Paper Cut Vector Art in Affinity Designer (iPad)

1. Introduction: Hi, everyone, and welcome to the class. I'm Priscilla, an Illustrator, graphic designer, and Skillshare top teacher. In this class, we're going to design a modern papercut style poster, inspired by traditional papercut designs. We will do this while learning all of the essential tools in Affinity Designer on the iPad. Now, if you are new to Affinity, this is a perfect beginner friendly project. One of the exciting things about Affinity Designer is that it is now completely free on the iPad with version three coming soon, making it an ideal software to learn to use. As we create this project, you're going to learn a whole lot of skills. You'll learn how to set up your documents and navigate the tools on the interface. How to use the Shape Tool to create different elements, how to use the pen and pencil tool to create custom shapes. How to create metallic looking effects using the gradient tool, how to add glow and lighting effects to vector objects. How to use the FX Panel and shadows to create the depth and dimension of the papercut layers, how to import and add typography and fonts and place text along an object. How to add texture to your vector layers to mimic that traditional paper look. Finally, I'll show you how to change colour profiles and export your document in different formats. So, to help you get started, I've included a sketch of our project, a custom colour palette, watercolour paper texture, and a link to a free font that we'll be using so that you can follow along with me every step of the way. By the end of this class, you will have created a polished papercut vector poster while developing the skills that you can apply to many other projects, including prints, illustrations, and greeting cards. All you will need to take this class is an iPad and a stylus. I will be using the Apple Pencil, the free Affinity Designer Version two app, although you can follow along with other versions or the desktop version. And the class resources linked below this video. Okay, enough talking. Join me in the next lesson to find out how to download the class resources so that we can start creating together. 2. Class Project and Resources: For your class project, you'll be creating your own paper cut illustration in Affinity Designer. To help you do this, you can find your class resources linked just below this video. I've created a sketch to use as a guide or tracing reference, a custom colour palette, a free font linked that we will be using and a watercolor paper texture. Once you finish your design, take a screenshot or export your artwork as a JPEG and then save it to your camaro. Then you can upload it to the class project section just below this video. You can create the same illustration or you can create your own variation of the style. It's easiest to access your resources in the web version of Skillshare. Simply tap each file to download and then save them to your file storage. From there, I'll walk you through the process of importing them into the app in the next lesson. Okay, enough talking. Let's get started on the next lesson with setting up our document. 3. Document Setup: In this lesson, we are going to create a new document in Affinity Designer for our illustration. When you open your Affinity Designer app, it will open to your Gallery view. On the left hand toolbar, select new and then New Document. A new menu will appear offering options for premade templates on the left hand side that use common dimensions for print and media. On the right hand side, you can set your own custom dimensions for the document. And for Rs, I'm first going to make my document unit in pixels. And then I'm going to set the size by tapping the number to activate the grid, and I'm going to set the dimensions to 2000 by 2000 pixels. And the DPI at 300 DPI, which is the default for print ready applications. Finally, I'm going to toggle on the transparent background and select Okay at the bottom to create a new document. When it opens at the top toolbar on the left, you'll see an arrow that will take you back to your gallery view. When you tap it, you'll notice that your document is called untitled. We're going to tap the three lines at the top, select Save As, and then label our document as paper cut. Once you're done, save it to your files, which is a really important step because Affinity does not automatically save your documents. While we're here, I'm going to activate another important setting that will keep us organized. At the bottom left of the page, select settings, and then in the user interface section, scroll down and toggle on. Ask for name when creating layers or groups. Then at the bottom, we can tap done, and now we can go back and select our save document. Once it's open, head up to the top menu with the three lines, tap it and select place to import our sketch. In the pop up menu, select files if you've saved it at a file location. And once you've selected your file, choose open. Then you can use your finger or stylus and drag the image onto your artboard, releasing it when it's full size. At the top right, make sure your snapping magnet is activated, and then this will help you align your sketch in the center. Next, we can head to our layer studio on the right tool bar with the layed icon and tap to open. Tap on the sketch layer and swipe to the left and select Lock to make sure our sketch won't move as we create our vector. At the top of the layer panel, tap on the text that says normal to