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Creating Stunning Assets in Affinity Designer

teacher avatar Katie Simmons, Digital Artist | Perch Handmade

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome, Friends!

      1:46

    • 2.

      Getting Inspired

      2:37

    • 3.

      Adding Hand-Drawn Charm with Procreate

      19:53

    • 4.

      Bringing Assets into Adobe Capture

      6:48

    • 5.

      Saving and Exporting into Affinity Designer

      15:50

    • 6.

      Working within Affinity Designer

      12:51

    • 7.

      Building Your Asset Library

      5:59

    • 8.

      Sync + Symbols

      8:18

    • 9.

      Thank You!

      2:07

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About This Class

Get ready to embark on a journey of artistic discovery and creative expression! I'm Katie, and I'm thrilled to invite you to join me for an exhilarating tutorial, as we learn how to create stunning assets in Affinity Designer on the iPad. Together, we're diving into the captivating realm of 'Creating Stunning Assets in Affinity Designer.' This class isn't just about art; it's about unleashing your imagination and acquiring the skills to craft digital assets that will take your design projects to new heights. By combining 3 of my most used apps in one tutorial {Procreate, Adobe Capture, and Affinity Designer} we’ll make using your iPad the hero of your designing world. Let's jump in and explore the magic of digital artistry!

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Here’s what we’ll go over:

  • Getting Inspired with Unsplash
  • Adding Hand-Drawn Charm with Procreate
  • Bringing Assets into Adobe Capture
  • Saving and Exporting into Affinity Designer
  • Building Your Asset Library
  • Sync and Symbols

VERSION NOTE:

Affinity is now on Designer V3, and the V2 iPad app isn’t available for new downloads.
You can take this class using:

  • V2 for iPad (if you already have it installed)

  • V3 for desktop (currently available and free)

The interfaces aren’t identical, but they’re close enough to follow along comfortably.

Join me for this tutorial, where you'll be part of a vibrant community of creative souls. With an uplifting and excited attitude, I'm thrilled to guide you through this enriching experience. Let's unlock the door to boundless creativity together, one stroke at a time. See you there!

At the end of this class, remember to use the #CreatingWithPHM on Instagram so that I can see what you're up to. I love to re-post what you're creating... so just do it!

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Why struggle with setup when you can dive straight into design? These guides come with built-in previews, so you can see your pattern’s full impact as you create. 

Grab your Perch Spot Pattern Guides at this link and bring your designs to life even faster! 

I’m Katie from Perch Handmade.

