if I changed it to read, my stroke is red. There's my brush in there. And I can just go along here and pick any of these brushes. If you want to adjust the brush, well, you can go back to a node tool and you can still select the nodes and adjust them exactly like you're doing with the pencil. 60. More Brushes: In the Brushes studio, we have an amazing amount of brushes. These ones that you can see that I've got up on the critics. But if I go along here, we've got dry media. Moving along, engraving and some really cool ones in here. If I just take that, for example, look at that line that we've got that really cool. Moving along a little bit over here to gouache inks, you can get something which looks more like a server hand-drawn ink line there and markers we've got in the oils, pencils. You could just keep going, pens, watercolors until I get back to a critic's, you can just flip through your brushes. In there. With all of these brushes, you've got the same settings at the bottom, you've got the width in there. You've got the opacity. You can actually go in if you've got a brush and click on More and adjust the properties of that brush as well. So do have looked at sometime when you've got a chance to play with it. And then as I said before, you've got a stabilizer right over there. 61. Sculpt Options: Let's get back to the pencil tool. Onto the pencil tool. Some of the options we've got down here are one called sculpt. Now, let me show you what sculptors. And to show you, I'm going to go to my stabilizer and we're just going to choose know, stabilizer. You can use a stabilizer for this, but I've just switched off to make life easier. And I'll make my brush a little bit bigger, sorry, the pencil a little bit bigger. And I'm gonna click and drag a line like that. Now I've got this line in here. If I were to start over there at the end and then try and continue the line and then continue it here. You can see these lines are all independent shapes or independent objects. That is, when, if I go back to the pencil again, you have sculpt switched off. When you switch sculpt on. Now if you draw a line, you will see that you can then continue that line on. And it keeps it as one shape up and miss that a little bit there. Let's just make sure we start on there. We can just finish this off up to the, that is now one shape rather than multiple shapes. And that's what sculpt does. If you go over to the brushes over here, you don't have a sculpt option in there. 62. Pressure: Let's look at one more option with these pencil and brush. That's the controller. Down here. I'll start off with the pencil because it's also got a controller and the same type of thing. When I'm drawing, I'll just take sculpt off. When I'm drawing a line there. Or if I increase the stroke weight on that line and do it again. You can see my line is actually getting thicker and thinner depending on how hard I press. If I press really hard, qualify, release, and don't press harder, it gets thinner. This is to do with the brush itself that it's using. Now, if I click in there and I go down, I can choose none. Now when I'm painting or drawing, it doesn't matter how hard I press that line will still be the same width. Going back there. If there is a brush and the brush itself that you're using, because you can use a brush on the pencil. I know it's complicated. If you are using a particular brush from here. What you find is that the brush itself might have some pressure options. Let's get rid of that. I'll show you this on the paintbrush. Same again, if I choose, well, let's go and find it an interesting brush. If I choose a brush like that, The controller says none. When I draw the line, it doesn't matter how hard I press on, pressing hard and pressing softer. The line is always going to be the same width. But if I go over here to the brush presets, now let's have a look at the presets. If I click on More down there, you can see the controller for the preset for that brush is set to pressure. I could then, depending on how hard I press, make that line thicker and thinner. So if your brush preset, if this brush here doesn't have pressure, you can then override it by choosing pressure. The controller here. You can either use the controller here or you can go into the brush and use the controller over there. 63. Paper Cut-Out Project Intro: We're onto one of my favorite projects now. This is a paper cut-out technique. You'll see it all over the Internet. And it's actually really easy to do. We're going to create one with a shock in there. Of course, if you'd like sharks, you can do a different type of fish. Take you through it step-by-step. Let's go. 64. Create Document & First Shape with Shadow: We'll put two fingers down on the screen and then drag that using my move tool. So two fingers drag to make a copy. Now this copy I want to scale up. So I'm just gonna put it up and it misses scales unless you put one finger down if you want to make sure you scale things proportionately, one finger. We're going to just go out a little bit like that, make it a little bit bigger than that one. Over there. Once again, I've just kind of aligned it using the smart guides. If you don't see them, remember to switch on a little magnet in there. This might my next one. I'm going to do it again. Hold down two fingers, drag to make another copy. Let's make this one bigger. I might have to zoom out a bit. For this. I'm going to have a finger there. Once again, we can just keep going with as many of these as you like. What I like to do is to make each one in turn slightly bigger than the last one. That one's getting. Ever so slightly bigger, equivalently, two fingers down, drag a copy. And this one here will make biggest steel. I think I'll do one last one after that. So at two fingers down, drag the