open the Blend Mode menu and select multiply so that we'll be able to see our sketch through the other layers. Next, we need to create a vector layer to build our illustration. So head to the top of the layers panel, tap the plus icon and select vector layer from the menu. Because we've enabled this in the settings, a pop up box will appear, allowing you to name the layer, and I'm going to name it papercut and tapo. On the right in the Layer studio, we're going to tap this new layer and hold and drag it with our stylus just below our sketch layer. Finally, we're going to import our colour palette for the illustration. On the toolbar on the right, tap on the color circle to open the color studio. At the bottom, tap on the text watches, and then in this menu, tap on the three lines at the top and select Import palette. And then the option as application palette which means you can access this palette in any document on Affinity Designer. Finally, select your papercut palette from where it's saved in your file storage, and it will import into the program. And that's it for this lesson. Join me in the next lesson to begin to start creating our shapes for the night scene. 4. Creating Shapes with the Shape Tool : In this lesson, we are going to create our elements for our night scene. And although these shapes may look complex, they're created really easily using the premade shapes that can be found in the shape menu in Affinity Designer. First head to the right tool bar and tap the circle to activate the color studio, and then select a color that allows you to see your shapes easily against the white background. Tap again on the circle to close the color studio. And then head to the left tool bar and scroll down to the Shape Tool. Tap twice to open to see all the premade shapes available to you. We're going to begin with creating the jar in the sketch. So head up to the rounded rectangle and tap to activate this shape. Then place your stylus on your screen and then drag to draw out the shape to an approximate size of the jar. While we're here, we're going to repeat this again and draw out another rounded rectangle for the lid of the jar. Now, these shapes may not be exactly the size you want, so we are going to correct that. At the top tool bar, make sure the magnetic tool, which looks like a magnet is activated. Then on the left tool bar, we're going to select the no tool. We're going to tap on the larger rectangle first and drag it into position on our sketch layer. The red node at the top allows us to adjust the size of the corners until we're happy with them, and then we can move it into position and adjust the size with the other nodes. Then for the lead, we can tap on that and move it into position. Now for our colors of the jar, we're going ahead to the tool bar on the right, tap on the circle to open the color studio, at the bottom, select swatches, and then access our paper cut. We're going to select the gradient that I've made that has blue on the sides and yellow and white in the middle and repeat this for all of our jar shapes. Now, these are premade gradients, but if you'd like to know how to make them, head to the gradient tool and tap to activate. You'll notice now across the shape, we're working with a gradient of different colored nodes that show up, and you can do this easily by just drawing your stylus across to create a gradient when your shape is activated. At the top tool bar, as for every tool in Affinity, there is a contextual menu. In the gradient menu in the gradient menu, you'll see the gradient is a linear gradient, but there are other options here as well if you tap the text. As you tap on each of the nodes on the gradient, it will enlarge to show you the color that has been placed there, and those colors can be adjusted with any color in your color studio. You can also tap on the lines to add more color nodes or activate one. And then if you want to remove it, tap on the trash can at the bottom left to delete it. You can also save the gradients to the colour palette by heading to the color studio in your swatches, tapping the three lines at the top and selecting add current fill to palette. Okay, that's the backstory. I'll close the color studio, and we're going to head back to our Shape Tool on the left tool bar and tap to open. This time, we're going to create our stars, circle and moon shapes. So first, our star tool, and we're going to use this to draw out a star on our screen and then place one finger on the screen to maintain the proportions as we adjust the size. I'm going to select the move tool from the left toolbar and then place the star approximately on top of the shape in the sketch. If you find magnetics are getting in the way, just head up to the top toolbar and untick the snapping magnet and just place your star approximately on top of the star shapes. It doesn't have to be a perfect fit. Next, we want to duplicate these stars around the nightscape. So we're going to activate the move tool on the left toolbar. And then with the star selected, I want you to put two fingers on the screen, which is the shortcut to duplicate. And then with your stylus, move the star. This makes a perfect copy of the shape, and now we can move it into its new position. We're then going to repeat this duplication for the next star. And continue doing this until we have all the stars in our nightscape. So what initially looked like a complex arrangement is actually quite simple to do. Now, I don't want to use the same gradient I've used for the