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1. Welcome, Friends!: Have you been curious how to create assets in affinity design? Er, maybe you see your competitor, competitors, competition. Maybe you just see other artists out there creating these really fabulous designs with such ease and you're curious how they're doing it. They're using assets A lot of the times an asset is a design that you've created in your vector program. You can even create it in your photo shop program, but they're little drop ins. It's like a P and G, but it's vector. You just drop it in and you can place them wherever you want in whatever design you're making. I love to use them for making patterns. All of my artwork for this class. Actually at the end of the day today, we are going to be getting everything ready set so you can use these assets regularly. We're going to be using Procreate Adobe Capture because it's a free program from Adobe and Affinity Designer. That is my preferred vector program. It beats out the competition because it's so accessible. Stick with me and we'll hop in in just a minute. Okay. 2. Getting Inspired: One thing I love to use to get inspiration is unsplash. Unsplash is great because they have so many free licensed artwork or photos that you can use for your own artwork. I must confess, I never thought I was really artistic. And I am still learning to draw and create things on my own. But I really love to take a photo, something and trace over it and then make it my own. Makes that really easy for me. Right, let me show you splash real quick. Hopefully that goes through. Here's my unsplash board. I have different collections over here that you can look through. We're going to be working with my botanicals collection today. There's so many that you can look at and see, and it's just really nice to have these amazing photos that you can use. Then the birds collection, I love having full pictures of creatures or animals. That way I can get every little, last, little bit of them. Like this little book guide here. When you have found what you like, then you can just hit the download button and it gets it right into your download file right here. And this is great. If you're using it for something else, you can give a shout out to the owner of the photos. You can just copy that to your clipboard and you're ready to use it and save it all. Let me show you all the files do come with their names. If you didn't quite get that copy to the clipboard for an attribute, their name is always in the file. 3. Adding Hand-Drawn Charm with Procreate: We're going to begin today by using procreate to bring in that photo. I can send it right to, let's see, Let me open, I can send it right to my ipad. I'm going to do that really quick. Then f my ipad I show you from my ipad. I've dropped it right in and it's ready to go from here. I can just send it right to procreate. And it'll open right up in my procreate app. Now I have this little guy, I'm going to pick just a black color to get started and I'm going to turn my opacity way down on this guy. I'm going to find a brush to use. Usually I just like to use my ink pen brush because I like the I'm drawing on the wrong sent side. I like the fluidity of it. And those you can get in on my website, I'm going to make it a little smaller. I'm going to make a layer on top of the original layer if you're new to procreate. I have other classes on my website that you can take. I'm not going to go over too much of that right now, but this one is pretty easy. Like I said, I open this up and I turn the opacity down by hitting the end here. It's on normal, that's why it has an end there. I don't need to do anything else. And I'm also going to slide it and I'm going to lock it because I don't want to do anything on that layer. What we're working with is doing full multiple layers to create this design. Another thing I always do as well is I create little, I create things over in the corner here that makes it when I'm sending it to my other programs, it knows to keep them all the same size. Because of that, I'm going to lock that as well. I have the size I want. I am going to first just start outlining this little guy. I don't need to do anything except outline his actual shape. You might not know this about me, but I am definitely afraid of birds. I hate birds. I don't know why, Well, I kind of know why. I think I was traumatized as a kid by birds. But even this is a little bit scary for me and it's totally irrational. I understand that. But okay, don't we all have things that are a little bit irrational sometimes? As you can see, I'm just loosely going over, this doesn't have to be so perfect. In fact, less perfect it is, the more character it's going to have. That first one, I'm just going to take the color and slide it in. That creates our background for this bird. Then I'm going to turn it down to a lower opacity and add a new layer. We're working on separate layers every single time. Okay, now what I can do, one thing I like to do, actually I duplicate this. Then I can come in here with an eraser brush and let me see what eraser I have. I'm going to use the same brush. And if I want to take this brush and turn it into an eraser, I'll just hold down on the eraser tool and it will go over here. Now, I just come in. Start erasing bits. If I turn this all down, I can see it better. Oh, I see what happened here. That one, the opacity came down too, because I duplicated it with the opacity down. You just start erasing and getting rid of pieces that way. If you're doing it this way from the base piece, when they transfer over, you're not creating new shapes on top of