copy, and this one's going to get bigger still. What you will find using this particular method. And I say this particular method because there are different methods, is that your shadows over here on lots of equivalent. I want a bit more depth on this one. That one looks great down there, but this one here, it looks a bit too flat. You can always go back to your drop shadow, just select the object you want. Go to your drop shadow and you can adjust it so I can pull that around. I can maybe change the radius to make it harder or softer depending on what I want from that shadow. I'm just going to put it in there a little bit. So we've seen some of this down here. You can always change the radius if you need to see a bit more. 65. Duplicate Shapes: We're going to do an Instagram post and we want something that's going to use a paper effect. Let's start off by making the document. I'll give you a new document. In here. I need to choose the size. I'm going to choose device. And I'm going to go with the web. Now. Instagram or social media sizes change all the time every so often they, they increased their resolution. What we're gonna do is we're gonna make a square. But I'm going to choose what at the moment is the standard size for Instagram, which is 1080 square. And that's 1080 pixels. That's why I've gone to web. You can see we are on pixels now. Once again, the height, I'll click in there and put in 1080. The height. The DPI doesn't matter. I know that sounds awful, but it actually doesn't matter because it's only the pixels that are really important. In the color. We're going to choose RGB slash eight. The profile over here. We can use sRGB, that's sort of standard default profile, which will look the same hopefully on everybody's device. Now we'll click Okay, by the way, if I've gone through that too quickly for you, I'm gonna be talking about color in a later lesson. Let me click. Okay. I've got my document already to go and we're going to create the first shape. I'm going to take a rectangle, Andrew, a fairly large rectangle over here. I'm going to put a circle in the middle of that rectangle. Now to line this up. I'm just going to put that roughly in the middle. I'm going to go along and get my elliptical tool. Choose the ellipse in there. I'm going to draw in my lips now I'm going to hold down one finger to get a perfect circle. If I hold it down to draw some middle out-of-town three draws from the middle out and I get a perfect circle. So just remember those options. This is going to be the final circle at the bottom of the stack. I'll move that across the middle of the document. Now I'm going to select both of those. And then I'm going to go up to the menu and I'm going to use, we've done this before the geometry and subtract the front object. Let's change the color on that. I'm going to be using a bluish color for this because we can do sharks and I wanted to sort of see color in here. Now that I've done this one, I'm going to then go across to my effect. And I want a bit of a shadow inside that circle. I'm going to use surprisingly not the inner shadow, but the outer shadow. I'm going to switch that on. And if I click on the outer shadow now, I can then click and drag to move that shadow around. Don't worry about this one on the outside that's gonna be cut off. Then I can go to my radius and I can increase the radius to soften that up. Like so. We can even offset it here using this little controller. Now you can try a different radius is different offsets. Nothing is set in stone in here. You can adjust the opacity to make it harsher or less harsh. Have a go, get to that stage there. Don't forget your outer shadow, not your inner shadow for this. 66. Import & Lock Shark: One of the problems with working with multiple objects like this is it's too easy to by mistake, just move one of them. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go over to the layers studio. And I'm gonna select these objects. And I do that by just dragging or clicking onto the object and dragging over to the left. They're all selected. I can click up here on my options and lock them down. So they're all locked and I won't move any of them by mistake. Let's go and find a picture. I'm going to go over to the stock studio. I've put in shock in there and I've gone to Pixabay. You can find any shock shape that you like. But I'm going to use this one over here, drag that in. That's coming into bit on the large side. So I'm going to scale it down to something which looks a little bit better and that's kind of the shock shape that I want to use. You're looking for something which has got a very distinct outline. 67. Redraw Shark with Pencil: Let's start drawing the shark. Now. I'm going to be using the pencil tool for this. I'm going to go to the settings before I start drawing. I'm having sculpt switched on so that if our, while I'm drawing, if I move my pencil out the way and stop the line, I can continue on with that line. The width I'm keeping quite low. I don't want any controller on here. I don't want to press harder to make the lines thicker or anything like that. But in the stabilization, I will have in my case, the rope stabilizer on and the length will. I'm just gonna try 30 over here. You can experiment to see what works for you. Let me make my shock a little bit bigger. I'm going to do the body first and then I'll do the fins independently using the pencil tool over here. I'm going to, first of all go over here, make sure that I'm on my stroke or I've got a stroke color that I like. In fact, the stroke I'll make white. It'll be just easier for you to see. I can start drawing now, so I'm just going to go round the top of the shock. You don't have to be perfect because you could always sort this out later on. Down to the ground. The body, back to the