jar, but Affinity remembers the last color you've used, and it applies it to any new shape you create. So we are going to group all our stars together, and then we are going to change the gradients all at once. On the right tool bar, we can head to the Layers panel and tap to open. Inside, you'll see the stars you've just created. I want you to tap on the top star with one finger to activate it in blue, and then with two fingers simultaneously, tap on the bottom star, and Affinity will select all of the stars in between as well. Next on the toolbar, head to the color studio at the top right, and we're going to select the bright yellow gradient for our stars. This will change them all and set this gradient as our new shaped color. Now we can head back to the Layers panel, and we're going to group all of these stars together so we can keep track of them. At the top of the toolbar, select the folder icon and then select group, and a little dialog box will come up for you to be able to write the names of the group because we activated this at the beginning of the lesson. I'll name it stars and then tapo. Now in our Layers panel, all of our stars will be grouped together. And this just makes our layers a little neater. Alright. Next, we're going to create our little circles. So head back to our left toolbar and select the Shape Tool. Tap twice to open and select the ellipse tool. And we're going to draw out a little ellipse with our stylus and keep one finger on the screen to constrain its proportions. And then we can select our move tool on the left toolbar and just place that ellipse approximately on top of one of the circle shapes in our sketch. And now we're going to duplicate with two fingers on the screen and then drag a new copy out to the next circle. We're going to do this all around the nightscape where we see our little circles. And now all these shapes will have the gradient that we want because it is the same sort of luminous gradient that our stars have. Okay, so now we're going to create our little moon. So head to the left toolbar to our shape tool, tap to open, and we're going to select the crescent tool. Drag our stylus on our screen to create the crescent shape and then activate the move tool, so we can move the shape approximately into place. On the left toolbar just below the move tool, we have the node tool, tap to activate it, and then on our crescent, we can tap those red nodes to adjust the crescent and then move it into the position we want and manipulate the shape. I'm going to head to the left tool bar to the gradient tool and adjust the gradient a bit so that we can see the luminosity on the crescent a bit more. Alright, let's head over to the right tool bar to our layers panel and tap to open. This time, we're going to create a group for our circles by tapping on the first one with one finger to activate in blue, and two fingers on the bottom to select all the circles. At the top, we're going to select the folder icon and group, and we're going to name this group circles. Now in our layer panel, we have our stars grouped together, our circles, and our crescent. Finally, we're going to create the lines that we see attached to our stars. Head to the left toolbar and select the Pentl. In the contextual menu, we're going to tap on the text that says Pen to open up more options. Scroll down until we see the line and select it. This means every time we put down two points, it creates a line and ends it. I'm just going to plot two points to create our first line to a star, and then we're going to adjust the line properties before we duplicate it. On the right tool bar, head to the Stroke Studio underneath the color studio, and tap to open it. And we're going to set the line to a dash pattern instead of a single line. Next, the one pixel number will open up the menu and pop in 0.8 pixels for our width and ok to set it. Next, scroll down to our dash pattern and leave the dash at one, but set the gap at two by tapping on it and entering two and Okay. Alright, so now that we have our line properties, we're going to duplicate the line. So select your move tool and then place two fingers on the screen and move the line to the next position. This will create a copy, and then we can adjust the nodes to the size that we want. Continue to use the two finger shortcut to duplicate and adjust the lines anywhere that you see them on the sketch until all the shapes that have lines are attached. If you have a hard time seeing the attachment point, head to the right toolbar to the layers panel and remove the sketch layer by tapping the dot on the right of the layer to make sure those lines are centered on the shapes. Then you can reactivate the sketch layer in your layers panel. While we're here, we're going to select our lines by tapping on the top layer with one finger and the bottom layer with two, selecting the folder at the top, and then grouping them. I'm going to call this group lines and tap ok. And finally, in our layers panel, I'm just going to drag this group below the stars for now. We'll position them in the papercut layers a bit later. And that's it for this lesson. Join me in the next lesson to create the shapes for the light coming out of the jar. 5. Creating the Lights: In this lesson, we are going to use simple shapes and effects to create the light diffusing out of our jar. We're going to create these shapes using the pentol. So head to the left toolbar and activate the pentol. And in the contextual menu at the top, we're going to select polygon from