other shapes. And you'll see why that's an issue later. We're going to turn it on free hand and use the selection tool to just get rid of all of this and three finger swipe down and then it cut. All right. I'm going to bring the pace down on that one again, I'm going to duplicate this layer again. Now I'm just going to work on eyeball. Bring that a pass. I need that pace down on this one so I can see what I need to erase. I'm going to bring that down, this piece. What I can do is now bring the opacity back up. I can make the selection tool on just the eyeball. Do the three fingers swipe down. And I can do cut and paste. We look at that one. That's how I took it away from and I'm going to delete that piece. I don't need it anymore now. This little guy has some detail on there and I can add that detail. But for this first one, I'm not going to do that. I think I'm just going to leave it as it is. But I am going to create his wings now. Let's duplicate this piece again and start erasing where his little wings are. I come up here, we can get his whole wing section you want to create the shapes. See how if I bring that gacy up, you can see the shapes coming together. This one I want to fix a little bit. It only needs to be on the piece that I'm trying to work with a. Right now I'm ready to use my free hand tool. I'm going to go around it again and cut paste. I don't have to worry about having the quality really high quality. Sometimes when you duplicate with your layers, every layer above the first layer is losing quality when working with it this way. I'm going to be sending it to Adobe Capture to turn it into a vector. So we just need dark colors. And that's it. You know what I am going to do on this one, because I do want this sky to be, I do want to show the detail on this one. Now, let me see what happened. There were in there. There we go. I had a little bit that was an erase mark. I'm going to lock this for right now. I'm going to start using my eraser tool and bringing down to a smaller percent. See where we have the wings now, I'm just going to start creating those shapes. Can you see how using the ink pen with that variable brush stroke, it creates a really nice design. I'm not going to go, oh, maybe I will. I can't go all the way to the edge on that piece because that one doesn't matter as much. 4. Bringing Assets into Adobe Capture: Now the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to send each layer individually. I don't need that top one. Oh, this was my corners. Sometimes it's good to layer your corners or to name your corners, but we want to send these off to Adobe Capture. How we do that is we go to this wrench tool here and hit Share. We just share it as a J peg. Mine comes up as Adobe Capture. If you can't find it, go over to more and you might be able to find it in your selections down here. And we hit Adobe Capture and then hit Cost. Okay. It immediately brings you to the shapes, which is any shape that you is going to go here. If it's a type, it will come here different graphics or color. It'll go in separately. We want to make sure it's going to be really smooth. So I bring the threshold here all the way up and then hit the check mark you. It's looking pretty great right now. I always check to see if I need to refine anything. The refined button is here and that's where you can do erase. But I don't really love it very much. It's a little bit tricky sometimes. You can't get it perfect. That's why I like to refine it in procreate first. But if you have to, then sometimes when it comes over to vector, it changes it a little bit. But this one is pretty good, I don't need to do much and you can add to it. If you find a spot that you need to fill in, then you can just fill it in. It'll help to smooth this out because all of these little pixelated pieces sometimes will transfer over once it's spectra, then I always hit smooth, it smooths it out. I typically don't turn smooth on because sometimes it smooths it too much, then you don't have that hand draw look. I just keep it off and hit safe. You can name it if you want. I typically don't. I'm going to put it into the Ay because that's for the birds and hit safe. Then I have the first piece in this little guy. This is where naming it can be good. You can name the bird. Say maybe it's a finch, I'm not sure. Finch one. And that way when you're going down the line and you have lots of pieces like I do, then you know where to begin sending it off to affinity designer. But usually when I start with the base shape, then I know now I can just go right back to procreate by hitting up here and working on the next layer. I turn this layer off, I'm going to lock it because a used it. And turn the next layer on. We're going to do the same thing. Share Adobe capture post, bring that threshold all the way up. That one still is coming through pretty well. I don't need to do any refining I can hit. So save. There's the second piece. I'm going to go back and quickly go through all of this. Peg, adobe capture post threshold, so it's looking good to me. Go the feet. This one I think it'll be fine because the feet came through fine the other times. Threshold. Yeah, see that one's got this little piece, I want to take away that little piece there and that's it. I didn't want that to go through and then hit Smooth save it's in there. So I'm going to go back to procreate and go to the next one Je capture post. It can get a little tedious, I get that. But once you're on a roll, it really helps out. Can you see how? Because we have each of the corners in there, Every piece is going through at the correct size. If it didn't, that would be a smaller, it would distort it. We want to make sure that they're all the right side when they're going into an affinity designer, that they get placed very easily. Save on to the next one, then we're done after this. Peg it. Adobe Capture just needs black and white. And that's it because all vectors work best when they're coming into that as a black and white. If it's not black and white, you're going to lose quality. 