start. Now, I appear to have quite a lot of points here and it's not that smooth. If you find yours, looks like that. You can just change your stabilization. I'm gonna try mine it 50. Let's do the same thing again. Have a look at how that works. So it is kind of weird putting this little line along. But you don't have to be that accurate. If you think that you want something a lot more accurate, I would use the pen tool as we did earlier. You get a lot more accuracy with that. It does take a little bit of getting used to, to use this tool, but there we go. That's looking a whole lot better. Even there if I've got lines that are not right, I can use my node tool, select those points, move them around, or even go in and adjust the handles. You'll find it if you've got an extra points that you don't want. And I'm looking at this and thinking, well, do I really want that point over there? You can just delete it. As it happens. I do want that point because it's the end of the line. Once you've got that, Let's try the next line. I'm going to use the pencil again. I'm going to go in here and draw in this top fin. As you can see, mine is not that accurate. It's just wanted gonna do this one here. The top there. Let's have this one here, out and around. And last FIN in there. Now that we've got those, we're going to select all the shapes, go up to the menu and geometry and choose add which will add them together into one shape like that. You can still adjust it at this point. I'm going to flip this over. So I'm going to make the the white for the fill. And that's what we're looking for from our shock. Once you've done that, go down to your layers and you can hide the picture. This is the shock that we're going to work with in a moment. 68. Shark Shadow: Of course, for my shock, I would like to have a bit of a shadow going on. So I'm going to go and do exactly what we did before to the Effects. I'm going to put an outer shadow on there. Make sure it's switched on, click over there and move it a little bit like that. So we've got some depth for our shock. And I can then change these settings in here. Just changed the radius a bit over there. You can adjust the opacity to whatever works for you and move it across if you want the shock look more like it's closer to you, just move the shadow further away and we can even adjust it like so. 69. Add Text & Create Outline: Let's get some text into this design. I'm going to go along to my type tool and I'm going to be using the Artistic Text. And I'll click over here and put in would shock the typeface that I've gone to. This condensed type over here, which I rather like. So I'm going to keep it on that one. The size is good as well, but you can always change it if you need. I'll get my move tool and move it down into the right position. I'd like it to be over there. And I think my shock is in a good place to. Now the text at the bottom, I want that to have the same typeface, the same font, and pretty much the same thing as I've got. So the best thing for me to do is two fingers and drag to make a copy and bring that down. I can then select that and put in my next text bits in here, home security. Perfect. I'm going to just move this down and across a little bit. Like so. I want this to be a little bit more customized in the text department. So I'm going to go to my word shock here. I'm thinking that if I could get that to come up a little bit like that, it would replicate almost the fin of the shark. You can see there's almost a shock shape over here with the k being the tail. Well, I think so anyway, but I'm going to pull that out. Now to do that, if I select the text, I'm gonna change my text from editable text into shapes. So right at the top here in the menu, I'm going to say convert to curves. Now, it seems to be exactly the same. But if we have a look at the text in the layers panel, you can see that shock is now a group. If you look at the home security at the bottom, that just says home security, but this says group. And if I click on it, you can see each of those characters has been moved around. So it does mean that I can actually go in here. And if I wanted to, I can actually change the characters individually. I could go into the ER, for example, over there and I could make it smaller and move it around. If I wanted to get more of a shock type of shape, I could take my k over there and I can move that. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the node tool and select those two points are those two nodes. And I can pull them out to get a bit of a shock tail going on there. Then I can go along to the a and I could select those two points on the a. Once again, I'm using the Node tool and pull them out to get an interesting shock. Look. I'm gonna take them up a little bit more. And I'm then going to just select this one node here, moving a bit so I can make sure I'm selecting the right thing. Up there. Select at 1, maybe move that down. To get more of a shock. Look, in my Word. Do try that out a bit of a go with your, with your text. The last thing we need to do here is just change the background color because I want this to be this is home security, so it must have jumped out at you rather than just a gentle blues and whites. I'm going to put red in the background. I'm going to take a shape, draw my shape in. I'm going to change the fill color of that shape to read. And then in the layers, I'm going to move that right the way down. So I'm going to select that and move it all the way down to the bottom. So I've got that red behind everything else. I think I'm just about ready to go. 70. Export jpg: I want to save this out now for Instagram, I'm going to go to the top up here and I'm going to choose to export. We choose Export in there. Then in here I can choose JPEG, PNG gifts, tiffs, the