Do want to add geometric surface pattern designs to your portfolio, but you're unsure how to create them in Affinity Designer V2? Do you find yourself drawn to beautiful, circular patterns, but they seem complicated?

Welcome to class!

Hi there! I'm Tracey, an illustrator, photographer and designer from the Chicago area. Welcome to the first class in my new series of short form surface pattern design classes called, Pattern Toolkit. In this lesson, we'll focus on three beautiful, geometric patterns formed by the humble ellipse, using Affinity Designer V2.

In this series of classes, we'll focus on a specific pattern, or theme of patterns, in a variety of applications: the Affinity suite, Adobe, and Procreate. With each lesson, you'll walk away from class with a new design for your portfolio, as well as experience in tools that can expand your creativity in surface pattern design and beyond.

In this first class, we'll use Affinity Designer V2 to create three circular geometric patterns:

Circular Petal Pattern
Bullseye Pattern
Metaball Pattern

Tools used in this class include:

Move Data Entry Feature (only available in V2 of desktop)
Shape Builder
Transform Studio
Artboards
Fill Tools (Vector Flood Fill & Gradient)

Affinity Designer V2 (desktop or iPad)
- Please note, there are tools used in this class that are only available in V2 of Designer

I'll be using the desktop version of Affinity Designer V2. Most tools used in the class are available on both the iPad and desktop versions, with the exception of the Move Data Entry feature. For those on the iPad, you can still follow along and use the traditional power duplicate method. Where needed, I will jump in to the iPad to show you, step by step, how to complete complex steps.

While this class is beginner friendly, it does assume some familiarity with Affinity Designer V2 and the overall surface pattern design process. Please note, we will not be reviewing the interface in this class so it is important that you know where all tools are located.

Hi there! I'm Tracey. I'm an illustrator, designer, and photographer located in the Chicagoland area. You can find more information about me, and my work in my full profile. (find the link above) I've been a full time artist for over a decade, after leaving the corporate world behind in 2011. In addition to teaching, I am a full time creator who sells my work on my own site, as well as print on demand sites like Spoonflower, Society6, Etsy and more.

I've been using Affinity products for the last several years and love to learn as much as I can about the tools so I can not only use them the way they were intended to work but make them work for me; and I love sharing that knowledge with my students! I've had the privilege of being spotlighted by Serif, the company who created the app, twice as a go to teacher for their apps. You can find links to the spotlight articles on my profile page.

If you have any questions about the class, or would like feedback on your project, please feel free to let me know in the Discussion section of class, or by emailing me at hello@traceycapone.com.

I look forward to seeing you in class!

Music Credit: "Passionate Choices," by Mansij on artlist.io

Andrea Eppich

Just a baker trying to learn new skills

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