our options, and we're going to use our pentol to tap out the nodes of our shape. Double tap until the red square goes white to ensure that the shape is closed. Now in the left tool bar, we can select our node tool. Tap the pointy node at the top of the shape, and in the menu at the top, select the smooth node option, which is going to round it out. Then with your stylus, I'm just going to tap on the sides of the line to move and align it with our sketch. You can tap to add any other nodes accordingly and bend the shape into the sketch a bit better. Once that is done on our right toolbar, we're going to head to the color studio, and at the bottom, tap on swatches. In our papercut palette, select the orange gradient. This is not quite aligned where we want it, so head to the left toolbar to our gradient tool, tap to activate, and on the linear gradient, adjust it by the end nodes. So the yellow is at the bottom, and the orange is at the top. Next, head back to the gradient tool and tap to activate it again and this time, select the transparency tool. With your stylus, draw out a gradient from the bottom to the top, and you'll see that what it's doing is making the top of the gradient transparent. So it looks like light diffusing gently out of the jar. Once that's done in the contextual menu, tap on the text that says none and scroll down until you get the elliptical option. Then I want you to grab one of the nodes and just rotate that elliptical gradient, and we're going to place it just at the top of the jar and bring it in a bit so that it looks like the light is coming out and then going transparent in the gradient out of the jar. Now that we've placed where our light is meant to be, I want to adjust a few more settings. On the right toolbar, head to our Layers panel. And at the top of the Layers panel, I'm going to tap the opacity and use the menu to set it at 74 and select Okay. Then with the blend mode, tap on the text and scroll down until you find screen. This will make the light a bit brighter against the colors. We'll be placing it behind, and that's it for the layer settings. Next, on the right toolbar, select the FX Panel and tap to open. At the bottom of the list, select Gaussian blur. And you can turn on the gaussian blur by sliding the toggle to the right. Make sure you've tapped on it to activate it. On the left hand side, you'll see a slider. The numbers at the top, you can tap and then type in 37.2 and okay. You'll get a bit of a halo effect to the light source that appears on your shape. And then on the left toolbar, head back to the move tool just to set this effect. And that is our first light source done. Now on the right toolbar in our layers menu, you'll notice that this shape is activated in blue. I want to duplicate the shape to make the effect a bit brighter. So with it activated, if you head to the top menu to the three dots and tap duplicate, we now have a brighter light shining out of the jar. Now, in the layer settings, we're going to adjust the opacity of this new shape by setting the opacity at 84 and then tapping ok. And then in the blend mode, we're going to scroll down and set it to pin light. We're going to group these two lights together in the layers by swiping on the bottom one to activate it, and hitting the folder icon at the top and tapping group. And then we're going to name this group lights and tapo. Finally, in the layers menu, we're just going to drag this layer underneath our jar. Just to make sure just make sure the layer stays still left so it doesn't become a clipping mask, but it's just below the jar. And that is our basic shapes done. Now we can group all of our shapes by swiping on the groups to the right until they are activated in blue. And then at the top, select the folder and then group and name this group nightscape. Okay, meet me in the next lesson to create our background cutouts for our scene. 6. Creating the Background: In this lesson, we are going to create the background for our paper cut illustration. First, we're going to zoom out and just tap with our stylus outside of the artboard to deselect everything. Then on the right toolbar, head to the layers menu and tap to open. Tap on the circles on the right of the layers to hide the nightscape elements and our lights so that we can see our sketch clearly. We're here, I'm going to tap on our sketch layer until it's active in blue. And then at the top tool bar, we can tap the three circles and select duplicate to make a copy of this layer so that the lines are a bit easier to see. Then in the layer studio, swipe on the bottom layer to activate it, and then tap the second icon at the top and tap merge selected. This will make it all into one layer, and now we can swipe to the left and lock this layer again and close our layer studio. Now we're going to create six rectangles to completely cover the canvas for each paper layer. On the left toolbar, scroll down to the shape tool, tap to open, and then at the top, select the rectangle tool. Place your stylus on the corner of the artboard and draw out a rectangle. Then on the right toolbar, we're going to head down to the Transform studio and tap to open. Here we can check that our dimensions are exactly 2000 by 2000 pixels, and we can adjust them if they're not so it fits the artboard. Then head up to the color studio and tap to open it. At the top of the menu, we're going to remove the stroke by swiping up on the circle outline and then tap on the field circle to activate the fill. Now to duplicate until