whole lot. I'm going to keep it with JPEG. The sizes are going to be the same size that I created at. But if you've created a different size, you can always resize it in here. For the JPEG, I'm choosing Clicking the high-quality, that option. I would then click Okay. Now before I click okay, There's another option we could do here as well. We can actually click on Share and you can share it directly to different apps from this Share button. If I click Okay, it says where do you want to save this? And I could save that into my documents folder or wherever you wish. 71. Save: When it comes to this area here, we've got all these documents that are open, but there hasn't been saved yet. If you click on the little drop-down menu there, you can choose to close the document. And that's really dangerous because if you haven't saved it anywhere, when you close that down, it will be gone completely. I can also rename it. I've renamed mine shock. I can duplicate it or I can choose a save. But before I choose Save, I need to go up to the top to this little menu and choose where I'm saving it. Is it going to be on my iPad or is it going to be on the iCloud Drive? If I save it onto my iPad. And I'll choose Done. Then when I go over there and I choose Save. Now saving it onto my iPad. And I can now close it, close this down so I can go over there and I can close it. Says are you sure you want to close it? Yes, I am. 72. Duplication & Repetition Intro: Another very important aspect of designer is repetition. Being able to repeat things not just once or twice because you want a copy of it, but multiple times. Whether you're creating a clock face or whether you're creating things where you've got circular repetitions, like I've got over here. 73. Duplicate 2 Fingers, Menu Duplicate & Power Duplicate: I'd like to duplicate this shape and this two ways we can go about it. The first way that we've used so far is to just hold down two fingers as long as you're on your Move Tool and you can drag a copy of that shape. It's been that one. The second way is to actually go over here and choose a duplicate from the menu. And that's duplicated the shape on top of the original. And I can then just move that copy over. Now, I particularly like the two-fingered version. However, sometimes I just want to copy directly on top of the last one, maybe because I didn't want to take that copy and scale it down the middle. Like so. Incidentally, you'll notice that this has scaled in and the outer stroke has got smaller. Because on my Stroke settings, I have actually got that scale with object switched on. If I'd switched it off, they both remain exactly the same size. There's no right or wrong with that. You choose what you need for what you're doing. What else can we do with this? Well, if I do my two-finger option and drag this shape over here, then I duplicate it again using the menu. This is called power duplicate. I can duplicate it and it will do exactly the same thing that I did before. So it just moves it across like that. Once again, I will go to Duplicate in here, and it's done another one the same distance away. Let's do that with all of these shapes here. So I'm gonna take all those shapes, hold down two fingers, move them down and across a little bit. And once again, zoom out a bit. I can go over here and duplicate 23 times. Like so. 74. Rotation Point: Let's look at rotation. I've got a shape here and I want to rotate it. Now, if I drag this top it, I can rotate that shape around. Obviously doesn't work really well because you can't see it rotating property. So I'm going to squish it in to make it more of an elliptical shape. Once again, when I rotate it, it's rotating around its center. How do we rotate around somewhere else? Well, that's where the options along the bottom come in. I'm on my move tool. And I'm going to go along here to these little buttons down here, and I'm going to choose the top middle. Switch it on. Now, look what happens. A little. Target comes up in the middle of that shape. If I pull that target down and maybe move it down to there. Now when I rotate, it will rotate it around that target. Black. So let's combine that was Duplicate. Well, I've put that over there. The target is over there. And I use my two fingers and look at that. Just moves, rotates the whole thing around at least its point of rotation out over there. How could we duplicate that shape? But keeps a point there? Well, instead of using the two-fingered method, if you go up to the menu and you choose Duplicate, now you can take one of those copies and move it around. You can then duplicate around a point. If you want to continue on, you can use power duplicated to just keep going with more and more of those copies. It's a little bit fiddly. But let me just run through that again for you. So when you've got a shape, I'm just going to pick a different shape for the moment. Let's use a crescent over here. That stroke is very thick, we'll make it a bit thinner. Like so. I've gone that shape, I want to change its midpoint. So I'm going to go to my move tool. I'm going to click in these six buttons here, the ones at the top, in the middle. Then I can move a point around wherever I want it to be. Now to make a copy, don't use your two fingers. Go up to the top. Choose duplicate and that duplicated on top of the other one. And you can then without hone down anything else, move that one around. Like so. When I get it to there, if I didn't want to continue on, I can use duplicate or power duplicates. I say digest, get a whole lot more of those like that. Try it out. 75. Duplication with Incremental Degrees Plus Group: Now one of the things that we can do when we are rotating is instead of actually trying to see that little number over there, hold on your finger and you can then rotate