5. Saving and Exporting into Affinity Designer: Now we're ready to take it from Adobe Capture and we're going to pop it over to Affinity Designer. One thing to know also is all of the assets that are in Adobe Capture are automatically saved to your creative suite on the cloud. You don't have to worry about these taking up too much space on your ipad. You don't have to worry about losing them. You can find them later on just by logging in to Adobe Adobe Suite. It's really nice because the capture app is free to use. You don't have to pay for anything because I don't like to have too many things that I have to pay for. This one works seamlessly that way. One tip to before we start sending them over to affinity designer is to make sure your affinity suite is open but you're not working in a document. Let me show you mine. I'm going to open up my Adobe suite so you can see some of my assets that I already have. A couple of them, I believe this one and this one are what you got in your packet today. You got them in your packet today. You can download them into procreate, and send them over and make the any color you want. But those are the two that you get with this class. If you want to create something quick right now, maybe you did that. But if you want to just work with me and use those, then let's send those over. Hopefully that's what you use already today. Right, let me show you. This is closed out. I'm going to open my Adobe Capture and start with this sky here. We're going to hit the three menu here and hit Share Share. Then we are going to export as an SVG file and send it right into Adobe Capture or send it right into Affinity designer. Here's our first one. See the little guys here are at the edge. What I'm going to do is clean those up. If you go to your layers panel, you'll see each piece individual because that's how vector programs work. They are individuals, individual layers. You can take them, put the first here and the two fingers down to get everything in between. And then I'm going to hit the ad button. This has to work when you're using your move tool that creates it on one level, on one layer. If you're new to affinity designer, take my other class. It goes over all of this and how to use all your panels and how to create a design. I'm going to just keep those here. I am going to slide both of those to the right. I'm going to hit Copy. I'm going to move out of here because remember, we can't be in a document when we want to bring the next one over. Actually, I didn't need to do the copy there. I need to do that later. Okay, let's just work with the next pieces, right? Like I said, it's a little bit tedious to do all of this, but you get pretty fast at it. I picked all of those corners and created one layer with them. Now on to the next piece, Share Export VG 1.2 fingers and then hit Add, Go back. You're at this board here. Did you see how I'm doing that here on my new ipad? I slide up from the bottom and I can get back to all of the programs that I have open. I just did that little piece here. Now I know I need to do the feet next. Share ports, peg. The feet are each individual pieces too. I'm going to create one layer with those then. You'll see what I can do with those later. I can separate them later but for moving them to a new page, because I'm going to put those all onto one page, can share ports. Same with all the wing pieces. All these pieces here are individuals. I know the bottom 41234 are my corners, 1234 and you can see they're lit up with blue, right? I'm going to hit Add there. Then I'm going to create the wing as one big curve as well and hit Add. Now it's one piece, another thing to do. Well, we'll do this when we get it all in one place. Okay, so we just do the wing. Now I need to do the SG and now we have the beak. We don't want to edit it, I'm going to share X W as S. Can I show you one thing to say, you are near the bottom of your list, right? Maybe this is the first time you've used Affinity Designer or Adobe Capture and you go to share. And sometimes it brings it up here. Let me try this one. If this one's down here, see how it brings it up down below. And sometimes you can't get to it. What I'll do in those cases is I'll just open it up and then hit the Share button and export as SG. Just sometimes it creates a couple of problems when you're trying to share it. That's a workaround for that one. All right. I'm done with Adobe Capture and I'm done with Procreate. I'm going to get rid of all of those. Now I am going to take all of these pieces and create one document with them. This is my base document. I'm going to save my base document as bird. You want to save all you want to make sure you save the main file for all of your assets and put them on a hard drive somewhere. That way later on you want to use them or God forbid, something happens and you lose them in your asset program file, then you can have them stored somewhere else and you won't lose all that always making sure you name them properly. And maybe if you have a project name them for the project as well so you can find the easier. I'm going to name this one first. I'm going to say E, R I, E because that's my category. And then I'm going to say, maybe, I don't know if that's the