we have six rectangles. Head back to the left toolbar and select the move tool to activate the selection on our first rectangle. Then at the top toolbar, tap the three dot menu and select duplicate. We're going to do this four more times so that in total, we now have six rectangles. Head to the right tool bar to the Layers studio, and you can see our six rectangles listed there. Next, we want to create the shapes that we're going to cut out of each of these rectangles. Make sure the top rectangle is highlighted in blue, and then on the left tool bar, select the Pencil tool. In the contextual menu at the top, check that the option is set to close always. Then at the bottom of the left tool bar, we're going to tap the X to deselect the rectangle shape. The right tool bar, we can open the color studio and select any bright color fill so that we can see our shapes clearly. Now we can zoom in and start to trace the smallest inner shape with our pencil tool. We just need to follow the sketch loosely. It does not have to be exact. Take your time and just follow the line all the way around. If at any point you want to adjust any nodes, you can head to the left toolbar and select the node tool. You can tap to convert any pointing nodes to smooth nodes at the top tool bar, and you can also select the smoothing icon to smooth out your lines. Once you're finished, head back up to the pencil tool and outline the second shape, loosely following the sketch lines all the way around. Once that is done, we're going to continue to the third shape. Now, the only thing I want to remind you is to ensure that at the bottom of each shape, they are dipping into the jar and not outside of the rim. We can continue with the fourth shape all the way around. And then finally, we can complete the largest shape. At any point, you can always adjust with the no tool until you are happy with the position of each shape. H Alright, so once we're done, on the left toolbar, select the move tool. Then on the right toolbar, open our lay studio, and you'll see the five shapes sitting above our rectangles. We're going to select the smaller shape until it's active in blue, and then hold and drag it down so it's just above the second rectangle. Ensure that you're keeping the blue line to the left so it doesn't form a clipping mask. If it does, just do a two finger tap to undo and try again. The second shape, we're going to hold and drag just above the third rectangle, the third shape above the fourth rectangle. The fourth shape above the fifth rectangle, and then we're going to leave the fifth shape at the top of the stack. Now we're going to start cutting out the shapes. Select the top shape layer until it's active in blue, and then swipe to the right on the rectangle below to activate it, as well. On the left tool bar, we've already activated the move tool. So in the contextual menu above, we're going to select the geometry icon. Tap to open and select, subtract, and this is going to cut the shape out of that top rectangle. On the right tool bar in the layer's panel, you can see that this shape has now been cut out. Going to do the same for our next shape, tap to select the next shape, the rectangle below, and then in the top menu, select geometry and subtract again. I'm going to continue this process with our next three shapes, and you can follow along with yours. Okay, so on the right in the layer studio, we should now have cutouts on all of our layers except for that bottom layer, and now we can color our layers. We're going to select the bottom rectangle, and then on the right tool bar, select the color studio. And in our swatches, we have five gradients to fill the five bottom layers. So select the darkest gradient color of blue to color it. And then we're going to go back and forth between the layers panel and the color studio, selecting the next rectangle and then the next slightest gradient. The next rectangle, the next lightest gradient, the next rectangle, the next lightest gradient until we get to our fifth gradient. For the top layer, we're just going to select the block navy color from our palette and that is all for our colors on the different layers. Finally, in the layers studio, activate our nightscape elements and the lights and place them at the top of our cutouts to see what our elements look like against our background with all of our lighting effects. I'm really happy with that, and that's it for this lesson. Meet me in the next lesson, and we'll add some effects to give our elements that traditional three D look. 7. Creating the 3D Effects: In this lesson, we are going to create the three D layer effects to make our papercut layers and elements look more realistic. On the left toolbar, make sure the move tool is active, and then head to the right toolbar and open the layer studio. We can tap the circle to hide our sketch layer so that we can see all of our elements clearly. Then tap on our top background layer to activate it in blue. Scroll down the toolbar to the FX studio and tap to open. First, we're going to set our shadow. So scroll down to the outer shadow and tap on it till it's active and light gray and turn on the toggle. On the left hand side, you will see three sliders appear. Tap the numbers on the top opacity slider and set the numbers to 76 and tap o. Then on the next slider for the radius, we're going to set the numbers at 41 and tapo k. Tap the icon at the bottom of this slider again to activate the angle, and we're going to set the angle at 56 degrees and tapo k. Finally, at