in increments of five degrees at a time. I'll place that back there. What I'm going to do now is to just get rid of my fill. Let's choose none for the fill. And I will just give the stroke a different color because I'm tired of yellow. I'd like to rotate this around but be a little bit more accurate than before. So I'm going to go over to my move tool. I'm going to click that little button over there for the registration point. Oh, it's right over there. I'm going to move it down to here. Then I'm going to start rotating this around, but I'm going to do exactly as we did before. I'm going to duplicate it first and then I can start dragging it around like so. But this time I'm gonna hold my finger down so I can get the exact degrees that I want. Now if I power duplicate that, I've got Perth that my perfect degrees. You can just keep going with this. I could take that. Let's make that a little bit smaller. This time I'm going to do the same thing. Makes sure that that is switched on. Move this out to here. I'm going to do a duplicate. Then I'm going to rotate it around the point. Now look what's happened when I tried to do that. The Britain, the rotation points gone to the middle. Let's do that again. I'll get rid of this one here. You can see it. So select those. They're going to move that out to them. And I'm going to power to duplicate that. Jumps to the middle. So what can we do about that? Well, let's see. If I selected this before I did anything else. And I went up to the menu, I chose to group it together. So it's now become one shape. Now let's try it. Pop that over there. Same again. Duplicate. It stays where it should. I can then move that around and I'll reach the 45 degrees in there. And then exactly as we did before, I can keep duplicating all the way round that. I could then take that and do that again. And we can build up some really exciting and interesting shapes that way. 76. Red Line Logo Project Intro: With repetition, with a project, we're going to be creating this red line logo. The technique we're going to use here is the type of techniques that you'd need to use if you're going to create any dial or clock face. Let's get started. 77. Add Guides & Create Shape: Let's start our Speedo icon or logo. I'm going to go and do a new document. I'm going to do this one for print. So in the device, I'm going to click in there and I'm going to go over to print right to the very top. I'm going to choose a four down here. I'm going to have this as a landscape, although what I'm creating is going to be a square. It's just easier for you to see because it'll match my screen size. You can do whichever you prefer. And because this is going to go for print, I'm going to go instead of RGB, I'm going to go to CMYK. Now we will be coming up, as I've said before. In a later lesson, I'll be showing you exactly what RGB and CMYK do in the differences between them. But for the moment we'll just click Okay at the bottom. Now before I get going and do anything else, what I wanted to do is be accurate with this example. And I'd like to put in some guides to put guides into my document. I'm going to go up to this little icon, this little page icon right at the top there. And I'm going to go down to guide. You can see we've got a grid, we've got guides, got bleeds. Once again, we'll be looking into those later. I'll choose the guides in there. Then at the bottom I can add a horizontal guide, and I can add a vertical guide. And by default it puts those right in the middle of my document, and that's all that I want for the moment. However, I also want to lock those guides when I'm working. I can't move them around by mistake. Now, when I go back to my document I'm sorry, my move tool, you'll see that those are locked and I can't touch them. Then I can start drawing my shapes in. And I'm going to start off by using a ellipse. So I'll click on my lips over there. I'm going to draw my lips in. Now when I'm drawing the ellipse and I'm going to use one finger over here to make sure that it is a perfect circle. Then as long as this little icon here switched on, this is the magnet. When I go back to my move tool and move this around, I can then you can see how it just moves and shows me exactly when I'm right in the middle of that page there. We've got a red line and the green line which pop up. So it's now snapped and it's online with those guides there. The next thing that I want to do with this shape is I want to cut the bottom bit off, but I don't want to be a straight cut. I'd like a bit of an angle in there. I've already got my circle in here. I'm going to go up and make a copy of it. And we can do that either by duplicating in there as I've shown you before. You can use two fingers and you can just drag a copy down. Now my copy is a little bit too small. I want this circle to be a lot bigger. I'm going to drag out, I'm using the Move tool once again. And this time, if I hold down one finger on there, I will be dragging a scaling it as a perfect circle. If a hole down to it goes from the middle outwards. If I hold down three, it keeps the scaling or the proportions and scales from the middle outwards. So I'm looking to create something like that now it's using three fingers to do that. And there we go. I've got my nice large circle at the bottom. And I'm gonna be using this one to cut off that one. I'm going to select. Both of those, go up to the menu. And I'm going to use subtract in the geometry that's at one there to subtract one from the other. And my background shape is ready to go. 78. Duplicate Circles Around Centre: Let's draw in little circles that go around the outside. I'm going to start off with an ellipse. Drawing a little ellipse. Hold down my finger to get a perfect circle. And I'm going to go right up to my colors and just give it