finch, but that's what I'm going to call it. I'm going to put the date in there to 92223 day of the first day of fall. I'm just going to do the month in the year. I believe today is the first day of fall. Happy Fall. Find where you're going to put that. I'm going to put that in my creative, actually, I'm going to send that to my assets. I have an asset, affinity assets and birds. There you go. That's the main one is going to be saved. The rest of these, I'm going to just copy pieces out of it. Here I'm going to create. That's good. Now I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to take both of them and just hit Copy. Then when I bring them into this one, I'm going to hit Paste. It's putting them on top of each other. If I take that one away, you can see it, the curves there. That is your corners. And I don't need that anymore. So I'm going to delete that. I'm going to rename these, you can rename them by sliding to the left. Rename layer and just saying, base, oops, I didn't want to lock it. I wanted to rename it. That's the second layer now, because I just did this one. I'm going to close it. And I'm not going to save it because I don't need that. I'm going to do this with the next layer copy. Bring it over into this layer. Hit Paste. Get rid of my curves there. I'm going to turn that one off so you guys can see. I know that one there, but I'm keeping it until the end. I'm going to actually lock it for now. Then I'm going to delete this one, rename it in Head, and get rid of this one. Open this up slide since the first layer is already done slide so I have both of them copied or highlighted. I'm going to hit Copy, go back here, and I'm going to hit Paste the corners. Again, delete the corners. And this one is the fine naming, all the layers helps later on when you're creating your asset and turning it into an asset. That's why I'm taking the time, as I'm dropping them in there right now, to name all the layers. You could not do that, but then later on you might need to know what all the pieces are. For me, that's the fastest way to do it. I'm going to come in here, copy, go back to this hip paste. I know the bottom one is, those corners. I'm going to get rid of it. I'm having a hard time seeing, okay, Sax's wing. Do you see how I turned all those off? Just by hitting the little dots here. Right, And then the wing so I can get rid of it. Next we're going to go to his little eyeball. I remember that eyeball, copy paste. Get rid of the bottom curve because I know that bottom one is the corners rename finch eye. If this is not a finch or I'm calling them a finch. Okay, and now we have is beak. That's the last piece. Copy, paste. Oops, I think I hit copy. Those are still no copy. Let's do this again. Paste. There we go. We'll eat that one. Rename finch. Beak. 6. Working within Affinity Designer: We have our bird, we have our finch and we're going to work our magic when the affinity and clean up our design. Let's keep going and remember, check all your layers. Check that they're all named and we'll move on. Okay, okay, I have all my layers here. I have my corners. Guess what? I don't need my corners anymore. Did you see? I can do that a couple of ways. I can delete it here or I can click on this one and hit the trash can. Next, I'm going to well, let me make sure they're all in the order I want them to be. I want this is I want it up here. I want his head. Let me see. Okay, here's his head, here's his eyeball. I think that will work. I think I want his head coming over his eyeball a little bit. I want the beak to go over the head piece a little bit. I think that's a good order. The feet. Okay. I'm trying to figure out this blue line and now I think I've figured it out. Remember when we first went in to the base and I was showing you how to add some space to it, What I can do because they're not lining up properly. And I'll show you when we add color. I'll show you when we add color. Let's hold on. I'm going to group all of these. Bottom one has already clicked two fingers on the top one, and that will get all of them together. And I'm going to hit the File button and I'm going to hit Group. We need to rename this group. This is where, again, the naming and organization comes in. Remember we call this guy finch. I can just call them finch and this is my first one of the finch. I'm going to, okay, now we can start going in and picking colors for it. We can choose to keep this base layer on or off. I'm going to keep it on. I'm going to go to my swatches. You can choose colors, different ways, You can use the sliders, you can use the color wheel. But I really like working in color palettes. I have one, where is it this summertime assets is what I was using the other day. But there's so many different palettes, colors you can use. I like to find really fun ones and take the time to upload them all. But let's see. I'm going to go with the curiosity palette. This is from the palette perfect book. Here, let me show you. I wasn't going to do this today, but palette perfect book. If you love good color palettes, Lauren Wager, she's got these amazing color palette book lets you can just go through and find really good cohesive colors. That one's the curiosity color palette that I had downloaded. That's a lot of fun. All right, let me back to my camera. There we go. That one I did when I was in Kai, I want to go to curiosity. Where was that? They're all alphabetical sometimes. It's hard to find. All right. I love the bright colors. It's a mix of cool and warm and a lot of fun contrasts. The I like to keep the bases as a light color and then work my way up from there. Then his body, he was a really