the bottom, select the offset slider and set it at 30. In the contextual menu at the top, set the blend mode to multiply and select the navy color from the swatches option in this menu. This will give the shadow effect of paper on top of another layer. Now we want to apply this effect to all our other layers. So head to the top tool bar with the three dots, tap to open, and select the text copy. Next, head to the right tool bar and tap our layers panel, and we're going to select all the other cutouts below this first layer by tapping with one finger on the top layer and two fingers on the bottom layer. Then head back to the top menu to the three dots and select the text that says, paste effects. And this will now apply that effect to all of our layers. And immediately, you'll see that three D look come into effect. Now on the left tool bar, we're going to select the move tool to set these effects. Now we want to do the same to our nightscape elements. So head back to the layers panel and select our nightscape elements group, tap to open, and then we're going to highlight the groups within it by swiping to the right to highlight them in blue. And then we'll head back up to the three dot menu and open. And this time we're going to select Paste effects. And this will give all of our other elements that three D look. Now on the left toolbar, again, select the move tool to set these effects. Finally, we're going to make a few last adjustments to our lines. In the layers panel on the right toolbar, select the lines group, and then in the top menu, we're going to set the blend mode to normal. Just below in the Stroke Studio, I'm going to set the width of my stroke to five and in the color studio above, I'm going to select the stroke color and make it white. Now we can head back to the layers panel. With these lines already selected, head to the folder icon at the top, and we're going to tap to open and select the text ungroup. This will set all of our lines as individual shapes that we can move around. Now we can start to place our lines within our background layers. So I'm going to select them all by tapping one finger on the top and two fingers on the bottom layer, and then I'm going to drag all of these lines below the second background layer. This will make them seem like they are hanging from the paper layers. Now we can go through the list in the Layers panel and start to rearrange our layers so that the lines are coming from not only the second, but maybe the third and the fourth for some visual interest. Okay. So once you're done, I'm going to select the no tool on the left toolbar. And in our layers panel, I'm just going to go through each of my layers one by one and tidy up their nodes at the bottom near the lid of the jar to make sure they can be seen clearly and are inside the jar neatly. I'll also smooth out a few nodes while I'm here. But that's it for this lesson. Join me in the next lesson to add some text effects to our illustration. 8. Text effects and Texture: In this lesson, we are going to create the text effects for our poster. Going to be using an imported font called Abril Fatface that is not built into Affinity. So I thought I'd start this lesson by showing you how to import fonts into Affinity Designer. I've provided a link to this font in the class resources just below this video. And when you follow the link, it will take you to a free font page. You need to find the download button and download it to your iPad. And when it has downloaded, you need to select it and save to files. Next, head to your Fils app on your iPad, locate the zip file and double tap to open it. Then head to your Affinity app, and in the Gallery view on the left tool bar, select settings and then fonts, and then select the plus icon at the bottom. Navigate to your file and select it, and it will import as an installed font. Now we can head back to our Gallery view and open our illustration. Okay, so once we're in, activate the move tool, and we're going to tap just outside of our artboard to deselect all the elements on our screen. On the right toolbar, we're going to tap the top background layer to activate it in blue. Then in the top contextual menu, we're going to tap the three dots, and when the menu open, select duplicate to make a copy of this layer. We're going to incorporate two different text effects with each layer. So when the layers panel, I'm first going to hide the top layer by tapping the circle and activate the second layer in blue. On the left toolbar, we're going to scroll down to the text icon and select the frame text tool from the options available. We're going to draw out a frame on the artboard. And at the top in the contextual menu, set the font as a brill fat face, and the text as regular and the font at 42 in size, and our color as white. We're going to tap in the frame and then use your keyboard to tap the word sweet. Next, we can head to the left toolbar, select the move tool, and in the top menu, tap the three dots and select duplicate. And we're going to move this copy of the text to the right of the jar and line it up with the first text. Your snapping tool will help you do this. And then we can double tap to select the text and type in the word dreams. Next, on the right tool bar, we're going to open the layers menu and select these two text layers by swiping to the right until they're active in blue. We're then going to use our stylus to drag these layers down and place them on top and to the right of the background layer over the text