an interesting color, something I can see easily against this, if yours is great, certainly changed the color, but it doesn't matter what color you use. Now I'm going to be moving it across over here. I'm going to drag it over there and snap it right onto that center line. Now that I've done that, we need to look at this little option down here. If yours is not switched on, you need to go into those six buttons and switch that on. This will enable you to rotate that circle around a separate point, rather than just rotating it around is the middle point in there. So that needs to be switched on if you don't see it or you don't see these, just flip through these little arrows until you get to that view and make sure that it's switched on. And you'll notice it pops up in the middle like that. Now I'm going to move that down to the middle of my document. And that was why I put in those guides. I could place this registration point right in the middle. I wanted to make a copy of that and then rotate the copies round using power duplication. I'm going to come to the top corner here. I'm going to say Duplicate. Then I can grab that full point. Hold a finger on here to rotate in 15 degree increments. I've done two increments there, which is 30. Then up to the top over here I can choose to duplicate. And I will just keep duplicating all way around that nearly there. Back to the beginning. Now, I honestly don't want some of these ones at the bottom over here. So I can then just get rid of them by selecting them and deleting them. These ones are over here. They're kind of sticking out the side and I really don't want them either. We'll get rid of those two. So I'm looking for something or add something like that. Try it out. But be, well, be careful when you're doing that power duplicates. You've got to do it in a very specific order. If it doesn't work, go back to the beginning, try it again. And if you need to re-watch my order that I've done things in here. Do so. 79. Create the Needle: Let's make the little dial that goes in the middle. This will be really easy because really it's just an ellipse, which is the middle part. So I'll just draw in my ellipse over here one finger on the on the page to the size that I wanted to be moved into the right position, which is going to be right in the middle there. It will just snap into the right position. And then the little dial, which is this is gonna be called red lines. It's gonna be kind of pointing towards the red in here. I will use a basic shape in here as well. So I'm going to go with a triangle. And just drawing a triangle, you can see I've drawn the triangle going in vertically. Then if I place that triangle in the document there, I'm going to get these two to become one object. So I've got that selected. I'm going to hold down my finger on the desktop and select the other one. So select that first finger, select, and I'm going to use my geometry to just add those two together so they become one shape. Now the reason I've done that is to show you that then if I try to rotate, it rotates in totally the wrong position. But don't forget this little crosshair over here because I can move that down to the middle. And now when I rotate that it's in the right position, I can place it wherever I want. This is a great way by the way, to do things like clocks. If you need to do a clock or a timer or watch or something like that. You can put in the hands and then you can rotate them to any angle that you want. Now this is going to be over there. I think sort of approaching what is about to be the red. 80. Add Background: Now for these his part of the whole thing, we just need to change the color on here. I think I'm going to select all of those items there. I'm going to deselect this one. So I'm going to put my finger down and click it to de-select. I can then give them some colors. I'm going to make them all black. And I've got a black down there in my quick colors. Except for this one here. This is going to be my red line, if you like. I'm gonna make that a bright red over there. And this is going to be white and we're going to have a black square behind it. I'm going to select that, choose white over there. And then I'm going to draw in my square. So over here, I'm going to go to my rectangle. I'm going to draw the rectangle in now you can either start at the top and draw it out. You can start right in the middle and draw outwards from there. But if you hold down two fingers, you get a perfect square. Sorry, One thing you get a perfect square, two fingers, it draws from the middle outwards. Three fingers at draws from the middle outwards. But as a perfect square. Now that I'm on that I wanted to change the corners. I'll just round the corners off and I can adjust it using that little icon over there. And I'm going to make this black as well. Now, I need to move this behind all the other shapes. I'm going to go to my layers. You can see this is the shape that I've got at the moment. I'm just going to drag it. So click and hold on it and then drag it down, not into the shape, but underneath the shape. In there. You can see everything's perfectly lined up because of my guides. Try that out. 81. Add the Type & Color It: Lastly, we may need a bit of text in here. I'm going to go to My Artistic Text tool. Just click down here and put in the text line that I'm gonna make that a little bit larger. And yes, that's not a mistake. I have deliberately made the eye lowercase and everything else uppercase. Let me just select all that text again. Overhanging to go and find a typeface, which might look a bit interesting with that, I'm looking for something to show speed. So I'm looking for something fairly bold and heavy. Let's go with bold and I'm going to choose black oblique. And that'll give the forward motion of