fun orange color, but I don't have to keep that if I don't want to, but maybe I will for now, his feet. Bird feet color, we can go with a darker color. Maybe I should turn them on real quick. Can you see? You can see the difference in the colors there. This is something we can clean up later on. We will definitely need to clean it up, but everything else is coming through. All right, let's see, a little wing, let's still on the F. Let's go to his wing. Maybe a dark red, maybe you want like a pink. This is a fun little guy decisions. I'm going to stick with that red and see how you can see the color coming through underneath. Look at this little guy taking shape. I love him. He did have a dark eye. I'm going to go, I wanted to do like maybe I'll do, let me see. I think I need a little bit darker color. Another thing, if you are not finding quite the right color, go back to your swatches on color wheel. It's really nice and handy too. There we go. That's what I wanted. A dark brown, which was not in that color palette. Okay, the finch head. We're going to go back to my palette here. He's coming along nicely. What is he? Okay, and his beam, I'm going to go with maybe a blue because it doesn't have to be perfect. Look, you guys, we just made the cutest little finch, right? How sweet is he? I'm going to, just for this section, I'm going to make my base really bright so I can see it underneath. Actually, I really like really bright. Actually, I'm going to go black. So I can see it even better. Down by the feet right, you can see quite a bit underneath. One way to get around that is to take the curves, because all of your layers are called curves. I'm going to take the curves of the feet, I'm going to take the base. I'm going to come up here and I am going to divide them and see how we just got a piece, but I see one piece here, okay? Then another piece here. I'm going to move those guys. Actually, you know what, I'm going to just group those two. It's going to be faster for me to group them. Oh boy. So sometimes you get all these little pieces. So I'm going to go down and get rid of all of those. I can just know I can't get rid of all that. Something else. Oh, I know what I can do. There we go guys. Now I'm going to come over here. I'm going to use my nodes tool to click all those pieces and just delete them. The faster way to do what I was just about to do, put on those pieces, sometimes you got to find the faster way to do it right sometimes Doesn't want to work for you. There you go. Okay, here's my bird. That's what I didn't see earlier. All right. So see how it also took the feet away, but that's okay because when we put them back in, they're right there, right? And you don't have that space underneath. Here's our little. And you can do the same thing with the the outside here, but it's pretty okay for now. And I'm going to give it that lighter color again. All right. You guys, we've just created our finch. Those are the feet. See how they're separated. Now, if you want to, you can add them back together, but I think I might keep them separate. I'm going to add them. Rename it again. Sometimes it's a little bit of doing things over again, but that's okay. All right, and see how I moved it out of that group. Now that group has this little empty file, we can get rid of that. Here's our finch guys. This is what we're going to do next. 7. Building Your Asset Library: Now we are ready to create our asset library. We have our finch, we have our bird. We have whatever you used to create a design with, it needs to be in, otherwise you'll have separate pieces in your asset. So keep it all in one folder. And like I said, it makes it really easy to have them all named. This one's not named anymore, So I'm going to rename it Base. Can do this. All right, now we're ready to go to our asset library right here. If I just hover over it with my Apple pencil, it shows up. And that's because I have the newest version of Apple pencil and the ipad. If you don't know where it is, you can always here on the question mark and it will tell you down below. And there's your assets. Can you see that? There are your assets? Now I'm going to open my asset library. Your asset library has you have different categories. This top name here is called the category. If you want to create a new category, do across from the very top assets. Get the little sandwich, add a category, right, and rename it. I already have one for my birds. I'm going to keep it as, put it in with the. Hm, the ayo. This little guy is not a humming bird. And I shared with you guys humming birds. I do want to create a new category. What I need to do is come up here and add a subcategory. It's going to rename it just assets. I want to rename it something else. I'm going to click on the hamburger down here. Rename category, this one. I'm just going to name finches, or maybe I'll just say little birds because how many finches am I actually going to find? And it's something different than humming birds. Humming birds, yes, are a very small bird, but there are so many different ones. Now I can, because I have this whole one click, make sure all of the buttons are open. Right. Another thing is if you add any effects to any of these, which you would do over here, then that will be saved when you save it as an asset as well. But I'm going to come over to Assets, click on Little Birds, and add Act from Selection. Now this low guy is right here. I can move this guy because he's in the folder. That's why I can move, resize him the way without the ratio changing. If it was just one piece, I'd have to have one finger down to resize. Let me show you real quick. If