to create a clipping mask within this layer. Then at the top of the layers menu, we're going to select the blend mode and set these layers to the erase blend mode from the list. And this will make it look like our text is cut out of the paper layer, but it will still maintain the shadow effects because we have them on this background layer. Now, we're going to place a bit of text on the outside border of this layer as well that will follow the outline of the papercut. So first head to the right toolbar to the layers menu. Unhide the next background layer and tap until it's active and blue. So on the left toolbar, head down to the text tool, and this time, select artistic text. Ho stylus just on the outside of the border and tap until you see a little green triangle that shows that this tool is active. Once it's visible, drag on the flag and move it to the bottom left of the jar, where we want the text to start. I'm going to select the text Bradley hand from the list. Have it in bold and about 16 in size. And I'm going to set the text color as the same gradient that we use for our stars. Now we can add our text. I'm going to use the lyrics of Twinkle, Twinkle Little star, and I'm just going to speed up the time laps as I do this. But you can select any text that you want. As we type, it's going to place the text all around your illustration. Once you're done, I'm going to lift the text just a bit above the borderline. So double tap on the text to select it all, and then head to the right tool bar to the text studio and tap to open. Here is where you will find all of our text adjustments. Where you see the bold and underlined options, there's a little arrow on the right that will open up a new character menu. Scroll down until you see the text that says positioning, and you can increase the baseline as you choose. And that is our text effects done. To finish up, we can import a watercolor or paper texture over our background layers that you'll find in the class resources by heading up to the top toolbar and selecting place and then using your stylus to draw out that texture. On the right in the layers panel, we're going to make sure that it's placed over our background layers but below the jar. And at the top of the layers panel, we can set our blend mode either to linear burn or multiply to get that texture on our layers. Before you export, I wanted to show you a few options for colour profiles. At the moment, our illustration is in CMYK. But if you wanted it in RGB for a more vibrant colour palette, head up to the top menu to the three lines and tap to open. Select Convert document, and Affinity will give you options of different colour profiles that you can select from the drop down menu. Pick whichever one you want and tap the tick to set the color profile, and Affinity will automatically convert your documents. Okay. So that's it for this lesson. Join me in the next lesson to export our documents and for some final thoughts. 9. Exporting and Final Thoughts: In this lesson, we are going to export our document. On the right toolbar, in the Layers panel, select your artboard layer, and then at the top toolbar, select the three line menu. Tap to open and select the text Export. This will bring up a new menu for you. At the top, you can select the format that you want to save your file. I'm going to select JPEG, but you have a whole range of file types like PSD for a layered Pixel file or SVG and EPS for vector files that can be read by other vector software. Once you've selected your format, you can see the dimensions the image will be in, and at the bottom, you can see your file export size. On the right, you can tap the text if you would like to rename the Export file. And below this, you have the option of the section of the file that you want to export, whether as the whole document or the selection area. At the bottom right, you have a wonderful option to see a preview of what you are exporting before you do it. Once you're happy with what it looks like, you can select clothes to return to the previous window. Then on the bottom left, you can select the share tab to export it to your file storage or to save your image to your camera. You have the option to tap off this window to close it, and cancel to return to your original document. And that is it for this lesson. Thank you so much for joining me in this class. I've really enjoyed walking you through the process of creating a papercut style vector illustration. And I hope you've come away with skills that you can apply to other projects. Now, I would love to see what you have created, whether it's the illustration we did together or your own original design. You can upload your work by taking a screenshot and sharing it to the class project section. Feel free to experiment with different shapes, text, gradients, or even a whole new colour palette. The more personal you make it, the more unique your design will be. Seeing your projects really inspires me and also encourages other students to try it out for themselves. If you're on social media, you can tag me at Cardwell and Inc, and I can share your work in my stories. If you enjoyed the class, I'd really appreciate it if you left a review. This helps other students find the course and gives me great insights for future classes. If you've got more ideas for vector based lessons or questions, drop your comments in the class discussion, and don't forget to follow my profile to stay updated on my latest classes. Again, thanks for joining me and happy creating.