speed. I am going to make my text white. I'll go along to my colors in here and pick white there. So that's going to go down there. Now that we've got that, I can adjust the the size of that. And I'm going to pop that, something like that in the middle. Except for the eye. I'm going to select the eye, which is lowercase now, match it may be into the red of the dial. There's the red that I used in there. Now we're almost done except for one more thing. And that is those guides in the middle. If I go up to the little icon there and go to my guides in here, I could actually choose to just hide those guides. And there they are out of the way. Try that out and put in some text in there. Try some other shapes with this as well and see what you can do. But always look at creating something. If you're looking at symmetry like I'm doing at the moment, creating something with symmetry and use guides to get that perfect symmetry. 82. New Vinyl Record Project Intro: For our second project, we're going to do this vinyl recordings logo. We're going to use repetition to create the record starting at the outside and making copies getting smaller into the middle. Then we're going to use some other things like geometry to cut bits and pieces out and then put some text in at the end. 83. Set up Document & Create Circle: We're going to create a little logo for a website for a traditional vinyl record shop. I'm going to do a new document here. Because this is going to go for the web. I'm going to choose Web in my devices. Then I can actually choose the size that I want in here. Or if the web designers told me the exact size they want, I can go in here and pop it into here. Remember we're creating something with vectors. So even if you don't get the size right in here, you can always adjust it later. Everything in vector is fully scalable. But if you do want to do your own sizes, just click in that little box over there or there and you can pop in your sizes like so. We're going to make sure that we are set to RGB. And I'm going to click OK here. 84. Create 3 Circles as Strokes: I'm going to draw in the record shape now for the logo. So I'm going to go along to the Ellipse Tool, draw in the elliptical shape, put my finger down so I'll get a perfect circle if you want. You can set up guides if you like. It's not necessary for this one, but if you want to practice it by all means. Now, at the moment, I've got this shape here and what I wanted to do is I want the record to kind of the logo to show the grooves if you like. I want a few circles inside each other. At the moment, I could do it by going to the donut. And I could adjust the doughnut shape to get the sort of shape that I wanted like that and there's nothing wrong with doing it that way. However, I wanted to show you a different way because sometimes that might not be ideal. What I'm going to do this time is I'm going to go over to my colors. I'm just going to change the fill over to the stroke. And you can do that by just clicking and dragging over them like that. Then down here I can go to my stroke width or wait and I can adjust head. You might find yours is very, very thin. You can adjust it in there. If you find that your line can look a little bit strange like that because you've been maybe using these brushes or profiles. All you have to do is to click on one once and then click it a second time. You can then say reset the pressure to just go back to standard line. Now that I've got that shape in there, what I can do is go to my advanced settings down here. Because at the moment the stroke is, well, it's across the line. But I could choose if I wanted to do to just have that stroke on the inside or on the outside. This technique is really useful if you have got a specific width that you want to work on. Eugen don't want to worry about adding to that width by adding a stroke line to it, you can get, just get the stroke to go into the middle. The next thing that I want to do is to also go in here and make sure that the scale with object is switched off. Make sure that over to the left. Because when we scale it down, we want to keep this width the same when we scale some copies. I've got the first one in there. Let me make a copy of that. Now. To make a copy, don't forget you use your two fingers in there so I will just duplicate that shape. And I'm going to drag this down. But one finger will make it a perfect circle. Two fingers will scale it to the middle. Three fingers to sketch the middle as a perfect circle. And I'll just pull that over to there were not being too overly accurate with this, which is roughly right. Let's do that again. So another one over here, duplicate. And you can see it's remembered my last, the last thing that I did and it's kind of moved it in. But be very careful because when it's moved it in, it hasn't scaled it the exact same amount that I did with the first one because it's relative to the last shape. And I know that it doesn't always make sense to start off with. So you probably find that you have to actually scale it a bit more. I'll do that and you can see how it actually needs to go in a little bit more before it gets to that shape in there. Now that I've got all those and their lips and they're all lined up and this one's not quite right. We can put it out just a fraction of there. I'm going to select. This can make sure I go back to the move tool. I'm going to select them all. Then I'm just going to adjust the stroke weight on them until I get the field that I wanted to. I'm after something which is going to look like that for my record. Get up to that stage and see how you do. 85. Create Outline & Triangle: The next thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to make these into objects, individual objects that have got strokes on both sides because