I just resize one piece, I can't do the one finger. If I have one finger down, then it keeps the ratios the same. But I don't want to do any of that. Okay? I've got this little guy over here. Here's my assets of my little bird. And I can click here and insert, Look, I'm going to try with the humming birds. You guys, this is where it gets really fun because you can just drop them in. I shared with you a botanical as well. That's where you can come in and start inserting different things and creating your little designs. I'm going to flip that. This little branch is going to be underneath which one? It looks like he's holding onto it maybe. Right, we have the branch. We've got this humming bird. And this humming bird. 8. Sync + Symbols: Okay, let me show you something else. What I can also do, I'm going to clear these. I don't need all of them. I want to show you something else. And this is another really fun trick to creating your assets. This is a little extra, right? Take your asset and hit the symbols symbol over here. We want to add symbol from selection. Now, add this guy in. I can change him. I can where he's going, Oh, he's upside down. I'm going to change how he's positioned. Right. Maybe I add a branch in. I'm going to add I'm going to add the other branch as well. It's okay if they go off the page. Okay. So remember I left there. Oh, their feet separate. Oh, nope, I did lock him. Never mind. Never mind, you guys. Okay. So there's that branch. Right? And I'm going to hit symbols and add the symbol. Right. And I'm going to insert it again. I'm going to flip. I'm going to make it a little bigger for this guy, right? Going to put, see how they all have the orange. It means they're all sync, right? If you go to your sync file, you know what things are sync and you can turn the sync off and then you can turn or you can hit detach. If you detach, let me show you. That one doesn't have the orange anymore, right? Let's see. But I want it sync. I just did the two fingers and it's synced again. Let me show you what happens now when I want to change a color in a design. If you want to change all the colors in one design, it's super simple. Let's try with his body. Hey, it changes everything that's sync together, right? And maybe you want them to be different and that's where you just detach them, right? I think I like a darker, let's see, beak. Let's give him a little yellow beak. And I'm going to change it wing here, color. You can do the same with the branch because the branch is a different color as well. There we go. This is where it comes in really handy when you're working on a pattern. And you need to change everything in the pattern, or you just want to change the colors really fast. You just come through and use all your assets. You can s, other things as well, but you can use your assets and start changing the color in one design and it'll change it across the whole four which is. But then you can also see where having all your files named properly gets big show you if you have a lot of files open and you need to find the right piece, you know just what you're getting. You know, you're getting the finch head, sometimes they're kind of small, so it's hard to see, you know, you're getting the finch eyeball, right? Yeah. So having those sync pieces really creates a faster, easier workflow, right? Really, that's all we're trying to get is to have a faster, easier workflow. It took a little time to get these all put in and together, but by having that time now, anytime I want to go and create a new document, let me show you like by go and hit a new document, then I can come in here and like I said, just start dropping assets, right? It makes things just so much easier to work and create these really nice pieces for your documents, for your artwork. Right. Make a change sizes of the and change the placements. Yeah, I think it's the Be's knees. I think it's the Be's knees. Making great assets and putting a lot of effort or design into them can be another thing. Once you start really getting to know affinity designer, you can create, you can create shading in procreate, use your layers. The shading won't transfer over the same as it would, but you can create vectors out of black and white shades. You can and it'll give it a handle on look, right. And that's what we're trying to get with vector designs. Because whenever you think of vector designs, you think of really just strong graphics. We want it to be a little more feminine sometimes or a little more fluid. Yeah. 9. Thank You!: All right, I hope you had fun today. Today, we were able to get our inspiration using unsplash. And you can find the link to my unsplash collections in the downloads. Sorry, I have downloads that came with the class. In the downloads, yeah, we learned about creating really fun pieces with those blocks, with the black and whites for using that in procreate, which then we sent over to Adobe Capture as each individual layer and then we pulled them into affinity designer. Yeah, we created really fun little pieces today. And that little finch, it was cute, so maybe I don't need to be afraid of birds. I don't know. It's usually when they're flying at me, that's when I have issues with them anyway. Have fun. I'm Katie. I'm from Per Chan made and you can find more classes on my website and yeah, I hope you have a really fabulous day today. Don't forget to share your assets and designs that you're making with your assets on social media and use the hashtag creating with H. No, that's my hashtag. Okay, let's see. Can I have that in there? Probably not. I'll put it in the links down below. All right, bye for now. Thank you.