at the moment each of these shapes is really just a circle with a stroke. I'll just select them. I'm going to go up and I'm going to choose to expand the stroke. What that's done is it's made that stroke into a shape. So now this is actually a fill. You'll see it's a fill color now and it's got no stroke on the outside of that. The next thing I'd like to do is to move this around so it's right in the middle of my page. And in doing so, you can see I can center it one way or the other way. But as you move it around, the little red line comes on. If you've got that little magnets switched on. So I can move that around and just move it and target it right in the middle of my page, like so. Then I'm going to do the same thing here. I'm going to take a rectangle, draw the rectangle across my rectangle. I'm going to flip the colors over. It's just a fill. And I'm also going to move that right into the middle of the page. So back to my move tool and move that until that also lines up perfectly in the middle of the page. We're going to use that to cut out those back objects. But I also want something else. I'd also want a bit of a change of color. So this has been a vinyl record, would probably have some sort of sheen on it as you I'm sure you've, you've seen almost like an arrow that goes out. I want the same thing roughly on this design. So I'm going to start off by taking two triangles. I'm going to draw my one triangle in like so. Then I want to copy, which is going to be the other way up. Now to do that, the easiest thing is to duplicate your existing one. Then you can take that one and flip it over. Now there is an option down here. And if I go down on the right-hand side to the studios, the student that I'm actually in, you can see it's called the transform studio. There is a flip, so I can flip that and move that into the right position, like so. 86. Divide Up the Shape & Delete Unwanted : To take those two little arrows. And just for my own ease of use, I'm going to go up here and I'm going to just add them together into one shape. I might even make them a little bit larger. I'm going to put them over the middle like that now, I don't want the angle to be right at the top. I want to rotate it round. If this is right in the middle of my document, if I rotate, it will automatically rotate around the center. I'm going to go with something like that. Now, I want to start breaking this down into all the component parts. I've selected everything using my move tool. I'm going to go up to the menu and I'm going to say divide. Divide does, is divides all the shapes into independent little bit. So I can start deleting the ones that I don't want. I don't want any of those ones through the middle. I don't want that one there. I don't want that one. I don't want that one or that one over here. I'm going to get rid of that. This one. Now if you have problems selecting things, just zoom in to get them. And that one is, well, why did I do that triangle? Well, what I wanted was these bits here and those bits there, which will be a different color in the final result. So have a go with that, break them up and you should have something which would look like that. Those are separate shapes in there. 87. Color-up Vinyl & Add Donut: Now when it comes to color, well, I'm actually going to have this Shine being in gray and then all the other bits as black. So I'll select them and we're gonna make them black. And these ones here to be black as well. That's kind of the shine on my record now will need a center that record. And once again, I'm going to go back and get my ellipse. And I'm going to draw an ellipse just roughly in there. One finger down, two fingers for drawing from the middle, three fingers to go right from the middle and perfectly symmetrical. I'll just move that into the right position. Over there. I want the circle in the middle. Now, look what happens when you start to move a shape around. You can't then get back to changing the circle in the middle. But if you go back to the tool over here, then you'll find you can choose the doughnut and I can adjust that. In this. I just wanted a little center hole, like a vinyl record would have to give it a different color. In the middle to the last thing is to put in some text and that's going to be the easy bit over here. But if you'd like to get up to this stage and then come back and we put in the text finally. 88. Add the Text: Let's go and add the text in. I'm going to use my Artistic Text tool. Do one-click in there and put in the title. This is going to be new vinyl, which is probably the name of the record company. I'll zoom into that a bit so we can see it a bit better. I'm going to select a few times. So if you just keep clicking, you can eventually select the text. I'm going to pick the typeface that I want in here. I'll use that one over there. And the size you can change in here. Or you can just go in which you move tool and grab a corner and pull it out. Like so. Now I'm going to pop that up and get it to the right size. I didn't want the same bit of texts on the other side for to say recordings. The easiest way for me to do this is to just go over there and make a copy of that. So two fingers down and drag the copy. And then I can adjust the text on the copy. Same again over here, this will be recordings. So that's exactly the same size as the last one. I can just move it into the right position. For them. I think we're pretty much done with that. Experiment with different shapes and obviously bits of different text in there as well, to create your own interesting logos. 89. Thank you!: Well done. You've got to the end of the beginner's guide to Affinity Designer on the iPad. Look for the second version to take your skills on to a whole new level once get lots and lots more projects as well.